Oct 2014 – Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• As a founding member of the Bangalore engineering team, I helped in setting the Bangalore headquarters by hiring the best talents from the industry via numerous cross-city hiring drives at various levels, Followed by verticalisation of Quick company, and successfully launched the first two high-traffic verticals - Quikr Homes & Quikr Jobs.
• Worked closely with the CEO, CTO & COO to define Roadmap & Strategy.
• Helped the new acquisitions, e.g. commonfloor.com and hiree.com.
• Led the development of critical features from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder requirements. Those projects helped in securing additional VC funding, and the company's valuation crossed $2B.
• SME in monetisations of e.g. Quikr Jobs, where I worked with Google DFP Ads (Textual and Image), and achieved INR 10M target within 6 months from a single property alone.
• ➢ Full Stack Development & Design for multiple new verticals
• ➢ Single-handedly Designed & Developed Home & Search/Browse from scratch keeping modularity & reusability aspects in place
• ➢ Led a technical team of 13 Engineers and QAs
• ➢ Google APIs powers Map-based Real Estate properties search
• ➢ Website Performance Analysis & Optimisation
• ➢ Research on technologies, SEO, and a data-driven approach
• ➢ Internal Technical Trainings & Knowledge Sharing
• Project Highlights:
• ➢ Development of Back-end for Recruiter Paid Products, payment integration
• ➢ Back-end & Front-end development of module-based complex Search & Browse Pages
• ➢ Google DFP Ads implementation and optimisation, Google Adsense (~10 million profits)
• ➢ JavaScript-based DFP Framework for improved rendering
• ➢ Payment Gateway Integration (Citrus)
• ➢ Performance (Analysis, Debugging, Research, Implementation, AB Test Run)
• ➢ Responsive (Intelligent use of Adaptive page of Responsive components to take care of minimal development efforts along with Responsiveness for different ViewPorts)

Nov 2012 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Led engineering team to complete various projects across global markets such as ASDA UK, Samsclub US, US Walmart eCommerce
• Led setting up real devices in-house lab (multiple physical iOS, Android, iPads, TV, Monitors, etc), where the server was running on a cluster of VMs, and clients were running on these real devices. Periodic performance tests (web, network, Server metrics), and plot graphs to have live performance measurement across Stage, UAT and production environment (Synthetic monitoring).
• Helped US team in RUM (real user monitoring) and detailed analysis post Torbit acquisition while visiting Walmart head office in US.
• SME for Performance optimisation for network, CDN, various caching layers, View-ports / Screen-size optimisation using responsive designs and databases.
• Won CTO award for stopping major XSS attacks and cookie stealing from CTO, Walmart, US
• Tool Development, Performance & Reliability, RnD
• ➢ Development of Web Based Interactive Tools in LAMP & JQuery
• ➢ High Performance for high traffic Sites
• ➢ Security (XSS, Phishing, Session Hijacking)
• ➢ Tool Development for monitoring & measurement
• ➢ Research & analysis of existing properties.
• ➢ Automation of process used in performance
• ➢ Internal Technical Trainings & Knowledge Sharing
• ➢ Key projects
• ➢ ASDA.co.uk Responsive site
• ➢ Samsclub.com Performance & Design improvements
• ➢ Walmart.ca & Torbit integration
• ➢ Walmart.com Cyber Monday Performance Readiness

May 2012 – Nov 2012 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka · On-site

• Designed India's largest in-house Skills Assessment Engine in MeritTrac (Manipal Global Educations aka MIT)
• Collaborated with VPs, Architects, and external vendors in conceptualising and Architecting the whole system to support scale and massive databases of Blobs (Text, Audia, Video, IoTs).
• Within 3 months launched successful PoC where a lot of existing Java and PHP modules co-existed in efficient fashion via customized Java bridges and Restful APIs (as writing everything from scratch would have taken years), and hence improved time to market by 80%.
• Conducted first ever online Engineering entrance counselling across multiples cities from MIT, Manipal, where thousands of students/parents participated online (AuthenTrack devices for fingerprint impression & auto-identification, image capturing & optimisations, sequencing, managing atomicity etc)
• ➢ Designed a whole new Assessment Engine
• ➢ Tomcat as PHP server through Java-Bridge
• ➢ MySQL Optimization for huge question bank Database
• ➢ JQuery / Bootstrap based user friendly UI Development
• ➢ Internal Trainings & POC on different Technical Research.
• ➢ Recruitment of best of Industry Talents

Apr 2010 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• As a part of the Yahoo R&D org, contributed significantly to the development and optimisation of high-traffic & critical websites across Databases, Network, Back-End, and Front-End systems.
• Full-stack development of Tools, scripts, reports, and automation framework from 3rd-party APIs
• Owned 20+ Yahoo properties across Latin America (LatAm) and Southeast Asia (SEA) regions.
• Conducted daily scrum with Global leaders, extended the Indian team by attracting more media properties such as News, Finance, Cricket, Hollywood gossips, Sports, Mail, etc
• Participated in multiple Hackathons, and contributed to global tool building, such as YSlow for web performance monitoring and analysis via multiple manual and automation methods
• ➢ Full-stack development of Tools, scripts, reports, and automation framework from 3rd-party APIs
• ➢ Automated scripts & reports for different levels
• ➢ Front-End, Back-End & Database Performance Tuning
• ➢ Trainings & workshops
• ➢ Performance Improvement of 100s of Yahoo! properties
• ➢ Performance measurement & monitoring using internal and external tools
• ➢ Debugging & Performance Tuning of application & database servers
• ➢ Performance Tool & dashboard development in open source platforms
• ➢ Gomez / Keynote for Competitor, correlation & historical Analysis

Sep 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

Apr 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos · On-site

• End-to-end solutions, design & Development of 15+ modules in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, Apache, Linux
• Built and launched Naukrigulf.com from scratch with the help of a three-member team within 5 months.
• Worked on numerous modules across various high-traffic sites such as
• ➢ Recruiter view for review, shortlisting & hiring
• ➢ Job seeker view for applying, resume management
• ➢ Multiple payment gateway integration
• ➢ Lucene Indexing of blobs for efficient full-text searches.
• Championed best coding practices within the team to improve overall code quality and maintainability.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design innovative software solutions.
• ➢ End-to-end Development of 15+ modules in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, Apache, Linux
• ➢ Naukrigulf site development from scratch with a team of 3 members.
• ➢ Contributed to business-critical modules of Naukri.com
• ➢ Contribution to Front-End Research and API Development
• ➢ Feed processing & feed making
• ➢ Job boards analysis & research
• ➢ Multiple dashboards & automated Excel reports generation
• ➢ Developer Tech Talks & knowledge sharing

Jun 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos · On-site

Sep 2004 – Jun 2005 · 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh

• ➢ Automated Radio Taxi Management System
• ➢ GPS based Tracking for Taxi
• ➢ Best Shortest path calculations on availability
• ➢ Automatic Alert System
• ➢ Round Robin allocation of cabs across drivers & outlets

May 2004 – Jul 2004 · 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh

• Leave Management system developed in Java Swings, HTML & Javascript.

Oct 2003 – May 2004 · 7 mos · Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

• HTML, JS & CSS based web sites.