Jun 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built a foundational engineering team across India, Singapore, and the US to drive user engagement and regional growth.
• Enhanced project velocity from 1 project per 3 months to 5 projects per month, streamlining execution processes.
• Delivered geo-relevant notifications and cold-start activation solutions for improved Day 0 user engagement.
• Designed and launched features that reactivated logged-out users, improving global engagement rates.

Feb 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Accelerated growth experiments from 1 per month to 1.5 per week by enhancing processes and tooling.
• Designed and launched phone call-based ride booking in the US, Ukraine, and Mexico, expanding accessibility.
• Pioneered PCI-compliant payment bots for secure transactions, enabling app-less ride bookings.
• Led the development of UberBus, collaborating with global teams on its first version, from user research to deployment.
• Played a pivotal role in COVID recovery efforts, creating solutions to enhance user safety and accessibility.

Dec 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed and implemented our 3rd Party Developer API for Employee Management from scratch.
• Implemented employee shift scheduler using Google OR tools.
• Feature development of tracking employee breaks, multiple wages.
• Worked on multiple data migration projects for extracting data and functionality out of monolith into micro-services.

Nov 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Member of the core team for Ad Serving and Infrastructure, handling >100 billion ad requests with multiple data-centers across the globe.
• Re-designed existing User profile sync up with partners for better scalability and revenue
• Maintained in-house distributed, geo-replicated Key-Value Store and real-time aggregation framework.
• Worked on the fastest web-server: RIBS
• Real-time monitoring, anomaly detection and outlier detection of critical ad-serving metrics
• Implemented real-time distributed de-duplication of ad-requests.
• Enhanced application data store versioning for faster in-house custom CI/CD

Jan 2013 – Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Pune Area, India

• AdServing:
• Involved from day 0 of design and development for a new Holistic AdServing Platform, and eventually led the team
• Evaluation of development platforms for efficient development and performance
• Worked on efficient Device, Geo, Hyper-local, Key-Value targeting
• Designed holistic optimization to optimize direct ads and programmatic Ad-Exchanges
• Designed smart cluster aware client for Redis
• Responsible for Mobile and Native SSP deliverables
• Mentoring developers on domain knowledge and development
• Conduct trainings and talks
• Contributed to patent applications
• Infrastructure:
• Evaluation and tuning of virtualization platforms for low-latency serving (ESX, KVM, XEN, Docker)
• Data Center Design: Worked with AWS architects to design cost-efficient data-center in AWS using custom auto-scaling, and efficient network IO
• Latency Management: Negotiation and with Publishers, DSPs, Infrastructure partners
• Rapid detection and mitigation of latency, using novel reports and intelligent throttling
• Evaluation of Software Load balancers for internal traffic, serving billions of requests per day
• Tuning of OS for high-throughput,low-latency
• Performance profiling of application for effectively detecting bottlenecks (On-CPU/ Off-CPU profiling using perf, Systemtap)
• Monitoring and alerting (prometheus, grafana)

Jan 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune Area, India

• Part of Virtualization security team in partnership with VMware.
• Worked on the next-generation Data center security solution.
• Implemented a SOAP server using gSOAP on the linux based Security virtual appliance.
• Designed a web-services framework from scratch and evangelized it across global teams.
• Developed client server communication module.
• Mentored Juniors and QA
• Worked on windows based anti-virus, Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Re-Designed Lotus Notes email security plugin for high performance

Jul 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Pune Area, India

• Agilent Feature Extraction: A heavy image processing software which forms the baseline of the enterprise class genomics product, Agilent Genomics Workbench.
• Worked on re-designing components for image processing of large files for Bio-informatics applications

Aug 2006 – Apr 2007 · 8 mos · Pune

• • Developed Web-based software providing view, markup, and collaboration functionality for multi-format content (data) enabling collaboration for PDF files, CAD drawings, image files, and office documents