May 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr · United States · Hybrid

• As a Senior Software Engineer,
• Led the design and development of billing export for cluster and job run level which helped customers
• reduce server cost by 30 percent
• Developed auto availability zone feature which reduced cluster failure rates by about 40 percent
• Coordinated with the tech lead on roadmap planning, process development for improving code
• quality and reducing reliability issues
• Worked on spot instances to reduce compute costs by over 50 percent
• Integrated new APM tools with the microservices which helped to cut down costs by about 50
• percent
• Developed JDBC driver from scratch to support jobs on BI tools like Snowflake
• Took interviews and helped to onboard new hires

Apr 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

• As a Senior Software Engineer in App Experience and Revenue team, my work involved
• Owning high-level design(HLD), Low-Level Design(LLD), development, and code reviews for a team of 8 engineers and for cross-team collaborations.
• Taking interviews across levels, onboarding and mentoring new members. Was the go-to person on my team for any technical discussions.
• Communicate with stakeholders including business heads, UX team, and product managers for ideation, requirement gathering and grooming tickets, and rescoping to ensure the best Minimum Viable Product(MVP)
• Own the user service with a peak load of 1 Million requests per minute
• Led Digital Pod Automation(homepage personalization) design and development based on user behavior project which improved homepage conversions by 30 percent and resulted in 20 percent more orders.
• Led the Grab Defence Integration to improve the security of our clients which involved collaboration with the grab team, design, and development, and helped the risk and compliance team in their strategic goal to counter Fraud.
• Homepage revamp to improve conversions and reduce friction in onboarding and sales which helped to improve the successful registration metrics from 35 percent to 60 percent.
• Chatbot integration with Yellow Messenger as the third party which resulted in a reduction in the customer care load by about 40 percent.

Jul 2020 – Apr 2021 · 9 mos

• Joined Growth and Experience team(as 7th member in the tech team, which grew to 125+ in two years), designed and developed various capabilities for retailer app and sales app(including horizontal) from scratch, such as
• Payment Microservice(LLD and development) that managed prepaid and postpaid payments and wallets.
• Product district visibility engine to configure buyability and visibility(LLD and development), which helped to configure SKUs at the granular level based on the nature of the material, warehouse availability, and logistic capabilities.
• Planner, Goals, and Achievements tracker for sales app(HLD, LLD, and development)
• Survey tool for sales executives(Ideation, HLD, LLD, and development)
• Scheduling for promotions(campaigns and banners) which reduced time reduction by about 40 percent
• New vertical Digital Goods(HLD, LLD, development, and team coordination), which was instrumental in improving engagement on the app by about 50 percent and bought in organic users to the app.

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 2 mos

• Designed and developed template syntax support for topic() parameter of Kafka Destination.
• Additionally, managed fallback cases to ensure that invalid topic message streams are not lost.
• Ensured all the new code was completely covered by unit tests

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Bangalore

• Built an application to scrape data from multiple sites to create a database with billions of IPs and their metadata.
• Processed the above data through Flink(Applied NER model) with a pipeline made consisting of Kafka and Druid for data persistence.
• Wrote Flink jobs to further validate a request coming as logs to the server and serve response only in
• case where the IP is valid.
• Visualized the stream flow using Prometheus and Grafana

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos

• Numerical modelling of lung - Worked on a research project to study the effect of asymmetry in the lung structure on the likelihood of contracting a disease using Monte Carlo techniques

Jan 2018 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Developed code for line following bot and quadruped which was supposed to travel across certain obstacles, throw away an object and climb up the ramp.
• Detailed video -
• Line following bot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v4y_KTSeYM
• Quadruped bot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow9ISLC2RPc

Aug 2017 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Contributed to projects such as Time Series forecasting of GDP to predict future trends, Lattice Boltzmann simulation code to simulate flow across various types of boundaries.
• Ideate, plan and execute Knowledge exchange programs and summer mentorship sessions to promote learning across the NITK community

Jun 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mangalore

• Taught 200+ hours of advanced physics and mathematics at an engineering entrance coaching institute which correlated with strong learning outcomes and resulted in my students securing a rank in top 1000 out of 1 million students

May 2014 – Jun 2014 · 1 mo