Mar 2022 – Mar 2022 · 0 mo

Aug 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Mentored early-stage startups across product, fundraising, and growth.
• Supported cohorts including NemoCare, Zypp Electric, Walrus, Factors.ai, Blacklight Studio, and more.

Nov 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Worked on Google Search’s Food Delivery Platform, building large-scale backend systems that connected users with nearby restaurants and delivery partners through intelligent ranking and real-time availability.
• Contributed to Google Search platform infrastructure, designing backend components for large-scale data ingestion, ranking, and retrieval latency optimization across global search workloads.

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs · India

• Bootstrapped HeyCoach into a high-impact, revenue-driven EdTech brand helping software engineers prepare for top-tier tech interviews.
• Built a mentor network of 350+ senior engineers from FAANG and top startups.
• Helped hundreds of learners crack roles at companies like Google, Amazon, and Atlassian.
• Scaled to $6M+ in cumulative revenue, completely bootstrapped.
• Led engineering, product, and growth end-to-end with a focus on user outcomes.

Aug 2019 – Nov 2019 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Part of the Flipkart Quick team - architected and worked towards the launch of hyperlocal delivery infrastructure for real-time commerce.

Apr 2019 – Aug 2019 · 4 mos

Aug 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Worked across Razorpay’s Partner Ecosystem and Merchant Platforms, engineering high-scale payment and payout systems that processed 7M+ transactions monthly and powered products like Razorpay Route.
• Architected and developed core backend systems for Razorpay Route, enabling automated fund flow, settlement, and split payments for merchants and partners.
• Built distributed microservices for partner onboarding, commission payouts, and transaction rule processing.
• Designed a real-time rule engine to apply configurable logic on incoming payments and settlements.
• Implemented OAuth 2.0 authorization and RBAC frameworks for secure, fine-grained access control across enterprise dashboards.
• Redesigned the merchant activation and onboarding flow, driving a 7× increase in activations within four weeks.
• Built custom integrations for government clients, supporting transactions exceeding ₹358M GMV per month.
• Dockerized microservices to streamline local development, CI/CD pipelines, and service deployments.
• Served as a technical interviewer, hiring and mentoring 47+ engineers across backend, product, and solutions roles.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Founded a SaaS platform for managing large college events - registrations, merchandise, finance automation, and digital branding.
• Partnered with 100+ college fests.
• Designed pricing, GTM, and acquisition playbooks for student markets.

Jan 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

• Worked on cloud broadcast and ad-tech platforms powering geo-targeted television advertising for leading media networks. Built and scaled backend systems that enabled real-time content scheduling, delivery, and analytics across hundreds of broadcast channels.
• Key contributions
• Developed and maintained the cloud-based broadcast management platform, used by clients to upload, manage, and schedule ad playlists, media files, and linear TV content.
• Built modules for content ingestion, transcoding, scheduling, and distribution, ensuring seamless delivery from cloud to on-premise playout devices.
• Engineered a real-time monitoring dashboard to track ad delivery across regions and channels, improving reliability and reducing manual verification effort.
• Designed a media archival and playback service that stored and streamed compressed ad footage for client audit and compliance.
• Worked across a diverse tech stack - Ruby on Rails, Node.js, AngularJS, React, Python, and shell scripting - building end-to-end features spanning frontend, backend, and integrations.
• Collaborated with cross-functional broadcast and infrastructure teams to enhance system reliability, reduce latency in ad delivery, and optimize data flows between satellite devices and cloud infrastructure.
• Impact
• Enabled broadcasters and advertisers to air region-specific ads simultaneously across national TV networks - a breakthrough that increased local ad revenue and reduced operational overhead for media clients.

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Mumbai

• Developed SenseCam, an end-to-end system that detects human emotions from live video streams using computer vision and machine learning.
• Designed algorithms to identify facial landmarks and classify the eight basic emotions - joy, sadness, fear, anger, contempt, disgust, surprise, and neutral.
• Built data pipelines and annotation tools for emotion recognition research, including a dataset of 3,000+ labeled video clips collected from over 200 subjects.
• Explored applications in autism training, patient monitoring, and emotionally intelligent systems, with early extensions for pulse and heart rate detection through webcams.

Apr 2015 – Jun 2015 · 2 mos

• Worked on the marketing and launch campaign for “Future Strong” by Bill Jensen, focusing on digital outreach, community engagement, and brand visibility ahead of publication.

Dec 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

Mar 2014 – Dec 2014 · 9 mos

• Represented Internshala at VIT University through four consecutive programs (ISP 1–4), promoting the platform and helping students access internship opportunities and online training.
• Led university-level marketing, webinars, and engagement campaigns to increase student participation in Internshala programs.
• Achieved top performance rankings in both ISP 1 and ISP 2, leading to promotion as Zonal Internshala Student Partner.
• As Zonal Partner, guided and managed 135+ student partners across colleges in South India, conducting orientation sessions and performance reviews.
• Drove awareness of Internshala’s internship and virtual training initiatives, helping hundreds of students enhance employability and resume quality.

Aug 2014 – Oct 2014 · 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Developed an email analytics system to prioritize and rank emails using both implicit and explicit user-defined parameters.
• Built backend logic using Python (SMTP, IMAP, POP3) for real-time email interaction and parsing.
• Modeled user relationships and communication patterns in Neo4j, enabling intelligent ranking and visualization of email importance.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs

• Founded ITechnospot, a community-driven tech platform for young developers to blog, share projects, and publish code.
• Built a content and programming portal where contributors could host live projects, share programs, and publish reviews on the latest tech, devices, and open-source tools.
• Grew the platform into an active space for Linux utilities, Android ROMs, 3D printing, and emerging technologies discussions.
• Led product design, content strategy, and community engagement end-to-end.

Dec 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 mo · Bangalore, India

• Worked on information visualization and web development for the Indian Academic Networking Portal – Seekha.
• Optimized the platform’s Symfony (MVC) architecture for performance and scalability.
• Enhanced the frontend using JavaScript and jQuery for improved interactivity and UX.
• Used Afterglow for network data visualization and explored NoSQL (MongoDB) for backend data storage.

Oct 2013 – Nov 2013 · 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

• Contributed to tech content creation and website development for Multiverse Technologies.
• Authored blogs on home automation, Android, and app development topics.
• Redesigned and optimized the company website with enhanced UX using jQuery, CSS animations, and interactive sliders.