Jun 2016 – Dec 2022 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Helped build Nykaa
• Led Product and Engineering, Data, UX, InfoSec and IT at Nykaa

Oct 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Tradus.com is the leading e-commerce controlled marketplace in India.
• Led transition from a legacy monolith platform (drupal + custom php) to a web services architecture while simultaneously delivered on new feature requirements to enable the aggressive growth targets promised to investors. Some achievements : a) went from experiencing frequent downtime to 100% availability with rollout of the web services stack. b) tradus.com now loads faster than the top 3 e-commerce players in India. c) Platform performance does not degrade even at 30x current traffic load levels.
• Built a stellar engineering organization. Led Tech branding, recruitment & headcount planning. Initiated “Internal Technology seminars” to motivate team and share knowledge across cross-functional teams
• Envisioned and led development of Tradus Alerts which enabled the entire organization to proactively detect and react to business and operational events.

Jul 2007 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Videocrux.com is a free to watch online video (TV) portal and syndication platform. Our USP indexing solution provides an unparalleled video search and viewing experience.
• Highlights:
• closed an angel round of funding
• Setup multi-location development and operations teams
• Led engineering and pursued content partnerships with TV channels
• launched private alpha release of videocrux.com in September 2008.

Jan 2007 – Oct 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• MIH India did a Talent acquisition of Clearsenses
• Clearsenses was a shared development center for multiple Silicon Valley Startups.
• Self funded company. Led Business Development, Sales, Operations
• Architected distributed solutions and Web products from scratch for multiple startups - Jambool (acquired by Google), Enfold Inc, Metricmine
• Built a high calibre organization - engineering, project and product managers and QA
• Archtected in the areas of Web products, Distributed Systems, Big Data Analytics, Virtual Payments

May 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Led engineering for the Online Payments Risk and Fraud sub-system of the Flexible Payments Web Service - http://aws.amazon.com/fps/

Sep 2002 – Feb 2005 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Worked in the Oracle Warehouse Builder group - Oracle's ETL product.
• Defined and Implemented HOLAP support in OWB
• Member of the working committee for AWXML Object model and API specification

Oct 1999 – Sep 2002 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Trivium Systems is a CRM Product company targeting the SME segment. The flagship product was bought by Infosys
• Established R&D center in Bangalore, India
• Architected the flagship product SimpleRM - a comprehensive CRM product targeted at SMBs
• Led engineering for the Business Process Automation Workflow system
• Consulted as Product specialist for Infosys post acquisition of SimpleRM

Apr 1998 – Sep 1999 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Prototyped support for native workflow transaction in the Oracle RDBMS
• Implemented System Triggers in the Oracle Database

Jan 1996 – Oct 1997 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Amazonia is a distributed resource modeling and computing environment for scientific applications.
• Developed a functional OO language capable of accessing distributed resources seamlessly