May 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Led the API First initiative for next generation Travel platform for Expedia group - built tier 1 Order Management System built on AWS cloud native technologies, handling order orchestration and asynchronous events coming out of each transaction for end to end event journey & asynchronous processing.
• Achievements in this role:
• Accomplished a very good level of team engagement at the Expedia Group. Leading from the front
• in delivering the next generation API First Travel Platform enabling external developer communities
• One Team, Group First: Fostered good work culture in the team where people stand for each other
• and work as One team.
• Team Building: Retained and Re-hired good engineers for team. Developed cordial relations with
• peers in order to handle attrition situations better.
• Agile Practices: Streamlined Agile methodologies in the team where in individuals are aware about
• various aspects of the development life cycle and take ownership of the process end to end. The
• vision is to create a self-reliant team, equipped to handle ambiguity well.
• Turned around the Expedia internal guaranteed messaging platform & gained better engagement and
• trust from the various stakeholders including the senior management at the Expedia Group
• Actively involved in design discussions, code reviews and problem solving. Hands on with latest
• development happening on the services I am leading.

Mar 2021 – May 2021 · 2 mos

• Built & was part of core patent winning engineering team who delivered architectural revamp of enterprise messaging platform enabling 2 $mn USD cost savings per annum. Entire redesign was done on AWS cloud native technologies using pay-per-use methodologies against legacy system built on reserved instances and resource heavy technologies like Cassandra, Apache Strom, Hadoop etc.
• My role was to focus on re-designing Event Traceability of the system using AWS Glue & AWS Athena, redesigning optimised Logging system using AWS Kinesis and to fan out logs to Spunk, Firebase & S3 using AWS Lambda.

Nov 2017 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• As part of core engineering team for Expedia Group's core enterprise internal messaging system, I got the firsthand opportunity to build a large-scale distributed system (a guaranteed message delivery system aka Transaction Bridge) which is highly available, scalable and reliable platform built with open source technologies like Cassandra, Apache Storm, Kafka, ElasticSearch.
• My Role was to actively contribute in designing & executing features on this platform, including a self service portal which reduced time to onboard a customer from 7 days to 5 mins.
• I was heavily involved in multiple feature development on both Frontend and Backend. Learned the first hand designing experience of distributed systems with some of the best Architects ExpediaGroup had.

Jun 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Jaipur Area

• Team: PriceDekho.com is price comparison engine in peripheral e-commerce segment helping customers in taking buying decision.
• Led team of 10 developers in analysis and rebuild of product from design through completion using SDLC methodologies
• Trained engineers in standards and strategies for optimal product development. Led Sprint planning,
• reviews and retrospective meetings
• Collaborated with leadership (Founder & COO) to define strategies, requirements & build projects that achieved Product milestones including internationalisation & process automation

Dec 2014 – Jun 2015 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• I was part of the new engineering team setup by OLX group in India in 2014. Worked on understanding & exploring in-house fraud detection framework which had complex rules parsing the content created by User and then flagging based on a rules engine. We worked on caching experiments for this high traffic platform which increased response time of fraud detection service by 10x.

Mar 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Singapore based startup in social networking domain. Part of first 5 members of team. Set up processes,
• coding standards & development cycle for Tech team. Provided Technical leadership to engineering team, successfully designed architecture & DB from scratch & delivered product in less than 100 days

Apr 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Team - 99acres.com
• Worked with cross functional teams (Product/Tech/QA/Tech-Support), handling end to end development,
• Optimised code, revamped components including generic form builder such that it can be used across
• verticals. Got hands-on exposure on both Frontend and Backend technologies & writing clean code.

Oct 2009 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India