Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · On-site

• Incubated at eightfold
• Built the product from the ground up
• Drove adoption through early design partnerships
• Shaped product vision, strategy, and positioning to spin-off Digital Twin into Viven AI
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/viven-emerges-from-stealth-with-35m-in-funding-to-bring-ai-digital-twins-to-the-enterprise-302585135.html
• https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025/05/16/get-ready-for-digital-twins

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · On-site

• blindfold.ai is an internal startup to create Eightfold’s consumer footprint — AI-generated targeted resumes with privacy-first design.
• Built and launched blindfold.ai, a GPT-powered resume builder focused on anonymity and targeting
• Drove product, engineering, design, and GTM; launched with BITS Pilani as design partner
• Scaled to thousands of users, gaining strong traction with students and early-career professionals

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · On-site

• Conceived and built Eightfold’s mobile app from scratch, unlocking mobile-first enterprise use cases.
• Led the full lifecycle from concept to launch for Eightfold's enterprise mobile platform
• Enabled mobile onboarding and provisioning for large enterprise customers
• Established mobile as a strategic channel, expanding Eightfold’s reach across user personas
• Drove innovation strategy — led global hackathons, co-created with customers, and instilled a strong builder culture

Nov 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos · On-site

• Early team member at Eightfold (<5 people); helped build and scale all core AI products from 0 to a $2B+ valuation.
• Built every major product from the ground up — AI-first, enterprise-grade, and well before the GenAI boom
• Scaled and led global engineering org from 0 to 150+ across US and India; led hiring, mentoring, and organ structure/design
• Drove innovation strategy — led global hackathons, co-created with customers, and instilled a strong builder culture
• Partnered closely with Product, GTM, and Exec teams to drive platform growth and customer adoption
• Played a key role in scaling the company from early MVPs to category leadership in Talent Intelligence

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs

• Engineering Strategy and Execution, Engineering Management, Hands-on Coding
• Led Platform Engineering for Samsung Plus (personalized customer experience and loyalty app with over ~8M MAU and growing) and Core Platform Services for Samsung eCommerce app
• Led a geo-distributed team, co-located across Mountain View, Dallas, Sao Paulo, Seattle and New Jersey
• Architected and developed data-driven microservice APIs using Node.js, Kubernetes, Docker, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, SQS, and an array of AWS solutions
• Built a dynamic user profile and personalized content recommendation platform that powered self-service customer support tools and e-commerce applications for Samsung.com and Samsung Mobile apps
• Built 10 foot TV experiences using Node.js, MongoDB, React.js, Angular.js, and AWS for Samsung Smart TVs
• Led a team that built and maintained the cloud infrastructure and APIs for Samsung's 19" Galaxy View tablet

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr

• Founding Team of Terrain - Android launcher
• Led the development and acquisition (by Samsung Mobile) of the first start-up (Terrain) backed by Samsung Next
• Terrain is an Android launcher that helps organize and streamline the default Android experience by making everything you care about quick and easy to access
• http://terrainhome.com
• http://samsungaccelerator.com
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-msK5k_2Ko

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Sunnyvale, CA

• Led the design, architecture and implementation of a cross-platform, open source JavaScript Framework called EnyoJS.
• Started by HP webOS, Enyo was eventually acquired by LG Silicon Valley Labs
• http://enyojs.com

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked closely with the Founder and CPO of ServiceNow to rearchitect their UI to scale
• Instrumental in building the San Jose Engineering team from the ground up

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Silicon Valley

• pixawe.com - Built a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor for rapidly building mobile optimized web applications.
• hutke.com - Built a social mood-based music streaming app for iOS and Android and grew the user base to over 300,000 DAU. iPhone app was featured in the Top 100 world-wide music apps in the Apple App Store. During this fantastic journey, I negotiated content partnership deals and led content acquisition strategies besides driving innovative monetization efforts to generate a recurring revenue stream from ads and memberships.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Cupertino, CA

• Architected and developed a suite of mobile apps used by internal retail (Apple Store) employees besides mobilizing a suite of internal BI (Business Intelligence) desktop applications for the iPad and iPhone. Designed and implemented a geo-spatial (heat-mapping) solution using Google/Yahoo! Maps APIs for visualizing key CORDA business intelligence reports while leading a team of offshore software engineers based out of India.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs · On-site

• Led a product line representing over $12 million in annual revenue.
• Enabled Yahoo! properties including News, Sports, Finance and Movies to serve video ads and generate additional revenues by replacing legacy video players with video-ad-supported players.
• Reduced the time-to-market by 60% for custom video player deployments by launching a self-service tool for customizing and managing video player instances across Yahoo!.
• Led market research on video traffic patterns, user demographics and video viewership statistics.
• Evangelized platform capabilities by building demo apps and hosting technology summits and internal hack-day events and developed award-winning ideas on various internal hack-day events.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs · On-site

• Developed scalable RESTful web-services for serving Yahoo! Video metadata and architected a self-service tool for content publishers to manage their daily video workflow needs.
• Developed a proprietary CMS tool for editorially managing videos featured by video.yahoo.com.
• Led a Front-End Engineering team for globalizing video.yahoo.com into 14 countries and languages.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2006 · 6 yrs · San Jose, CA

• ZL (ZipLip) develops software for mid-large enterprises (primarily financial and health-care industries) for turn-key e-mail solutions such as email security, archival, discovery and SEC compliance. During the 6 years at ZipLip, I wore several hats in the company. I started with hands-on development and quickly grew to the Director of Engineering role. Over my tenure, I enabled ZL as the solution of choice for major partners, resellers in the US, Japan and Korea. Also architected and Product-Managed multiple versions (web and mobile) of ZL’s application suite, developed content-analysis tools for classifying, storing, indexing and retrieving millions of email messages efficiently.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 · 0 mo · Vienna, VA

• MicroStrategy develops Business Intelligence (BI) products that provide advanced querying, reporting and analytical insights into business data for customers. I was responsible for developing build scripts to automate software releases, managing large projects and developing intranet web applications using ASP, VBScript, SQL, XML/XSLT and Oracle.