Oct 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Head of Engineering for 25 member team of Consumer Experience, Discovery of content, Growth and Content understanding for Moj which handles consumer product experience enhancements, creating monetisation through virtual gifting on short videos and management, processing and serving of video content.
• Improved uptime of T0 services and reduced server cost by 70%.
• Improved observability by auditing , header /trace propagation , metric collection.
• Encouraged team collaboration and motivated individual employees through positive reinforcement and technical recognition.
• Produced detailed engineering plans, processes and procedures for use by engineers.
• Managed engineering teams by delegating and assigning work to engineers and monitoring activities to verify completion.
• Assisted engineering team members by employing expertise in answering queries and resolving escalated concerns.
• Assessed technology, resources and market demand to ascertain feasibility of projects and communicated results to stakeholders for decision-making.
• Originated evaluation criteria for measuring project progress and productivity, initiating corrective measures to avoid delays.
• Facilitated continuous improvement initiatives with successful changes affecting company operations, boosting engineering output.

Apr 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Led the team that builded Moj - India's largest short video platform from scratch within 30 hours.
• Head of Engineering for Growth pod of Sharechat and delivered many important projects like account linkage, social signups and geo specific news content.

Dec 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Designed, developed, architected and managed the payment engine in Java Spring Boot for more than 2 Lakh Delivery Executives which takes care of their per order pay-outs (>2 million per day) and incentives on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Worked on various services in Spring Boot which are part of Delivery Experience Platform which interacts with the Delivery Executive’s app such as Order Status Update, Order Assignment to third parties.

Jul 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Designed, architected and managed the micro-services based architecture of 1MG labs marketplace and its technology stack.
• Designed and developed the pre order and post order management system for Labs vertical of 1mg.com.
• Designed and owned the payment module that handles payments and refunds for orders placed by 1mg customers.

Feb 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Designed, developed and tested Openstack based object-storage solution to provide disaster-recovery as a service in the cloud.
• Implemented Openstack Swift to store base and incremental backup images in the cloud, restore points can either be downloaded or launched as a virtual machine in the cloud via Openstack Horizon, Swift, Nova, Neutron and Glance.
• Designed and developed the web portal for the disaster-recovery service where a client can setup backup related settings and see profile, reports and launch Openstack horizon.
• Designed and developed a client software which takes the backup image of the machine and upload that to Openstack Swift on the scheduled time. It also allows the client to restore back to the previous backup.

Jun 2012 – Aug 2012 · 2 mos · New York

• Evaluated and make recommendation on various BPM tools and messaging tools by installing and creating sample use cases for the tools and thus determining stability and performance capabilities.
• Setup a message board for the company using the Vanilla forum software.

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos

• Developed assignments and instructed students on query solving techniques.
• Performed course grading and provided 1:1 guidance to students

Aug 2009 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr · Noida, India

• Developed and tested JAVA based application related to Staffing Operations.
• Worked in multidisciplinary teams on various projects.

Jun 2008 – Aug 2008 · 2 mos

• Programmed various microcontrollers to perform specific tasks.

Jun 2007 – Aug 2007 · 2 mos

• Learnt how a BTS operates, its functionality and also about various wireless communication scenarios.

Sep 2005 – Jul 2009 · 3 yrs 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India