Jun 2022 – Mar 2023 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Reported directly to CTO and the co-founders; Devised quarterly technical roadmap in alignment with the company roadmap(OKRs) with measurable en- gineering/product metrics
• Collaborated effectively with different functions across the company - Product (Product Manager, Product Designer) and others (Customer Success, Customer Support, Sales Marketing) for successful product feature releases
• Scaled the team of 8 full-stack engineers to a diverse team of 18; Setup different functions within engineering - DevOps, Testing/QA, Backend and Frontend teams
• Setup efficient processes in improving CI/CD pipelines, modernizing tech stack (switch to k8s, adoption of newer systems - Temporal, OpenSearch etc.)

Sep 2021 – Feb 2022 · 5 mos

• Founding backend engineer for Spotlight, an internal portal that aims to unify the end to end platform experience to support Netflix's growing engineering presence (1000 to 2000 engineers in 2 years)
• Architected real-time search infrastructure involving Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and database custom integrations to power keyword/fuzzy searching on all software components and their metadata

Oct 2018 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Tech Lead for Talent Financials Payments, a business rule-driven system to handle Participations and Residuals talent payments for Netflix Studios

Oct 2015 – Oct 2018 · 3 yrs

• Project Lead for "Apache Kafka As a Service" which provides a full-fledged ecosystem around Kafka for all internal application teams.
• Lead Developer for Cross-Functional Stability Team which eliminated resource, design bottlenecks in low level infrastructure components for various Application teams
• Designed and implemented layers of disaster recovery functionality (up to DR-1)
• on vulnerable machines

Jun 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Systems Infrastructure Team Member.
• Worked on critical infrastructure components identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to increase throughput and performance.
• Effectively conducted periodic System load tests to analyze and improve Infrastructure, Application pipeline to accommodate disaster scenarios
• Experience in collaboration with the management teams, operations during live issues and product releases

May 2011 – Aug 2011 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Worked with System Infrastructure team in developing an Automated Monitoring tool.

Jan 2011 – May 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

• TA for CS 49000 - Software Testing
• Instructors: Aditya Mathur(Spring 2011), Xiangyu Zhang (Fall 2011)
• TA for CS18000 - Problem Solving and Object Oriented Programming
• Instructors: Sunil Prabhakar (Spring 2012)

May 2009 – Sep 2009 · 4 mos

• Prototyped and built an authoring tool as an additional component for an open source e-learning platform,MOODLE that creates dynamic presentations (accepts user responses and leads to adaptive paths).