Apr 2020 – Sep 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• As a Co-Founder & Vice President of Engineering at Prakya, I led the building of Prakya's Agile work management solution from “0 to 1”. Successfully launching the MVP in just 7 months and the beta version in less than a year with a team of just 6 engineers.
• Apart from Engineering, I also handled the entire operations of our India office. In this role, I have been responsible for managing and delivering products and services to Prakya's customers. I was also focused on developing and executing strategic plans that align with business goals and deliver high-quality, scalable software products.
• As a part of Prakya's growth strategy, I built an engineering team in India that delivered multiple products and services for customers across the globe.

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Spear-headed the Product Development & Delivery efforts by managing a team of Technical Leads & Senior Software Engineers, Design & Architecture, resource planning and technical guidance.
• 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐢𝐳𝐞 15 - 20
• 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 - To support and manage over a million plus users and devices, I spearheaded the revitalization of existing Enterprise services (25 plus services, across various regions and availability zones). Additionally led the successful development and deployment of 3 new services which were greenfield projects that helped in scaling services to handle millions of users and devices.
• 𝗼 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 & 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 - Service to manage enterprise users and device information based on anonymised identities and is designed to handle millions of users & devices.
• 𝗼 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫-𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 - Service to manage and handle real-time service subscriptions and configurations for end-users.
• 𝗼 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 & 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 - Push based real-time service, to deliver the most specific configuration updates, access control to Client software running on millions of iOS, Android & Windows based devices.
• 𝗼 Cost Reduction: Leveraged cutting edge open-source technologies and frameworks like REDIS, MySQL, Apache Ignite & Kafka for scaling the performance of existing services and thereby achieving significant cost-reduction.
• 𝗼 Evaluated new technologies and open-source tools for new business requirements. Spend time in hands-on development, unit testing & Technical documentation on need basis.
• 𝗼 Engage periodically with Product Management and Engineering leads to deliver project goals and road map.
• 𝗼 Discuss and plan testing efforts with Quality Assurance teams, deployment strategy with Operations team ensuring SOX compliance.
• 𝗼 Migrated legacy monolithic services into microservices architecture thereby ensuring higher productivity, predictable releases with uber quality.

Jul 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• As a Principal Engineer, I was the Product Delivery Lead for iPass Platform services. I led a team of 6-10 Software Engineers, driving the development and deployment of innovative services. I provided technical guidance, architectural inputs, performed regular maintenance releases, and managed release schedules to ensure timely product deployments.
• 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐢𝐳𝐞 6 - 10
• 𝗼 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐠 𝐔𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 - Developed as a microservice, this service enables Client Mobile/Desktop applications (millions of devices) to collect logs automatically and upload them to AWS S3 for further analysis and reporting. This service processed an average of 100K requestsevery day and collected logs data up to 300GB/day.
• 𝗼 𝐔𝐑𝐋 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 - Designed, developed new service following the Serverless Architecture approach in AWS using API Gateway, Lambda functions and DynamoDB. This service were used by Customers who prefer shortened URLs (over long service activation URLs) and distribute the shortened URLs via SMS/Twitter advertising campaigns.
• 𝗼 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐌 integration and Single Sign On (SSO) support for Enterprise customers for easy access of iPass Client applications.
• 𝗼 Embraced AWS Cloud solutions for new services.
• 𝗼 Handled the release manager responsibilities to ensure product components are released on-time.
• 𝗼 Continuous engagement with Product Manager, Architects and cross Team Leads to gather business requirements and new features and translating the same into technical specifications.
• 𝗼 Other responsibilities include handling system design and architecture, personnel actions for team members, conducting yearly performance appraisals for the team, suggesting performance improvement plans, final say in conflict resolution and hiring on need basis.
• 𝗼 Solve customer issues and real time production issues on need basis.

Oct 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Client Applications - A͟n͟d͟r͟o͟i͟d͟ ͟a͟n͟d͟ ͟M͟i͟c͟r͟o͟s͟o͟f͟t͟ Windows Platforms
• 𝗼 Designed and implemented 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 framework for core moving parts of Android application which improved the application performance multifold and eliminated application 'not responding' scenarios, effective battery utilization and reduced network calls.
• 𝗼 Designed and developed core modules for the iPass Open Mobile Client software which includes - Authentication, Data collection services, Analytics, User interface elements for Android and Windows platform.
• 𝗼 Redesigned and re-wrote complete authentication modules which increased the connection success rates tremendously thereby increasing revenues.
• 𝗼 Implemented the core diagnostics framework module based on Composite design pattern that gathers the application diagnostic information.
• 𝗼 Drafting high-level and low-level design documents for new feature development and also during refactoring cycles.
• 𝗼 Hands-on design and architecture, prototyping, development and testing of components.
• 𝗼 Provide technical guidance and mentoring for team members.

Oct 2010 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Client Applications - Microsoft Windows Platform
• 𝗼 Contributed to development of multiple features like Dial-up API integration, WiFi connection modules, Software quality metrics which had direct impact on revenues.
• 𝗼 Worked mostly on the application service layer which was multi-threaded that handled the core connection and authentication modules using Generic Interface Specification.
• 𝗼 Redesigned & rewrote several modules of codebase on various occasions to enhance application performance, code modularity and long term maintainability.
• 𝗼 All features where developed using C# along with WPF & WCF, along with interops to use legacy libraries written in C++ language.

Oct 2007 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Client Applications - Microsoft Windows Platform
• Integrated couple of Wireless 802.1x protocols like PEAP-GTC, PEAP-MSCHAPv2 and EAP-TLS to the main application using native Microsoft WLAN APIs.
• Worked primarily on the iPass Client software development for the Microsoft Windows platform using VC++, MFC, C# with frameworks WCF & WPF.
• Developed stand-alone applications and integrated 3rd party plugin libraries to enhance the product functionality and feature set.
• Develop, unit test and support QA for testing effort on some of the core features of the product.

Oct 2006 – Sep 2007 · 11 mos

• 𝗼 Worked on legacy Client Applications for Windows Platform for Microsoft Windows family of Operating Systems.
• 𝗼 Full development life cycle of multiple products from prototyping, implementation and deployment using VC++, MFC & COM, C# .NET and Windows services.

Feb 2005 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore, India

• Joined as fresher and learnt on-the-job VC++/MFC programming, Object Oriented design and RDBMS.
• 𝗼 Worked on developing end-to-end CAD, CAM and CNC modules for industrial automation software,
• 𝗼 Developed add-on modules like Email/SMS notifications for CNC shop-floor factory automation software.
• 𝗼 Developed new Windows based applications and services for a larger part of project involving TCP/IP Socket communications.
• 𝗼 Enhanced CAD/CAM 3D simulation and NC program generation products using OpenGL and in-house geometry libraries.
• 𝗼 Technology stack - VC++, MFC, C# .NET and Windows system services.