Mar 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · On-site

• Propelled the culture of Engineering excellence through multiple initiatives, including driving tech talks, focusing on performance, optimisations and system design reviews
• Focus on cost optimisation to maximise the infra provisioning. Experimentation around K8 configs to increase pod resource efficiency from 15% to 60%. Fine tune the RDS config parameters.
• Setup a mentorship platform to share my learnings and help in grooming new leaders in the tech industry to excel in their career - https://nthdirection.com/
• Embark on building NextLevel to revolutionise the hiring industry - https://nextlevel.app/

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

• Led the entire Learner experience charter and built context based User onboarding flows, segregated user cohorts to improve D7 retention and other refinements like open search in user journey
• Significant contribution in improving Unacademy Learner App Play store rating from 3.1 to 4.5* with more than 50K reviews
• Got my hands on Product management and contributed in conceptualising Unacademy Icons - https://unacademy.com/icons
• Groomed senior engineers and built next set of tech leadership in Unacademy with strong Interviewer pipelines

Oct 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

• Launched the new AI based "Ask a doubt" feature. This allowed learners to upload an image of their doubt and system will try to match it with any existing image/ question bank that already had a solution. This AI model worked with an efficiency of ~80% match rate.
• Revamped the entire Streak and match mins components to execute with an SLA of 15 secs for ~200M events per day, which eventually contributed in improving Learner retention and per day avg. watch mins per learner
• Built a pipeline to streamline the Educator agreement signing through digital signature and established checkpoints in their monthly deliverables

Oct 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr · On-site

• Built and scaled the Quiz service as an added value proposition to
• Unacademy learners. This Python service used to handle more than 10K concurrent connections with close to 5M MAUs
• Spin up data replication pipeline from MySQL to Redshift. This pipeline helped in syncing all the incremental changes on application database to our datastore by reading Binlog files

Sep 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr · Bangalore · On-site

• Developed a recommendation engine to suggest product recommendations to end users based on their taste preferences using KNN machine learning model.
• Implemented data pre-processing functions to clean the data and identify appropriate features for model training.
• Constructed KNN model to predict product recommendations for end users accurately, considering their previous order history on platform.
• Tested and evaluated model performance, and optimised it to improve overall accuracy.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Developed SNMP Integration of Zscaler Enforcement Node (ZEN) cloud module to make it able to send traps to cloud manager on reaching threshold of any cloud resource.
• Created a web-scraper and developed a deep neural network for image recognition
• Utilised strong problem-solving skills to troubleshoot production issues and collaborated with peers to scale the data ingestion pipelines

May 2014 – Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Noida, India

• Built a MIS system to help visualise the traffic patterns on the platform for stakeholders and add various filters to the SQL query on the go, with easy drag-n-drop interaction
• Designed and developed the Q/A section for naukri.com