Apr 2025 – Jul 2025 · 3 mos · New York, United States · Remote

• Built AI-driven workflows, including an invoice parser that achieved 99%+ accuracy.
• Implemented scalable ETL pipelines on AWS to support reliable and efficient data operations.
• Integrated payment gateway for payment processing, enabling secure and seamless transactions.

May 2024 – Dec 2024 · 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Collaborated on the initial R&D phase, then drove the development of the product.
• Set up core infrastructure, backend, and deployment pipelines.
• Hired and managed a small team of 2 developers (frontend + mobile), establishing workflows for smooth collaboration.
• Implemented streamlined processes across task management (Linear), peer code reviews, and CI/CD for efficient and reliable releases.

Oct 2019 – Mar 2025 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

• Founded and scaled a restaurant SaaS platform (joinsummer.app) from simple QR ordering app to a full stack POS used by 1,000+ restaurants and 2 million diners
• Drove product & engineering efforts leading to 158% YoY revenue growth and $300K ARR, resulting in acquisition in 2025
• Built and led a cross functional team of 8+, adopting Agile and microservices to boost deployment frequency by 30%
• Architected cloud infra on AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, Bacth) handling 50K+ orders/hour with <50ms latency and 99.9% uptime
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with 95% test coverage, cutting release cycles by 40%
• Integrated multi gateway payments, achieving 99.99% success rate and processing ₹10M+ monthly
• Developed inventory system, reducing food waste by 22% becoming a core feature during acquisition discussions
• Built a fault-tolerant order processing system (100+ TPS) using circuit breakers and retry logic
• Tuned DB performance via smart indexing, caching, and query optimization, cutting peak hour response times by 65%
• Built a flutter app for the owners to view analytics and ops on the go helping the sales team close 30% more leads

Mar 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan · Remote

• Spearheaded backend architecture for a SaaS platform for Amazon sellers, helping increase total revenue
• Scaled systems to support rising concurrent users while maintaining excellent uptime
• Reduced API response times, improving client-side engagement
• Collaborated across time zones with global teams while maintaining fast iteration cycles

Feb 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Developed secure healthcare systems using Ruby on Rails, later adopted by Lal Path Labs
• Achieved extensive test coverage and improved database query performance

Jun 2015 – Jan 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Launched an online rental marketplace MVP with substantial listings and consistent user growth
• Applied lean startup methodology to validate product-market fit, influencing later success at Summer

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Created a PDF parser to extract useful data reducing the workload of data entry operators
• Built a system to generate static websites from XML files sourced from Mayo Clinics