Apr 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Led a team of 350 engineers, product managers, and TPMs at Ajio, managing technology for Ajio and AjioBusiness.
• Developed a distributed, microservices platform for high scale, personalized fashion experiences.
• Spearheaded the growth of AjioBusiness, disrupting the retailer-wholesale business with innovative technology solutions.

Dec 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• In my role as Vice President Engineering at Medlife.com, I spearheaded the scaling of systems and organization to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business. Leading a team of ~50 engineers, I focused on improving storefront, doctor consultation, and order management systems to enhance the integrated healthcare experience. My efforts contributed to Medlife.com becoming one of the top ePharma apps in the country, with a strong emphasis on platform performance and organizational transparency.

Jun 2019 – Dec 2019 · 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led a team of 50 in Bangalore and Pune to manage Nutanix's popular product offering, Prism, in the HCI (hyper-converged infra) on-prem vertical.
• Initiated tech stack transformation towards microservices and modular databases, improving scalability and developer productivity.
• Reduced attrition rate, grew team size, and partnered with HR-TA teams for hiring, resulting in a stronger workforce.

Oct 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Led the development and management of a multi-tenant platform for Myntra and Jabong, optimizing key business metrics like CTR and revenue contribution.
• Successfully scaled systems for End of Reason Sale events, ensuring support and performance during high traffic periods.
• Innovated AI and personalization systems, solving unique challenges and driving revenue uplift through intelligent discovery platforms.

Jun 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Responsible for Search, Recommendation and Fraud prevention in Myntra. Some highlights of my work:
• Built Semantic Search from the ground up which is one of the bigger bets towards profitability
• Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives
• Evaluated and identified appropriate technology platforms, identified industry trends, emerging technologies and implemented software development best practices
• Ensured scale and smooth functioning of services during sales despite an an exponential growth in scale requirements
• Responsible for developing strategic roadmap for Search, Recommendation and Fraud prevention
• Took care of Payments and Cart until last year
• Participated as a member of leadership in establishing governance processes within Search, Recommendations, Fraud prevention, My orders, Desktop, Payments and Cart teams
• Responsible for recruitment, training, retention, and organization of development staff
• Define software development methodology for the team and ensure its followed
• Ensure code reviews and specification conformance
• Ensure quality assurance process, including integration and system testing.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Responsible for running the Engineering division of Connexity India office
• In partnership with the leadership team, identified opportunities and risks for delivering as a digital business. This includes identification of opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles including technical hurdles to the business success.
• Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives
• Participated as a member of the leadership in establishing governance processes of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are mitigated and the organization's resources are used responsibly.
• Evaluated and identified appropriate technology platforms (including web & mobile application frameworks and the deployment stack)
• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices
• Developed, tracked, and controlled the development and deployment of annual operating and capital budgets for the India operations
• Supervised recruitment, training, retention, and organization of all development staff
• Defined the team's software development methodology and ensured its followed
• Ensured code reviews and specification conformance
• Established and supervised a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing.
• Deployed and monitored performance profiling tools and procedures.
• Reviewed and approved proposed development releases and manage the release process.
• Established and monitored a web and mobile analytics to measure site traffic and application usage relative to business goals
• Support the marketing process by providing implementation of technical requirements for Internet marketing and search engine optimization

Sep 2013 – Jul 2014 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Responsible for simplicity, scalability, flexibility, and fault tolerance of the architecture.
• Choose technologies for above goals which are cost effective (as open source as possible), widely supported, easier to maintain, and easier to hire talent.
• Responsible for standardization of technologies.
• Responsible for E2E (End to End) integration – be aware of upstream and downstream dependencies, as well as backend/frontend dependencies.
• BCP (Business Continuity Plan) choices planned and architected from beginning.
• Create and update logical and physical architecture diagrams.
• Create repository of reusable architectural patterns.
• Responsible for capacity plans and sizing of non-prod and prod environments.
• Write code
• Stay current with technologies and industry trends from technology perspective.
• Conduct training, present in seminars, write white-papers, …

Dec 2011 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Responsible for success of programs I lead (cloud migrations and later improving SEO)
• Executive reporting (quarterly with CTO/CEO)
• Expectation management with business – strategy, requirements
• Managing project budget
• Managing a team of 4-5 senior engineers
• Collaborate to define work for the quarter
• Defining scope of work for an iteration
• Defect management, release management
• Responsible for hiring engineers

Mar 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Owning the delivery of the project including leading a team of upto 20 people.
• Defining scope of work for an iteration.
• Driving the team through leads to make sure work is completed on time at the same time ensuring quality is maintained via implementing processes like code reviews and using code coverage tools.
• Reviewed and actively involved in designs done for various modules
• Managed build and deployment activities on development and link test environments
• Communication with business/client with regards to requirements and important closures
• Defect management, support and communication with UAT team in London
• Identifying and managing scope creep
• Designed and also implemented performance fixes (was critical to projects overall success)
• Ensured architecture, design documentation was created and kept up to date

Aug 2009 – Mar 2010 · 7 mos

• Leading a team of 6 JEE developers.
• Design and Development of JEE projects.
• Resource allocation and Project management.
• Training the team in areas like Spring, JSF, Hibernate.
• Setting up offshore development environment.

Jul 2006 – Jul 2009 · 3 yrs

• Leading projects to completion.
• Functional Design (HLD), Technical Design (LLD), Development, Deployment.
• Developing common components
• Establishing concepts via Proof of concepts
• Performance tuning

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos

• Coordination with the offshore team
• Requirement gathering
• Development and Load testing

Mar 2004 – May 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Developing projects
• Code reviews
• Unit Testing

Sep 2003 – Jan 2004 · 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Creating reports using Baan ERP
• Break fix in cash flow management system