Jul 2024 – Feb 2025 · 7 mos · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

• Technical Leadership & Cloud Expertise:
• Engineering Leadership: Led and scaled 20+ member engineering teams specializing in GenAI and data engineering solutions
• Multi-Cloud Architecture: Designed and implemented infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure platforms, optimizing for both performance and cost-efficiency
• Modern Infrastructure: Transformed legacy systems using cloud-native approaches, serverless architecture, Kubernetes (K8s), and hybrid-cloud strategies
• Team Development: Mentored engineers, cultivated a high-performance culture, and spearheaded AI innovation initiatives
• Key Achievement: BoxSand.ai Platform
• Built an interactive GenAI playground (boxsand.ai) for hands-on AI experimentation, featuring:
• Video Intelligence: Advanced analysis, automated tagging, and content understanding
• Image Manipulation: AI-powered editing and enhancement capabilities
• Voice Technologies: Text-to-Speech synthesis and Speech-to-Text transcription
• Translation Services: Real-time multilingual AI processing
• Model Customization: Fine-tuning capabilities for specialized AI applications
• Conversational AI: Chatbots for customer support and knowledge base automation
• Intelligent Analytics: AI-driven insights and comprehensive reporting
• Passionate about leveraging AI and cloud technologies to drive impactful, large-scale innovation!

Sep 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Singapore

• Strategic Leadership:
• Team Management: Directed 24 professionals across 3 specialized units, managing 8 core modules including batch/streaming Fraud & AML solutions and Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) offerings
• Performance Engineering: Reimagined Fraud detection architecture, delivering 19x performance improvement through Apache Flink implementation
• Cost Optimization: Reduced annual OPEX by 30% by modernizing legacy Hadoop infrastructure to a cloud-agnostic platform - replacing HBase with ScyllaDB and implementing Kubernetes-orchestrated Spark
• Organizational Impact:
• Culture Development: Cultivated an environment of innovation and collaboration, with structured pathways for skill development and professional advancement
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partnered with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to transform business requirements into data-driven solutions
• Engineering Excellence: Established and standardized data engineering best practices and tooling, significantly enhancing pipeline efficiency and analytics scalability

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos

• Technical Leadership & Infrastructure Modernization:
• Storage Transformation: Led enterprise-wide migration from HDFS to Vast (S3-compliant storage system), enabling cloud-scale data capabilities while maintaining performance
• Security Architecture: Designed and implemented a centralized credential management service with seamless Hashicorp Vault integration, enhancing security posture across data platforms
• Quality Engineering: Developed a high-performance SQL validation REST service using Spark on Kubernetes, implementing fail-fast principles that accelerated development cycles
• Performance Optimization & Engineering Excellence:
• Observability Framework: Architected comprehensive Spark metrics collection system that enabled data-driven application monitoring and automated performance tuning
• Engineering Mentorship: Provided technical guidance through code reviews, documentation development, and platform upgrades, including orchestrating critical Spark version migrations

Aug 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr

• Technical Innovation & Leadership:
• Infrastructure Migration: Engineered custom tooling and automated processes enabling seamless transition from legacy HDFS to Vast S3 object storage, improving scalability while minimizing operational disruption
• Data Architecture Innovation: Led proof-of-concept implementations for Apache Iceberg table format adoption and designed Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines using Debezium and Apache Flink, driving next-generation data architecture capabilities
• Team Development: Established rigorous code review frameworks and mentored junior engineers and interns, institutionalizing engineering best practices and optimizing development workflows

Jan 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Enterprise Data Infrastructure & Tools Development:
• ETL Migration Framework: Architected and delivered a comprehensive Python CLI tool for orchestrating complex data and ETL job migrations between Hadoop data centers, integrating with Apache Hue, Oozie API, HDFS API, DistCP utilities, PostgreSQL databases, Grafana dashboards, data quality portals, and internal enterprise systems
• Monitoring Systems Modernization: Successfully transformed critical SLA monitoring system (tracking Big Data job failures and data delays) from Python 2 to Python 3, while maintaining seamless integrations with Graphite, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, and Sensu
• Data Discovery Enhancement: Maintained and improved enterprise data discovery platform, implementing targeted fixes across metadata collectors interfacing with Hive metastore, Vertica analytics platform, and Metabase visualization tools
• Performance Optimization: Deepened expertise in Apache Spark internals to deliver substantial performance enhancements for mission-critical Spark jobs, improving resource utilization and processing efficiency

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr

• Test Automation & Quality Engineering:
• Big Data Validation Framework: Designed and implemented specialized test automation libraries for comprehensive Big Data validation, enabling reliable quality assurance across complex data processing workflows
• Quality Engineering Strategy: Established robust quality engineering and continuous integration practices tailored for enterprise-scale Big Data environments, with specialized focus on backend API testing and systems integration across Hadoop, Spark, Hue, ETL pipelines, and Oozie workflow scheduler
• CI/CD Optimization: Refined and optimized CI/CD pipelines according to industry best practices, implementing automated testing gates, deployment verification, and quality metrics that significantly improved release reliability and reduced time-to-production

Oct 2018 – Dec 2018 · 2 mos

• Strategic Direction: Spearheaded and orchestrated comprehensive test automation initiatives for redBus inventory platform, defining the quality engineering roadmap and technical implementation strategy
• Team Leadership: Led cross-functional automation teams, establishing testing priorities, optimizing resource allocation, and building scalable automation frameworks that significantly improved release velocity and product reliability

Mar 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Strategic Quality Engineering:
• Enterprise Test Strategy: Architected comprehensive test automation framework for the redBus Inventory system, driving significant productivity improvements and establishing organization-wide quality processes
• Quality Governance: Led cross-functional quality initiatives, establishing testing standards and best practices that enhanced product reliability across the engineering organization
• Technical Expertise:
• Observability & Monitoring - New Relic, Kibana, Grafana, Sentry
• Database Technologies:
• MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, RocksDB, Redshift, H2 Database
• Quality Engineering Arsenal:
• Test Frameworks: Robot Framework, Custom SoapUI Implementation
• Code Coverage: JaCoCo
• Security Testing: OWTF, OWASP ZAP
• Performance Engineering: JMeter, LoadUI, Gatling, Locust

Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Strategic Contributions:
• Quality Planning & Estimation (30%): Collaborated with onsite teams to develop comprehensive QA estimates crucial for sprint planning, while fostering deep understanding of complex C++ and LAMP stack backend systems through close coordination with development and contractor teams
• Test Analytics & Documentation (20%): Engineered daily testing metrics and sprint dashboards, maintaining meticulous Rally documentation that provided stakeholders with real-time visibility into quality metrics and release readiness
• Testing Optimization (40%): Transformed manual testing processes through strategic automation implementations using SoapUI, Selenium, and Appium, continuously improving efficiency through process refinements shared with onsite teams
• Innovation Leadership (10%): Led multiple R&D initiatives resulting in patent-worthy innovations that advanced the organization's quality engineering capabilities
• Technical Leadership:
• Quality Strategy: Designed comprehensive test strategies and plans while orchestrating task assignments across distributed teams
• Performance Engineering: Directed critical performance testing initiatives and contributed to strategic architectural discussions that yielded measurable performance improvements
• Framework Development: Architected and implemented an effective automation framework for comprehensive API testing across multiple protocols (REST, SOAP, RPC)
• Code Quality: Implemented sophisticated code coverage solutions for both .NET and PHP codebases utilizing Visual Studio and PHPUnit, establishing quantifiable quality metrics
• Research & Innovation: Conducted pioneering R&D on unified test automation framework approaches to standardize testing methodologies across diverse technology stacks

Jul 2012 – Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Coimbatore Area, India

• Technical Innovations:
• Developed Java-based SoapUI and CA DevTest plugins that streamlined regression testing and reduced manual effort
• Created Knowledge Management Portal using PHP (Docuwiki/T3 framework) and Groovy script repository (CHM) with HelpNDoc
• Enhanced Cognizant's Selenium framework with advanced reporting (Allure/Extent)
• Executed PoCs for: QC-SoapUI-Selenium integration and BDD implementation for test automation
• Built cross-platform automation combining SoapUI with Selenium/Groovy and parameterized data handling
• QA Leadership:
• Established testing methodologies for service-oriented applications
• Developed comprehensive test scripts using SoapUI, Ready API, Parasoft SOATest and HP UFT
• Managed test data, scenario development and results documentation
• Led resource estimation and allocation for SOA testing initiatives
• Created technical documentation establishing best practices
• Analyzed API documentation, requirements, schema files, and WADL/WSDL specifications
• Served as technical liaison with clients, providing updates and resolving complex issues