Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Responsible for all Technology systems, processes, Software architecture, System design and Application development predominantly for Wasalt.com and other Digital businesses of Quara Holding. Leading a team of 130+ Technology and Software engineers and working closely with C-level, Business Development, Product, Marketing, and Operations to define and deliver new products and enhancements.

Sep 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Developing a world class Real Estate Search engine and an O2O solution (https://wasalt.com/en) for Middle east market in a multi-tier distributed architecture based on Micro-services, Micro-frontend and a Middleware. Setting up a vision and roadmap for how Technology will be leveraged in meeting Product, Customer and Business expectations.
• Establishing a growing and learning environment for Technology team to find, create and excel challenging opportunities with the help of Innovation, R&D, fail-fast and adoptive approach.
• Building a passionate, self-sufficient and inquisitive Technology team at Dar Al Arkan, Wasalt and Quara Digital, Business Units of Quara Holding imbibed with the culture of openness, collaboration and teamwork.

Dec 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• As VP of Engineering, my responsibilities include defining and executing the Technology vision and strategies to shape up the overall brand of the Ferns n Petals. I work with the Executive Management team to define the e-commerce strategy and Engineering deliveries. I work with the teams to analyze and assess the effectiveness of all the existing Product fulfilment, Consumer experience, Operation capabilities and current needs based on new Technologies and planned deliverables. Works with the Business Units to improve, develop and advocate new Technology opportunities for Fnp's Products and Services. I also develop Technology plan and annual budget for Technology function.
• I lead Technology teams in defining, building, reviewing and setting up Application/Service Design & Architecture across Backend, Middleware and Frontend tiers. Hands-on in developing scalable and robust Microservices written in Java Spring boot and its dependencies along with ORM, CDC and Data storage layers.
• I’m also responsible for Fnp's Web and Mobile Engineering vision and promises, as a result I work with our Product, Design, Operations and Marketing teams very closely. I also take ownership of building Engineering team, Recruitment & Retention and overall culture values in the Technology team.

Apr 2019 – Nov 2019 · 7 mos

• I was responsible for production roadmaps in both authoring and sponsoring new technology and translating the company's long-term plans into the future direction of our production environment.
• My responsibilities include defining and leading strategy and roadmap for Growth hack, SEO and Data Science for Housing.com while balancing short and long-term priorities against business needs. Anticipating and solving challenges across functional groups. My role covered design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our services. Recently started working with Data Science team in solving problems related to Machine Learning.
• Managing end-to-end availability and performance of mission-critical services and building automation to prevent problem recurrence. Build automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions. I sat down with engineers and architects to constructively review designs and debug live production issues.
• I was also responsible for Resource Planning and Budgeting which encompass team hiring, mentoring, defining career path, retention, resource allocation, feedback & training and resource optimisation while qualifying employee appraisal process and HR practices.

Oct 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Leading engineering makaan.com marketplace; responsible for designing, architecting, development, delivery & support of multiple products of www.makaan.com.
• I have been responsible for managing a team of software developers in planning, directing, and overseeing the entire software development process primarily for the backend services and frontend views of the application. My primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to, technical direction on building Microservices Architecture based software components using Java Spring framework, overseeing agile software development process, working with various squads of business, team leads and product owners on requirement/design/integration of software components, addressing customer issues/escalations and providing production support. Led the effort of design, architecture, development, and delivery of valuable and business critical web service components to variety of services built on AWS, RDS, Redis, Redshift, Apache Solr and Apache Kafta.
• I am also responsible for all aspects of resource management, including, but not limited to, technical talent acquisition, resource & budget planning, allocation, mid-year and yearly performance evaluation, mentoring/coaching etc.

Apr 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• My primary responsibility was to lead technology group of an enterprise B2B Product of Makaan.com i.e. Marketforce; My responsibilities included but not limited to providing technical direction on platform and technology selection, agile software development process, plan and implement new and significantly improved systems and services, working with internal and external technology groups to design integration software components, addressing customer issues/escalations, product release and deployment activities and working with HR on technical talent acquisition.
• Marketforce as an application built on JAVA platform harnessing the power of open source technologies (Linux, MySQL, Tomcat, Jboss, Spring, Hibernate and many more). This software is a hosted solution available to our internal customers. My responsibilities include managing the software development activities, technical leadership and mentoring, process improvement, working with product management on new features and enhancements, working with IT infrastructure team on software/hardware support and deployment activities.

Apr 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Managed application software development using Java Tech stack (Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate) and LAMP Tech stack. Architect/Design a framework for real estate marketplace developed in Zend framework of PHP. Architect/Design various WebServices to be interfaces and implementations. Responsible for working with product and project management team to ensure that the products and modules are completed and delivered in a timely manner, working with the business owners on planning and preparing for new products. Successfully delivered custom built enterprise class software integration components, services, decision support systems, and legacy financial components to various divisions such as Audit and control and sales management.
• Successfully migrated entire Makaan.com application from LAMP stack to Java Stack. Separation of codebase using SOA based backend services developed in Spring and Hibernate and frontend views in client based scripting language.
• Responsible for entire product engineering & development of Makaan.com consumer facing application, managing business development by building products as per demand of online real estate market and consumer behaviour. Managing parallel verticals of Makaan.com i.e. MakaanIQ, Price Trends, Forums and SAS.

Apr 2011 – Mar 2012 · 11 mos

• Roles & Responsibilities
• Complete technical ownership for all real estate based portals of the organization.
• Product analysis & requirement refinement.
• Application architecture and deployment.
• Database management, high volume data handling, DB optimization and scaling.
• Involved & participant in product usage, drafting, designing and layout.
• High consumer engagement and satisfaction level.
• Agile development & daily/weekly scrum calls.
• Strong SEO for all online products.
• Product innovation and technical R&D.
• Application development efforts, time estimation, task metrics & allocation.
• Successful, on-time and quality delivery of products.
• Hiring, learning and grooming of technical team members.
• Key results
• Successful development & delivery of various key modules of Makaan.com, MakaanIQ.com, Forums.Makaan.com etc.
• Integration of Solr search platform in different search based modules.
• DB optimization and high volume data handling.
• Integration of Google APIs & Social networking tools i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc.
• Increase in consumer engagement and satisfaction level.
• Increase in repeat users.
• Building & grooming strong technical team.

Nov 2008 – Apr 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Product analysis and requirement refinement, Product consultation, DB optimization and web analysis, Solution & Design architecture, SRS and release notes, SVN configuration and implementation, Module estimation, Task metrics & allocation and Code review.
• Working Area – PHP 4 & 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2.0, OOAD and MPP.

Mar 2008 – Nov 2008 · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh

• Handling Project life cycle, Requirement/SRS gathering & drafting, drawing technical architecture, Coding, Release management, Team handling, conflict resolution, task management, resource management and product innovation.

Dec 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Website development and delivery, Software architecture development, DB analysis & schema designing, Prepare POC, SLA, Requirement analysis, Estimations, Design and Development, UAT, Leading Team and Post release support, Client handling and Code review.
• Working Area – PHP 5, PEAR, SimpleTest (Unit testing), MySQL 5, Linux redhat, Apache 2.0, CRON Jobs, CURL, XML, JavaScript, AJAX., Web Load (Stress testing), Confluence and JIRA

Feb 2006 – Dec 2006 · 10 mos

• Requirement analysis, Estimations, Design and Development, UAT, Leading Team and Post release support, Client handling and Code review.
• Working Area - PHP 4 & 5, MySQL 5, Linux Fedora, Shell scripting, Apache 2.0, CURL, XML, JavaScript.

Jun 2005 – Feb 2006 · 8 mos

Dec 2002 – Jun 2005 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Dec 1999 – Dec 2002 · 3 yrs