Oct 2020 – Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• I am owning the complete Engineering Management of the following platforms:
• 1. Next generation Merchants feed processing system.
• 2. A complete Merchant/Partner management system similar to Amazon/Google solution.
• 3. Next generation Data Annotations Platform.
• 4. Competitive Web Data Intelligence Platform
• 5. Data Observability Platform
• 6. Auto Labler, Conversational AI and LLM
• Above platforms are being used by our multiple business units, and, also by thousands of Merchants, Partners and Publishers.
• AI/ML use cases:
• I have worked on following use cases where internal and external Machine Learning Models are involved.
• 1. Item classification using Facebook's FastText model
• 2. Price trends and analytics
• 3. Attributes extraction using NER model
• 4. Autolabler (Data Annotations use case), using LangChain, Lama and LLM(ChatGPT) based models
• 5. Brand extraction from Product Description
• 6. Product Description generation using Open AI and a combination of prompts

Mar 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · Hybrid

• Evaluated project requirements to identify and mitigate risks.
• Addressed design challenges and evaluated alternative design models to meet project requirements.
• I was responsible for overseeing the entire engineering management of BBDaily, a subscription-based product for Bigbasket.com.
• BBDaily, a high-volume transactional product, involved the daily delivery of over 2+ lac orders and experienced consistent growth.
• Several challenges arose in ensuring timely delivery to customers, maintaining smooth operations, and providing the best possible customer experience.
• We developed a solution that is highly scalable, reliable, available, and cost-effective by leveraging modern tech stacks and frameworks.

Aug 2018 – Mar 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Worked with developers to identify and remove software bugs.
• Discussed issues with team members to provide resolution and apply best practices.
• Oversaw 5+ of simultaneous projects, monitoring each for development milestone and quality control compliance.
• Delivered project reports and milestone updates to supervisor.
• Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees

Aug 2017 – Jul 2018 · 11 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

• As the leader of a 20-member IT team comprising both development and IT infrastructure teams, my responsibilities included:
• Taking ownership of project initiation, development, and deployment to production.
• Actively participating in the design and architecture of projects, as well as making final decisions on technology selection for specific products or problems.
• Assisting the DevOps team with any issues or suggestions in their day-to-day operations.
• Providing customer support and facilitating coordination across various functions such as marketing, sales, and GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance).
• Managing stakeholders and ensuring effective communication.
• Mentoring and hiring talented individuals for the team.

Oct 2013 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos · On-site

• Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.
• Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
• Built shiksha.com from scratch.
• I was handling a scrum team of 5+ devs

Nov 2010 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · On-site

• Company overview, It's a product based company which has products in Education, Jobs, Matrimonial and Real State. The most known product of this company is naukri.com.
• PROJECTS WORKED ON
• Technologies used across the project:
• Application Development - PHP 5.0, MySQL, CSS 2.1, JavaScript, HTML, PHP Framework - CodeIgniter
• Project Name: shiksha.com, it's a product which provides a single platform for user to get educational institutes/colleges/courses details. Here users can get the details of top institutes/colleges/courses where they can pursue their education.
• Currently I am working on marketing module of this product; this module collates user details from different sources.

Dec 2007 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos · On-site

• Prestigious Publishing Company of New York
• Project Overvie It is based on migration of some of the key section fronts (Politics, Today's Paper) and key newsletters of New York Times. For newsletters, user preference based functionality ha been added using eml tag which is used by email processor. This functionality is implemented for around 28 newsletters used across New York Times.; Modules: Across all the modules.
• Team Size - 8[Offshore] + 2 [Onsite]
• Coordinating with onsite to get the requirements and clarify issues

Dec 2007 – Apr 2008 · 4 mos · On-site

• Successfully completed the training with CGPI 4.4 [out of 5]
• Trained in Java/J2EE, Shell Programming (Unix), C, RDBMS, Java Script, HTML, Oracle, PL/SQL