Jun 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built and led a cross-functional team of 11 developers, overseeing backend, web, and app development, resulting in substantial revenue growth and platform scalability.
• Spearheaded the development of a scalable challenge system for 1 lakh+ creators, incorporating automated face detection and social profile verification to enhance content quality and
• minimize moderation efforts.
• Designed and implemented a flexible payment service integrating multiple gateways (Razorpay, PhonePe, Cashfree, Stripe), streamlining transactions for brands and creators.
• Established AWS infrastructure from scratch, optimizing performance with microservices architecture, handling 7K+ events per minute with high reliability.
• Led the development of a brand dashboard with advanced tools like Target AI and Social Post Automation, improving brand performance management and marketing automation.

Oct 2021 – Jun 2022 · 8 mos

• Led growth and development of 4 teams (15 engineers) in ShareChat and Moj, overseeing architecture, code review, and quality assurance.
• Provided technical vision for teams, collaborating closely with product managers and designers. Led strategic technical decisions, aligning engineering efforts with product goals and user needs.
• Orchestrated the launch of Moj, ShareChat's short video platform, within 28 hours of TikTok's India ban. Demonstrated exceptional agility and technical leadership in rapidly capitalizing on market opportunity.
• Initiated and led AppX project, reducing app launch time from 12s to 8s. Improved screen rendering, refined app architecture, and established optimal coding practices, significantly enhancing overall user experience.
• Scaled teams from 2 to 120 members. Conducted 200+ interviews, hiring 8+ engineering managers and architects. Developed and implemented effective technical assessment strategies.

Dec 2020 – Oct 2021 · 10 mos

Dec 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr

Dec 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr

Feb 2018 – Dec 2018 · 10 mos

Oct 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

• Built a recommendation system for educational content to suggest videos based on user interests.
• Developed Android app from scratch, implementing advanced architectural patterns and optimization techniques.
• Engaged in all phases of the project lifecycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment.

Jun 2016 – Oct 2016 · 4 mos · Pune Area, India

• Technical Skills and Tools:
• Utilized Python, SQL, and MongoDB to perform in-depth analysis and build data structures for multiple projects.
• Applied various web scraping methodologies, leveraging tools like BeautifulSoup and Selenium, to extract data from biomedical platforms such as PubMed.
• Projects:
• BioTagger
• Objective: Leverage the UMLS ontology to identify biomedical entities and map relationships between them.
• Approach: Linked these entities to various acronyms and synonyms to fetch related and relevant articles from PubMed.
• Techniques: Implemented NLP and Information Retrieval techniques to enhance data retrieval and entity mapping.
• Name Normalization:
• Objective: Map key thought leaders (KTLs) within specific therapeutic areas.
• Approach: Analyzed authors from clinicaltrials.gov and PubMed, ranking them based on influence, connections, and contributions to their fields.
• Techniques: Employed distance-based models and conducted RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) analysis to refine a list of millions of influential individuals based on their names.

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Developed multiple applications from scratch, leveraging advanced architectural patterns and optimization techniques.
• Implemented MQTT, a lightweight client-server publish/subscribe messaging protocol, on IoT devices designed for home automation.
• Engineered an API for fast delivery of blobs to the server, achieving a 30% reduction in latency.
• Developed an Android application capable of direct communication with the kernel(Arduino), enhancing system-level interactions and performance.