Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Platform Engineering

Jan 2023 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Feb 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Served as leader of payments engineering org
• Managing systems processing multi-billion(~10 billion) dollars in annual GMV and tens of thousand of concurrent transactions.
• Micro-services oriented architecture.Multi-tenant , high scale , performant and available systems. Capability of handling tens of thousands of payment transaction requests concurrently.Bettering these metrics continuously.
• Leading team of smart engineers/architects and engineering managers across experience levels spanning multiple sub-teams.
• Sessions and workshops to spread Agile development awareness in organisation. Onboard teams on Agile development processes.
• Setup processes to aide swift collaboration and inter/intra communication within teams.
• Setting up/revamping engineering best practices to improve speed and quality of delivery , alerting , monitoring and reconciliation of systems.
• Collaboration with external stakeholders/partner engineering/product teams from various PGs and banks for online payment initiatives.
• Led Big Billion Days, May Sale , Independence day sale and other sale events from payments engineering team in 2019 and 2020.
• Delivered multiple projects/products ,starting from scratch like - UPI on Flipkart , Silent Auth , Part Payments , Super Coins to name few.
• Supported various audit and compliance certifications of payment systems.
• Improved order non-confirmations after payment receipt count from mid 3 digits to single digit per day.
• Take pride in ensuring high happiness and motivation quotient in my teams
• Deprecating/revamping legacy systems/services.
• Hiring/interviewing SDE1/2/3/4/EM/SEMs .

Apr 2018 – Feb 2019 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Had lots of fun doing all things at Mobikwik .Few of them I have mentioned below.
• Scaled systems super quick to absorb surge in traffic just post demonitization in India.
• Setup teams and launched-
• 1.Insurance ,
• 2.Travel ,
• 3.Cross-sell and,
• 4.Platform products /product lines from scratch.
• Setup platform engineering team and defined its charter from scratch.
• Planned and lead migration from Monolithic architecture to SOA architecture across Mobikwik engineering systems.
• Scaled products in Merchant,Recharge bill payments eco-system to next level in terms of features, user experience and traffic volumes.
• Managed Product engineering, processing Billion+ dollars in GMV.
• Worked as General Manager - Reporting to CEO/Founder.
• Ideated, planned and lead the team to execute Mobikikathon 1.0 . and Mobikikathon 2.0 , an Internal hackathon event of Mobikwik.
• Lead multiple agile teams spanning 60+ super smart dev ,qa and techops engineers and managers/scrum masters.
• Revamped hiring/interviewing - On and Off campus across levels .Led hiring panels to multiple tier-1 campuses across India.
• Hiring and interviewing across levels for Devs to CTO.
• Set Up inter/intra team processes for swift coordination and collaboration.
• Lead team managing Tech Operations handling 1 million + Merchants with SLAs.
• Hustled, ran sprints, ran marathons, Ideated a lot.Experimented a lot.Broke few things. Created quite a few things.

Oct 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• 1.Merchants - online
• 2.Merchants - offline
• 3.Recharge and Bill Payments
• 4.Travel
• 5.KYC engineering team.

Apr 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• naukri.com's jobseeker engineering team.
• Lead the journey to aide and engage job seekers to find jobs from their Mobile phones.
• < 2% to 49% Mobile traffic share of overall job seeker traffic from 2011 to 2016.
• Started the journey with writing mobile site from scratch as full stack developer
• Owner of backend of mobile apps, mobile sites and desktop jobseeker site for naukri
• Reachitectured systems from Single file to MVC-Monolith to SOA in the journey from 2011 to 2016.
• Among initial few orgs to adopt asyc data processing .POCs - RabbitMQ , Kakfa
• Served/Lead team of 12 awesome front-end ,back-end SDE and SDET engineers

Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 · 11 mos

• Led naukri.com engineering to SOA along with a reporting team of 2 awesome engineers .

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 · 11 mos

Jan 2011 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Oct 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Jul 2008 – Jun 2009 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India