Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Founding Engineer Bistro - Tech Lead: (Aug 2024 - Present)
• Founding engineer for the merchant-side tech of Bistro by Blinkit, building the tech-driven kitchen ecosystem from scratch, enabling fast, reliable food preparation and processing at scale.
• Designed and scaled the core kitchen orchestration system leveraging RESTful and event-driven microservices — featuring real-time inventory sync.
• Architected a modular merchant pod system that reduced kitchen onboarding time by ~40%, accelerating geographic expansion and minimizing manual interventions.
• Built deep observability into merchant operations using real-time dashboards and alerting systems, reducing operational downtimes by ~24% and enabling proactive issue resolution.
• Leading a team of 8 engineers, driving execution of high-impact projects through close collaboration with product, ops, and business teams, ensuring tech solutions aligned with fast-paced GTM goals.
• Zomato Everyday - Software Development Engineer II: (July 2023 - Aug 2024)
• Responsible for end-to-end designing, developing, testing and deploying medium to high complexity modules in 8+ microservices in Golang, Web Monolithic service in PHP communicating through gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
• Implemented a dynamic menu feature in Zomato that allows items to be marked out of stock and menus to be displayed for current and future time slots, significantly enhancing customer experience and operational efficiency by enabling advanced order scheduling.
• Led the code migration from a monolithic PHP service to Golang microservices, improving service scalability and reducing response time by ~32%.
• Mentored a team of 3-4 engineers, playing a significant role in debugging and identifying the root cause of production issues, and actively collaborating with product and business teams to align technical solutions with business objectives

May 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Founding engineer and key contributor to the development of Zomato Everyday, actively participated in critical architectural decisions to ensure scalability and performance.
• Developed the E2E menu system for Zomato Everyday and led ownership of consumer-side modules in menu, homepage, and cart services, significantly enhancing user experience on app.
• Designed and implemented a packaging management algorithm to optimize packaging selection for each order in cloud kitchen, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs.
• Built multiple consumer-side features for Zomato Instant (10-minute delivery) including revamp of menu header, resulting in a 3-4% increase in M2C engagement.