Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · India

• Technology consultant and advisor to startups and scale-ups. I help startups innovate using technology, ship high-quality products, make strategic investments in tech, build high-performing teams, develop leaders in teams, and make product development fun.
• Consulted/advised companies such as Clipboard Health, STAGE, Procol, Sportsfam (now Ziffi), Dealshare, Devtron.ai.

Feb 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

• Worked as Fractional CTO to support the founders in hiring an engineering team, building their product and infrastructure, and helping ship a high-quality product for fantasy sports and opinion betting in sports.
• Tech Stack: Python, Django, Typescript, Node.js, Postgres, Hasura, React, AWS, Heroku, CircleCI, Raygun, Google Analytics, Mixpanel

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Remote

• Engineering leadership coach and mentor for individual contributors and managers.

Oct 2017 – Feb 2022 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Led engineering at Blinkit (formerly Grofers), a $1B hyperlocal grocery quick commerce service in India, delivering 300K orders daily in 10 minutes to more than 10 million users. I contributed in Blinkit's growth from Series B to becoming a unicorn and its eventual acquisition by Zomato.
• As an engineering leader, I built systems and teams. I worked across business domains like e-commerce, supply chain and finance. I led several technology charters like product innovation, quality, data, microservices architecture, platform engineering, reliability, security, compliance, leadership development, employer branding and recruitment. Scaled the engineering team from 60 to 200+ engineers.
• As an org builder, I helped Blinkit make strategic investments in technology, set up performance review processes in tech, adopt goal setting using OKRs, built the Blinkit engineering brand and built a recruitment practice for tech. I also contributed to and led vision and planning exercises, M&As, budgets, vendor management and investor relations.

Oct 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs

• Being part of an early stage startup, I made several contributions:
• ► Frontend Engineering Lead (6 engineers)
• Grofers Web Consumer Product (grofers.com) - led a team of 3 engineers that built and scaled the product from zero to 20% of total revenue. Tech stack includes ES6, React.js, Redux, Node.js, Express
• Grofers Seller Panel - led a team of 3 engineers that built the tools that enabled more than 200 grocery retailers to sell on our marketplace
• ► Infrastructure Engineering Lead (4 engineers)
• Improved uptime of Consumer Product from 94% to 99.5%
• Enabled product engineering teams to operate autonomously by implementing "You build it, you run it" model of DevOps
• Reduced turn around time to provision cloud infrastructure by delivering self-serve tools for developers
• Introduced Ansible for configuration management and infrastructure orchestration through code as a practice
• Scaled incident management practice to all product engineering teams by coaching and setting up systems for effectively responding to production incidents (escalation policies, standardised monitoring, run books, etc.)

Oct 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

• At Wingify, we built VWO, the leading A/B testing service for web applications. As a software engineer, I focussed on scalability and availability problems of our backend infrastructure, and developer experience for product engineering:
• Maintaining and extending our data acquisition pipeline and storage infrastructure for running A/B experiments
• Operations (using Puppet and Fabric), maintaining and monitoring productions systems
• Developing infrastructure software and automation tools for faster deployments and developer productivity

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos

• At Mozilla as a WebQA Intern, I worked on the following:
• Maintaining test infrastructure for WebQA projects and Firefox OS.
• Improving test coverage for Firefox OS 1.0 & 1.1, Marketplace and other web properties.
• Developed dashboard for tracking failing tests, skipped tests and expected failures with associated bugs from Bugzilla & Github. Built using Python & AngularJS - https://github.com/mozilla/mozwebqa-dashboard.
• Simplifying test environment setup for Windows developers using Vagrant+Puppet - https://github.com/retornam/mozwebqa-vagrant.

Aug 2012 – Jul 2013 · 11 mos

• As a Mozilla Rep, I do the following:
• Represent Mozilla in India.
• Promote the Mozilla Project and the Mozilla Mission
• Build on and support existing/future local community efforts and programs
• Inspire, recruit and support new contributors
• Support and mentor future Mozilla Reps

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos

• Officially helping undergraduate students with the following courses:
• Systems and Network Programming

Dec 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 mo · Bangalore, India

• As a Software Engineering Intern, I worked on the following projects:
• Developed Node.js client for Plivo REST API, with complete test coverage using Mocha testing framework and Nock for mocking HTTP APIs.
• Designed and implemented a prototype of an extendable log aggregation and querying framework written using Python, Flask, Gevent and Elasticsearch for collecting application logs.

Jul 2012 – Dec 2012 · 5 mos

• Officially helping undergraduate students with the following courses:
• Operating Systems

Jun 2012 – Jul 2012 · 1 mo · New Delhi

• As a software engineer intern at Wingify, I worked on a variety of projects related to VWO (our A/B testing product for digital marketers). Some of my projects were:
• Developed REST API for Visual Website Optimizer (VWO).
• Developed Cross Browser Testing Platform for VWO that made it easy for customers to visually test their A/B variations across multiple browsers.
• Helped architect the geo-distributed architecture for analytics data collection

May 2011 – Aug 2011 · 3 mos

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects.
• As a part of this program, I developed modules for the Drupal project. These modules provide various points of integration between Google Apps and Drupal and provide a framework for allowing easy integration of other Google Apps services with Drupal.

Sep 2009 – Nov 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• Co-founded INK with a small team of designers and developers. We worked with numerous clients during our existence and created awesome digital experiences. My role at INK was to lead the technical work of every project undertaken by INK.