Dec 2019 – Sep 2020 · 9 mos · Bangalore

• As a Head of Engineering, responsible for the overall planning, execution, and delivery of the products in SmartVizX. Lead the entire engineering team across UX, UI, BackEnd, QA and DevOps functions.
• Transitioned the product into Microservices framework using Springboot,MongoDB, Docker and deployed to Microsoft Azure App services.
• Brought new cadences in the system like product release cycle, definition of customer support levels, Sprint grooming, Sprint retrospective, Jira management, Sprint burndown and velocity measurement, bug reporting system, bugbash etc.
• Integrated BimObject library (third party content library) and Catalog library (drive for architects) to increase the 3D design content for architects and designers which led to increase of $4 Mn revenue for the organization.
• Experienced in taking an idea from a conception phase, through establishing problem hypotheses, validating the hypotheses, providing recommendations, evolving the LEAN canvas, identifying the definition of MVP, transitioning the MVP to Beta and delivering the product into Production.
• Solely Ideated, designed, architected and developed the “virtual reality content management system “. This will help the product manufactures to showcase their products in VR to architects and designers. This product helped in the creation of an additional revenue funnel of Rs 50 Mn for the organization
• Lead the initiative of building a platform and use it to drive 3rd party integrations, both inward and outward

Dec 2016 – Dec 2019 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Working as an Engineering Manager in Apttus via Aricent. Managing a team on new generation multi-tenant Chat Bot using Microsoft NLU (LUIS) for B2B customers of Apttus. ChatBot is built on Node JS, MongoDB, Typescript deployed over Azure. Spearheading the IBM Cloud migration for the same to increase the user base by 600%.
• Working as a consultant for Aricent’s Client ClearTax (start-up in the tax domain). ClearTax is an Indian Income Tax Return e-filing website. ClearTax is one of the most popular tax preparation and e- filing platforms in India.
• Worked as an Engineering Manager and managed the team and ClearTax core product using Agile Methodologies.
• Managed overall software development cycle of the product using Agile Methodologies. Provides Leadership and ownership of process improvements.
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving startup business environment
• Devised strategies for the scalability project to build an infrastructure to handle the traffic of around a million users in an hour.
• Worked with almost all the departments like Product Manager, Analytics team, Marketing team, Support team as well as CA team and conceptualized product ideas based on the analysis gathered from them.
• Worked with a team to conceptualize the idea of the Referral product and spearheaded the same from inception to completion, which in turn helped in increasing the user-base by 50% in a fiscal year.
• Devised strategies to utilize fewer resources over cloud thereby saving $200K for the company.
• Helped senior management in formulating strategies to increase the market share and revenue of ClearTax

Oct 2013 – Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• Got BT TSO award in first 3 months in BT which represents exceptionally well performance for a quarter among a team of 60 people.
• Architected the project to migrate it over the cloud thereby saving £3.5million annually, which the company was spending earlier to lease the servers locally.
• Delivered a project 2 months before the scheduled time of deployment saving £600K for the company and got appreciation from senior management for the same.
• Simultaneously coordinated two projects and lead the team of 20 members and 6 members respectively.
• Leading a team of 20 members in the development of BOSS application which supports the book to bill processes in Asia Pacific region. This application handles bills of more than £100 million annually.
• Leading a team of 6 members in the development of Customer Experience Dashboard, which will help the Company to understand how customers feel about BT and in turn helps in finding the key problematic areas. This project is also used by the CEO as well as all the presidents of the company for making decisions to enhance the customer experience by focusing on the problematic areas.
• Mentored fellow engineers for developing various features in the above product.
• Managed periodic project issues and concerns from different vendor teams in India as well as Malaysia and assigned appropriate ownership to them.
• Developed design documents and roadmaps for different projects

Sep 2011 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Got “Power Player” award twice in a year. The award represents exceptionally well performance among a team of 40 people.
• Worked as a MSDN Blog writer and wrote blogs on .NET. One of the blog got published in the official asp.net website
• Worked with fortune 500 clients like Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, VISA etc. Worked on understanding the Client requirement and providing them the required technical guidance and consultancy in terms of technology selection and its implementation with proper justification.
• Appreciated by the clients for resolving their highly critical issues in due time thereby saving millions of dollar of clients revenue.
• While providing technical guidance to the clients also helped them to understand about the new products from Microsoft and got a couple of sales deal done for these new products.
• Worked on Microsoft beta products like ASP.NET 4.5 and IIS8 and helped the development team to understand the needs of the clients.
• Interacted with the Microsoft Product group to file bugs in the .NET core libraries.
• Mentored new team members on different technical aspects.

Jul 2007 – Sep 2011 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• The youngest team member to get International experience; worked with clients as on-site-coordinator.
• As recognition of my hard work, assigned the role of “Team Lead” as early as 2nd year of my career.
• Worked on software development pertaining to multiple product/software features for projects Volvo IM, Volvo Faros, Arcelor Mittal Maintenance.
• In the absence of team lead, proactively took responsibility to lead the team and successfully delivered the project on time, thereby team got awarded as “Team of the Year”.
• Led a team of 4 members for Arcelor Mittal Contract Management Project. Due to the diligence of our work Arcelor Mittal has provided a maintenance contract of 17 applications worth a million dollars to the company.
• Led a team of 6 members for the maintenance of 10 applications of ArcelorMittal. Spearheaded the entire software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of different features of the project.
• Worked closely with client and management to get new products for the company. Created and presented a design proposal for the new product.
• Developed POCs and presented technical demos annually to clients and managers; consistently received positive evaluations.