May 2024 – Dec 2024 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• AIVA is a Gen-AI powered virtual assistant available on Slack that can manage calendar

Aug 2023 – Apr 2024 · 8 mos · Remote

Jul 2020 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• I provide CTO services to technology companies.
• In addition, at APIC Labs, I have built and released tools for developers, product managers, and marketers (APIC Blocks, AIVA, Annexr, Soopr, Ping, Humangous, APIC Agent) and open-source frameworks.
• A few of them are:
• 1. AIVA - a gen-AI based Slack app to help busy executives manage their calendars (https://www.useaiva.com)
• 2. Annexr - a gen-AI based semantic/RAG search tool for websites and documents (https://www.annexr.com)
• 3. Ping - website monitoring tool (https://www.apicblocks.com/ping)
• 4. APIC Agent - API to detect browser, OS, and device from user agent string (https://www.apicblocks.com/apicagent/)
• 5. Soopr - Share and like buttons for blogs
• Developer Tools
• 1. Moonwalk - an open-source blog theme (https://github.com/abhinavs/moonwalk)
• 2. Cookie - an open-source landing website starter project (https://github.com/abhinavs/cookie)
• 3. HTTPlex - a simple HTTP request & response service (https://www.httplex.com/)
• 4. Scoop - a production-ready Sinatra boilerplate project using Corneal, ActiveRecord, Capistrano, Puma & Nginx

Feb 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

May 2013 – Feb 2019 · 5 yrs 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Head of Engineering - Hike Payments
• Wallet, UPI, Blue Packets, Recharge, Pay SDK, Reconciliation & Settlement, Security & CS front-end & tooling
• Prior to this I lead Growth & Labs engineering teams at hike. Built, managed & launched a ton of stuff.
• Hidden Mode, Natasha, Match Up, Hike Daily, Hike Caller, GIFs, Onboarding, Immersives, Talk Time Rewards, OEM Partnerships, Popup & Tips Frameworks, Space Manager, Birthday Reminders, File Transfer, Stickers, and a ton of growth hacks and experiments.
• Actual product I believe I built is the awesome team of back-end, Android, Web, React Native, iOS & SDET engineers; everything else is a by-product.

Nov 2012 – May 2013 · 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

Sep 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

Apr 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• shipX is web-based comprehensive freight management solution for Indian logistics industry.
• Bangalore Mirror - http://goo.gl/ahviwE
• NextBigWhat - http://goo.gl/0Lm02y

Nov 2007 – Apr 2008 · 5 mos

Jul 2007 – Jan 2008 · 6 mos

• NirmaLabs is a Technology Business Incubator.

Jul 2005 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos

• As part of Ads systems in Yahoo!, I was involved in design, implementation, deployment and operations of a couple of large scale data systems.

Jan 2005 – Jun 2005 · 5 mos

• Worked on NAND Flash file system, human interface code generator, and UI for LG mobile phone applications.

May 2003 – Jul 2003 · 2 mos