Jun 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, India

• Own “full truckload” tech. Driving network of 4k trucks across India and solving routing, fueling, maintenance, drivers, on-road expenses, etc. My team is of 18 engineers and handles development and support.
• Scaling tech for trucks to SaaS for medium and large transporters. The aim is to develop Uber for trucking.
• Designed algorithm to allocate drivers for trucks by extending set cover approximation.
• Structured team and processes for remote working and fast-paced product changes during COVID-19.

Feb 2017 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Leading engineering team in India with 5 developers.
• Built and managing team for mobile app mediation project. The project is to provide SDK for apps to play ads from Vungle, Google Admob, Unity, Amazon and other ads providers. The project provides features like reporting dashboard, a portal for ad configuration, API to fetch ads and easily integrable Android and iOS SDKs. The system uses a yield optimization logic which helps in deciding between various ad providers and maximize the ad earnings for the app.
• The team is of developers with a wide range of skill sets: iOS, Android and UX development, backend engineering and data engineering; a wide range of technology is used: golang, bigQuery, angular, php, java and more.
• Also leading development team for video advertising exchange server. Challenge of our team is to handle about 20B requests every day. Reducing latency and increasing QPS is the key to improvise infra cost and profits. The system uses a filtering logic that allows only potential profitable ad-requests go get through. The decision is based on the former performance of similar requests.
• Technologies used: Golang, Java, Aerospike, Kafka, Bigquery.

Apr 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Lead data team, responsible for churning out analytics on data of size about 10 TB every day.
• Developed 'Realtime aggregation platform', that can count events happening on distributed machines in real-time.

Jul 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Worked in portal team.
• Developed reporting api for video ads serving platform.
• Designed library 'Query' which builds SQL queries based on business logic specified in configuration files and input parameters. This separated business logic from code logic for reporting.
• Extended phalcon framework for PHP to support AngularJS frontend.

Dec 2012 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I managed Facebook app development platform for creating apps for clients such as Johnson&Johnson, Blackberry, L’Oreal. I enhanced this platform to improve development effort time and developed APIs to be consumed by apps.
• I developed dashboard’s REST APIs for Amalgamated Beverage Industries and Reckitt Benckiser. These API fetched data from Vertica and returned data to be plotted using highcharts.
• I tried my hands on Flash's actionscript as well and developed audio recorder and player using flash.

Oct 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Responsible for maintenance, optimisation and enhancement of Job-search module of Firstnaukri.com
• Major Projects Undertaken:
• Facebook Connect: Integrated Firstnaukri with Facebook using Graph APIs and oAuth Protocol.
• Netengage.Firstnaukri.com: Developed Netengage from scratch. Netengage is an application through which a recruiter can connect with students through contests, quizzes and chat sessions.
• Developed Chat client using Openfire and XMPP.
• Facebook App Tool (FAT): FAT is a lightweight library based on javascript and PHP which is used to make Facebook's Graph API and oAuth calls.
• File synchronization tool – Harmony: It is used to synchronize folders and files on multiple servers.
• Achievements:
• Developed a Facebook app during 'Hackathon' event. The app suggests friend contacts in various companies and show the relevant jobs in the company as well. This idea was among best ones and is now live on Naukri.com

Mar 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Life Science and Health Care ISU, US based pharmaceutical client.
• Responsibilities:
• Support Marketing Management System application. Technologies: ColdFusion, Oracle.
• Support and enhancement for a vendor privacy certification application.
• Achievements:
• Among top 3 in the Batch of 107 trainees and 1st in the class of 42

May 2008 – Nov 2008 · 6 mos

• Yahoo! Mobile search team.
• Project:
• Relevance and Coverage Reporting
• Project compares search results from Yahoo and Google and shows output on graphs.
• Perl, MySQL, PHP.
• Achievements:
• Proposed an idea to enhance web search, some of whose features are now implemented in Yahoo Search’s tool ‘Search Pad’. Idea is to temporary store search results and show them in a window on search page for quick access.
• Awarded ‘Crazy Hacker’ title in Yahoo’s Hack Day, June 2008. Made hack ‘Yahoo Fight Club’, which can be envisioned as a stress reliving solution as well as have entertainment aspects. It also leverages on the current popularity of social networks.
• Among top 30 out of 204 hack submissions in Yahoo’s Hack Day, Oct 2008, for the hack ‘Mr. Yahoo Answer’. Concept of hack is to have a virtual person whom you can ask question by SMS, e-mail or on Yahoo Messenger. It replies to questions and cross-questions intelligently by finding answers on Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia and websearch.