Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

• ◦ Led and mentored a 15-member engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and accountability. Implemented Agile practices and Scrum rituals to enhance delivery predictability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Partnered with Product, Analytics, and Design to ensure structured planning and on-schedule, high-quality releases, while driving team growth and multiple internal promotions.
• ◦ Oversaw architecture and delivery across gaming and user-trust verticals, scaling backend services to handle 20M+ RPM, ensuring 99.99% uptime, and managing release and product timelines through tight crossfunctional execution.
• ◦ Led end-to-end engineering for Manager Mode, driving both product delivery and platform scalability. Scaled the Boosters Service to handle 20M+ RPM and optimized Kafka consumer workflows to process 2M+ messages per minute with zero loss, enabling real-time gameplay actions. Collaborated with
• Product and Analytics for timely, data-driven releases.
• ◦ Managed engineering for the New User and Trust pods, revamping referral systems to lower CAC by
• 20% and increase referral-driven signups by 60%, while re-architecting profile and winner services to
• improve transparency and highlight verified users and winners, strengthening overall platform credibility and user trust metrics by 30%.
• ◦ Leading Gaming Platform Engineering, building a platform-as-a-service to enable rapid development of fantasy and non-fantasy games. Designed shared frameworks, reusable modules, and standardized
• APIs, reducing time-to-market for new formats while ensuring scalability and observability across all gaming experiences.

Jul 2023 – Jan 2024 · 6 mos

• ◦ Re-architected the Leaderboard Service, eliminating scalability bottlenecks that previously caused breakdowns beyond 40M RPM and enabling stable performance at 60M+ RPM. Optimized leaderboard evaluation logic, reducing computation time by 50% (from 5 minutes to 2.5 minutes) through data model restructuring and efficient evaluation pipelines, ensuring consistent real-time updates during peak load.
• ◦ Founding engineer for the D3 initiative, owning the design and delivery of user authentication and
• API Gateway systems. Implemented Single Sign-On (SSO) and unified authentication flows across D3
• platforms, including integration with Rario, enabling seamless cross-platform access and improving user experience across the ecosystem.
• ◦ Architected and led development of the Team Service within the Multi Match Fantasy module, enabling users to create and manage fantasy teams across multiple matches seamlessly. Drove end-to-end design, implementation, and rollout of a scalable service layer

Jan 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• ◦ Re-architected the Withdrawal System using Vert.x, RabbitMq, and Redis, enabling event-driven
• processing that reduced transaction latency and improved payout reliability at scale.
• ◦ Rebuilt PAN and Bank Verification Systems with multi-vendor support to enhance reliability and
• reduce verification failures, improving user KYC success rate and onboarding efficiency.
• ◦ Developed Shield, a secure RBAC-based internal admin platform, automating sensitive operations and strengthening access governance across internal tools.