Sep 2022 – May 2023 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2019 – Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• As a senior engineer on the Ads team at Zomato, I played a crucial role in managing the ads serving system for the Zomato consumer app. This system generates significant daily revenue for the organization through restaurant ads displayed on the app.
• Led the rapid rollout of new ad products within the consumer app, aligning with business requirements and ensuring seamless integration of new features to enhance revenue generation for Zomato.
• Successfully contributed to the optimization and performance improvement of the ads serving system, resulting in increased efficiency and revenue growth for the organization.
• Actively participated in code reviews, performance profiling, and system troubleshooting to maintain the high-quality standards of the ads serving system, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and security.
• Mentored and provided technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment that facilitated team productivity and growth.
• Tech stack used: golang, gRPC, redis, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS & ecs

Nov 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon / Estonia

• Co-founded instashift.io, a pioneering cryptocurrency exchange, and played a key role as a founding team member in shaping its vision, strategy, and overall direction.
• Led the implementation of a unique multi-party peer-to-peer trading model, making instashift.io the first exchange in India to introduce such an innovative approach to digital asset trading.
• Designed and implemented the architecture of core backend services for instashift.io, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security of the exchange's trading platform.
• Successfully managed the development and deployment of critical backend components, including order matching, transaction processing, and user authentication, contributing to the seamless and secure trading experience for instashift.io users.
• Actively monitored and optimized the performance and reliability of the exchange's backend services, leveraging best practices in software development and system architecture to maintain high availability and minimize downtime.
• Tech stack used: golang, python, redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, gcloud & kubernetes.

Sep 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Kochi / Estonia

• Co-founded Mobscale, an App Marketing Automation Platform that empowers App Owners/App Marketers with actionable insights and personalized notifications to enhance user engagement. Mobscale was selected for Batch 8 at 'Startup Wise Guys', a renowned B2B accelerator in Europe.
• Led the development of the backend infrastructure of Mobscale, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as golang, gRPC, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Presto to build a high-performance and scalable platform.
• Designed and implemented robust and scalable microservices architecture using golang and gRPC, ensuring efficient and secure communication among various components of the backend system.
• Developed and optimized data pipelines using Kafka and Redis, enabling real-time data processing and providing timely insights to App Owners/App Marketers to make informed decisions for their app marketing strategies.
• Implemented efficient database solutions using MongoDB, Cassandra, and Presto, ensuring data integrity, performance, and scalability for Mobscale's data-intensive operations.
• Tech stack used: golang, gRPC, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Presto

Jun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Collaborated with the development team to create and maintain API services for askme apps, including askme, askmebazaar, and askmegrocery, to ensure smooth data flow and functionality.
• Developed a flexible data transformation layer that allowed for information to be adapted as per the unique requirements and capabilities of clients, serving as a central data source with multiple projections.
• Took ownership of various data sanitation tasks, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and consistency.
• Utilized a diverse tech stack, including golang, python, and SQL, to develop and maintain software solutions, demonstrating versatility and adaptability in different programming languages and database technologies.
• Tech stack used: golang, python, sql

Jun 2014 – May 2015 · 11 mos · Ernakulam

• Got acquired by Askme (Getit infoservices)
• Worked on the Firmware of the IoT Product `rico`.
• Undertook research in various fields like cyber physical systems, wireless sensor networks, edge computing, IoT platforms, differnet protocols for data transfer, etc.
• Implemented various services for marketing the product.
• Undertook technological research for various service clients.

Mar 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Kochi

• Created a team with 4 of my friends, while in college.
• Drew many product ideas like,
• 1) com4trip
• View an outline of the services available on the platforms of a railway station.
• Order through app and get the item delivered on seat.
• Order refreshment packs online (for different age groups and gender). (main monetary source)
• 2) luvOnTrip
• A dating app which would connect travellers on same trip.
• 3) qVko
• A movie rating app.
• It also lets us see which of our contacts have watched the movie.
• Can also ask for reviews from friends within the app.
• 4) Muthalali
• An open library for students to share and find course-notes and previous exam question-papers.
• Planned to deploy it on the intranet of the college.
• Verification by lecturers was planned to sanitize contents.
• Though none of the product ideas took-off beyond prototypes and demos, it was a great experience, handling the real life technical challenges, a way deeper than the conceptual college projects.