Nov 2022 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

Nov 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Lead Engineering org for US Payroll. Grew and rebuilt teams and the US Payroll product.

Aug 2019 – Mar 2020 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led engineering teams at Healofy (India’s largest women-centric social network and a social commerce platform). Made releases more predictable by streamlining dev processes, team structure and cross-functional interfaces. Restructured engineering teams to enable internal people growth. Scaled engineering team's capacity (200%) by bringing in senior technical talent to ensure bandwidth for future roadmap. Led multiple projects across multiple teams adding social network capabilities, increasing user engagement, enabling monetisation and reducing hosting cost by 35%.

Jun 2016 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built a gaming company, producing casual mobile games for global audiences. Organised teams into small, nimble teams of passionate game developers and creatives. Worked with the biggest hyper-casual game publishers Voodoo, Homa Games and Lion Games. Produced an Apple featured game that you could play with your eyes. Built an Augmented Reality Sculpting tool for iOS.

Sep 2013 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Dubai

• DevFactory is an enterprise software company, building a Continuous Integration Pipeline for large enterprises. I led multiple tech teams (1) building aLine (DevFactory’s multi-million dollar flagship product) and (2) engaged in migrating acquired products to standardized CI/CD, code linting, unit testing and metrics collections pipeline. The information we collected directed engineering efforts to reduce technical debt and improve firm-wide SDLC.

Feb 2013 – Aug 2013 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Experimented with an idea around online EdTech Platform for Indian Banking Exam Aspirants. Banking examinations in India were moving form offline paper-based tests to an online exam. I built a platform for aspirants to learn and practice via mock exams.

Nov 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I led the New Initiatives and Digital Marketing engineering teams at BookAdda (books centric e-commerce company). We launched a few industry firsts: AcadZone, an e-commerce and educational media platform for college students; and a Facebook App enabling users to exchange their used books with friends. Led SEO and e-mail marketing teams to grow web traffic to 5X in 1 year.

Apr 2008 – Sep 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I built an e-commerce company focused on wellness, fitness and beauty products. We published wellness content and operated an on phone wellness coaching service. LifeMojo was acquired by Via to power their B2B2C e-commerce platform.

Feb 2007 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Via is a travel platform, enabling more than 20K travel agents in India and South East Asia book travel itineraries for their customers. As the Technical Architect, I led tech teams that built international flight ticketing, a GDS for Hotel and Cab businesses and migrated our servers from the US to our data centre in India.

Oct 2006 – Jan 2007 · 3 mos

• Experimented with an idea around Group SMS services. In 2006, “groups of phone contacts” were local on cell phones and the experiment was to work with telecom operators to move them on telco’s servers.

Jun 2004 – Oct 2006 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I worked as a Software Associate, building tech products for Financial Services customers. Worked as the lead developer to advance a Multi-Channel Commerce platform and Commission Engine for Prudential.