Nov 2022 – Sep 2023 · 10 mos

• Lead a team of high performing 25+ engineers working on Sharechat's highest revenue generating features
• Planning and prioritising long pending tech debts & resiliency tasks to minimise product outages
• Performed DB optimizations and cleanups resulting in savings 1.5 Cr+ per month in server cost
• Executed sprint excellence initiatives for better planning across Backend, Frontend & QA resulting in improved sprint health and minimised spillovers
• Leading initiatives on resolving production bugs, set up a small team to work on burning issues and cost initiatives
• Techstack:
• Java, Node, Golang
• Spanner, CloudSQL, Bigtable
• Redis, Kafka, PubSub

Jul 2016 – Oct 2022 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built and led a team of 12+ engineers in developing the platform
• Scaled the system to handle 500k DAU and 4.2M MAU at peak with 5M+ registered users
• Worked on Company's tech vision, ensured time and quality of the deliverables
• Designed and developed the first version of Backend and Android app
• Techstack:
• Python/Django, MySQL, RabbitMQ
• Elasticsearch, Redis
• Cassandra, Mongo

Feb 2016 – Jul 2016 · 5 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• App that connects people (1st and 2nd degree connections) having similar interest/hobby
• Built Back-end & Android app as solo dev, launched within 1.5 months
• Designed and developed seamless Search functionality and Chat feature for flawless communication
• Techstack:
• Python/Django
• MySQL, Elasticsearch
• RabbitMQ, FCM

Sep 2015 – Jan 2016 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built Data Pipeline that can handle billions of records coming from multiple sources in different formats
• Made is modular for easy addition of new formats
• Techstack: Flask, MongoDB, RabbitMQ

Jan 2015 – Aug 2015 · 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Led a team of 20+ engineers to revamp the system for pivoting to Hyperlocal E-commerce model
• Developed a fully distributed system from scratch (3-tier architecture) that could handle increasing traffic with horizontal scaling
• Designed and developed the Inventory and Vendor management systems used by store partners and operations team
• Techstack:
• Core: Python/Django, Flask & Tornado
• Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Riak (for session), Elasticsearch, Redis
• Misc: Ansible, AWS, Nginx

Oct 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Actively worked with Founders & Product team to deliver features
• Coordinated with teams across tech & non-tech to rollout various modules for Catalog and Content enhancement; increasing catalogue size from 0.5M to 10M+
• Implemented catalog merging system for crawled data using naive token-matching and edit-distance algorithm
• Designed and developed Log Analysis System for analytics using ELK stack resulting in seamless visibility of metric for stakeholders
• Techstack:
• Core: Python/Django, Flask
• Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
• Others: Solr, Redis

Oct 2011 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Joined as first employee of the company, and built everything from scratch
• Developed and maintained the Backend infrastructure
• Developed ancillary services like Inventory managements, Crawling, etc
• Scaled the system to handle the increasing traffic of 100k DAU
• Improved site ranking by enriching site meta (SEO)
• Enabled Third party integrations and APIs for clients
• Technologies used:
• Core: Python/Django
• Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
• Others: Solr, Memcache

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Built Location based tagging application which suggests route and keep the track record
• Designed & developed backend using PHP/MySQL
• Developed Android app in a team of 2