Aug 2021 – Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru

• Joined just after IPO - built the team, product and tech from scratch.
• Drove solutions across product, tech and data science : conceptualising , building and delighting customers
• Co-created a new SuperApp with equities and new business lines like MF, Lending, FDs and more. All this while scaling with massive growth
• Moved the app ratings from 3.x to 4.x
• Core tech innovations across the stack, including : auto price-pattern discovery, cloud RMS, instant Disaster Recovery, OTPless 2FA, 1-n personalisation, cloud backoffice, "My Wealth"

Mar 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Chief architect for a next-gen global e-commerce fulfilment platform , with teams spread across 4 locations. Delivered a new product with deployments in US, UK and MX.
• App ratings 4.8 over 1 year
• Handled 1M OPM

Nov 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Architect for the Mint app - allowing users to have insights into their financial health. Drove 3 key features :
• Ad platform : Hand crafted ML driven Ad targeting framework
• Refactoring to microservices.
• Credit Score

Oct 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos

• Notable ones :
• 1) SellerApp : data analytics company which aggregates data about the e-commerce space and enables meaningful insights for sellers on various platforms.
• 2) Neospaien - wearable gen-ai device that remembers every conversation, understands context and surfaces insights from interactions.
• 3) Confidential - product/tech advisor to a top-tier global VC

Apr 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Refactored the entire backend (hotels, flights, etc) to scalable microservices
• Designed, coded and managed a team to deliver features like Hotels, Flight Search, GoCars , GoCash etc
• Conceptualised, Architected, Coded and lead the team for growth hacks like GoContacts.
• Designed and coded the messaging and data pipeline for real time analytics
• Designed and coded the Diana chatbot using a hybrid model of api.ai and hand-crafted NLP libs
• Managed the backend and the web teams (50+ people)

Sep 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Worked on couple of products :
• McDonalds : video sharing/training website
• Deutsche Bank : Customer Onboarding

Nov 2013 – Sep 2014 · 10 mos

• Built a distributed, elastic network services platform. However the company did a pivot and changed focus.

Aug 2010 – Nov 2013 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• ~ Architect-ed an elastic, distributed file system with a native NFS frontend
• ~ Built the team and product from scratch
• ~ Core team/tech acquired by Sandisk

Jan 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

• Besides individual contributions, responsibilities included technical leadership for a R&D team, working on developing a Software Platform for a suite of Samsung Mobile products.Some of the things developed :
• ~Extensible Multimedia framework ( allowing custom plug-ins like Directshow )
• ~Nanokernel framework (multiple OSes on same hardware)

Oct 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Managed the Virtual Server and Virtual PC products of Microsoft. These are Microsoft's flagbearing product in the virtualization domain. Responsibilities include setting direction and driving the release of low-level (device drivers, virtualization monitors etc) components of these prodcuts. I interacted with teams from AMD and Intel to incorporate Hardware-Assisted Vituralization in the products.
• Worked on the following products : VPC 2007 , VS2005 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 Virtualization (Viridian), and the next generation client virtualization solution for Microsoft.
• Co-authored a book on Virtual Server

Aug 2002 – Oct 2006 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Toronto, Canada Area / Bangalore

• Worked on platform software ( device drivers, middleware , HA frameworks, SDKs etc) for two products :
• ~ Airbus A380 : AFDX network gateway with L7 protocol translations
• ~ Boeing 777 LR
• Besides this, I also worked on a Honeywell Proprietary RTOS .

Jun 2000 – Aug 2002 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Developed device drivers, and various protocol stacks