Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India · Hybrid

• www.lifemaker.us
• Lifemaker is a social project to shape a better present and future for ourselves and humankind. We are running pilot program in rural Himachal PRadesh, where we manage a holistic education and employability program. This project is funded and run by me, with help of my team @godspeed, and volunteers.

Jan 2014 – Oct 2019 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Part of two/three engineer team to build and operate
• A. Crawling the internet for all popular URLs being shared on 40+ social networks and news websites
• B. Extracting structural, semantic & other metadata from every URL etc.
• C. Stored the structured data in a massive and highly engaged Elasticsearch cluster of over 200+ nodes.
• D. An efficient retrieval API of the stored data
• E. Devops for maintaining a cluster of hundreds of servers with automated deployments, using Ansible.
• On top of this structured data stored in a big elasticsearch cluster, our team did analytics meaning and metadata extraction on Elasticsearch to store second level knowledge layer. Then a third level knowledge layer was drawn upon using some python libraries and AI engines. I was involved in crawling, devops and developing/maintaining the first and second level knowledge layers.
• This was by far the best content intelligence product in the market. None of the others give such a deep comparison.
• The enterprise version of the product allowed you further to specify your competition and do comparative analysis of how it is performing versus you in PR, content marketing and Executive mentions, along with automated reporting.

Jul 2012 – May 2017 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Rakkar, Dharamsala, HP

• A rural co-living, co-working, knowledge sharing and for events space dedicated to Self discovery & improvement, Social Cocreation and local sustainability, in the lap of the magical Dhauladhar Himalayas towering Dharamsala.
• Here we code for Mindgrep, or with visiting hackers, do farming and Yoga, along with meeting and mixing with explorers from across the world. We also facilitate or do events and trainings on Self improvement, technology, knowledge sharing, social change, healing, art etc.
• Read more at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/infinity

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · New Delhi

• I was a fellow in the pioneer batch of Startup Leadership Program in New Delhi, India. In last 10 years the community has grown far and wide, not just in India but across the whole world.

Dec 2009 – Mar 2024 · 14 yrs 3 mos

• Technology services and solutions with specialization in backend engineering, microservices architecture, search, analytics.

Mar 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Backend engineering for India's leading travel price comparision engine during its founding days

Jun 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

• I worked on the web conferencing team, storing conferencing data on the server for recorded streaming. Also worked on QuickTime player to play live and recorded streams.