Sep 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

• At HERE, our mission is to be the leading platform for location services that power the Autonomous world.

Jan 2016 – Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

• Blackstone funded, Indian product company in ‘communications’ sector. Taken over by Tanla Ltd. in April’19. Servicing 1500+ enterprise clients and delivering 220+ billion messages annually. Market leader in India and emergent competitor in worldwide market.
• As a Head of Engineering at Karix, worked closely with Business teams to contribute towards growth of company. As a team we achieved 6-fold increase in revenue in last 3 years. My team architected and developed distributed, highly available and scalable multi-channel platform that seamlessly supported 300% increase in messaging traffic in last 2 years (currently serving 220+ billion messaging traffic/year) and is designed to scale as per future traffic growth.
• Built new platforms and products to target new messaging channels and new geographies. These include ML based conversational chatbot, Rich content messaging platform, WhatsApp channel, Email channel, Visualize links product and many more. Each of these products had a stringent MVP and go to market release requirement.
• As part of the engineering excellence, transformed adhoc development practices to best in class development practices to achieve higher agility and quality, Transformed legacy technology to latest tech stack, Transformed deployment, monitoring, alerting tools and processes.
• Deeply involved in contract negotiation for technical, operational and security aspects; Security, compliance and technical due diligence; Identifying technology Risks; Preparing Technology budget and cost optimization initiatives.
• Site lead for Bangalore location. Did multiple interventions to transform employee engagement practices and processes. Built a fantastic learning and innovation culture!

Mar 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Seried D (Fidelity, Norwest, Tamasek) funded, Indian product company in ‘retail analytics’ sector. Manthan has earned its space in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant as a top player in Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.
• Responsibility & Achievements
• Engineering owner of new product line for company in Customer analytics and Personalized targeted marketing.
• Directed architecture, design and development of omni-channel (in store and ecommerce) customer analytics platform, Built feature capabilities of personalized recommendation engine, rule engine, A/B testing, Multi channel integrations, real time marketing response for event triggers.
• Launched the above products in accelerated time and helped gain market traction. Tech stack - Spring, Hibernate, Ehcache, Redis, RabbitMQ, Redshift, MongoDB, angularjs, php, ETL, Python, Kinesis, serverless computing
• Migrated deployment from private data center to AWS leveraging cloud native capabilities.

Jul 2011 – Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore, India

• Led the global engineering team for $3.5 billion TPV (revenue of $130 million +) PayPal merchant product.
• Led couple of streams of customer experience 2.0 of paypal site with mobile first approach
• Transformed development from Waterfall to Agile and helped India teams attain maturity. Led the team to highest agile maturity level within Paypal. Led the innovation track for Bangalore, internally promoted its charter.
• SOA, REST services, Asynchronous processing, Rich UI, Java/J2ee, Spring, MongoDB
• Keywords: Large scale transaction systems, Scalable and robust applications, Technology re-engineering, Agile transformation, Global teams

Aug 2007 – Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Kalaari Capital funded early stage Indian startup in analytics (ML) sector.
• Led the product and engineering team including engineering/QA managers and Architects to successfully develop and take an enterprise scale software product to market. Did everything from competitive analysis, customer need analysis, feature prioritization, technology strategy, architecture and design of core platform and engineering intuitive user experience using lean UI technologies, test strategy and tools, continuous integration and much more. Built a solid high performing team of top notch engineers from 1 to 30 in short time that had fun while working hard.
• Tech stack - Build on distributed computing platform (Hadoop) and developed using open source technologies and frameworks. Machine learning, J2EE, core Java, Hadoop, SOLR, Hibernate, JSP, spring, Rest APIs, Jasper reports, and enterprise integration frameworks. Static code quality assessment (sonar), automated testing process using tools like xStudio, Selenium, Sahi, Jmeter

Jan 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore India

• Lead the team providing EAI solutions to a global FMCG company using IBM EAI products (MQ Series and Sterling connectdirect).
• Delivered solutions to cross geography centers

Jul 2002 – Dec 2005 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Managed customer projects for a large UK utility company. Have taken primary responsibility for executing couple of critical solutions for this customer which resulted in repeat business.

Dec 2000 – Jul 2002 · 1 yr 7 mos

Dec 1999 – Nov 2000 · 11 mos