Aug 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Leading the technology and product teams at MEAWW and PubNinja.
• Building a next generation social content management system, PubNinja for publishers.
• Building technology for content discovery, monetisation, hosting platform for about a million DAU.
• Evolving the Ad Tech strategy and execution to build an industry leading yield platform for 300 million monthly impressions with the help of partners like Facebook, Google, Amazon etc.
• Managing compliance for GDPR & other privacy norms

Aug 2013 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• Architect the flagship product for stability and robustness.
• Re-design monolith application into a set of distributed systems using SOA methodologies to prepare for scale.
• Leverage the Amazon Web Services suite to build new services for internet scale.
• Developed a patent pending solution for secure commuting.
• Developed a patent pending algorithm for shared vehicle routing.
• Lead design discussions around Android and Windows mobile application development.
• Define technology road map for the organization.
• Prepare strategy around use of traffic data and mobile application leveraging the transportation platform.
• Define and execute SDLC and scrum best practices.
• Lead the Information and Data Security initiative towards the ISO 27001 certification of the company.
• Hire and develop a 30 member engineering organization.

Jul 2012 – May 2013 · 10 mos

• Set up a new office for Amazon in bay area (CA).
• Built and managed a team of Software Development Engineers, Software Architects and Quality Assurance Engineers responsible for developing the mobile based offering of the External Payments for e-retailers off Amazon, from ground up.
• Managed the development of a new mobile optimized online payments solution. My team was responsible for conceptualizing; building and maintaining this new product while I specifically, drove the plan and managed its execution from start to end.
• Built a strong 15 member team from scratch.
• Responsible for setting development goals and strategies for the External Payments Systems product that meets business needs.
• Held a business-critical position to generate a fiscal impact of $22 million USD.

Apr 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Responsible for owning the software development and geographical expansion for Amazon's online payments solution called Checkout by Amazon (CBA).
• Directly managed a team of 13 engineers to launch CBA in United Kingdom and Germany.
• Drove one of the most successful launches within Amazon. Within 2 months of launch, Amazon was able to achieve 30% of the total payment volume (TPV) that it had accrued in US over 4 years.
• Drove the EU's daily TPV to 1/3rd of the world-wide TPV within couple of months of launch.
• Responsible for coordinating with Integration, Sales, Product Management and other such partner teams based out of Seattle and Luxembourg to establish product requirements and define execution strategy.

Mar 2010 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr

• Responsible for designing a new version of Checkout by Amazon product (CBA V2).
• Led the team towards development and launch of CBA V2.
• Designed and developed “Stored Value” as an alternate payment method on CBA.
• Drove the hardware fleet migration from RHEL3 to RHEL5 by coordinating the efforts between teams in Seattle and Bangalore.
• Kicked-off and managed the Bangalore centre-wide FLS (Friday Learning Series) initiative to drive technical talks and self-learning culture amongst the engineers.

Jan 2007 – Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Designed and developed High Up-sell Cart (HUC) for CBA.
• Designed and developed Instant Order Notification (IOPN) for CBA.
• Designed and developed the CBA Shopping Cart.
• Designed and developed the functionality to handle Payment Declines for CBA.
• Responsible for ramping up new hires with Amazon and CBA specific technologies.
• AWS - FPS
• Designed and developed, own and maintain the Failure Testing suite for Flexible Payments System (FPS).
• Owned end-to-end verification for FPS’s migration from MySQL to Oracle through all the phases.
• Drove the Game Day Compliance plan and set up Business Availability Monitoring for FPS.
• Involved in hiring for and growing the FPS verification team and help them own the existing tools and frameworks.

Jun 2006 – Aug 2006 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India