Aug 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Nagarro is software service company known for its competence in cutting edge software technologies.
• Role:
• Heading Technology team responsible for architecture, design and final software delivery in Telecom, E-commerce & BigData domain.
• Key Projects:
• E-commerce platform for one of the fashion sites in middle-east – Creating a java based platform with micro-service architecture and migrating the current website (developed in Magneto). Delivering better performance, analytics and user experience.
• ML based solution for recommending location for new store based on CDR (call data records) data for a Mexican Telecom giant
• Unified Communication for NAS – Lead a team of architects, envisioned Unified Communication system for one of the largest NAS companies. Designed Unified Platform for providing different services like VOIP, IM, Conferencing, Recording & Replay along with Monitoring & Monetizing modules.
• Feature development Platform – Lead a team of developers to refactor a complex “low latency message broker” for one of the largest Telecom OEM. Scalability, High availability & Geo redundancy were some of the NFR's
• Aerial Data Collection & Analytics – Successfully delivered a project where we capture multiple images of same object by drones. Stich images to produce 3D models and do structural analysis for measurement & identifying anomalies.

Feb 2016 – Sep 2016 · 7 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Purplefence is an ecommerce startup. The site provides user-friendly way to customize furniture. Uses 3D augmented reality.
• Responsibility
• Handling overall software platform, which includes engineering, architecture, user experience, site operations, and product management.
• Achievements:
• Enhanced search from text based to contextual using a flavor of NLP. Implemented tag based search (~pinterest.com)
• Introduced BI marketing module based on analysis of clickstreams. Key features are Targeted emails, discounts and personalized notifications.
• Integrate 3D view of products (AR) in performance savvy mode with selective customizations of product (e.g. change fabric/finish of furniture’s).
• Designed & developed “Recommendation System” based on user and product attributes using AWS Kenisis, EMR (SparkStreaming), Mongo & Amazon S3

Nov 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Guavus is a Big Data Analytics Solutions company with solutions targeted for Telecommunication industry. These solutions are based on bleeding edge technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Columnar Databases and In-Memory Caching
• Responsibilities:
• BigData solution including design of data pipeline, module integration (spark/hive/accume), system validation with Continuous focus on Performance and memory footprint
• Release Planning, Execution and Monitoring
• Day to Day technical decisions to achieve Project/Release Objectives
• Managing Engineering Production Support (Escalations into engineering)
• System validation of overall solution
• Responsible for budget management, career path guidance/development for my team, and hiring/retaining top talent to continue building a stronger team
• Achievements:
• Introduced reference designs to emulate ETL Data Pipeline for typical bigdata usecases. Thus avoiding building solutions from scratch.
• Enhanced ETL pipeline (Spark/Hadoop/Hive/Oozie, OLAP Cubes).
• Streamlined the process of information flow from Customer -> Product Mgmt -> Engg.
• Creation of generic data generator to simulate any feed, speed (kfps), cardinality, sparsity and statistical trend for a field. Used for system validation & algorithm learning and feature testing.
• Introduced combinatorial testing paradigm to reduce the GUI testing effort from 4 days to 2 hrs with same quality of testing.
• Simplified, automated and standardized installation process. Reduced the installation time from few weeks to couple of days.
• Created “overall system monitoring” software based on SNMP triggers and OS parameters to warn probable failures and capture specific logs in case of a failure (used ELK stack)
• Introduced tools and method for effective performance measurement

Aug 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• The Games delivery team comprises more than 60 top-notch gaming professionals including SW Engineers, Tech Leads, Studio Managers, Architects, Digital Artists, Animators, and Testers delivering games to worldwide markets including the US, Latin America, ANZ, EMEA and Asia.
• Responsibility:
• Developing and managing games delivery for 90% of the games released by the company across the globe
• Achievement:
• Expanded the team from 36 people to 65 people in short span of 3 months
• Reformed the program management to effectively manage over 700 games deliveries a year
• Established India center as COE for software engineering

May 2007 – Aug 2011 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Spearheaded shared technology group. I was directly responsible for development of shared libraries, build/release and Independent Validation Team both in-house and at customer's site. Spearheaded the efforts of mentoring and building DevOps competence within the organization.
• Achievement:
• Created shared technology group for common utilities across products
• Aligned product development and validation as per field failure trends. Help reducing the field failures upto 50% for couple of products.
• Increased interaction with Customer and getting access to customer environment for rapid testing and efficient debugging of issues
• Introduced Requirement Management Best Practices, RCA practices like 5-Why’s and Agile methodology for rapid delivery of features to customer
• Integrated tools like Coverity, doxygen in the development flow. Defined guidelines and methodology for using these tools.

Nov 2003 – Sep 2005 · 1 yr 10 mos

Sep 2005 – May 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos

Dec 2001 – Oct 2003 · 1 yr 10 mos

Feb 1995 – Nov 2001 · 6 yrs 9 mos