Jun 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Our team is responsible for providing a platform where users get comprehensive membership for premium content and exclusive member benifits across categories including news, entertainment, lifestyle and more.
• We are working on a microservice architecture using REST apis and are using tech stack as Java, MySql, Redis, AWS, ELK.
• We develop and are continuously improving the infrastructure that helps us scan for our growing consumer base, computing multiple features and running multiple subscription models.
• Lead Backend Engineer in Times Prime team responsible for re-design and architecture of existing system components in order to provide a optimized, decoupled, scalable, highly responsive overall architecture.
• Overall responsible for :
• Application architecture and design
• Application scalability, robustness
• Third party integrations
• Database design
• System migrations: technology, database, application servers
• End to end product management: requirement gathering, planning, specification docs, estimations, execution, delivery

Apr 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Worked in search team to power data to be visible on site and app
• Projects :
• Revamp search platform : Address existing challenges in search platform which were bottleneck for high scalability and high throughput - Find technological improvements in existing tech stack like in Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis

Sep 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Projects :
• Suggest as you type
• To provide suggestions to user as he types in search box considering incorrect spelling in addition to business logic to order the suggestions
• Collections
• Implemented a collections framework which is used to group results ie deals based on certain criterias like price, category, geolocation, expiry etc.
• Merchant popularity logic
• Implemented logic to sort results based on their selling count in addition to other properties like rating, views, user engagement
• Previous Projects :
• Event based system
• Created an event based system to send/receive notifications to only interested systems via REST api. It is an system wrapped around kafka that uses its power without exposing it to other publishers & subscribers involved with facilities like retry, load balancing.
• Logistics system
• To automate tracking of product shipment and to remove the manual efforts involved created a service that integrated with 3rd party vendors. This reduced the delivery time of products from 5-6 days to 2-3 days

Apr 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Worked on Syndication/Cobrands and Silhouettes products which enable partners to have Nextag's data for product comparison via XML.
• Data along with Nextag's SEM, product catalog was available which partners can use to run their own shopping comparison
• Some of the partners were Yahoo (UK, Spain, Germany, Italy), AOL (America OnLine) etc.
• Projects :
• Worked on the development of features using Java, JSP, Spring, MySql, Oracle for Nextag US and International (UK, Spain, Italy, Germary) markets
• Implemented node filtering logic for Silhouettes (category wise site from Nextag catalog)
• Integrated various components on integrated product page for mobile site like reviews, user feedback, pagination, product description.
• Generated RSS (Rich site summary) partners by which they can get catalog update.

Aug 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Worked on both front end & back end technologies.
• Skill set : Java/J2EE, JSP, Selenium, JQuery, HTML, CSS, XML