Aug 2023 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Engineering Lead for Talent Management product vertical, the highest revenue product lines for Eightfold, scaling to multiple XX million ARR, .
• Scaled product adoption with Fortune-100 companies through deep customer engagement.
• Scaled the engineering team to globally and hired Sr Manager and Director to help scale the team.
• Set up organizational structure, systems and operational processes for the wider team for better planning and execution to deliver on key business milestones.
• Established cross-functional relationships and forums for collaboration with product management and design teams.
• Set up enablement sessions with GTM (pre and post sales) teams for successful rollout of the product.
• Driven product innovation using LLMs, GenAI and co-pilot to deliver unique and personalized user experiences in the product.

Sep 2020 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Bootstrapped Talent Management product line - B2B SaaS AI-powered product.
• Built a globally distributed high-performance team across US and India.
• Product has predominantly search and AI-led workflows and recommender systems.
• Onboarded the product to multiple high-profile customers and played a key role in defining product and technical strategy for them.
• Hired and mentored multiple senior ICs as well as EMs.
• Driven customer value by piloting and launching pioneering AI first solutions.

Dec 2018 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Built foundational systems across data models, data platform and analytics pipelines.
• Played a key role in setting up engineering processes like design reviews, retrospectives for production
• issues.
• Played a key role in hiring engineers globally across the engineering organization.
• Mentored engineers across team boundaries.

Jan 2007 – Dec 2018 · 11 yrs 11 mos

• YouTube Kids, Tech Lead (2015-2018) - Technical lead for iOS app for YouTube Kids. Scaled it up to 11M DAU, 33M downloads across 18 countries.
• Vitess (2011-2014) (https://github.com/youtube/vitess) -
• Vitess is an open source project for database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL through generalized sharding.
• Technical lead for the primary database client interface for YouTube and Vitess.
• As one of the early members built framework and data pipelines to prepare for resharding of the primary MySQL instance at YouTube while still handling 400K read QPS.
• YouTube Infrastructure (2009- 2011) - Re-architected YouTube Watch page infrastructure (second highest traffic page on the internet) to allow for scaling for the traffic growth. Peak traffic in 2010 was ~40K QPS.
• YouTube Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Tech Lead (2007-2009) - Multi-user concurrent queuing and review framework. Copyright and abuse prevention systems.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 · 3 yrs · San Jose, California

• Worked on the mid-tier services for handling key payment API workflows.
• Technical lead for the Ebay Checkout workflows - one of the main revenue workflows at the time.