Nov 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ⦿ Led the overhaul of Google Workspace Admin Console from a GWT monolith to a micro frontend / micro services platform, partnering closely with multiple engineering teams, product managers, and UX leads to deliver a robust platform encompassing services, reusable widgets, and complex data-backed components.
• ⦿ Spearheaded the adoption of Fabrik, a powerful UI library featuring sophisticated, data-backed widgets, resulting in incredible time savings for integrating teams across Google. At its peak, Fabrik boasted over 200 integrations across both internal and external Google products, underscoring its widespread impact and value. As the owner and driving force behind Fabrik, I led the roadmap, guided the engineering and design teams, and actively facilitated onboarding and support for new and existing teams.
• ⦿ Oversaw all aspects of planning and estimation, scheduling, and execution, while providing technical and leadership mentorship to a team of engineers.
• ⦿ Recognized as a top interviewer in 2020 for the APAC region, actively contributed to recruiting top engineering talent for Google.
• ⦿ Winner of Product Excellence Award @ GOOGLE (2018)

Jan 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ⦿ Owner and core contributor to a large, flourishing JavaScript UI component library and micro frontend platform.
• ⦿ Mentored engineers, consulted and supported a large number of partner teams who use the library and the platform.

Jun 2016 – Dec 2016 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ⦿ As an MTS on the Identity Experience team, drove the migration of applications on a legacy monolith to a modern platform. This involved introducing and championing improved frameworks, micro-frameworks, and services, while also establishing best practices and advocating for enhanced development methodologies.
• ⦿ Led a team of ~9 engineers for rebuilding and enhancing eBay's sign-in and two-factor authentication (2FA) flows, delivering a seamless experience that was also secure. Ensured industry best practices for authentication and authorization were followed, and mitigated vulnerabilities.

Apr 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ⦿ Spearheaded the development and launch of comprehensive e-commerce platforms for two major airlines, Air Hainan and Air China, delivering these complex projects from concept to production within two years.
• ⦿ Played a key role in engineering and architecture, overseeing full end-to-end project ownership, encompassing frontend, middleware, and backend development, and managing all stages from initial design to post-launch monitoring.
• ⦿ Recognizing the need for modernization, evangelized and drove adoption of modern JavaScript and React to bring greater structure, durability, and discipline to the frontend development approach.
• ⦿ Significantly expanded the engineering team, recruiting and onboarding numerous mid-career and senior engineers across various business units. Implemented Agile methodologies, including Scrum, managing sprint planning, execution, and resource allocation.

Sep 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ⦿ Provided unit-wide technical mentorship to programmers, delivering hands-on training in general programming principles as well as modern libraries and tooling chains.
• ⦿ Recognition: SPOT Award (2014) for outstanding technical mentoring and exceeding expectations.

Jun 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ⦿ Led the ground-up re-architecture of Cisco SmartCare, a remote diagnostics suite. This complete overhaul involved implementing a modular architecture for the Java middleware layer, and a redesigned user experience, significantly enhancing the platform's scalability and usability.
• ⦿ Built a cross-platform (JavaScript and Java) IP address (IPv4) manipulation library, incorporating subnetting, range validation, class functions, splitting tools, various mathematical and utility functions.
• ⦿ Developed and delivered training programs for UI developers on advanced JavaScript concepts and the Backbone.js framework.

Jun 2006 – Jun 2011 · 5 yrs · Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India · On-site

• ⦿ Led the modernization of Aetna's core Claim Adjudication System (ACAS), transitioning it from a mainframe-based architecture to a scalable web application.
• ⦿ Built automated testing tools adopted business-unit wide, significantly improving testing efficiency.
• ⦿ Provided technical mentorship to developers, establising best practices and robust code review processes to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• ⦿ Recognition: Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for outstanding technical contributions.

Jun 2005 – Jul 2005 · 1 mo · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · On-site

• Led the development of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and automated form processing solutions within the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit. This initiative focused on enhancing handwritten character recognition accuracy across various Indian vernacular languages on multilingual application forms, addressing the complex challenge of accurately recognizing diverse scripts and handwriting styles to streamline the institute's (manual) application processing workflow.