Jul 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Moved into a principal engineer role within Gojek’s Groceries Product Group (GoMart & GoFresh), formed post-COVID to scale grocery delivery. Responsible for core system architecture, uptime, and technical leadership across teams.
• Key Contributions:
• Defined architecture for discovery, ordering, payments, dynamic inventory, and external partner integrations.
• Helped transform the system from single tenant to multi tenant
• Architected high-volume inventory sync systems, processing 10M+ updates every few hours.
• Shifted GoMart from SKU-first to merchant-first design, influencing system behavior and data flows.
• Tuned systems for flash sales, handling 1000+ RPS (discovery) and 500+ RPS (ordering) with minimal infra increase.
• Negotiated partner contracts, cutting order cancellations by 30%+ via better SLAs and data sync guarantees
• Helped define and implement SLIs/SLOs across core systems to improve reliability and observability.
• Mentored engineers across discovery, fulfillment, and infra teams
• Improved discovery UX by guiding relevance and ranking system design.

Feb 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led engineering for GoCommerce, Gojek’s grocery and daily essentials delivery vertical, which included GoMart, GoShop, and GoFresh—a suite of high-impact consumer and merchant products.
• Built GoMart from 0 to 1: hired and led a cross-geography team of 15+ engineers, launched in <4 months, and quickly scaled to 10K+ daily orders.
• Owned architecture, tech decisions, and core backend code—from monolith to 5+ microservices.
• Worked closely with product, business, and ops on roadmap alignment, budgeting, and execution.
• Managed and mentored a 20+ engineer team across GoCommerce, growing multiple tech leads.
• Led GoShop engineering: hiring, planning, delivery, and scaling core systems.
• Briefly managed GoFresh: defined architectural direction and supported early team growth.

Jun 2018 – Feb 2019 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built and launched Global Search—a unified semantic search platform across Gojek services (GoFood, GoMart, POIs, etc.), powering 40K+ daily orders.
• Wanted to do something with search (as per my interests) - convinced management to start an initiative to build a central search platform
• Started as a solo engineer: built POC, defined OKRs/ADRs, and grew the team later.
• Designed semantic search architecture using Elasticsearch, FastText, and domain-aware ranking.
• Worked with various teams to collect data centrally (using Kafka)
• Delivered v1 in <6 months, integrating with multiple verticals for cross-service discovery.
• Tech Stack: Golang, Java, Postgres, Kafka, Elasticsearch, FastText

May 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• GoFood is Indonesia’s largest food delivery platform, serving 10M+ dishes from over 1M restaurants, and processing 400K+ orders per day.
• Led the Pre-Booking Experience team (across 3 geographies), responsible for uptime of all discovery systems powering search, browse, recommendations, and rating—critical to handling hundreds of thousands of daily transactions.
• Led the effort to remodel the food catalog data to reduce SLA for catalogue updates by over 90% — migrated large-scale datasets across multiple databases with zero downtime
• Drove architecture, execution, and team coordination across multiple distributed components under heavy load.
• Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails, Golang, Sidekiq, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kafka, React + Redux, Redis (standalone, sentinel, cluster), HAProxy, Google Cloud