Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Remote · Remote

• Helping different clients to solve architecture and business-related problems

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Remote · Remote

Dec 2024 – Aug 2025 · 8 mos

Dec 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr

• Lead backend architecture for a high-growth travel platform serving millions of users
• Key Business Impacts:
• Eliminated system bottlenecks by building a 5,000 RPS Go application, enabling 10x traffic scaling without infrastructure expansion
• Reduced data processing time by 60% through PySpark pipeline migration, accelerating feature delivery and reducing operational overhead
• Cut support team workload by 70% with an AI-powered support bot, allowing the engineering team to focus on product development instead of firefighting

Mar 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

• Led backend infrastructure serving 100M+ daily streams across India's largest music and video platforms
• Key Business Impacts:
• Scaled streaming infrastructure to handle 100M+ daily streams without service interruptions, supporting Wynk's position as India's #2 music platform
• Reduced infrastructure costs by 30% while improving performance through microservices optimisation
• Built a real-time personalisation engine processing millions of user interactions, increasing user engagement and retention rates
• Modernised legacy architecture with zero-downtime migration, eliminating technical debt that was blocking new feature development
• Led cross-functional teams of 15+ engineers across product, data, and infrastructure, delivering major platform upgrades on schedule

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

• Built data infrastructure powering meal planning for millions of customers across multiple countries
• Key Business Impacts:
• Enabled HelloFresh's global expansion by architecting menu planning systems that scaled from single-country to multi-region operations
• Built robust Kafka pipelines processing supplier and culinary data for millions of weekly meal deliveries, ensuring accurate inventory and menu availability
• Integrated supplier split services providing real-time SKU visibility at the distribution centre level, reducing food waste and improving delivery accuracy
• Designed event-driven architecture for menu generation, improving data warehouse efficiency and enabling faster business decision-making

Oct 2020 – Aug 2021 · 10 mos

• Modernised backend architecture for India's largest online travel platform serving 50M+ users
• Key Business Impacts:
• Improved hotel booking response times by 60% through a high-performance Go connector layer, directly enhancing customer booking experience and reducing abandonment rates
• Unified mobile and desktop platforms with cost-optimised backend adapter, reducing infrastructure overhead by 25% while improving cross-platform consistency
• Modernised legacy Java services to gRPC architecture, achieving 40% latency reduction for high-volume APIs handling millions of daily travel searches
• Built intelligent pricing anomaly detection using Spark, identifying $500K+ in pricing discrepancies and preventing revenue loss from sold-out inventory errors
• Enhanced system responsiveness by 35% through a custom cache management engine, improving user experience during peak travel booking periods
• Achieved 99.9% uptime with robust load balancing architecture, ensuring platform reliability during high-traffic events like holiday booking rushes
• Engineered an intelligent cache management system using Spark that reduced cache miss rates from 20-30% to 8-9%, enhancing system responsiveness by 50%. This milestone helps us train our custom ML models.

May 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Apr 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• Built an enterprise document processing platform handling millions of documents for Fortune 500 clients
• Engineered a distributed import pipeline that increased document processing throughput by 4000%, transforming client operations from hours to minutes
• Built an intelligent text analysis engine using Apache UIMA RUTA for automated information extraction from scanned documents
• Designed a real-time Kafka pipeline processing millions of document events, enabling instant data availability for enterprise workflows
• Implemented a YARN-based parallel processing framework that dramatically reduced batch processing time for large document sets
• Enhanced OCR accuracy through fuzzy matching algorithms using Levenshtein distance, improving data extraction reliability for noisy inputs

Jul 2015 – Apr 2016 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Built scalable solutions for e-commerce and payment platforms serving enterprise clients using Hybris
• Engineered batch processing framework for QR code generation across large product catalogues, reducing manual overhead by 60% and enhancing product traceability
• Designed an intelligent email scheduling system delivering personalised content to end-users, increasing engagement and click-through rates by 25%
• Led integration of Payback Client API with payment gateway, delivering a frictionless checkout experience for thousands of daily transactions
• Accelerated development timelines by 30% through comprehensive API mocking using Mockito, enabling early defect detection

Sep 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• Built mobile applications and notification systems for high-volume client engagement
• Developed notification service delivering 1M+ personalised SMS/email newsletters daily, tailored to user interests and behaviour patterns
• Created cross-platform mobile application with advanced features including geofencing, push notifications, beacon integration, and social media connectivity
• Implemented seamless cross-platform functionality using Apache Cordova, MGWT, and Google Polymer for a consistent user experience across Android/iOS