Feb 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Alteryx is a global leader in Self-service Analytics, Automation & preparing data for AI. Alteryx’s low/ no code platform enables analysts to leverage the latest & greatest of AI innovations to solve a variety of analytics problems with ease and efficiency. Alteryx is a ~1B$ ARR product leader trusted by 8000+ customers (including 50% of Fortune 2000).
• Alteryx acquired Trifacta for ~0.5B$ in Feb 2022 & this acquisition paved the way for the first truly mult-tenant offering for Alteryx & a common SaaS Platform for all Alteryx products.
• Leading global engineering teams across Europe & India. Key charters include
• E2E Product offering for self-service analytics on Cloud Data Platforms (Dataflow, Cloud native object
• & file stores, Cloud Data Warehouse & Data Lakes, LiveQuery)
• Operationalization of Data workloads (Workflows, Job Planning & Orchestration, Scheduling, APIs,
• SDLC/ Parameterization)
• Universal Connectivity Platform, Connectors & SDK
• Multi-cloud & split plane support for 3 major clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) & all kind of data workloads
• Trifacta Wrangler product
• As India Site Lead for Alteryx,
• Played a strong role in integrating the product, technology, people, culture & process after acquisition
• Defined & Led strategic programs to scale India center to ~4x in R&D over 3 years
• Worked closely with global peers & executive stakeholders to ensure growth & success for India teams
• Built a strong operating model based on Autonomy, Agility & Accountability
• Best engagement & retention metrics across the globe for 3 consecutive years
• Highest participation & win rates in global inno-days from India
• Strong focus on in mentoring top talent & growing them into both technical leadership & people leadership roles

Sep 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Trifacta is a growth phase startup building Data Engineering Cloud which delivers an intelligent, collaborative, and self-service platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. Trifacta’s genesis is in pure research in the field of Human Computer Interaction for Modern Data Workers. The Data Wrangling interface for interactive Data Preparation was pioneered by Trifacta and it became an industry standard.
• Setup India center from scratch & scaled team to 75+ FTEs (~70% in R&D)
• Hired & nurtured strong talent for R&D teams & institutionalized a culture of delivery with ownership,
• innovation & excellence
• Played Global Head of Engineering role from Feb 2021 to Feb 2022 and led teams across US, Europe &
• India. Played a strategic role in closing Alteryx acquisition of Trifacta
• Encouraged strong participation in innovation focused hackweeks and multiple innovation ideas contributed towards roadmap
• Led multiple strategic efforts to build the Data Engineering Cloud across all 3 clouds
• o Built unique & highly differentiated capabilities for Cloud Data workloads integrating deeply
• with Cloud Data Warehouses & Data Lakes (BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake)
• o Built a SQL Transpiler & Optimizer from ground up for pushdown capabilities
• o Built extensible connectivity & accelerated connectors roadmap to 60+ connectors in ~15 months
• o Built OEM (API based) offering for Deloitte leveraging deep integration with Databricks leading
• to our biggest ever 4.5M$ + 1M$ enterprise deal
• o Delivered multiple major initiatives for our Split Plane Architecture
• o Delivered multiple enhancements to our google OEM product (Dataprep)
• o Handled multiple customer escalations & customer feature requests

Mar 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• - Mentor for startups for product ideation, engineering challenges, go to market etal.

Mar 2017 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• BlueStone is a vertical e-Commerce startup backed by marquee VC funds like Accel & Kalaari. BlueStone's vision is to offer highly differentiated products and experience to all Consumers by leveraging latest technology trends in Web, Bigdata, NoSQL, Streaming Analytics, IOT, Vision, AI/ ML.
• Leading our vision to build an innovative eCommerce platform
• Re-architecture of eCommerce Platform as microservices on AWS cloud for major functional, performance and scalability gains
• Built enterprise (B2B) eCommerce platform to support 2-3x growth in business
• Customer Data Platform for analytics & personalized experience (data lake in AWS)
• Major functional, stability & performance enhancements in Android & iOS Mobile Apps
• Monitoring & Alerting infra using datadog
• Test Automation, CI using Jenkins Pipeline, Docker Swarm & containers
• Amazon Go like In-store experience (Filed Patent)
• Scalable architecture for real time streaming analytics for security & customer engagement with a very innovative user experience
• IOT architecture with network of beacons (BLE/ Zigbee), gateways (Rpi/ Android), cameras & AWS cloud servers
• Omni-Channel Platform
• Hyper-local personalization for users
• Real-time inventory integration & innovative algorithms to optimize inventory turns
• Transformed the team to a high-performance engineering team & streamlined all aspects of Engineering with right processes, tools & best practices

Aug 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Simplotel is a seed funded startup & its vision is to build a verticalized Shopify like unified SaaS platform for Hospitality industry. I played a co-founder like role with strategic contribution towards all aspects (Vision, Business, Product/ Engg, Sales/ Marketing, Culture).
• Led our vision to build an innovative SaaS platform and expand our offering to 5 major products built on a Microservices Architecture in AWS cloud
• Re-architected the SaaS product to use Memcached for perf/ scale enhancements
• Designed scalable system for Google Hotel Ads support with our Booking Engine
• Led Internationalization/ Localization support in product & signed up 25+ international customers
• Built a high-performance engineering team and grew the team to 2x size
• Worked closely with customers to understand business, use cases and conceptualize new products
• Growth hacked B2B marketing engine leading to acquisition of 100+ new hotels as customers
• Built internal tools to on board customers with 2-3x speed
• Built crawler tools for Sales teams to do live demos and showcase product capabilities under 10 mins
• Conceptualized internal hackathons and conducted multiple ones to bring about innovative ideas to forefront

Nov 2014 – Jul 2015 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Qubole is a Big Data startup and has multiple “Big Data as a Service” offerings (Hadoop, Hive, Spark etc) on cloud platforms like AWS, GCE & Azure. Qubole's mission is to deeply integrate public cloud stack with big data technologies to solve problems of ease of use, performance, scale, cost, reliability and leverage the elasticity offered by public clouds for the scale needed by big data problems. All these offerings are exposed via Qubole Data Service (QDS), the SaaS product for Data Analysts & Data Engineers.
• Led QDS product which scales to 100s of big data clusters running 1000s of nodes & processing 100s of petabytes of data on public cloud like AWS, Azure, GCP
• Contributed significantly to the growth & scaling of India R&D center & took complete ownership of hiring for Qubole India. Grew the QDS team to 2x in size.
• Led multiple major enhancements for QDS – Data Exchanges, Design time Repository, simplifying new user onboarding, improve latency for realtime queries, AWS roles support, ODBC driver product
• Analytics on new user signups to understand product usage to qualify leads for Sales & Alliances
• Closely worked with cross-geo & cross-functional teams (Support, Professional Services, Sales/ Marketing, Accounts)

Apr 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Data Engine Platform is the core foundation for all data access, manipulation and transformation capabilities for Informatica Products. Data Engine Platform is used for multiple use-cases in bigdata, streaming, cloud, batch, real-time and request-response Data Services.
• My responsibilities included defining the road-map, architecture, execution & delivery, developing the team, prioritization, release planning, resource planning, coordination & collaboration with Product Managers, CTO Office, peer R&D teams, Program Management, Customer Support, Pre-Sales & Professional Services.
• Among the first 10 employees of Informatica India and key contributor in setting & scaling up the Center as it grew from 10 to 1000 employees & business grew 5x in revenue (200M to 1B USD)
• Led large engineering teams of 75+ engineers & delivered challenging efforts
• Led major efforts for Bigdata edition product - spanning data access, data ingestion and transformation using Hadoop & Hive
• Led concept & design of Data Engine SDK for integrating with Bigdata, Cloud & IOT edge products
• Led major re-architecture efforts for data engine, bringing in concepts of logical Data Flow abstraction and optimizer, compiler/ translator for execution engine
• Awarded InfaStar 3 times for excellence in Engineering Leadership, building Innovative Products & Customer Success. InfaStar is quarterly awards program which recognizes top 1% talent.
• Led campus hiring efforts for India center multiple times

Apr 2009 – Apr 2013 · 4 yrs

• Grew the team to 2x in size
• Led Data Engine re-architecture to introduce compiler/ translator/ optimizer layer at metadata layer (dataflow definition)
• Led Embeddable Data Engine SDK (Virtual Data Machine) for 3rd party integration & cloud use cases
• Worked on deep integration with hadoop & hive for data ingestion, processing and transformation
• Led Hive integration via UDF, streaming interface and storage handler

Apr 2007 – Mar 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

• I led the Realtime Data Integration effort for our Data Engine. It focused on number of areas like exactly once semantics, guaranteed delivery of messages, parallel processing of messages, enhancements to core pieces like xml processing, streaming data to handle few 100 MBs to GBs of single message payload, graceful handling of error scenarios with data integrity.
• Key Accomplishments
• Led the effort from R&D team for multiple major and minor releases.
• Visited major customers like Morgan Stanley and Merill Lynch as part of the SyncDev process.
• Developed a recovery cum local transaction coordinator for Data Engine to honor exactly once semantics.
• Proposed and delivered multiple enhancements in Data Engine on the basis of competitive analysis.
• Realtime product line helped achieve one of the key strategic growth objective of “Go beyond Data Warehousing” for the company.
• Attended Informatica World 2008 in Las Vegas to showcase Realtime product to analysts, consultants, partners, customers & managed a Hands on Lab which demonstrated the key enhancements as live demos.

Apr 2006 – Apr 2007 · 1 yr

• I led effort on Data Engine and added support for new SDK (to develop custom expression functions in our engine) and led the effort to implement 20+ custom functions on top of it. This was released as a public API via Informatica Developer Network. I also led effort on supporting Unstructured/ Semi-Structured Data processing in Data Engine.

May 2003 – Apr 2006 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• I worked on the Data Engine and co-led efforts for v1 Product for SOAP Web Services (both consumer and provider). I also worked on HTTP consumer & WebMethods support.

Jun 2001 – Apr 2003 · 1 yr 10 mos · New Delhi, India

• firstRain had a suite of products for information retrieval & messaging at Internet scale.
• Led design & development effort for Discovery Server product. Discovery Server is an intelligent robot, which crawls the web in a focused manner for a broad topic and can be used to build topic specific verticals on the Internet.
• Worked on algorithms which can be used to focus the crawl and cut out low relevance regions of web. Also worked on techniques to do relevance estimation, classification and extraction from the raw content downloaded.
• Worked on high performance and scalable implementation of BEEP & APEX protocols for messaging

May 2000 – Jul 2000 · 2 mos · Hauz Khas, IIT Delhi

• Implemented multiple algorithms for fingerprint matching and bench-marked results. Completed POC for authentication on windows laptops using fingerprints. This project formed the basis of fingerprint authentication in IBM Thinkpad laptops.