Apr 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site

• Leading multiple teams, working to build a scalable pipeline that produces a high definition map for autonomous driving
• Teams are comprised of software engineers, data scientists, and applied scientists, engineering focus is on big data pipelines & ML
• Work with staff engineers & senior leadership on the vision & roadmap for the teams

Jul 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site

• Worked with cross functional feature team (frontend, backend, QA engineers, UX designer, product manager, data analyst) on multiple features & products across inception, launch, scaling & iterative improvements, and sunsetting
• Grew the team from 2 engineers to 6, and from a single feature to 5. Feature adoption & retention consistently amongst top 10 in the product
• Owned the engineering roadmap, delivery, and quality for team.
• Introduced data driven decision making for product/engineering decisions, partnered with data analysts to set up analytics dashboards & hypothesis driven experimentation, introduced observability + incident response for the frontend and backend

Dec 2020 – Jul 2021 · 7 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Leading the platform data team within Booking’s Payment ecosystem - responsible for the data pipelines that interface between services that exist within the payments ecosystem and the broader organisation.
• Leading a team comprising of 5 backend engineers - we own multiple services that ingest, enrich and aggregate data from multiple sources (via kafka and APIs) and send into multiple different sinks (HDFS, RDBMS, kafka). Services are implemented in Java, deployed on bare-metal and k8s, and primarily use Spring and Kafka Streams. Also own the services required to enable monitoring, completeness checking, and reprocessing/backfilling of data.
• Responsible for the uptime, and quality of systems, and making sure all services are monitored, SLOs are healthy, and incident response is in place and implemented via support rotations and OpDocs.
• Responsible for business delivery and people/performance management.

Jul 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Managed multiple cross-functional agile teams - comprising of backend/frontend/fullstack engineers, and UX/graphic designers.
• Simultaneously led the technology teams behind Booking.com's Giftcard, and Offline Marketing programs. Both initiatives were technology driven, and operated at pan-Europe, and global scale respectively.
• Currently leading the team that owns and manages the entire technology platform product for Booking.com's rewards and incentives programs - a collection of high performance and throughput services.

May 2017 – Apr 2018 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Tasked with transforming the organisation from being technology enabled to being technology driven. Successfully launched the warehousing, KYC, risk, and the automated payment products. Worked with 10 engineers across 6 products.
• Spearheaded the design and development of a scalable warehousing/asset management system with a team of 4 engineers. Seamlessly launched across 5 cities and 9 warehouses. This allowed for 100% asset tracking, and realtime accurate stock (as opposed to daily/bi-weekly counts). The back-end was Spring Boot + PostgreSQL + Redis + RabbitMQ, and the front-end was React + hapi.js. It is deployed on EBS, within Docker containers. Designed and developed the front-end single handedly (hapijs + React + Blueprint).
• Co-designed and developed the auto-debit payments system. The system supports direct debits on credit cards, debit cards, and bank accounts, with plans to extend integrations further. Nodejs was the language of choice.
• Spiked and ran multiple experiments, and set up a Kubernetes cluster on AWS (via kops) for all upcoming microservices. Planned out and started executing a plan to move off Heroku and onto k8s, and in the process break up some of our monolithic applications.
• Developed (solo) a lead tracking, nurturing, and attribution system. The app is comprised of multiple smaller services and tracks leads across all supported online and offline channels. The tech stack is Ruby on Rails (ref. The Majestic Monolith - DHH), and React. The product is comprised of 4 different services (not counting cache/persistence).

Apr 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Consolidated, and standardised the technology platform. Built, worked with, and was responsible for 3 engineering teams. Deprecated all legacy ERP systems, and Google Sheets/Excel. Hired across all engineering levels, and QA.
• Led the design and development of the billing and invoicing product (Java - Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Quartz, RabbitMQ), with a team size of 3.
• Hired for, and led the design and development of an order management system, written in Ruby on Rails. The system took into account large order sizes, repeated last minute scheduling changes, and multiple partial shipments/cancellations due to unpredictable stocks.
• Re-wrote the payments application in node.js and switched to using a payment orchestrator, significantly slimming it down. Added functionality to detect and recover dropped payments, and increased visibility into the real time health and business metrics of the product - done via setting up and integrating with a self-hosted ELK stack.

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Was amongst the first engineering hires. Joined Furlenco as we were transitioning from a brick-and-mortar business to an e-commerce platform.
• Created the Ruby-on-Rails backend for the e-commerce website (deployed on Heroku) - cataloging, cart, and checkout modules, and the APIs for the android app.
• Created the payments product (in Spring + Hibernate) and enabled pluggable payment gateways
• Automated the process of triggering & sending monthly invoicing, sending payment reminders, collecting payments, the required reporting.
• Played a significant role in hiring the next batch of engineers, including making outgoing cold calls, sourcing resumes, interviewing, following up, and salary negotiations. Successfully hired the website and invoicing teams.

Apr 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• I was part of a 13-member team that enhanced, developed and maintained the entire frontend of
• the business, both consumer facing and admin sections.
• Led the development of an online 3D beds configurator. Worked with WebGL (via Three.js),
• Backbone.js, the HTML5 File and Canvas API, Selenium WebDriver for testing and 3D files (Wavefront).
• On the SEO front - added rich snippets in SERPs and platforms like Pinterest using microdata (Schema.org and Data-Vocabulary).
• Mentored colleagues, conducted training sessions, was actively involved in the hiring process.
• Was Principal Engineer at Hem.com from June '14 - Dec '14 (sister website offering customizable furniture)
• Responsible for the website performance/page load times on all supported media.
• Took (technical) ownership of the development, maintenance, and performance optimisation of the customization tools platform in a team of 4 people.

Sep 2012 – Mar 2013 · 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Appacitive was spunoff from within Tavisca as an independent entity. Although we did not get to sustainable commercial success, it was a great learning opportunity for me to be a part of building a product & business from the ground up :)
• Was a member of the core founding team at Appacitive since inception and incubation within
• Tavisca.
• Developed the visual design tool and the data explorer tool
• Created and maintained the official open-sourced JavaScript SDK.
• Played a leading role in designing the architecture for the front-end of the product platform
• as a SPA (Single Page Application).
• Setup the observability stack (stats-d, graphite, new relic)
• Presented at the Unpluggd conference in Bangalore by NextBigWhat in December 2012

Jul 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Worked on the entire stack (MS SQL Server, C# + IIS + ASP + WCF, HTML + CSS +
• JavaScript).
• Wrote a pluggable C# - JSON Elastic Search adaptor for data storage and querying.
• Attended conferences officially, including AWS Summit (in Mumbai, by Amazon).
• Helped out other teams in setting up frontend MVC frameworks and in moving away from
• only ASP pages and reducing tight coupling between frontend and the API.
• Helped move the entire application stack to AWS (RDS - MySQL + IIS).
• Created a real-time web service performance heatmap of incoming # of requests vs.
• percentage of requests served within accepted threshold (visualized via color). Technologies
• used were Node.js, HTML Canvas and Redis. Project was for an internal hackathon.

Aug 2009 – Apr 2010 · 8 mos