Jul 2022 – Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Amsterdam Area

• Scaled organisation from 9 to 50+ engineers across 5+ agile teams (managing EMs, Staff/Sr Engineers in Backend, SRE, Test, Data) across 2 continents (Amsterdam, Europe and Shanghai, Asia).
• Owned Reservation Platform re-architecture: migrated 25-year-old monolith to a GDPR/SoX/DMA-compliant AWS Serverless stack with zero production outages; platform supports over 1B room nights annually and generates billions in quarterly revenue. Modernisation unlocked innovation, operational excellence and resilience.
• Spearheaded DMA compliance initiative across 100+ systems using GenAI-assisted automation; completed remediation in 8 months without major regressions, impacting 300+ engineers.
• Defined long-term infrastructure strategy for Accommodations and Marketplace Tech orgs; drove adoption of AWS Serverless for high-criticality systems.
• Championed the "Unlock Connected Trip" initiative across 5 BUs, aligning 300+ employees to unlock multi-vertical travel via modernisation & innovation.
• Leading cross-BU migration of 10K+ legacy MySQL reads to domain-based APIs, reducing tech debt spanning over 20 years.
• Initiated & led company-wide Internal Mobility Program and "Build It, Own It" culture initiative reaching 4000+ tech professionals.
• Mentored multiple EMs to Senior EM and Staff ICs to Sr. Staff levels; supported ICs transitioning to people leadership roles.

Jan 2017 – May 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Led engineering teams focused on account security and fraud prevention; drove savings of millions annually via proactive risk detection.
• Built and scaled Secret Storage (Vault) and Netflix Lemur-based Certificate Management systems to ensure PCI/SoX compliance.
• Developed ML powered credential-stuffing prevention system handling millions of requests per minute.
• Championed architectural review culture and operational readiness best practices; helped several engineers reach Staff level.

May 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Amsterdam Area

• Led replatforming of Uber’s Incentive Platform, managing hundreds of millions in annual spend and influencing ~50% of new Earner trips.
• Built and scaled cross-functional team of 18 (ICs + incubating managers), spanning backend, data, and infra.
• Consolidated promotion infrastructure across Uber verticals via platform TULIP; enabled scale-out to Riders, Eaters, and Vehicle Partners.
• Directed migrations from Python to Go and monolith to monorepo; improved deployment velocity and platform observability.
• Mentored senior ICs toward Staff/EM tracks; drove engineering career progression through regular coaching and performance calibration.

Oct 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Co-founded VC-backed consumer startup; launched MVP in less than 2 months and scaled to multi-million-dollar company with 35+ employees.
• Built & managed a 19-person tech org covering backend, data science, mobile managing all aspects of team building.
• Directed full-stack development and cloud deployment (GCP) focusing on software architecture and best development practices.
• Led product-market fit, GTM, and analytics strategy with product, operations and marketing co-founders/leaders.

May 2015 – Oct 2015 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked as a part of core team member at The Porter, Mumbai (A Sequoia backed Series A funded Aggregator).
• As a leading member of the tech team planning and executing complex projects in close collaboration with operations and marketing teams.
• Developing new services, components and enhancements with possible scalability.
• Continuously working on design of the framework. Making required changes. Carefully considering all technologies available to make framework scalable, fast and useful.
• Participating in smooth implementation & testing of the application at internal testing environment and extending post go-live and application maintenance & support to the final public product.
• Conducting code reviews, debugging, unit testing, system testing and troubleshooting of the application.
• Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, jQuery, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Aerospike, Nginx, Phusion Passenger, Git, Redis, Google Maps, Capistrano, Scrum, Asana, Slack

Oct 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Singapore

• Worked as a full time Software Engineer at Works Applications Singapore (a Japanese firm) in a multi-national, cross-border environment for 1.5+ years.
• Served as a part of small and diverse 40 members “Company” series E-Commerce Product (an ERP product) Team.
• Developed crucial services and components of the system.
• Ensured efficiency by optimizing them for an E-Commerce environment. (optimized different components by a factor of 2 to 100)
• In the end was assigned to mentor 2 new members of the team. Effectively managed them to achieve high class results as a team.
• Technologies Used: J2EE, jQuery, OpenJPA, DWR, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript, JSF, Ajax, J2SE, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2, Scrum, Twitter Bootstrap, SVN

Jun 2013 – Sep 2013 · 3 mos

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Completed Summer Internship under the esteemed guidance of Professor (Dr.) D. B. Phatak, Computer Science Department, Institute Chair Professor, IIT Bombay.
• As a summer intern completed a highly appreciated project "Coloring As an Aid to Teaching" for primary education by partnering with some cross functional students of various reputed institutes across India at IITB. It was a Java, J2EE, Data Structure, XML and XSD based project.

Mar 2011 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Agartala Area, India