Aug 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Our fully verticalized product has helped bring efficiency, transparency and control in B2B Vendor financing.
• Scaled the engineering team from one pod to a full fledged org.
• My team built a novel B2B Financing platform for OEMs & channel partners, that originated $X00 million in annual GMV
• Guided the business vision towards an AI-native platform with smart workflow orchestration by leveraging multi-agent systems, Generative AI, and custom ML models. Eliminated rote ops tasks.
• Helped company achieve unit economics profitability by building Credit workflow automation, Credit expansion (improved approval rate from XX% to YY%), Risk based pricing, and Asset-sale framework.
• Enabled business to roll out tiered SaaS pricing by delivering enterprise-ready feature set – SOC 2 Type II, SSO, Role-based access controls, global expansion with multi-currency support, and a proprietary eSignature solution.
• My team de-risked the often buggy capital movement by building a Double-entry ledger system with strong observability.

Jul 2019 – Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• We built tools within Snap app that help users decorate their snaps and visually communicate with their friends.
• Scaled the team from 5 to 33 – grew and hired multiple managers and tech leads.
• Managed 150M dau products – Stickers, Preview & Video Editing tools and Delivery (ingestion, delivery, ranking).
• Spun up a growth pod that grew total creative tools usage by 50% by doing product led growth & funnel experimentation.
• My platform team reduced mobile app CT metadata by 90% and foreground CPU by 5%.
• Led the creation and localization of creative tools content in over 16 locales, increasing usage in non-US markets by 40%..
• Served as the Site lead for the Snap Utah office from 2020 to 2022.

Sep 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Led an 8-member full-stack team in developing in-app native checkout, enabling brands & influencers to sell merchandise.
• Grew the the Commerce platform adoption from 1 to 10K merchants, processing couple of millions of dollars in annual GMV.
• Co-architected the platform system design and wrote backend code for Accounts, Product Inventory, and Orders services.

Mar 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Persuaded leadership to invest in a payments team and then bootstrapped it from scratch. This team managed all self-serve advertiser revenue, totaling $1.5 billion per year.
• Architected the platform and wrote the first line of code. Within a year, the team expanded from just myself to 9 engs.
• Developed the infrastructure for managing lines of credit, processing invoice transactions, and AR finance tools for RevRec.

Jul 2012 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Menlo park, California

• Tech Lead for the core platform team that processed all of the revenue ($30 billion per year) for Facebook Ads and Games.
• I developed an in-house Direct Debit processing capability to handle ACH, BACS, and SEPA payments, saving over $160 million in annual revenue and preventing 100K advertisers from losing access to the platform.
• Led several global initiatives – Ads pre-paid wallet, Multi-currency revenue tracking, Brazil ads payments expansion.

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Summer internship focused on Efficient Data structures for Programmable Search. Got a patent out of the work.

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Ontario, Canada

• Summer internship on Approximation Algorithms for Multi-commodity flows.

Dec 2008 – Dec 2008 · 0 mo · Kolkata Area, India

• Summer internship focused on Designing and Implementing Visual cryptography schemes for color images.