Mar 2025 – Aug 2025 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Building a modular credit card platform that allows cobrands to integrate seamlessly with multiple banking partners. Leading a 35-member engineering team, setting technical direction and ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Reduced infra costs by ~30% via container/JVM optimizations and KEDA-based autoscaling
• Built a Gemini-native audio voice bot for automated loan recovery
• Automated quality review of tele-caller conversations using generative AI

Jan 2025 – Mar 2025 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Drove major improvements across Uni’s data and workflow platforms by replacing legacy systems, improving observability, and simplifying architecture to support real-time use cases and cost efficiency.
• Designed and led the rollout of FileNexus, a replacement for FilePulse, enabling indexed file reads and robust handling of malformed CSVs
• Integrated custom retry metrics and OpenTelemetry traces into Temporal to detect excessive retries and enforce workflow correctness
• Replaced AWS Glue with real-time CDC streaming from MSK to Redshift, reducing costs by 70% and eliminating Elasticsearch for a simpler, faster architecture

Mar 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Provided architectural and technical leadership across a 100+ engineering org, co-leading with the senior architect to drive design quality, engineering practices, and scalable platform development.
• Built and launched a P2P lending platform from scratch in under 6 months, including a loan distribution algorithm to ensure fair investor returns
• Led development of a Shopify-integrated rewards platform with a scalable store and flexible, rule-based reward engine
• Created a feature toggle service supporting time-based and user-specific rollouts
• Advocated for and enabled Temporal adoption across teams through best practices and hands-on support
• Designed a framework for async execution with rate limiting and completion guarantees, accelerating feature delivery

Oct 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• Led engineering for Zomato’s Menu Service, a core platform powering restaurant menus, pricing, and tax configurations at scale. Managed a team of 9 developers across experience levels.
• Reduced Redis recovery time from 4 hours to under 2 minutes by leveraging S3-based backups
• Improved service resilience during traffic spikes using request deadlines
• Unified multiple menu editing flows into a single streamlined experience, boosting team efficiency
• Delivered nationwide GST law updates under tight deadlines, covering lakhs of restaurants and crores of items

Nov 2017 – Aug 2018 · 9 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Worked on Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s globally distributed NoSQL database service, focusing on expanding API support and improving service agility.
• Implemented the Azure Table Storage API on top of the Cosmos DB core engine
• Drove the service from public preview to general availability on a fixed timeline
• Decoupled the API translation layer from the backend, enabling faster iterations and safer, independent deployments

Jun 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Contributed to Azure HDInsight, a fully managed cloud service for Hadoop.
• Reduced cluster provisioning time from 35 to under 5 minutes by parallelizing workflows and implementing resource pooling
• Improved cluster creation success rate from 94% to 99.2%
• Instrumented the resource provider with multi-dimensional metrics to monitor performance, detect failures, and automate build sign-offs

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Hyderabad · On-site

• Developed a Windows Phone App, ReachMe, which enabled groups to coordinate meetups by sharing live or static locations. The app provided real-time step-by-step directions to a dynamic meeting point, using push notifications to propagate location updates.

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Bangalore, India · On-site

• Developed a web based application for thermal analysis of components on substrate.