Jun 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Food security is one of the biggest challenges that we face today. Any disaster, natural or man-made impacts it, and for a very long time.
• We at Terraview offer Yield Prediction, Irrigation Optimization, Disease Prevention, Farm Management and more on a seamless platform powered by in-house hardware sensors and software solutions.
• Lead engineering at Terraview, managing teams across multiple geographies (India, Europe) to build the next generation of Terraview Platforms.

Jan 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Led the entire engineering effort (100+ engineers) across multiple teams - product development, QA automation, DevOps/SRE, Information Security and Product Support.
• 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬:
• # Hiring and retaining top talent
• # Creating the right processes and practices for efficient running of all the teams
• # Guiding the product and engineering teams through direct contribution to feasibility analysis, PoCs and system design
• # Working closely with the DevOps team to optimize our product and infra across the 5 pillars - cost, reliability, security, performance and maintainability
• # Provide oversight to the information security team in their SSDLC and compliance & governance efforts (SOC2, ISO27001 and PCI DSS)
• # Managing internal (Finance, Customer Success, Ops) and external (Clients, Vendors, Partners) stakeholders
• 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
• # Completely overhauled the hiring and on-boarding process, more than a 1000 candidates went through this process in the last 10 months, consequently doubling the team strength(to 100+ folks) inspite of attrition
• # Instrumental in creation of cross-functional teams and introducing agile to them through multiple workshops and alignment sessions
• # Spearheaded the QA automation & Tech support streamlining initiatives
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Python, NodeJS, ReactJS, React Native, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Complete ownership of B2C Cabs app in the Yatra super-app, managed a cross-functional team of 12+ engineers – backend, mobile (Android, iOS), QA & UX. Actively contributing to the architecture, design & development of features - ironing out requirements, collaborating with all the stakeholders, planning and executing on-time high quality deliveries.
• 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
• # Built two B2B applications from scratch: Employee Transportation System (subscription-based cabs) and Online Cabs (ad-hoc cabs)
• # Streamlined the tech support activity by making the product more robust, bringing in the right processes and clear messaging on the app
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Java, Scala, Android, MySQL, Microservices, Docker, Redis, Kubernetes

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Launched a startup with 2 other cofounders for making games on multiple platforms including Android, iPhone/iPad, PC and Consoles. Built up technical and gaming ecosystem knowledge from scratch.
• Created a tower defense game with multiple worlds to conquer and heroes to choose from – Gargoyles vs Zombies.
• 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
• # Reached top 10 charts in "Top New Free (Strategy)" category within a week with 4.8 star rating
• # 10k+ downloads in 6 months with 4.3 star rating
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Unity Game Engine, C#, Android, iOS

Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 · 4 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

• 1. 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦:
• # K2 - Helped reduce the office app's (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) apk size to below 50MB, resolved many critical bugs
• # Infra - Built office apps on Android and created infra & cloud components to be used by Office apps
• 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
• # Smaller apk size was instrumental to the office apps success due to obb related limitations, my efforts helped reduce the apk size to under 50 MB
• # Built the stub app for Word, Excel and PowerPoint which got shipped with millions of devices as a preinstalled app
• # Built a full-fledged Download Manager for the stub app for China region
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Android, Java, Compilers, Scripting
• 2. 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦:
• Was part of Windows Serviceability Engineering team owning the quality gates for the hot-patches, service packs and security fixes from Win2K to Windows 8. Owned Core Kernel & VPC components.
• 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
• # Discovered and filed 50+ security issues in various parts of Windows Core Kernel
• # Created tools to repro complex issues, automated manual processes required to release hot-patches
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Windbg, Windows Kernel, C/C++/C#, Batch script, Microsoft Sysinternal tools

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Bangalore Area, India

• Owned extraction module of Metadata Manager, MM enables large organizations to bring all their metadata scattered in disparate systems to a single platform & perform operations like data lineage & impact analysis.
• 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
• # Full load used to take hours, implemented incremental load with close collaboration with our extraction partner MITI, thereby reducing load times by up to 90%
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Core Java, Oracle (SQL), Business Objects, Cognos, Eclipse, Toad, Perforce and Maven

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Chennai Area, India

• Owned Multi-Mediation and all Java components of CRS (Charging Data Reporting System). CRS is a data warehouse product that is a part of the prepaid charging solution from Ericsson.
• 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
• # Completed KT and ownership of CRS product within 3 months
• # First team to adopt Agile, was managing a cross-functional team of 5
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Core Java, JSP & Servlets, Shell Scripting, SQL, PL/SQL (Oracle), BOXI R3, Eclipse

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs · Chennai Area, India

• Created multiple healthcare web applications using Struts & Hibernate with Oracle SQL as the backend, migrated numerous applications from older tech stacks to Java/J2EE and Oracle SQL.
• 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
• # Built a search engine from scratch using Jakarta Lucene & customized its behavior through JavaCC to enable the user to query an enormous list of healthcare benefits line items
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Core Java, Oracle SQL, Jakarta Lucene, JavaCC, Struts, Hibernate, JSP/Servlets

Jul 2003 – Oct 2003 · 3 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · On-site

• Worked on a research topic "Non trivial solutions to the Cubic Sieve Congruence problem" under the guidance of Dr. Subhamoy Maitra. This is a research area in Cryptography.
• # Wrote code to solve the CSC problem using the GMP (GNU’s MultiPrecision) library available in Linux using C.
• # Suggested further improvements in the existing algorithm and compiled several useful results.