Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Leading the Engineering for Zed Mobility - Dubai's homegrown ride-hailing app.

Sep 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Lead multiple teams across Ads charter encompassing ~40 SDE, DE, SRE and Engineering managers.
• Partner with business and product to build a billion dollar bottomline business at a CAGR of upwards of 40%.
• Define and drive processes, forums, check-ins at various level to ensure system scalability, uptime, feature quality while delivering features at a rapid pace.
• Build and foster a culture of innovation, high performance teams that can deliver in an agile manner building incrementally towards steady state architecture.

May 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Feb 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• CTPO for sub-business – Traum and OYOLIFE with operations in multiple geography like Europe, Japan, Indonesia and India. Managed an org of 70+ Developers, QA, Design, DevOPS and IT across India and Germany.
• OYOLIFE
• o Led Architecture and Design choices for niche problem statements like Real-estate Inventory Modeling, Recurring Booking for 50 million+ users globally.
• o Set-up Development Center in Bengaluru, growing it to 100+ developers in 8 months.
• Traum
• o Empathetically led the transition of company from Holocracy to Agile Model. Phased out role of Agile Coaches with more empowered decision makers in Engineering managers.
• o Planned and Envisioned Legacy Monolith overhaul for more scalability and Cost Savings to tune of 30% tech costs (~3 million Euro) annually without disrupting business continuity.

Sep 2015 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Manager of Managers with 50+ team of Developers, QA and Support Engineering reporting directly and dotted to me. Lead the set up of different platforms and business verticals for the Unicorn over years.
• Machine Learning Engineering Platform
• o Building the engineering platform to host ML models (TensorFlow, Spark MLib).
• o Implement extreme data/engineering complex ML models like Peak Pricing, Demand/Supply Forecast. Nelder Mead for multi-dimensional space optimization was doing up to 2.4 Billion computations per minute.
• Maps
• o Built Location Intelligence Suite to predict Path, Distance and ETA, provide POI data.
• o This solution was operational across India, UK and Australia catering to throughput go 3m+ requests per minute with p99 @ 10ms.
• Ride Pricing and Allotment
• o Drove the vision for ML based Pricing Platform. Built over 1.5 years could support upto 2M requests per minute at ~10ms p99 latency.
• o Built highly configurable and scalable Allotment Platform for cab allotment. Extended for hyperlocal delivery. Handle scale of 1M+ rpm.
• Hyperlocal, Hypergrowth Projects (OlaMoney, OlaShare, Olastore)
• o Scaled in-house wallet OlaMoney to 30x load (2 million DAU).
• o Scaled Ola’s marquee Rideshare Matching algorithm from 30k to 0.6 million requests per day.
• o Technical Solve for hyperlocal grocery delivery (Fulfilment) and Listing (Personalized Autocomplete).

Jun 2012 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• InfoSec Engineering
• Designed and developed internal PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) for Amazon. Handled close to 80k internal websites and other endpoints annually.
• Built Role Based Access Management Platform with single API integration support for Amazon internal Platforms. Handled 150k+ identities across 100k+ groups restricting access to 20 million+ resources.

Nov 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

Jun 2009 – Nov 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area