Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Built a highly available and seamless food ordering system within the GoFood vertical, ensuring reliability at scale.
• Designed and implemented RESTful APIs, database schemas, and user interfaces for microservices powering the platform.
• Aligned development with the product roadmap, contributing to unit testing, analytics, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Improved engineering efficiency by developing internal tools, writing clean and maintainable code, and assessing technical feasibility of features.
• Mentored junior developers, fostering best practices and driving team productivity.

Oct 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Collaborated with project managers, developers, quality assurance teams, and
• customers to resolve technical issues for ESG Capture.
• Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications,
• facilitating the creation of well-organized project plans.
• Revised, modularized, and updated legacy code bases to modern development
• standards, reducing operating costs by 50%.
• Coordinated with stakeholders, owning end-to-end solutions.

Dec 2017 – Sep 2018 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · On-site

• Worked for McKinsey and company
• Modernized architecture by converting monolithic applications into scalable microservices.
• Developed distributed systems powering the McKinsey Alumni App, enhancing reliability and user experience for global alumni engagement.
• Contributed across the stack with unit testing, CI/CD pipeline automation, analytics integration, and full-stack development.
• Mentored junior developers, improving code quality, maintainability, and overall team productivity.

Nov 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Owned the technology strategy and development of a customized web application to streamline merchant onboarding, supporting the company’s sales growth, risk management, and operational efficiency. Defined product requirements, maintained a prioritized backlog, and ensured solutions aligned with business goals.
• Key Contributions:
• Project Leadership: Led end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring timely releases with high-quality code adhering to best practices.
• Team Development: Trained and mentored engineers and new hires on the technology stack, coding standards, and development workflows.
• Product Ownership: Collected requirements and feedback from business users, translated them into actionable features, and collaborated with developers on design and planning.
• Operational Involvement: Contributed to project estimation (quotations) and participated in recruitment to build a strong development team.

May 2013 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• About HeaderLabs:
• Co-founded HeaderLabs in 2013, a startup that began with partner product development across diverse domains including investment banking, medical research, education, and construction. To sustain product innovation, expanded into a services/agency model in 2015. Scaled the company from a 3-member tech team in Gurugram to 30+ engineers and 7+ sales/marketing professionals with expertise in iOS, Android, React Native, Ionic, Rails, PHP, Firebase, and MySQL.
• Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
• Product Ownership: Drove end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to deployment, ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Technical Leadership: Defined development priorities based on value/cost analysis, created product specifications, and translated them into actionable user stories.
• Architecture & Deployment: Designed deployment strategies and server architecture for multiple products and client solutions.
• Code Quality & Mentorship: Guided teams to refactor and optimize codebases, improving maintainability and performance.
• Team Growth: Led hiring and mentoring, building a high-performing 30+ member engineering team aligned with startup goals.
• Market Responsiveness: Partnered with technical and business teams to refine offerings, keeping solutions competitive in fast-evolving markets.

May 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Developed and maintained the PhoneTag EmailGateway (PTEGW) application responsible for ingesting audio attachments from emails and delivering transcriptions via email/SMS.
• Configured Postfix mail server with MySQL backend transport for message routing.
• Implemented Ruby socket integration to trigger a custom Ruby-based email parsing service.
• Built and secured HTTP(S) API communication layer between PTEGW and Simulscribe (Ruby on Rails transcription engine) for seamless transcription workflows.