Feb 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Leading the Sandbox and Cloud Migrations charter within the Cloud Transitions initiative
• Driving strategy and vision with new product initiatives across multiple pipelines
• Focused on critical SLO paths, driving 99.9% uptime, reliability, SLA goals
• Directed product efforts towards innovative initiatives and new monetisation strategies, projected to increase revenue by XX% through the introduction of new offerings

Apr 2023 – Feb 2024 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Leading Global Expansions efforts for Contractors, Compliance and Work Authorisation suite of products
• Lead New Product Launch of Global Contractors with forecasted 10%($XX Mil ARR) overall Revenue growth for Rippling in the next 2 years
• Involved in strategic planning, project management, and collaboration with cross-functional teams and growth of the team and engineers.
• Worked across engineering teams to reduce Technical Backlog and improve MTTA / MTTR by 3x focussed towards customer obsession

Dec 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Owning engineering �efforts for Growth & Revenue vertical, attributing to 60%($X Mil MRR) of Unacademy's overall Revenue
• Responsible for architecture, implementation and delivery for various 0-1 products
• Conceptualise, Designed, Architected, Implemented & successfully launched the in-house CRM for a sales team of over 4000+ Sales Agents to optimise revenue generation via sales/leads conversion
• Built and managed a team from scratch within Unacademy for handling Sales Technology initiatives, responsible for managing real time event tracking across the platform, data engineering pipelines, sales incentive calculation, dialler/outbound-calling systems, showing a performance improvement of 20x and an overall cost reduction of 70%($X00K) MTM

Apr 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Spearheaded the Core Platforms and Infrastructure team, leading transformative networking projects such as VPC re-architecture and the rollout of private networks across AWS and data centers in 8 global regions. These initiatives reduced infrastructure costs by 10% while enhancing scalability and automation through Terraform and Ansible. As a result, we improved deployment efficiency by 40% and positioned the organization for seamless future project scaling.
• Lead efforts in New Data Centre setup, Auto-deployments via infra-as-code using Kubernetes, Auto-rotation of private keys/certificates across multiple systems, DDoS mitigation via auto-detection and blocking mechanism using Cloudflare, Automate Disaster Recovery in case of cloud provider failure, net cost improvements of 20% for Data Center Costs via removal of licensing for VMWare
• Implemented Full Metrics tracking for core infrastructure components and cloud service providers like uptime/latency/thresholds/alarms/usage/statistics using InfluxDB(TICK Stack) & Prometheus(Thanos), aimed at improving MTTA / MTTD by 5x
• Worked with multiple teams across the board to define a company wide approach for managing and measuring Redundancy, Commitment and Horizontal availability across multiple systems both in terms of hardware and software components as a part of revamping the Uptime commitment across the board, uptime improvement by 10% i.e. 99.00% → 99.90%

Jul 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Scaled the current test taking platform "9x" i.e. from handling 5000 concurrent test takers to 45,000 concurrent test takers while reducing operational costs of additional infrastructure by ~20%
• Lead architectural design and development for the first micro-service currently deployed in HackerRank, which aims to segregate all Content/Questions across the product with ACL.
• Working in scaling the existing test-taking platform, which includes but is not limited to Dockerizing the existing application and later using it as a candidate for Kubernetes based deployments, enabled faster auto-scaling and improvement in overall availability by 30%
• Combining certain sections of HackerRank’s Codepair, Enterprise and Community services to make a cross-functional service
• Optimisations to the current Rescue/Kafka data streams for management of asynchronous operations across the system, improving latency by 5x across services

Feb 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

• Responsible for building platforms, scaling existing models using best practices and shifting monolithic applications into micro services architecture.
• Contributed in building the base framework for use in all Wingify Applications i.e. Pushcrew, VWO, and any other new products which may be upcoming
• Architectured a complete service and a DSL language to convert UX/UI user inputs which will be used to fetch aggregated data from multiple data sources like MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB parallelly
• Reworked the Pushcrew application from ground up, by breaking modules to micro service architecture, keeping in mind scaling the current system, managing future integrations with other services, using in-house framework which was specifically built for the same purpose
• Re-structuring applications to producer-consumer model, away from the existing cron-based task scheduler model to improve latency by 2x
• Responsible for architecture and production rollout for two crucial services internally namely Authentication/User Service(build using Node.js, supporting OAUTH/LDAP protocols as well) & Segmentation Service(Muti-tenant DB aggregation layer), which resulted in an improvement in Performance by 3x

Mar 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• Complete ownership of Billing/Membership module’s, management of Payment transactions across platforms i.e. Android, iOS, Mobile and Desktop platforms, reporting system, transaction monitoring
• Facilitated in re-factoring of technical code and architecture, shifted from single source system to Service Oriented Architecture to allow scaling, improve performance and achieve a highly available system with uptime of 99.999%
• Formalized and designed the current API’s using SOA, to allow for securely processing Payments using third-party payment gateways using stored card information compliant with PCI-DSS standard
• Introduced Server-Side call-back mechanisms to trace-back transactions in case of fallout due to internet connectivity ensuring a smooth payment system, and enhancing overall user experience, reduced overall payment reconciliation errors by 100x
• Introduced systematic, user-based discounting algorithm which provides automatic discounts to users based on their site activities, login records, sessions durations, page views. Further enhanced system by sending automated alerts i.e. emails, app/browser notifications, mailers based on discounts given to provide real-time information to our users, and further increase conversion rates, lead to revenue attribution of 20% over previous models
• Responsible for synchronization of environments, facilitated in implementation of centralized and automated configuration for handling various environment related settings with the objective of keeping Dev, Test and Prod environments in sync, and monitor their current throughput using sophisticated systems such as Zabbix
• Performing Scrum Master duties such as Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Sprint closure and Retrospection, Release Management, Resource allocation
• Responsible for mentoring new recruits, sharpening their skills, and helping them in their career paths

Jul 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Engineered and implemented scalable web applications utilizing PHP, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby; directly contributed to a system that supported 10K+ concurrent users while maintaining performance efficiency under peak loads.
• Learned practical knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL Database Management Systems, normalisation/sharding/replication concepts using MySQL/NoSQL databases
• Responsible for client handling, requirement gathering via direct client interaction, implementation of prototypes and approval form clients
• Hands-on experience with front-end technologies such as Bootstrap/Foundation Frameworks for professional web development
• Familiarization with Node JS and Express Framework implementations during internal trainings
• Deployment of Staging, Pre-staging and Developer Server builds through Subversion and Bamboo configuration.