Feb 2017 – Dec 2017 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• Led the booking, billing and pricing related teams of OlaCabs.com, an online cab service supporting 1 million booking requests per day.
• Drove culture and process changes to improve predictability of feature delivery
• Improved operability by pro-actively reviewing operational metrics and identifying and prioritizing action items for scaling the services while delivering product features on time
• Evangelized design reviews, unit testing, decoupled releases and performance testing
• Delivered critical business impacting features on tight schedules

Dec 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• [Quikr acquired CommonFloor] Technology leader reporting to the CTO, led Quikr.com, Search, Content and Data Sciences teams. Led multiple development and QA teams to deliver the product features on desktop web, mobile web and mobile apps providing hands-on coding, design and code review. Added nearby locality search, synonyms, attribute-detection and relevance function using Elastic Search. Improved search CTR by 30%.
• Led 7 engineering teams in CommonFloor, owning the engineering function for 4 products.
• Groups – Apartment management software
• Home Select – Buy home online after selecting the unit within the apartment building
• Celestial – First-person virtual reality explorations for a model home similar to a video game
• Retina – Virtual reality mobile app using Google Cardboad technology to allow exploring the home
• Drove culture change to introduce code reviews, design documentation and Agile/Scrum process. Evangelized more data driven and customer focused decision-making and product development. Automated the generation of Weekly Business Review metrics deck generation. Improved the per person productivity of the development team by 25% through process optimizations and code re-architecture.
• Released a complete redesign of the desktop website for CommonFloor.com in 1.5 months, while creating a new simplified and re-architected codebase that is easier to maintain. Managing 7 teams working on PHP/Zend Web Applications, native Android applications, Cordova/PhoneGap hybrid mobile apps for Android/iOS, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Solr etc.
• Personally setup a code review tool for the company and ensured that the every code checkin goes through code reviews. Also setup a media wiki installation for the company to build a knowledge base of design documents.

Oct 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Worked on the Wish List feature on Amazon retail web site. Created a new development team in India from scratch. Relocated to India from USA to hire and ramp up a team of external new hires and provided strong technical guidance and hands-on help in coding, code reviews, architecture and design. Worked with Product Managers, UX designers, Project Managers and other teams in the USA.
• Owned the mobile expansion of Wish List, which is to adapt the Web UI for mobile devices.
• Promoted high performing engineers and addressed low performer issues.
• Reduced the customer complaints about duplicate gifts purchased from Wish Lists by 70% year over year when the business grew 50%, by improving and adding more systems to determine the gift purchases made from Wish Lists.
• Analyzed customer contacts, came up with feature ideas and implemented and measured effectiveness. Delivered 13 features to improve the purchase attribution systems. Created a real time click history store. Added duplicate gift warnings to the shopping cart pages.
• Delivered the Wish List feature on Kindle Fire Gen5 and Gen6 tablets on tight deadlines.
• Designed and developed a caching service for the company, used by 17 teams in Amazon.

Feb 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Worked on the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), which is a large-scale distributed cloud service. Created support for a 30% lower-cost storage class for customer data. Features owned include bucket policy, multipart upload REST APIs, two-level cache (memcached) integration etc.

Dec 2004 – Feb 2010 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Founding team-member of Campaign management and ad delivery engine services for Microsoft - adCenter. Managed a team of 5 developers on distributed service contracts and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the development manager/lead. Worked on the ad delivery engine for paid search and contextual ads.
• Created components of online query relevance service for Ad Url landing pages, in C++
• Cost-per-click (cpc) computation for new ads and other real time auction related features
• Re-architected, combined 2 distributed services for ad delivery to reduce the latency
• Managed the service contracts and end to end service integration
• Created an automated Editorial and Relevance Verification system for ads
• Designed and developed blocked words detection for editorial verification of text ads
• Designed and implemented several XML Web APIs for campaign management

Oct 2003 – Mar 2004 · 5 mos

• Started the project as the first and only architect starting from a 6-page vision document for a start-up company. Served the roles of architect and director for 3 development teams. Launched an online music store successfully on schedule, PassAlong Networks.
• Architected the solution by working with the management team on business requirements.
• Identified the development tasks, created work break down structure and estimated the development and QA efforts needed to productize the business plan.
• Identified the skill-sets required for staffing the team of 40 and helped with recruitment.

Nov 2002 – Dec 2004 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Team lead - Hiring and performance reviews for 10+ full-time Aditi employees. Trained the interviewers.

Jan 2001 – Nov 2002 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Boston

• Worked on real-time embedded networking software for telecom multi service Internet Access switch.

Aug 1999 – Nov 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Lead a team to develop a compiler-like tool that can convert Java byte code to CIL, so that Java code runs on .NET. Worked on a clean-room implementation of Java VM & Class Library for Visual J# .NET.

Sep 1997 – Aug 1999 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mar 1995 – Sep 1997 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Sep 1994 – Feb 1995 · 5 mos · Durgapur, West Bengal, India