Mar 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Architect in M365 Office platform team.
• The M365 Office platform is a massively distributed cloud service with O(exabyte) data handled by O(100K) servers in O(100) data-centers around the entire globe. My group is part of the M365 Core Platform organization, responsible for providing a data and intelligence platform that enables internal partners to build productivity apps and services that provide user-centric experiences across various Microsoft 365 products.
• My group owns and builds foundational services that provide the core data processing infrastructure for first-party(other microsoft teams) services to leverage the massive amount of data stored within the M365 Office platform.

Dec 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Architect in Microsoft Office 365 Core API Platform Team: Scaling Exchange API Platform that serves planet scale enterprise traffic.

Mar 2017 – Nov 2017 · 8 mos

• Senior IC for M365 Core Office API Platform team

Jul 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Software Development Manager / Architect
• Engineering Manager for India Payments business. Lead the talented team that built "AmazonPay". The true wallet platform for Amazon india.
• Role Responsibilities :
• Leading a highly talented technology team of 12 engineers that is responsible for building and owning complex services that constituted a complete payment business including issuance , charge , refund, promotions and transaction history.
• Oversee Architecture and build long term technical vision for the product.
• Delivery of highly available and highly reliable software
• Inculcate a culture of innovation and operational efficiency in the team
• Responsible for the direction of the team for the Payments Platform for India.
• Influence, collaborate and communicate effectively with various leaders in Amazon
• Hiring, promoting and retaining a strong team keeping with the Amazon high bar

Dec 2012 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Social Mining
• As lead engineer for Interest Circles Mining, played the role of breaking problem statement into tasks and assigning them to engineers. Developed an elastic search index for 50Million twitter customer profiles. EMR Hive jobs for mining amazon purchase/search/browse data records totaling more than 1Billion and assigning them interest labels.
• Designed and developed the tweet ingestion pipeline for #AmazonCart which ingested ~2.1Billion tweets a day.
• Product-Ads
• For ProductAds billing platform, led the effort to migrate from Oracle to No-SQL/EMR Jobs based architecture for aggregation. Designed and developed the aggregation pipeline which aggregated website clickstream logs for Amazon.com running in terabytes for generating merchant clicks and charges. Also developed a real time aggregation pipeline that used to power merchant budgeting platform that suspended merchant ads after the merchant daily budget was exhausted.

Jul 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 8 mos · Mohali district, Punjab, India

• Chief Eating Officer in my wife's kitchen
• I am responsible for tasting the most delicious food and praising it.
• Sometimes I even get to cook a beautiful meal to show my gratitude.
• I get to do research on useful kitchen machinery and make recommendations.
• Do strategy meetings with my elder son who is CTO (Chief Taste Officer) on new dishes we would like on the menu.
• Plan company retreats for entire household with my younger son who is our CFO (Chief Flavour Officer) to scour for new flavors.
• Lead planning for special weekend and movie nights menu's.

Feb 2012 – Dec 2012 · 10 mos

• Windows Azure Backup Service
• Ownership of the entire replication layer as a subject matter expert (SME) for Windows Azure Online Backup Service which required participating in design consultations for upstream and dependent services and systems.
• Mentoring new SDE’s.
• Live site monitoring and handling live site issues for customer beta.

Feb 2011 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr

• Windows Azure Backup Team
• Developing features (Compression, Continue on Failure, Metadata re-sync on Server Rebuild) from requirement analysis to design and development.

May 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore , India

• Product: Citrix Xenapp Fundamentals and Citrix XenApp™ :
• Both are application virtualization solution. I was involved in all the stages of product developement.

Apr 2008 – May 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Product : Fiery JDF Connector
• Went through multiple iterations of product developement and release for this product. Doing a lot of code writing and design.

Jul 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Product : Job Properties , Compose and Quick Doc Merge
• Was in involved in a lot of developement and low level design effort also doing complete features with complete ownership.