Apr 2015 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore, India

• Conceptualized and led development of a new product - Dataplane Services, the next generation BigData Management platform for Hybrid Datalakes offering enterprises capabilities such as : Stewardship, Governance & Data Exploration (https://hortonworks.com/products/data-services/)
• Conceptualized and led the next generation Application development & Integration Platform for Big-data application through Dataplane Core. Enabled data users to interact with hybrid Hadoop clusters on-prem and cloud through custom applications in the areas of - Security, Governance, Data Exploration & Cloud Infrastructure Management.
• Enhanced Apache Zeppelin enabling Data Scientists, furthered Enterprise Readiness, Security, Kerberos, Scalable Visualization with Spark and multiple other SQL Engines. Led adoption from under 20 to over 500 customers, through multiple HDP releases. (https://zeppelin.apache.org/)
• Enhanced and rebuilt Ambari interaction components such as Hive View, Pig Views, Capacity Scheduler view among others making clusters more usable, driving multi-fold adoption among customers (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Views)
• Hired and led an exceptional Engineering group at Hortonworks, working with Global counterparts in a completely open source, distributed collaborative setting.

Jul 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

• Driving multiple Product Engineering initiatives at [24]7 iLabs in Assisted Voice and Chat space, leading a talented engineering group and collaborating with Product, Delivery, Operations and Program teams.
• Product portfolio includes - Operational Analytics, Customer Experience Frameworks, Real-time Integrated Voice Solutions (Assist For Voice) and Social Platforms.

Jan 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

• Developed real-time interactive co-browse technology for our product MeetBox - a Mobile Meeting solution, integrated with Dropbox/Box, targeted towards - CxOs, Sales and BD executives across verticals, remote teams in IT/ITeS. Meetbox enabled real-time sharing and interaction over cloud-stored user content.
• Conceptualized, prototyped & productized two business ideas in a span 12 months, with team comprising of developers and consultants; Pitched to Engineers, VC's/Angels & Businesses, while consistently developing and improving product-technology.
• Appsterix was acquired by [24]7 iLabs in July 2013. Appsterix platform is now integrated with [24]7 Assist, and deployed for Fortune 50 clients.

Sep 2008 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Key contributor and early Engineer at InMobi through - $1m/yr revenues, at series A, to a thriving $100m/yr revenue post series C, configuring application servers at times and conducting product launch demos for customers at others
• Built and managed a team of world class engineers, delivering against consistently demanding timeline, scalability challenges; sifted and interviewed exceptional talent, made recommendations to hire engineers and leaders.

Jul 2005 – Sep 2008 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led key engineering initiatives– search, user identity and system integration with other Electronic Arts (EA) infrastructure products for sims3 portal (http://thesims3.com). Release led to resurgence of business momentum, a decade after the launch of the sims franchise.
• Developed key modules for sims carnival portal, team efforts led to repeat business on sims franchise, and contracts for other properties from EA.