Jun 2014 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore, India

• Capital Float is a digital finance company serving small businesses in India. We provide fast, flexible, and transparent working capital finance to Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and startups looking to grow their customer base, purchase inventory, or manage cash flows.
• As CTO, it is my responsibility to architect and oversee the building of the entire technology platform for all aspects of the loan process, viz., application, automated decisioning, 3rd party financial data-source integration, loan lifecycle management, data-driven learning algorithms; among others.

Apr 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

• OpenTable is the leading portal for fine-dining restaurant reservations in the United States, Canada, the UK and other countries. In all, OpenTable serves over 30,000 restaurants worldwide. Chalo, which later became OpenTable Payments, was positioned as "Uber for Restaurants", an epithet on which we delivered, and then some.
• As Chief Architect of the Payments product, I was responsible for the design, implementation and delivery of the mobile payments feature integrated with OpenTable's mobile application. The architecture had a mobile component, a cloud-based server-side component, and a desktop component. I own the patent filings for the overall design of the solution, and along with owning the architecture, I also contributed to the server side code, and personally led the team that contributed to the code that was installed at the restaurant's back-end system while being the largest contributor to the code-base. This required me to be intimately familiar with various esoteric POS systems, positioning me as one of the leading experts on POS integration for restaurants.
• As part of the solution, I identified and integrated various technologies into the architecture, including Nginx, Redis, gUnicorn, PostGres, Stripe Connect(payments gateway), PubNub, etc. The system was a distributed, high-availability system designed to operate in low- or bad-connectivity environments, both on the LAN as well as the mobile fronts.

Jul 2003 – Jun 2011 · 7 yrs 11 mos

• I worked on XML related technologies as part of the core database development group. I was part of the XML DB team at Oracle that's worked to make XML, and related technologies like XPath, XQuery and SQLX native to the database. I designed and developed Oracle's DB Native Web Services stack. I worked in the Oracle Enterprise search team. Designed and implemented the desktop search solution for OSES, and the new Push Crawler Framework.
• Specialties:Design, development and deployment of large scale systems, Relational and XML Databases, XML, XQuery, SQL, PL/SQL, Web Services, Search, RSS, C, C#, Java

May 2002 – Sep 2002 · 4 mos

• Optimizations for large printing jobs. Reduced in-memory foot print of large typical PDF printing jobs by 90%

May 2000 – Aug 2000 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I worked as an intern at Infosys during the summer after my Junior Year at IIT Bombay. I developed a content management system for internal use at Infosys. Specific emphasis was laid on semantic tagging of content, and generation of graphs of related data/information within repositories containing gigabytes worth of documentation. A corresponding command line tool was developed in order to facilitate and demonstrate semantically leveraged searching.