Dec 2022 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Developed an in-house Kubernetes auto-scaler with AWS Auto Scaling Group, reducing scale-up/down time from ~5 minutes to ~30 seconds.
• Transformed architecture of core-application for Text-to-video feature into event-driven model using SQS, enhancing scalability, development and debugging efficiency.
• Led core-application team for Podcast to short videos generation project and Prompt to Maps generation project. Designed end-to-end architectures, prepared low-level design and developed APIs.
• Engineered cost-effective video encoding architecture for ∼25 millions videos from Getty, cutting computing costs estimates from ∼120k USD to ∼45k USD and optimized storage costs with S3 intelligent-tier.
• Led project for developing in-house search index for ∼500 million Getty media on Elasticsearch, built text-based search and integrated semantic search with ELSER model as well. Increased throughput by optimising the cluster, queries and index mappings.
• Led Voice Over & Music team, integrating multiple text-to-speech services and voice-cloning libraries, enhancing audio content generation. Developed algorithms for handling subtitles with accuracy.
• Designed cost-effective architecture and deployment pipeline for GPU based Machine Learning workloads and video rendering on Kubernetes.
• Led DevOps team and managed deployments across AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, and EC2 using Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, and Argo CD for seamless application delivery.
• Developed YouTube Studio-like analytics platform, providing insights into video and feed-level metrics such as views, view duration, unique viewers, etc.

Mar 2022 – Dec 2022 · 9 mos

• Developed a Logstash pipeline for filtering logs with Grok and storing product views and customer search data on AWS S3.
• Innovated key backend features for the Dhani Store E-commerce app, including Dhani cashbacks, product ratings, wishlists, search autocomplete, invoice generation, and Dhani Plus membership.

May 2021 – Mar 2022 · 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Automated AWS infrastructure deployment using CloudFormation, enabling effortless multi-region application deployment. Streamlined database changes as part of the deployment process across multiple regions.
• Created a media processing system for document uploads on the Mindtickle platform, generating thumbnails and reducing video processing failures by 90% with AWS MediaConvert and Elastic Transcoder.
• Reduced tech debt in the media handling service by addressing connection failures, processing latency, code bugs, and resolving intermittent issues through root cause analysis.

Jun 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Developed REST APIs for international payments, integrating with banks and remittance companies for seamless cross-border transactions.
• Designed and deployed microservices on a Docker Swarm cluster, managing inter-service communication, logs, and configurations with remote file systems.
• Designed and developed an OAuth2 authorization server for a remittance system with 20+ microservices. Implemented fine-grained permission management using JWT tokens.
• For cross-border payments automated the Suspicious Activity Reports generation, submission and processing of acknowledgements of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network(FinCEN).
• Designed and developed a system from scratch for processing cross-border transactions via the Ripple Payments Network, with automated reconciliation report generation.

May 2018 – Jun 2018 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Internship as a full stack web developer. Designed web application for
• Assets Tracking and distribution system. Aim was to design robust
• backend. Training involved learning of Symfony , Angular and Apache
• Kafka.