Jun 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• Heading R&D across all products and platform delivery.
• Scaled the team from 70 to 130+ people.
• Driving engineering strategy. Product, and architecture roadmaps delivery. Product-driven focus.
• Launched various enterprise-class product and platform services on franchise operations, analytics,
• royalties, payments, ownership, insight mobile app, search, platform etc. which enhanced the
• product portfolio and significantly increased the company's MRR revenues and reach across
• new customers and market verticals.
• Revamped and scaled architecture and technology – Cloud-Native transformation, scaled to 60+
• new microservices in production, got new architecture styles (Event-driven, serverless, data
• pipelines, etc.) and technologies for product scalability and reliability. Created architecting process
• and design standards.
• Scaled agile delivery programs and operations across products and 14+ scrum teams. Reduced
• release cycle time to weeks through strong engineering practices improvements and automation.
• Transformed engineering to a goals-driven engineering management and leadership system.
• Driving OKR and KPIs. Data-driven improvements through engineering metrics.
• Change management – designed and implemented high-impact changes in engineering processes,
• practices, people, and culture.
• Improved innovation, encouraged the culture of experimentation, and raised the engineering
• standards.
• Managed and accelerated new company product, process, and team acquisition integration
• programs working with partners and creating an integration platform on AWS.
• Hiring strategy and plans, policy improvements, and talent management.
• Coaching and leadership growth.
• SOC-2 compliance certification.
• Ran tech-debt reduction and continuous testing and automation programs across teams.

Sep 2015 – Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area · On-site

• Founded tech consulting company - Technodeation Labs.
• POC, design & development of various consulting projects across clients.
• Technical consulting and application development: New products development, application re-
• engineering and modernization, cloud-native transformations, Big-data platforms, architecture
• modernizations, enterprise application integrations.
• Streaming data and application integration platform on AWS (Java, Kafka, Spring, MongoDB,
• Terraform, Elasticsearch, Node.js, C#) enabling application integrations, global search, data-driven
• analytics across products.
• Content Management System (CMS) with video sharing, live streaming, social networking, and
• analytics for a content creation and marketing company leading to a significant increase in the
• company's fan base engagements – Microservices, Java, Spring, MEAN, and AWS platform.
• Agile practices coaching.
• Cloud Infrastructure automation: Terraform, Ansible. Docker.
• Offshore development center growth consulting: project management, product delivery, hiring.

Apr 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• Principal Architect and founding member.
• Architected and built SaaS AI-powered, data-center IT operations analytics platform for
• infrastructure behavior monitoring, cross-correlation analysis, anomaly detections, predictive analytics,
• and alerting.
• Responsible for complete architecture & and design. Made critical design and technology trade-offs
• decisions. Led the development team on design implementation.
• Leveraged technologies: Java, Kafka, MongoDB, OrientDB(Graph), HBase, OpenTSDB, Apache Spark,
• Spring, Angular, Cassandra, Python AWS, etc.
• Developed streaming ML data pipeline on Java, wrote custom algorithms on GraphDB(Apache
• Tinkerpop/Gremlin) for correlation-analysis, designed NoSQL(OrientDB, MongoDB, OpenTSDB)
• schemas, Kafka event processors, REST APIs, AWS deployments. Build Command-Center dashboards
• and management tools on Angular.
• Scaled the system to handle data-center high-volume and high-speed real-time metrics data.
• ML model operations (MLOps): Data engineering, building, testing, deployments of ML models, and
• real-time ML-model production performance monitoring, analysis, and fine-tuning.
• POC, product UAT testing, data-center deployment and enablement, and customer support.

Aug 2013 – Mar 2014 · 7 mos · Greater Delhi Area · On-site

• Headed teams as a senior engineering manager on cloud-enabled, converge-infrastructure administration, and monitoring product development.
• Managed and coached scrum teams for delivering product modules on Java/Ruby and puppet platform.
• Initiated agile test automation (unit, acceptance, integration) practices across Scrum teams. Designed unit tests platform architecture guidelines, established principles, patterns, styles and coached teams on the unit and acceptance testing.
• Started Test-Driven-Development (TDD), Acceptance Test-Driven-Development(ATDD), and Behavior- Driven-Development (BDD) agile practices for improvement in design and code quality. Coached team on TDD and BDD.

Aug 2007 – Jun 2013 · 5 yrs 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Headed the engineering team on the design & development of a highly successful product(JAVA/JEE) integrated with Cisco System’ Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) product. The unified product added multi-channel, best-in-class digital capabilities - email mgmt, callbacks, blended collaborations, co-browsing, social, sales, self-service, proactive chat, offers, and knowledge management to the voice capabilities offered by Cisco Unified CCE and formed an important product in company’s and partners portfolio. The product success enabled long term partnership with Cisco Systems, significantly improving the sales reach and revenues for the company.
• Build multiple teams from the ground up, led global teams spread across development centers in US, India and within partners.
• Implemented product roadmaps on critical product lines. Executed the business &product development process through complete SDLC.
• Led projects on transforming the enterprise product to an API platform(REST APIs) to enable new extensions and integrations.
• Managed capacities, estimations, resources and ops budgets for multiple projects.
• Led product specifications & UI/UX engineering with product owners.
• Rolled out product training programs for global pre-sales and support teams with partners.
• Led the performance engineering team to design & develop the performance measurement plans and load tests.
• Increased team’s predictability, productivity and quality; and reduced product cycle time and wastes by using Agile (Scrum & XP) values and practices.
• Influenced behaviors, values, and underlying assumptions to improve culture. Mentored & coached teams. Enabled collaboration & innovation, recognized talent, created opportunities and worked on building competencies.
• Design&implement strategies and best practices for product delivery, inter-departmental communications, effective hiring, employee retainment, KPI , SLA, culture, coaching, growing leadership, and competencies.

Feb 2007 – Jul 2007 · 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• I was instrumental in architecture, design and development of high performance distributed system for mobile real-time SMS routing, data analyses and subscription and billing platform.
• Designed and developed SMS routing, filtering and analytics platform.
• Designed highly scalable SMS gateway server cluster to scale and perform on high end loads.
• Evaluated, validated and implemented high scale, high performance technologies and design to build the network SMS gateway server.
• Designed and developed for event flows, high concurrency, failure and recovery, fault-tolerance and highly scalable system.
• Worked on SMS data analytics for optimized bandwidth allocation, filtering, capacity management and allocation.

Aug 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Technical manager and Architect on development of real-time, big data middle-ware infrastructure solutions. Involved in the development of High-performance, distributed, partitioned, NOSQL in-memory data grids (IMDG) for real-time big data caching and distribution engines. Designing & and implementing big data predictive analytics solutions to model, store, and analyze business data. I worked on “Distributed Database accelerators & Virtualizers” and “Real-time complex event stream processing engines” development. I was instrumental in setting company’s India operations and building and growing the engineering team.
• Products:
• Partitioned hash maps: Led the architecture and design of hierarchical & and distributed partitioned K/V store for high-performance data storage for big-data caching and distribution. Solved problems of data replications, dynamic scalability, application performance, high availability, memory explosions, reliable data re-distribution, optimal network distribution, right-behind data persistent, fault tolerance, threshold expirations, transactional disk persistence, transparent failure and recovery, distributed locking, and distributed decision making with primary secondary nodes co-ordination.
• Stream processing and Continuous querying Complex event processing engines(CEP) – Led the team on the development of high-velocity stream processing and continuous query engine. Dynamic stream querying, in-memory data caching and distribution, event correlation, event pattern analyses, rules & causal analyses.
• Database accelerators and virtualizers for distributed grid applications: Caching and distribution of JDBC query result sets with invalidation and updates on grid nodes and solving all problems listed above to enable application-level big data virtualization.
• UI Dashboards for stream and cache engine: JMX enabled, centralized web application consoles for distributed administration and monitoring of grid nodes and stream data flow.

Jun 2004 – Aug 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune

• Worked on Gemstone Systems Pvt. Ltd projects at Talentica Softwares Pvt. Ltd. We later started Gemstone’s Pune (India) development center.

May 2001 – Jun 2004 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Senior Technical Consultant/Developer with product group in design and development of e-business solutions for enterprise multi-channel customer interaction platform for email management, live chat interaction, web collaboration, and adaptive self-service and knowledge management.

Jan 2001 – Apr 2001 · 3 mos · Bombay

• Worked at IIT B incubator. Researched on Robotic and Active visioning technologies and their industrial application.

Mar 1999 – Dec 2000 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

• Developed CAD\CAM, robotic, and factory floor simulation and Product Life-cycle Management(PLM) products.