Oct 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Hybrid

Aug 2020 – Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Hybrid

• Engineering leader for Roku Voice orchestration system.
• Responsible for systems handling voice queries at scale, including integration with speech recognition, natural language, search, and other AI systems.
• Responsible for the end-to-end delivery of large cross-functional projects as eDRI.
• Responsible for scoping and prioritizing features.
• Leading cross-team architectural discussions and making timely decisions.
• Hiring and growing a geographically distributed team.

Jan 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Pleasanton

• Managed a team of 10+ engineers with an onshore-offshore model between US and Taiwan for Mobile Apps, Internal Data Dashboards and Surveillance/Monitoring system.
• Architected and led development of sales and subscription workflow managing external vendors with both asynchronous and synchronous models to keep track of a customer’s orders, subscriptions, service
• enable/ disable and payments.
• Successfully delivered major milestone projects at the pre-release stage of the company.
• Designed the complete user lifecycle flow of the system, for Customer Success team to better visualize the complete lifecycle of a user’s transactions.

Apr 2017 – Jan 2018 · 9 mos · Pleasanton

• Founding Engineer of the company.
• Architected and developed feature to manage power of cameras for longer battery life by incorporating AI inference on the hub to classify objects (Patent pending).
• Designed data pipeline and application using React, Python, GraphQL for image data to flow from production to data science training system to train image classification system using human in the loop method.
• Evaluated new features and ideas to assess feasibility before large scale development.
• Built a scalable OTA update system to update the hardware wirelessly.

Aug 2016 – Mar 2017 · 7 mos · Menlo Park, California

• Worked actively with the technical team for Cross Device Identification initiative.
• Launched XDI in beta on Safari traffic
• Launched Viewability measurement initiative for Ads to provide transparency on inventory for buyers.
• About OpenX -
• OpenX creates quality programmatic advertising markets that drive superior monetization for publishers and optimal value for brands. As monetization partners to more than 1,200 publishers worldwide, OpenX has the largest knowledge base of publishers needs and trends. Our robust global technology infrastructure that ensures full reliability for all ad formats across all digital environments.

Apr 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Jul 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Sr. Software engineer on core recommendations product, RichRecs. Worked as a key team member on the recommendations runtime server, data reporting, and web services.
• Developed new features in the Recommendations team.
• Key contributor to enhancements of Intelligent Cross-Sells (ICS, acquired from CNET) to Richrelevance infrastructure from AWS.
• Led the team in the migration and integration of ICS.
• Designed and built Advanced Merchandising for retail recommendation services to the client.
• Created the integration plan and roadmap for the new product (ICS -> Advanced Merchandising).
• Managed the product and migrations of 45 ICS customers as a PM in absence of an official Product Manager.
• Worked with product owner to define roadmap of Advanced Merchandising(AM).
• Point of contact for training, support and customer onboarding from Engineering for AM.
• More than 40 customers live on the new product within 60 days.
• RichRelevance is the leading provider of dynamic e-commerce personalization services for the world’s largest retailers.

Feb 2012 – Jun 2012 · 4 mos · Sunnyvale

• Designed the architecture and database of Yahoo! Content Platform onboarding tool to ease automation process.
• Collaborated with cloud technologies.
• Provided solutions to internal clients for on-boarding Yahoo! Content Platform.

May 2011 – Dec 2011 · 7 mos · Sunnyvale

• Created a portal for Content Agility Solutions Team (Cloud platform group) to create, track and manage requests from internal customers.
• Used Bugzilla API for ticket generation.
• Languages - PHP, MySql, html

Jul 2007 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune Area, India

• Designed and implemented analytics on the claims and policy data of insurance claims to find relevant patterns.
• Designed technical documents and used them to analyze business needs.
• Took initiatives by suggesting changes that resulted in improved performance.
• Developed highly scalable end-to end insurance application.
• Awarded Certificate of Customer Appreciation.