May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

• Helping various startups and enterprise build AI agents into their business processes.
• Have a solid team of
• UX researchers
• product manager
• program managers
• ML and AI architects
• Data scientists
• back-end developers
• front end developers
• fully equipped with using AI into their development work-streams.

Jan 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Running tech and product for the omnichannel eyewear player in the region.
• Ran full Integration of Microsoft dynamics into Eyewa’s bisiness processes

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Ran integration Tech for all the aquired companies of Byju's like Whitehat Jr, Epic in US, Toppr,Tynker to name a few.All of this as part of Byju's future school . Org size - 200 . Company valuation - 22 B USD

Feb 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Kuwait

• Running tech, product, design, and data /BI teams at Boutiqaat.
• Boutiqaat is an influencer/celebrity-driven vertical eCommerce player and is a major unicorn in MENA region.
• https://www.menabytes.com/boutiqaat-raising-fresh-funds/
• I head the engineering and product for Boutiqaat.com. Ran their Gurgaon and Kuwait tech teams of 100+ engineers/product.
• Achievements :
• # Scaled Magento platform and made it 200x faster in record time - catalog , inventory , cart and checkout
• #built a real-time ingestion layer using Apache storm, HBase and related technologies to sync price , inventory etc in real time.
• # increased CTR, conversion, and overall revenue by building highly advanced suggestions/search and product ranking algorithms
• # rewrite entire cart and checkout flow for 5000 orders per minute scale .
• # reduced AWS infra cost by 80% by downscaling, optimizing, and re-architecting systems and saved more than a million dollars in the process
• # revamping entire tech platform
• # all of this is leading to multi fold increase in revenue and profits for the company.

Feb 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Heading engineering for 150+ bright engineers as part of 18 B USD Paytm group. Also led a combined effort with teams comprising from Alibaba HQ .
• Paytm is a super app and multiple business lines rolled into one .
• I am leading a team of bright engineers/architects and senior engineering leaders towards solving India class of problems. Leading PayTM mall . Also worked with Alibaba's team of architects in guiding them in a major joint effort to solve major problems at scale.
• Solving for :
• Catalog for 1 BN products.
• Search, Recommendation for 1 BN products/users.
• Online plus Offline commerce for a Billion indians.
• Inventory management in realtime for all sellers/warehouses.
• Serviceability of all products across 40k pincodes in india.
• Hyperlocal serviceability at a local polygon level.
• Technologies :
• Mysql, Elastic Search ,Cassandra , Redis, Kafka, Rabbit MQ.
• Apache Spark, Apache Flink .
• JAVA , NodeJS.
• NewRelic, Datadog.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru / San Francisco Bay Area

• Transforming physical and online retail at the world's biggest retailer.
• In my current role i manage website cart and checkout experience and entire digital marketing platform. Additionally worked with engineering leadership to transform and grow the India development centre from 1500 to 4000+ people by incorporating meritocratic preformance appraisal and career advancement processes.

Jan 2012 – May 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · India

• Was part of the growth journey of Snapdeal from a valuation of 100 M USD to 6.5 B USD while the team size grew from 50 to 1000+ strong engineers.
• Started working with Snapdeal back in 2012 when the company was starting up in the eCommerce domain.(Earlier it used to be a deals business but soon migrated into selling products).
• Have thorough architectural experience of
• Supply Chain.
• Built serviceability solution that could give serviceability results in 2 ms for 100k requests per second for 50 million products
• Returns.
• Also knowledge on :
• Catalog management.
• Order Management
• Search.
• Worked on search and autosuggestion solutions
• Was instrumental in building various systems viz:
• User Management System
• Customer Care system
• Supply chain (including Courier Allocation System)
• The system that tracks forward delivery of the product right from order completion on website ;and then from vendor ,onto the courier system and finally to the customer(of course there could be various permutations and quality checks/handovers involved.
• Returns Managment system :
• System for initiating/tracking user returns.
• Have used various technologies/frameworks in the process like :
• JAVA,Spring framework technologies like Spring MVC ,Spring security ,Spring AOP,Transaction management,Database access etc.
• UI technologies like javascript,jsp programming, jquery etc.
• SOLR (for searching/autosuggestion on site).
• NoSQL technologies like Mongo Db ,Aerospike that help in faster response times and improved site behaviour .More importantly they help in scaling up the site to allow more than 1 million concurrent users.
• SOA(Service oriented architecture) to allow the system to distribute its work into separate components which talk to each other using RESTFUL APIs built on top of spring.

Jul 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Worked on a tool that allowed business users to estimate the future value of their investment in
• various asset classes subject to certain risks.
• e.g. Credit Risk,Market Risk etc.
• Various computable measures were Stress and VaRs.
• It involved applying certain mathematical functions on a sample data obtained from various upstream systems.
• The tool was applied to the following asset classes :
• Credit
• Interest Rates.
• Prime Mortagage.
• Equities
• Commodities
• Private Equity.
• On a side note i was a regular solo winner (1st rank) of cross location *coding awards* in JP Morgan..

Jan 2005 – Jun 2010 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

• Identity Management.
• Novell Identity Manager is best in class solution for Enterprise related Identity Management needs.This product has won codie award for many years in a row.
• Was involved in writing adapters for various components like SAP HR,Peoplesoft, JDBC etc.
• I was recognised as a top performer in a team where the average experience was 15+ years as most of colleagues were in US .