Sep 2022 – Apr 2023 · 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• ✦ Constructed a multi-region scalable data platform using AWS services and open-source technologies, and managed a phased migration from GCP to AWS.
• ✦ Led a data team, handling hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance reviews, roadmap planning, OKR management, and execution.
• ✦ Supported the establishment of the company's second tech center in India by leading end-to-end campus hiring, brand building, and office setup.

Nov 2021 – Sep 2022 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• ✦ Improved data services such as data ingestion, processing, and cataloging, as well as personalization services including segmentation, journey mapping, and smart triggers.
• ✦ Designed a risk data platform that intercepts and halts fraudulent activities in near real time; processed millions of events per day from multiple sources and established a data warehouse, boosting performance by 4x.
• ✦ Led the migration from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4, achieving a company-wide impact and cutting costs by 50% through a hybrid approach.
• ✦ Standardized API signatures, logging, alerting, and incident management across data services using New Relic and PagerDuty.
• ✦ Collaborated with data science teams to create an in-house online and oine feature store for machine learning models.

Jun 2021 – Nov 2021 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

• ✦ Created Mist's network topology feature by processing large volumes of data from network devices such as 128t Routers, SRX routers, switches, and access points.
• ✦ Analyzed session events from 128t Routers and developed heuristics to capture user sessions for applications like Teams, Zoom, and Slack for troubleshooting within Marvis Virtual Assistant.

Aug 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

• ✦ Collaborated with stakeholders from India, Israel, and the USA to drive software products from definition through delivery and maintenance; Led a team of 9 engineers, handling hiring, onboarding, training, and mentoring.
• ✦ Owned key Epics each quarter, providing high- and low-level system designs for scalable, high-quality product delivery.
• ✦ Created a Behavioral WAF SaaS offering that utilizes machine learning and crowdsourced threat intelligence for superior security and lower TCO.
• ✦ Implemented a data pipeline using Spark Streaming, EMR, and Kafka to process data from various F5 products, enhancing visibility and insights on applications deployed on BIG-IP.
• ✦ Designed an Nginx web server plugin to intercept and analyze incoming traffic, enabling prediction and prevention of security threats.

Jun 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

• ✦ Developed product roadmaps with stakeholders and product managers to support business goals and future innovation; led a team of 5 engineers, managing hiring, mentoring, and performance evaluations.
• ✦ Created a unified data processing engine to cater various business units, reducing transaction processing time by 70%.
• ✦ Developed a reconciliation engine for managing data from multiple sources, cutting errors and speeding up the process by 90%.
• ✦ Built parsers for diverse file formats such as XLS, XLSX, T140, SD098, TSYS DDT, MT940, TXT, HTML, MC, and custom formats.
• ✦ Enhanced performance at Yarn and file system levels, leveraging Spark features such as dynamic allocation, broadcast, accumulator, and data repartitioning to improve performance by 4x.
• ✦ Conducted a proof-of-concept and built a library on Apache Druid for data analytics; utilized Parquet, Apache Drill, and Apache Hive for reporting.

Jun 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

• ✦ Designed and built a Chatbot Platform as a service to create and deploy chatbots for their customers and employees; integrated with over 120 third-party systems.
• ✦ Developed versioning for the Bot component, enabling automatic, manual, and optional upgrades, impacting over 25 entities and 50 web services.
• ✦ Integrated Bot's Alert & Action features with Kore's collaboration platform for both individual and team workflows.
• ✦ Enabled NLP in the Bot framework using ChatScript (chatbot engine) and TCP sockets.
• ✦ Delivered features like room, post, comment, and team chat; Also Implemented push and presence notifications.
• ✦ Managed database migration from MySQL to MongoDB and improved performance by 3x through sharding, caching, indexing, and query optimization for modules such as post, room, and alert.

Jan 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Indore Area, India · On-site

• ✦ Developed MongoDB and HBase clients for performance testing on SandStorm's on-premise platform.
• ✦ Added resource monitoring features for ActiveMQ, Oracle NoSQL, and MongoDB on the SandStorm cloud platform.
• ✦ Created the Lab module on SandStorm cloud, allowing users to reserve Amazon EC2 machines for testing and release them afterward.
• ✦ Enhanced security measures using OWASP to prevent SQL injection and cross-site scripting; analyzed NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Neo4j, Cassandra) for business use cases..
• ✦ Optimized Apache and Tomcat server configurations to improve security and performance.