Oct 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Following my promotion to Managing Director, expanded leadership to include HR, UI/UX, and Product Management teams.
• Collaborated on financial planning with the in-house Chartered Accountant (CA).
• Optimized roadmap processes and live operation procedures.
• Strategically restructured the team to enhance product quality, facilitate cross-learning, and support career development.

Mar 2018 – Oct 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Architected a web-based B2B SaaS product to streamline business operations for the self-storage industry, using ReactJS, Django, AWS, and PostgreSQL.
• Built a team of 20+ professionals from the ground up, actively participating in the hiring process from sourcing, as we did not have an HR team initially.
• Contributed to company policies and processes, focusing on career development, the software development life cycle, appraisals, RnR, and guidelines for clean code and design.
• Designed and developed initial frameworks and critical modules, including:
• Redux Data Management with custom HOC to simplify data injection in components
• Double entry accounting module used to handle bills, payments & allocation with configurable allocation order
• Infrastructure & Security Management using AWS S3, EC2, RDS, ASG, Opensearch, Route 53.
• Data migration between software versions

Apr 2017 – Feb 2018 · 10 mos

• Led a team of four members by fostering knowledge sharing, cross-team collaboration, and open communication.
• Contributed to the core B2B SaaS product using ReactJS, Spring Boot, Groovy, MySQL, and AWS.
• Handled task management, hiring, and code reviews.
• Collaborated with the Product, UI-UX, and Infrastructure teams.

Apr 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr

• Led the development of critical, large-scale projects independently, including Secondary Market (Private Stock Management), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Top Investments of Popular VCs. I leveraged ReactJS, Spring Boot, Groovy, MySQL, and AWS to deliver these solutions.
• Automated report generation with rich visuals using C#. This empowered VCs to efficiently review trending companies and unicorns, significantly reducing manual work for business analysts and enabling them to deliver deeper business insights.

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• My experience with a legacy desktop application exposed me to threading, parallelization, and best software engineering practices.
• I actively contributed to the core product (Simpana) by collaborating with my team on feature development and enhancements.
• I took on additional responsibilities by cross-collaborating with the database and Unix teams, enabling me to independently build features. I was the sole team member capable of handling database change requests and features requiring both Windows and Unix modifications.

Jul 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed Migration Assistant: A desktop application built from scratch using C# (WPF) and C++, designed to streamline user settings migration during Windows OS updates.
• Collaborated with both the US and Hyderabad teams for product understanding, testing features I built, and implementing any necessary modifications

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• * Developed a C++ command-line tool for managing the Windows file system. This tool focuses on retrieving and modifying information for shortcut files (specifically, .lnk files), and also offers secure deletion of files and their subfolders.