Aug 2024 – May 2025 · 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

Jan 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• 🏆 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿
• 🏆 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟮% 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿
• ▹ Scaled the team by 4x in 9 months to 40+ within budget while elevating standards
• ▹ Automated B2B payments for top 5% Indian businesses, generating INR 3B in annual payments
• ▹ Built stable bidirectional integrations for SAP ECC - S/4HANA, Microsoft D365, Oracle, Tally, WHMS and ERPs reducing time to value from weeks to hours
• ▹ Developed modular payment integrations and double-entry ledger systems for banks and payment aggregators, achieving zero reconciliation errors
• ▹ Migrated a 3-year-old legacy payments system from Azure to AWS, transitioning from bare metal to Kubernetes with zero downtime
• ▹ Developed an AI-driven credit decisioning pipeline with Mistral, Llama2, and Vicuna, integrating Gmail and OCR data, achieving 2x underwriting improvements.
• ▹ Transformed ad-hoc development to Agile SDLC
• ▹ Fostered a positive team environment, resulting in 2x eNPS growth
• ▹ Utilized vendor relationships for zero-cost service migration with full technical support
• ▹ Established DevOps practice, achieving 11 nines uptime and reducing RTO and RPO by 3x
• ▹ Implemented security measures organization-wide through tools (VPN, FW, 2FA), processes (CISA audits, VAPT, ISO 27001, ITGC), and people (security awareness sessions)
• ▹ Improved hiring team productivity by 3x boosting NPS and company recall value
• Technical Expertise: Python, Django, Go, NodeJS, Docker, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, React Native, ReactJS, Angular, Elastic Search, Typescript, Expo, Java, iOS

Feb 2021 – Oct 2021 · 8 mos · India

• India Critical Resources Network (ICRN), a NPO think-tank that performs research and advocacy on technology for social reach.
• While we focused on realtime critical resources in wave 2 for urban areas and hospitals, we are now ensuring the same platform delivers services to the more vulnerable rural parts of India.
• During Covid wave 2, ICRN was pivotal in helping the citizens find beds, plasma, oxygen providers, etc across the country:
• ▹ Rapidly built a PWA based platform from scratch
• ▹ Scaled to 20 million+ users in 4 weeks (peak of Wave 2) across the country
• ▹ Tracked 9000+ hospitals, CCC, DCH, DCHC, and other centers in realtime
• ▹ Tracked 500+ plasma banks and other sources
• ▹ Leveraged hundreds of volunteers data sources
• ▹ Built custom E2E process for Beed district in association with Maharashtra State Innovation Society (MSIS)
• ▹ Automated the collation of disparate sources of data including government, volunteers
• ▹ Augmented process with scrubbing, correction, and geospatial layer additions using Google Maps, etc
• ▹ Achieved the goal of 5 nines uptime for critical resources
• ▹ Leveraged serverless technologies to scale to 11+ states and 9+ tier 1/2 cities
• ▹ Used progressive Cost optimization techniques to achieve scale with limited funds
• Covered by Times Of India, Sakal, DD Sahayadri, Business Standard, and other media outlets.

Aug 2012 – Nov 2021 · 9 yrs 3 mos · Pune / Los Angeles

• 🏆 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 - 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺
• 🏆 𝗖𝗥𝗠 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 - 𝗕𝗪 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝘀
• 🏆 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿
• 🏆 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟮% 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿
• MetroGuild is an early stage start-up that is building a smart lead management and communication platform, MetroLeads, that leverages AI algorithms and ML applications to fast track your daily business processes.
• ▹ Conceptualized, designed, and built MetroLeads from ground up with market deployment to thousands of enterprise users
• ▹ Deployed several market first's including card paradigm, IntelliSearch, voice integrations including ASR, TTS for SMEs, fleet tracking, etc resulting in 3x sales growth Q/Q
• ▹ Led the initial sales strategies to establish MetroLeads as a formidable player in the real-estate market leading to a 2x growth Y/Y
• ▹ Led the formation of the India Development Center (IDC)
• ▹ Assembled and led a team of talented designers and engineers to innovate and rapidly deploy
• ▹ Rapid deployment to several mobile platforms using cutting edge technologies, React Native and Flutter
• ▹ Highly scalable and fault tolerant micro-services architecture on AWS/GCP/Azure/On-Prem leveraging cost optimizing solutions like spot instances, Docker, etc
• ✶ Technical Expertise:
• Apache Cassandra, Elastic Search, Python, Django, Erlang, NodeJS, Docker, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, React Native, ReactJS, Typescript, Flutter, Java, iOS, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit, FreeSwitch, Kamailio, Asterisk, AI, ML, Clean Architecture, Clean Code, Payments, UPI
• ✶ Management/Product Expertise:
• Agile Development, Rapid Prototyping, Sales Strategy, Product Ideation, Team Development, Hiring, Problem Solving, Big-picture Thinking, Stakeholder Management, People Development, Product Development, Situational Leadership, Fund Raising, Board Member

Feb 2009 – Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• ▹ Part of the Bengaluru office inception team
• ▹ Led the Talk.to server engineering group integrating with mobile/front-end remote teams
• ▹ Evaluated and architected the backend platform for .pw product
• ▹ Interfaced with remote PM teams and stakeholders
• ✶ Expertise:
• Team Building, Performance Optimization, Distributed Programming, High Scale Development, Java, Nginx, REST, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Big-picture Thinking, Problem Solving, People Development

Aug 2007 – Apr 2015 · 7 yrs 8 mos · Pune, India / San Francisco Bay Area

• Helping startups ideate and refine their vision. Providing initial phase technology expertise to get the project off the ground.
• ▹ Invested in early stage start-ups
• ▹ Provided guidance and advice to CEO/CTO cadre
• ▹ Corporate training for niche technologies
• ✶ Expertise:
• Concept development, go-to-market ideation, sales strategy, rapid PoC development, scaling strategies, UI/UX vetting, Android development, iOS, Mobile technologies, Corporate training, Python, Java, Big-picture Thinking, Problem Solving, Corporate Board Member

Aug 2007 – Feb 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• An eBay partner company that provides multi-channel solutions to independent sellers based out of US
• ▹ Led the high performance backend payment team
• ▹ Integrated with multiple payment systems including Paypal, Auth.net, etc
• ▹ Managed a scalable, distributed, fault tolerant system to handle peak load of transactions on MySQL
• ▹ Participated and improved the hiring process including technical assessment, team fit, etc
• ▹ SPoC for other teams to build unified solutions
• ✶ Expertise:
• Java, High Performance Computing (HPC), Payment Systems, MySQL, NoSQL, Agile Development, Team Management, Team Building

Jul 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune Area, India / New York

• Veritas Backup Reporter (VBR), part of the Veritas NetBackup suite, Enterprise data backup and recovery optimized for the multi-cloud.
• ▹ Implemented the industry first Flash based enterprise reporting dashboard and filed for patent (pending)
• ▹ Lead engineer for the Veritas Backup Reporter solution
• ▹ SPoC for high revenue enterprise customers such as Intel, Anheuser-Busch, etc
• ▹ In-charge of the round-the-clock SWAT team to handle time critical issues and coordinating between remote teams
• ▹ Hiring lead for reporting team; increased hiring efficiency by 5x leading to substantial team growth
• ✶ Expertise:
• Java, Flash, ActionScript, critical customer management, account management, SWAT teams

Jan 2004 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune Area, India / New York

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India