Aug 2020 – May 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Led the Private Brands and Global Merchandising portfolio at Lowe’s, managing a 30+ member
• development team across backend, frontend, QA, and DevOps. Partnered with Product and
• Design to set technical vision, drive architecture decisions, enforce engineering excellence,
• and deliver scalable solutions aligned with business OKRs.
• Oversaw engineering delivery of a scalable self-service platform for Warranty Claims and
• Customer Support, built using React, Java Spring Boot and Mongodb, with integrations to
• Salesforce and internal APIs. Led sprint execution, ensured SLAs, and drove alignment with
• Architects and Product—resulting in a 28% drop in support calls and a 79% YoY increase in Parts
• sales.
• Championed the use of Generative AI for product safety automation, collaborating with Data
• Science and Platform teams to implement a pipeline using OpenAI’s GPT APIs and Python NLP
• frameworks. Improved identification accuracy of hazardous products and shortened
• investigation timelines.
• Led engineering teams in building a Factory Management System using Node.js, PostgreSQL,
• and AWS S3, centralizing global vendor operations. Partnered with Architects and Business
• SMEs to shape functional design and reduced vendor onboarding time by 17%.
• Directed the delivery of a Protocol Testing application enabling streamlined test request
• creation, report uploads, and failed item disposition. Collaborated with QA leaders to
• automate manual processes, achieving a 34% reduction in effort.

Aug 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Built Product team of 6 members, Design team of 8 members and Technology team of 38 members from scratch to build platform for blue collar workers
• Lead the Product team to build the new version of Background Verification product from scratch resulting in 60% reduction in onboarding time and 90% reduction in data processing time (verification of Identity) for 30 lakhs profiles per month
• Modified Attendance product to simplify user onboarding and enhance attendance marking flow to scale the number of users from 25k to 200k
• Launched banking and payroll product lines in partnership with NovoPay and scaled to 95Cr in GMV with 9k users and 27 corporates
• Lead the conceptualisation and development of BetterPlace ASEEM portal and app in collaboration with National Skill Development Council (NSDC) launched by our Honourable PM Narendra Modi

Feb 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Raised Seed Fund of $500K, built the company and scaled to 2 PMs, 8 developers, 5 sales managers and 4 deployment executives
• Defined and delivered Employee Transportation Product OCabbie and scaled to 6k users
• Signed Timken, Mercedes Benz, Thomson Reuters and Jet Airways as clients

Jun 2015 – Jan 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Successfully defined and delivered custom Android based operating system for Micromax phones

Apr 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Defined and delivered Stacy-airport passenger assistance app for Airport Council International
• Secured corporate investment of $250K and rolled out Unisys TMS product to 3000 users

Aug 2008 – Apr 2013 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Clients: Qualcomm, Intel, LGE
• Defined product features, performed competitive analysis, scoping and feasibility analysis for Camera module for Intel
• Rewrote the Camera application to reduce the boot time by 25 % for for first 3D phone by LGE
• Optimised the Hand Jitter Reduction code in Camera software to facilitate critical delivery for BlackBerry Curve 8500 cell phone

May 2006 – Jul 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Led the efforts to establish a new Imaging Lab in nVidia Hyderabad office
• Internally hired a team of 5 members and trained them to create new Camera team
• Analyzed and fixed a critical hardware bug in JPEG decoder, enabling the delivery of project “Sansa View Music Player”
• As a part of R&D team, Designed and implemented Lens Shading, Auto Exposure Control and Image Stabilization algorithms for camera module for mobile phones

Jul 2005 – Apr 2006 · 9 mos · Kolkata Area, India

• • Developed online Auction website using J2EE technology