Aug 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Enhanced hiring quality by emphasizing 'How' over 'What' of applicants, impacting recruitment scale.
• Helps find right quality candidate faster by going beyond Resume.
• Eliminates unproductive interviews

Apr 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

• Part of Instagram Shop Ads team. Focused on growth of shop ads product at Meta.
• Strategised and executed shop-ads reconsideration advertising strategy on Instagram.
• Led the strategic direction in constructing tech platforms that expedited the development of use cases.
• Working collaboratively with core teams across Instagram and Facebook to stimulate the growth of shop advertisements.

Aug 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Head of Engineering for Payments, Gift cards, Co-branded cards.
• Collaborated with Business, Product, Analytics, and Data Science teams to develop exceptional products.
• Established senior engineering teams at Flipkart with Architects, Engineering Managers, SDE-3/4.
• Mentored, Motivated and Managed team to grow within the Organization.
• Scaled payment tech system for Big Billion Days - the biggest E-Commerce sale event in India through multiple tech and product initiatives.
• Focused on bringing in stability of system at scale. Improved production stability by 90%.
• Led the launch of India's largest Co-Branded Credit Card with a leading bank, introducing a seamless in-app experience for product discovery, application, issuance, and management, driving increased revenue for Flipkart.
• Led company-wide initiatives at Flipkart by collaborating with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to achieve significant metrics.
• Implemented and automated processes to reduce operational overhead.

Oct 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Founding member of Cleartrip
• Throughout my tenure at Cleartrip, I've held roles ranging from Software Engineer and Project Lead to Architect, Manager, and Director.
• Recruited, Mentored, Motivated and Managed team to grow within the Organization.
• Engineered the early products of travel commerce: Flights, Hotels, Activities, Loyalty and many more.
• Lead mobile app (Android & iOS) and web development for the products.
• Planned & executed strategies to enhance development / testing/ documentation/ processes/ methodologies.
• Introduced various new technologies like Memcached, Elastic Search, Mongo, Mobile app dev tools to increase productivity and many more.

Jan 2012 – Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Cleartrip.com is the online travel site that gives you what you need without any annoying fluff. Who needs banners, pop-ups and blinking glitz? Search, book, go. That’s what its about - Making travel simple.
•  Heading engineering for Activities Product @ Cleartrip.
•  Previously headed various other products like Mobile, AIR, Hotel, Smallworld at cleartrip.
•  Architected, designed and implemented products using Java 6.0/7.0, Lucene, J2EE, Spring, Ajax, JSP, JS, HTML, CSS, Server, XML, Log4j, Design patterns, Web Services, Ruby, Rails, Memcached, Redis, Active MQ etc.
•  Taken the product from paper discussions to working product, which can handle millions of searches and transactions.
•  Worked on design and development of various products like Activities, Flights, Hotels, Smallworld, Loyalty from scratch at Cleartrip
•  Scaled application to ever increasing traffic year on year with strong look-to book ratio.
•  Recruited, Mentored, Motivated and Managed team to grow within the Organization.
•  Managed faster time to market with short release cycle to production by
• taking complete ownership
•  Planned & executed strategies to enhance development / testing/ documentation/ processes/ methodologies.

Apr 2010 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs

• Revamped the Flights product for scale and improvements.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built loyalty product for Cleartrip using Java, Spring, Oracle technologies
• Worked and built the Hotel product for Cleartrip.

Jun 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos

• A US based product startup funded by KPCB and Menlo Ventures,
• helps business people manage social networks and build relationship capital. This service helps business people map and manage their professional social network, connect to contacts, collaborate with colleagues. Also paid corporate networks help companies connect their employees and provide access to the corporate social network to sell, market and recruit more effectively.
•  Responsible for complete design and development of the product from scratch.
•  Written Technical Design Documents for different modules at Visible Path
•  Learnt and used technologies like MVC framework spring, Memcached, Ajax etc to develop the web application product.

Jul 2004 – May 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Persistent is a global company specializing in software product and
• technology innovation.
•  Being my first company, I got to learn many technical things to kick start my
• career
•  Was part of web development team for a CRM product.
•  Worked on IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager product. Its a policydriven
• data collection and security compliance product.
•  Worked on IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator product for automated deployment of software products.
•  Developed core java softwares for the products.
•  Worked on design and development of UI and middle tier application.
•  Learnt and used various J2EE web development stuff like JSP, Servlets, Struts etc.