Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr

• Spend time with the family. Helped my kid to keep up with studies, sports etc.,

May 2024 – Feb 2025 · 9 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Provide technical leadership for the team and help to establish technical standards, follow good engineering practices and methodologies.
• Drive Rocketlane's overall technical architecture and plan the frontend engineering strategies
• Participate in research and design, building POCs, conduct feasibility study and thereby help to translate the business needs into workable technology solutions
• Provide expert advice to team members in technical work and detail out the high-level architectural design
• Help to solve complex ambiguous problems and building high performing scalable systems
• Make a continuous effort to ensure cost-effective methods are used in setting up functionally sustainable environment
• Make an effort to create process improvements plans, define goals and implementation plans when required
• Oversee projects like migrations, automations etc.,

Jan 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Managed to rebuild the Freshchat Widget features and capabilities in React

Apr 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Will continue to do what I was doing as an Engineering Manager.
• Adding more responsibilities on top of that:
• Help in critical thinking like removing the facts from fiction, ask quality questions and challenge the assumptions, help transfer knowledge from one context to another
• Understand the people's sweet spot, align them together and deliver the mother care
• Interconnect with the leads of technology, program, process and product. Setup expectations and align the team to focus on growth and deliver results
• Work as one team and stay focussed in building differentiated products and participate in relentless execution
• Keep space for dialogues and use cognitive incision to transform the team to value interests, curiosity and have diversified perspectives

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

• As a Technical Lead Engineering Manager
• Manages team members and leads a product's technical direction
• Experienced coder in the team's tech stack
• Manages technical debts
• Runs regular 1-1's and builds high-performing team
• Strong technical mentor for the tech team members, often more hands-on
• Model ideal developer behaviour and advocate for good engineering practices - Pair Programming, Test Driven Development
• Apply technical expertise and improves quality of the team through design and code reviews
• Major plans includes code reusability, modular programming, reduce complexity, extensibility for better code evolution and stability
• As a Team Lead Engineering Manager
• Spends time recruiting, and organising activities that increase retention
• Creates an environment of psychological safety, builds trust with the team members and enable them to thrive
• Tunes the team software process to deliver a sustainable and seamless flow of value
• Involve with the team to manage the environment like removing blockers, managing stakeholders and risks, navigates complex structures to resolve dependencies
• Organises activities to increase team engagement and foster team spirit
• Communicate with external stakeholders, distilling information into useful context for the team
• Help assisting with and keep track of day-to-day activities
• Works very closely with the business and product teams, ensuring the group delivers the most impactful work

Aug 2015 – Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Building Chat - freshchat.com
• A feature-rich native chat experience for your app
• Intuitive UI that allows you to simultaneously engage with multiple users
• Send visually rich campaigns to targeted user segments
• Make it easy for your customers to get answers and help themselves

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Chennai

• A mobile-first user engagement platform.
• Building and Scaling the application platform. Developing new features in the web application and mobile SDKs

Dec 2011 – Oct 2012 · 10 mos

• Serving as a Senior Front End Web Developer in building and maintaining the mobile-optimised version of the website to allow anyone from a handheld mobile device to access an enriched, HTML shopping experience.This involves the delivery of highly scaleable, distributed, multi-tiered, fault-tolerant presentation and intense web engineering projects.

Jun 2007 – Dec 2011 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• 6+ Years of professional experience in Software Development and Maintenance of Web Based Client/Server Applications.
• Extensive experience in UI development, Web UI Analysis, Prototyping, Web Design, Development, Implementation, Live-to-Site deployment and maintenance of e-Business systems and applications based on J2EE architecture, using the XML technologies, databases and application servers.
• Expertise in building Web based applications confirming Web 2.0 standards.
• Strong knowledge in CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JS Libraries, DHTML methodologies, Cross Browser compatibility and other Client Side technologies.
• Expertise in Object Oriented, MVC architecture based development and well experienced in building distributed enterprise systems with J2EE technologies.
• Good knowledge of Onsite/Offshore Software Development Model
• Hands on experience in Agile software development model.
• Specialities:
• Platforms : Windows NT/XP/2000/98
• Programming Languages : Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, XSL, CSS
• Technologies : AJAX, Servlets, J2EE, SOA, Design Patterns
• Application Servers : IBM WebSphere 6, Tomcat 6.0
• Databases : Oracle 9i
• Tools : Rational Clearquest
• Version Controls : Rational Clearcase

Feb 2005 – Jun 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Key contributor in building graphical user interfaces. Responsible for the complete front-end development http://annonces.ebay.fr.
• War-room discussions with Product Managers, providing key inputs to materialize the product as technically scalable one for future enhancements
• Developed all UI components using V4 (eBay propriety JSF framework), CSS and JavaScript.
• Designed and developed UI gadgets to display advertisement inventory using JavaScript callback function for the restful call.
• Used JSON for translating data
• Apply all pre-identified industry and eBay specific site speed optimization techniques
• Integration with AKAMAI server for resource caching
• Implementation of Search Engine Optimization in all pages
• Implement adequate tracking mechanisms to help product team understand the product usage
• Perform peer code reviews to ensure code standards and best practices are followed
• Active participation in Test Plan and Test Case reviews
• Performing a pre-production smoke test and internal launch
• Teaming up with Build & Release team for public launch and close monitoring of production logs for exceptions