Oct 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

Feb 2019 – Oct 2023 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Group Chief Technology and Product Officer for the API Holdings group comprising Pharmeasy, Ascent, RetailIO, Thyrocare, DocOn and Aknamed

Apr 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Led the product vision, development and launch of the strategic Myntra Fashion Tech SAAS platform that enables brands to focus on brand development; taking away the complexities of Assortment Planning, Designing, and Making supply chain
• Led the product vision and implementation for the Myntra Omni-channel platform that allows Myntra to leverage their Supply Chain capabilities to power a consistent experience for customers across online (Myntra/Jabong and other affiliates) and offline channels (Myntra and 3rd party brand stores and warehouses).
• Incubated the Myntra core tech platform team to build the horizontal application and systems technologies that are leveraged by other functions within Tech
• Carried out product tech DD for the merger of two key acquisitions for Myntra, and successfully integrated the products and people

Apr 2014 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Led the tech design and development of one of the most loved shopping experiences in India - the Myntra Mobile Apps, across Android, iOS and Windows
• Introduced many high scale new age technologies in the mainstream systems, like Cassandra, Kafka, HAProxy, NodeJS, GoLang and other
• Led a team of highly motivated and smart engineers to scale core tech systems for over 100x peaks (from baseline, and 25x from normal peaks) in just 3 months in late 2014; forming the backbone of the much celebrated End-Of-Reason-Sale events for Myntra
• Proposed and implemented an award winning Hybrid architecture in the data centers to allow for reliability and flexibility of expansion with elasticity of Opex
• Planned and managed multi-million dollar budgets for Tech Opex and Capex
• Introduced a formal approach to tech hiring at Myntra, with concepts such as competency based interviewing, bar raising, debriefs, formal feedback mechanism
• Proposed competency based talent management with an elaborate competency matrix for the tech tracks
• Grew the Storefront and Platform teams from 35 in 2012 to over 150 by 2016
• Led the tech effort on one of the most ambitious and strategic initiatives at Myntra of building a platform that moved Apps to feed based browsing with personalized content for every customer
• Took over Supply Chain engineering for Myntra in early 2016, and led efforts across core ERP systems such as Order, Warehouse, Inventory, Logistics, Customer Relationship Management Systems; Merchandise Financial and Assortment Planning, Product Lifecycle Management, Manufacturing Supply Chain Management, Trends Analysis and Predictions, Fast Fashion Planning, Seller/Vendor/Brand/Partner Management, Tax Engine, Vendor Financial Terms Management, Selection Planning and Curation, Marketplace Order Fulfillment and more
• Led efforts to launch the first AI backed completely machine generated designs (solid t-shirts) on Myntra in Feb 17 - another strategic investment

Feb 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Led engineering for the tech Platform and StoreFront for d-web, m-web experiences, and all Identity, browse, checkout, payments, my-account micro-services, metrics, monitoring & alerting, data stores, data warehousing and BI
• Proposed and launched the first responsive website for Myntra (possibly the first for e-commerce in India in 2012)
• Hired for and built multiple high performing engineering teams growing tech from about 60 to over 120 engineers in less than a year
• Started the SOA journey for Myntra from a monolithic architecture to over 150 micro-services by 2017
• Formally setup Systems Engineering practice from just the manual Operations setup earlier
• Led the data center engineering, operations and cloud computing for the entire tech
• Led the ideation and development of the first Big Data/Click-stream Analytics platform for Myntra
• Led POCs with tech vendors and negotiated multi-million dollar contracts for Myntra
• Initiated and led efforts to formally bring international standards of software product development & governance, information/app/systems security, and compliance. Systems compliant with PCI DSS, ITGC, SOX and other Industry standards

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Led a part of the technology team for Amazon Payments (payments.amazon.com) team across India and US
• Launched some key Amazon Payments products and experiences in important International markets for the first time starting with UK and Germany
• Launched many key product capabilities such as scheduled payments, wallets integration and compliance
• Led the implementation and launch of a more intuitive and reliable self-service Developer on-boarding product for the Amazon Payments products stack (FPS, Monad and CBA)
• Led the complete overhaul and rewrite of the Amazon Payments web and back-end stacks by leveraging the new Santana and Horizonte stacks at Amazon
• Brought reliability of operations through careful removal of all key SPoFs, building redundancies for critical components and bringing down tech operations overheads by over 80%
• Grew the Bangalore team from 3 engineers to 15 - driving most of the innovations from the Bangalore center

Nov 2003 – Dec 2009 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• Technical Delivery Owner (Sr SDM) - July 2007 - December 2009
• Technical Development Manager (SDM) - Jan 2007 to June 2007
• Technical Associate (SSE) - Jan 2005 - Dec 2006
• Technical Analyst (SE) - November 2003 to December 2004