Dec 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• . Responsible for hiring, building and leading the platform engineering team with focus on productivity and quality. I am also responsible for vendor management, infrastructure, cost management, professional services, tech support, compliance, legal and customer engagement.
• . Leading the consumer apps and platform for consumption by various applications across the company.
• . Led a team which integrated AI for labelling of data coming from various labs using data cleaning and eval driven development which reduced the operational costs by 60%.
• . Led a team which integrated AI with legacy product for automatic video analysis for rating doctor patient conversations thereby reducing the manual ratings of doctors by 90%.
• . Scaled from 5000 orders per day to 50000 orders per day.
• . Focusing on all tech costs to ensure that EBIDTA goals of company are met Reduced costs by more than 63% by optimizing AWS usage (3.2 Cr per month to 1.2 Cr per month).
• . Reduced the ANRs and crashes from 7% to 0.38% and 4% to 0.1% respectively.

Sep 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• . Built, led and scaled the engineering team. Was also responsible for customer engagement, infrastructure management, compliance, certifications, data policies.
• . Led the platform for consumption by various applications across the company.
• . Scale data ingestion pipeline by 18x improving from 8000 to 150000 requests per second.

May 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• . Build technology team from scratch to 140-member team multiple times.
• . Build PoC for restaurant PoS with potential market size of 19 billion USD.
• . Built a technology team from scratch which worked on India’s first cloud agnostic GSTR reconciliation product with an ability to handle 50 million transactions per month.

Aug 2013 – May 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

• . Built and scaled India engineering team from 9 to 95.
• . Owned the product right from pre-sales, requirements and deliver. Gathering, understanding and analysing requirements from multiple sources. Cost-Revenue estimates for various parts of the product for feasibility and budget approvals.
• . Spearheaded the project which made us a SaaS provider reducing TCO by 75% for our customers and made us more profitable. Azure was the chosen platform.
• . Rearchitected, designed and developed a system for migration of store data from more than 1000 express servers to a central data manager for analysis to enable the customer to take better informed calls for inventory and supply chain decision.
•  Architecture and design of the analytics of migrated data using custom ETL, offline migration of data files when the analytics server is offline
• . Architected for separating the RFID tags between backroom and sales floor using ML thereby avoiding insulation which’d save millions of USD for our customers.

Jan 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• . Business leader for tools team which is completely owned out of India centre. This team was setup by me after presenting the cost-revenue analysis of dB tools to the upper management.
• . Monitored deliveries and tracked the release calendars, projects for profitability, risk management for the projects, health checks of the projects, stakeholders’ management, & resource planning and team management.
• . Architected and designed a BigData based system for predictive analysis based on the call behavior of users. This was used as the basis for launch of new pre and post-paid schemes from telecom vendors. Data analyzed was more than 10s of terabytes, multi geographical locations, and different formats and primarily in text files. Number of nodes in the system was 104.
• . Managed a team of high calibre 53 engineers/architects and technical managers.
• . Co-inventor in 3 patents filed in India and China PTO for various technologies that the team worked on.

Nov 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• . Re-design and development of the cache used for various purposes in the DB server.
• . Re-design and implementation of parser/scanner using YACC and LEX for parsing SQL statements.
• . Architecture, design and implementation of SQL optimization component to select the plan based on cost and avoid plan explosion during the SQL execution.
• . Mentored a team of 14 people.

Aug 2004 – Nov 2008 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• . Set up the team from scratch and owned multiple components right out of India. Managed 9 members team and took care of all aspects including appraisals and work distribution.
• . The team owned UBE, XML Publisher, Windows Runtime, Object Manager and various other components of the system completely out of Bangalore.

Dec 2000 – Jul 2004 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• . Architecture, design and development of PowerMart SNMP". It was developed for making Informatica’s PowerMart server SNMP compliant, using the APIs provided by Informatica.
• . Shopping cart including check out and other functionalities using LAMP stack.