Jan 2018 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Led Assets and Logistics Insights engineering charter to build platform capabilities and services to fuel various growth initiatives at Flipkart and drive long term innovation for e-commerce supply chain. Launched and scaled-up fulfillment center capabilities to enable Flipkart foray into Groceries, Furniture and Hyper-Local. Launched BrandAdvantage capability to power supplier/vendor warehouses with Flipkart Warehouse Management System (WMS) on cloud to reduce the operational cost for warehousing. A platform for 3PL vendor integration to enable a scalable storage ecosystem for warehousing .
• Experimenting and adopting automation technologies for future scale and operational cost benefits in critical assets such as fulfillment centers and sortation centers. Introduced India’s first robot-based sortation technology in Flipkart sortation center.
• Drove Logistics Insights platform to provide near-real-time, 360-degree view of supply chain to business stakeholders for operations and exception management.
• Innovative data science solutions for various optimization/prediction problems in the supply chain (vehicle routing, inventory placement, capacity management, geo-coding techniques etc).

Aug 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Launched mobile enabled seller pick-up services on a new platform and transformed first-mile operations with increased productivity, reduced seller breach and improved cost efficiency.
• Rearchitected sortation systems and rolled out pan-India to enable operational agility, high reliability and scale.
• Revamped transport compliance system to increase resilience and self healing to improve reliability at scale.

Jan 2015 – Jul 2015 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Technology platform to connect passengers with transport service providers for best riding experience.

Apr 2008 – Dec 2014 · 6 yrs 8 mos

• Led product development of:
• Yahoo Messenger Core Platform - Highly distributed platform for instant messaging, group chat, rich media messages.
• Yahoo Calendar - Calendar for Yahoo Mail users on desktop and mobile.
• Social/User Platforms
• User Generated Content (UGC) for comments, ratings & reviews, message boards, polls
• Unified Notification Platform for alerting user when an event of user interest occurs
• User Reputation Platform for building user's reputation/profile based on user's activities
• User Profile for capturing user's interest, social graph etc.
• Social Data Acquisition Platform for mining user's social data from Facebook, Google, Twitter

Apr 2008 – May 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• User Generated Content (UGC) for comments, polls
• Yahoo Alerts

Aug 2005 – Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Managed AquaLogic Data Services Platform (ALDSP) product development. ALDSP is a middle-ware to enable rapid application development of data services across heterogeneous data sources (relational, XML, flat files, proprietary API).

Apr 2003 – Jul 2005 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Product development manager and a member of company’s architecture team, Technology Council.
• First engineering employee of the India operation. Built a great team after intense recruiting, training and mentoring.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr · Parsippany, New Jersey

• Large Properties Underwriting System to help Crum & Foster underwriters during quote proposal and policy binding for large properties.
• Responsibilities included working with insurance business analysts for requirement analysis, design, object modeling and prototyping. Also working with Chief Architect to discover reusable components in the framework.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 · 4 yrs · Bridgewater, New Jersey

• Member of applied research lab to investigate technologies and build a Next Generation Platform (NGP) to support DSET’s Telecom B2B gateway products.
• Responsibilities included investigating technologies, exploring various open source frameworks, prototyping to come up with an extensible architecture and developing production quality framework.

Jan 1997 – May 1998 · 1 yr 4 mos · Holmdel, New Jersey

• Support for standard protocol such as SNMP for switch management.