Jul 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Architectural Leadership:
• Directed strategic improvements to PayPal's Core Payments platform, focusing on scalable, fault-tolerant architectures that enhanced latency, availability, and reliability.
• ● Enterprise Initiatives:
• Introduced a standardized AI/ML-powered anomaly detection framework, reducing Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) by 20% and enabling real-time issue resolution.
• ● Operational Transformation:
• Spearheaded innovations in regression and release validation strategies, reducing deployment cycles from 5 days to 4 hours.
• ● Team Leadership:
• Mentored 50 engineers across multiple teams, driving collaboration, technical alignment, and high performance.
• Key Achievements:
• ● Developed an innovative no-code regression framework that automates functional testing by capturing and replaying request-response data from components and downstream services. This reduced regression time from 7 days to 2 days, with a 98% test pass rate, significantly accelerating release cycles.
• ● Reduced triage time by 20% using Sequential Pattern Mining algorithms and clustering techniques to group similar issues, thus improving triage efficiency. Additionally, initiated a statistical solution targeting a 50% improvement.
• ● Built an Anomaly Detection system using BigQuery AutoML with the ARIMA model, improving accuracy by 30%, cutting false positives by 25%, reducing costs by 40%, and achieving 3x faster execution over the manual Prophet model.

Jun 2019 – Jun 2023 · 4 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Search Optimization: Led a cross-functional team to enhance search engine performance, achieving a 60% YoY cost reduction and a 10x improvement in uptime.
• Data Architecture Leadership: Designed data pipelines on GCP, managing 7TB daily with on-demand Hadoop processing(DataProc Clusters), enabling real-time analytics.
• Business Enablement: Developed systems to identify and track trending search queries, enabling real-time business insights and revenue growth opportunities.
• Key Achievements:
• Improved system responsiveness to handle 30k requests per minute with a P99 latency of 100ms.
• Reduced data processing latency to 10 minutes, enabling near real-time decision-making.
• Expertly managed complex data workflows with Dataproc clusters, navigating stakeholder expectations, optimizing costs, and building scalable, high-performance solutions.

Apr 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the redesign of the BlueJeans analytics platform, utilizing a tech stack of Kafka, Storm, Mongo/Aurora/ECache on AWS, with the primary goal of preparing the platform to handle 10x load through enhanced resiliency, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Platform Modernization: Redesigned the analytics platform to handle 10x load using AWS-native technologies like Kafka, Storm, and Aurora.
• Scalable Architectures: Delivered fault-tolerant, auto-scaling systems with 99.99% uptime.
• Mentorship: Guided 20 engineers in iterative architectural improvements, ensuring performance and scalability without service disruption.
• Key Achievements:
• Enabled seamless handling of 1M concurrent users with high reliability.
• Achieved a 50% reduction in operational overhead through automation.

Feb 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Enterprise Integration: Led the end-to-end delivery of the first MVP integrating Amazon Marketplace with Cleo’s transformation engine.
• Agile Development: Applied Clean Architecture principles to enhance product agility and scalability.
• Key Achievements:
• Automated validation and deployment cycles, reducing deployment time by 40%.
• Delivered a customer-facing solution that scaled to handle 50% increased demand.

Jul 2015 – Jan 2016 · 6 mos · Bangalore

• During my short tenure, I focused on instilling the discipline of building and releasing software that is testable, traceable, and maintainable.
• As a Team Lead, I worked with a team of 15 engineers and introduced CI/CD pipelines, integrated New Relic for latency monitoring, and advocated for Clean Code practices through tech talks and code reviews.
• I architected, designed, and implemented a highly available, low-latency distributed API from scratch, leveraging technologies such as Play, Kafka, Spring, and Cassandra.

Jul 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr · Bangalore

• Roles & Responsibilities: Feature Design, Development Design Review and Mentoring.
• My responsibilities includes Design and Implementation of HIPAA message parser (a flat file parser), handling complex customer issues related to generic Flat file parser and EDI module, recruitments, mentoring new hires.
•  Learning:
• Interface Programming
• In depth understanding on Multithreading.
• Clean Code Refactoring and Design Principles.
• HIPAA specification.
•  Challenges:
• Context switching between multiple products.
• Understanding the dependency of e-Standards module on Integration Server (ESB).
•  Achievements:
• Implemented complex Flat file parser in the WebMethods HIPAA module.
• 100% testable code.

Jul 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Roles & Responsibilities: Feature Design & Development.
• I was entrusted a new role pertaining to a team working on e-Standards related products like EDI, EDIINT, Flat File parser etc. My primary role currently involves design and development of various e-Standards related products along with resolving customer issues.
•  Learning:
• In depth OOAD concepts
• Coding best practices
• In depth design and development
• Ramped up on EDI specifications and Flat File parser.
•  Challenges:
• Context switching between multiple products.
• Understanding the dependency of e-Standards module on Integration Server (ESB).
•  Achievements:
• Implemented complex features in the WebMethods EDI module.
• Revamped portions of existing code base to improve performance and readability.
• Proposed a new idea for IS server node synchronization.

Feb 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

• Roles & Responsibilities: Product Development & Customer Issues.
• I was made part of the product team which was focused on developing a new product for HL7 e-Standard and followed by a Cloud application connector called WebMethods CloudStreams. This was a scrum team where I was expected to participate in development and testing.
•  Learning:
• In-depth understanding about the scrum methodologies
• Extensively explored the Design and Development techniques.
• Ramped up on Software Architecture concepts.
•  Challenges:
• Understanding and applying the scrum methodologies.
• Understanding the HL7 specifications.
•  Achievements:
• Implemented the complex feature for WebMethods HL7 Module and WebMethods CloudStreams.
• Created a test framework which was easy for other team members to add and execute
• Resolved several performance issues.

May 2010 – Feb 2011 · 9 mos · Bangalore

• Roles & Responsibilities: Developing features for WebMethods e-standards products
• I was moved to Product team for WebMethods e-Standards and there I developed and extended features for various products like WebMethods HL7, WebMethods Adapter Runtime and WebMethods Rosettanet.
•  Learning:
• I explored Data Structures and Collection framework to great extent.
• Implemented many algorithms for searching.
• Learned about various e-Standards specifications.
• Learned about Lean and Agile principles.
•  Challenges:
• Being worked in Sustenance team for so long, it was initially difficult to adapt to a Product team mind set
• Working on multiple projects was another challenge.
•  Achievements:
• Increased the code coverage for various products under WebMethods Adapters and e-Standards umbrella.
• Improved the performance of the product by introducing more efficient algorithms and data structures.

Apr 2008 – Apr 2010 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Roles & Responsibilities: Resolving Customer issues and Feature development
•  Learning:
• As a member of sustenance team, I was privileged to work with almost every product in the WebMethods product suite, which helped me in understanding the actual customer scenarios.
• Hands on experience with several operation systems like AS/400, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and various flavors of Windows. Also got to work with numerous databases including DB/400, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server.
• Explored debugging of multithreaded systems.
•  Challenges:
• Replicating customer's complex environment and finding the root cause of the issue, where multiple products were involved.
• Strict project schedules.
• Discussions with multiple product teams spread across various geographical locations.
• Working with complex platforms and Databases like AS/400 and DB/400 with almost no assistance.
•  Achievements:
• Proposed and developed the idea of automated fix installer.
• Fixed some critical performance issues with the proper use of suitable algorithms
• Coded utilities to automate various repetitive tasks performed on a daily basis by the team.
• Streamlined the process for Suite Certification.

Feb 2007 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

• As the junior-most member of the team, I focused on exploratory testing and identifying issues in a JBoss-based application while also contributing to code development. Equipped with an RDD (Requirement Definition Document) and finance domain-specific documentation, I conducted thorough testing, uncovered potential issues, and ensured functionality aligned with business requirements. Additionally, I assisted in developing and automating test scripts to improve testing efficiency and coverage
•  Learning:
• Acquired extensive knowledge about the QA process, Issue Life Cycle, Testing concepts and manual testing.
• Got acquainted with crisp clear test case writing skills and Issue reporting.
•  Achievement:
• I was made the front runner of the project by my team in order to take onus of some of the significant modules related to the product in a short span of time.
• I reported and fixed more than 800 issues in a span of 10 months.