Jan 2025 – Mar 2025 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Sometimes, the most impactful career move is a strategic pause !
• After much contemplation, I made a conscious decision to take a short break from my career to focus on something equally important: my health. A huge thanks to my family for their unwavering support in this journey!
• I refused to accept a life dependent on medication and knew I had to take control of my health. For too long, I kept postponing it, but I finally committed to a 3-month period to restore my health. This break turned out to be a profound period of transformation, pushing me to discover new levels of physical and mental resilience, while improving my sleep quality significantly.
• During this time, I lost weight & reduced LDL/Total cholesterol, reversed thyroid issues and built serious strength: 150 push-ups, 120 pull-ups, 250 squats, 2-min planks & headstands in a single session 💪🔥
• I'm still improving & it's a life-long journey!
• Received many compliments from friends & family on my transformation! ❤️
• I'm excited to bring the same discipline, resilience, and energy back to work soon!! 🚀

Oct 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• 1) Hyperlocal Observability Systems Transformation: Led Salesforce's observability transformation from India, focusing on HyperLocalObservability for real-time monitoring of the largest Kubernetes clusters, essential for Salesforce's key cloud services. Successfully reduced Infra costs while maintaining ultra-low latencies. Conceptualized and implemented Proof of Concepts (PoCs) aligned with current and future needs, performed comprehensive benchmarking, and led strategic decisions. Collaborated closely with stakeholders to drive cross-team adoption and amplify the platform's impact across Salesforce.
• 2) Gen AI / ML model serving Platform Architecture: Designed and deployed Salesforce's Gen AI / ML platform for large-scale model serving, optimizing hosting and runtime for LLMs with a focus on cost-efficiency, low latency, and streamlined deployments for Data Scientists. Supported customer onboarding by creating HTTP API documentation and offering integration support to ensure smooth platform adoption.
• 3) Infrastructure & Cost Optimization: Proactively proposed & executed AWS cost-reduction strategies. Addressed Nvidia GPU shortages by conducting detailed PoCs on alternative AWS GPU types, optimizing for cost and performance based on thorough testing.
• 4) GenAI based Chatbot Integrations: Currently leading Chatbot integrations in Help Center Sites used by all our customers to include AI-powered Agents/chatbots and RAG-enhanced search capabilities, to deliver real-time & intelligent customer support without any human intervention.

Jul 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Worked on scaling search in One Drive Sharepoint portal and contributed to driving efficiencies in deploying new images on large kube clusters in Azure AppServices.

Jun 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Built and operated large distributed systems in Supply chain optimization tech (SCOT) for Softlines, for global markets (US,UK, JP).
• Product is completely built from India (Devs + PMs).

Feb 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Search service is completely built out of Bangalore.
• Contributed to Target.com Search platform & building models (Ranking, Query Intent) to improve relevancy of Search Results on Target.com built on Solr & successfully scaled for the peak.
• Entire engineering team was based out of Bengaluru.

Jan 2015 – Jul 2015 · 6 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

• Note: The company was shutdown due to lack of additional funding.
• Led a team & successfully built 'Engage' product that posts relevant App Ads on Facebook using FB Ads APIs to improve no. of installs/engagement of a Mobile App.
• Became SME in FB ads ecosystem.
• Architected & built complete FB integration for huge scale in a very short duration.

Sep 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Adap.tv (Acquired by AOL, later by Verizon, now known as Oath)
• I thoroughly enjoyed working on C, building low latency APIs, after working on Java for a decade.
• Tech leadership & people management:
• Hiring & building a team of strong engineers.
• Managed API team & collaborated closely with UI team in building a highly scalable NextGen platform.
• Worked as an IC and provided technical leadership to API India team.
• Solving difficult problems, driving design discussions, performance improvements & improving software dev process are some of my key contributions to the team.
• I departed from the company following its acquisition by AOL.

May 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• (Company: IvyComptech/PartyGaming acquired by bwin)
• Tech: Led multiple projects in Casino Server Core group and managed a team of 15+ engineers.
• Designed and built scalable, high-performance systems using Java, HTML5, jQuery, RequireJS, and BackboneJS frameworks for the next gen platform.
• Developed complex animation algorithms and mathematical libraries in JavaScript, enabling dynamic effects in HTML5 Canvas (e.g., text placement on Bezier curves, circular motion, rotation, zoom effects).
• Leadership: Responsible for career growth of the engineers, performance appraisals & ensuring a high-performance culture, project execution & stakeholder management.

Mar 2010 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

• Architected & built these 3 systems:
• Lead machine: Generate leads by crawling the web, rank leads & share them with Sales team on Salesforce CRM. End goal is to get more customers onboarded to Amazon & feed into Amazon's flywheel.
• Salesforce proxy service: Used by several products within Amazon in customer onboarding workflow.
• BI reports using OBIEE/Siebel CRM to see how our leads/newly onboard customers are performing.
• It's extremely satisfying to see the systems we built a decade ago are still in use.

Mar 2006 – Jul 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Oracle iReceivables 11i & R12 development using Java, Oracle Apps Framework & Oracle DB
• Pl/SQL.
• Joined as Applications Engineer and got promoted to Sr.Applications Engineer after 1.5 yrs.
• Have been rated as Top performer in my team multiple times & owned critical components of the product.

Jun 2004 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Client: Goldman Sachs.
• Built & Owned real time db replication system in Java, Sybase(T-SQL) & Perl to replicate data from highly normalized Trading db to denormalized Reporting db, replicating more than 100M trades/day per geography.
• Wrote highly optimized SQL queries to generate adhoc reports & generated feeds to be shared with other investment banks.
• End to End Ownership: Requirements analysis, Development, Deployment & Support.