Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 · 11 mos

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

Nov 2020 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Leadership and Ownership
• Led the research, discovery, design, and implementation of business-facing user flows on the Marketplace Platform as the product and engineering owner.
• Took accountability for the development of an enterprise SaaS platform that streamlined offline and manual processes to online workflows, reducing redundancy and enhancing business performance levers.
• Automation and Efficiency
• Developed a codified spec for manual workflows, enabling automation of configuration setup and extraction of test scenarios for config changes. This resulted in decreased time to market for new initiatives and increased confidence in system changes.
• Implemented "Test Driven Configurations" concept, automating testing of configuration changes against expected baseline behaviour before applying them in the live environment, preventing business loss due to misconfiguration.
• User-Centric Approach
• Introduced design thinking and user empathy to improve the frontend development process from API-driven to user experience-driven.
• Developed simpler frontend representations for the internal domain language, making the system accessible to entry-level users without extensive training.
• Evangelised a component registry that included both presentational components from the Design Language System and reusable domain components with business logic.
• OKR Planning and Delivery
• Responsible for OKR planning and delivery for the Marketplace Frontend Charter, ensuring alignment with business goals and successful execution of initiatives.
• Collaboration and Mentoring
• Collaborated with other frontend engineering teams to discuss and evangelise best practices, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing.
• Mentored junior engineers to support their growth and development.
• Hiring and Process Improvement
• Revamped the interview loop and process for hiring frontend engineers across the organisation and at different levels, ensuring a robust and effective hiring process.

Oct 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• 1. Led the team and built a progressive and adaptive web application for the customer website.
• 2. Worked on optimising the Google maps API through effective use of quotas and caching to increase savings in the monthly billing.
• 3. Architected and implemented Microfrontends architecture for the internal dashboards resulting in a monolith angular frontend to be split into 12 micro-apps created using React and VueJs.
• 4. Enhanced the maintainability of the codebase through microfrontends
• 5. Started the official engineering blog of Zolo and enabled team members to write and showcase their work and learnings.
• 6. Extensively worked on the tech branding of the organisation through blogs, events and community participation.
• 7. Received the Award - “Captain in the Making” during our AHM for the efforts and past results.
• 8. Built a collaborative team of frontend and fullstack engineers.

Sep 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

• 1. Implemented Server Side Rendering in the customer website to enhance perceived performance and SEO rankings.
• 2. Worked closely with the marketing and SEO team to structure and implement the onpage SEO items like meta tags, content hierarchy, sitemaps and schemas.
• 3. Created a Notification Service which sends push notifications to android and iOS app users using firebase, Node and Express.
• 4. Created a caching service which acts as a caching layer for APIs using Node, Express and Redis.
• 5. Created multiple POCs for different web and mobile applications.

Nov 2015 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• 1. Created the UI Framework and Style guide for the User facing site which follows the principles of material design.
• 2. Designed and Programmed the Single page Checkout flow.
• 3. Implemented Single Page Application architecture for the backend panel which is used to upload, categorise and add attributes to a product.
• 4. Implemented the icon system using Inline SVG sprites along with a stroke-line drawing animation.
• 5. Set up and designed the AMP HTML for Search Engine Results Pages.
• 6. Implemented multi-store setup for corporate white-labelling.
• 7. Won the award "The People's Champ" for exceptional collaboration and team work.

Apr 2013 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Coimbatore Area, India

• Key Projects:
• Internal Messenger - a mobile based futuristic contact management and messaging service that can be used for an organisation’s internal communication and implemented as a SaaS application.
• 1. Designed the UI/UX using Ionic Framework to maintain the same look and feel across different platforms and devices.
• 2. Created a custom plugin for dynamically generating form fields in a step by step wizard.

Mar 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Coimbatore Area, India

• Key Projects:
• Transverticals - A B2B platform to enable textile manufacturers and buyers to trade online.
• 1. Designed and built the user interface for both the user facing site and the dashboards.
• 2. Worked with the team to design the architecture and implemented the application on PHP - Yii Framework.
• 3. Implemented a dynamic form model (metaprogramming) in PHP to manage the profile and catalogue fields.
• DJMPC 2015:
• A photography contest website that allows participants to upload their entries online and judges to rate them in real-time.
• 1. Enables participants to seamlessly manage their entries in a web based application.
• 2. Alerts judges on pilferage issues using Google’s Image Search APIs
• 3. Built a TV show style judging dashboard that allows multiple judges to rate the same photo (in sync) and a moderator to control the slides. All of this was accessible through the web application.
• 4. One of the judge, who is a wildlife photographer from Singapore, mentioned about the judging process in his blog. - https://phototravelasia.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/djmpc-2015-annual-photography-contest-revisiting-coimbatore-as-one-of-the-contest-judges/