Mar 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Lead all the wonderful engineering teams @ Disney+ Hotstar. Also lead the content operations and co-led the CTO office for Disney+ Hotstar.
• Managed the merger of JioCinema and Hotstar Apps, ran the Championship Trophy 2025 which saw one of the highest concurrency on any OTT in India, led the IPL 2025 tournament preparation which saw 100M+ subscriptions in India.

Nov 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

• As the Interim Head of Engineering lead all the engineering teams in addition to playing the lead role for Monetisation. Helped the teams through various org restructuring.
• Relaunched a new Disney+ Hotstar Platform (internally called X)
• Overlooked the readiness and scaleup for Asia Cup 2023 and the historic ICC World Cup 2023 which saw a record 59M concurrent users enjoying Cricket on our platform.

Jul 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Leading Engineering teams for Monetisation (Adtech, Subscriptions, Payments), Growth and International.
• We have built the largest subscription system in India and we claim to be one of the the largest video ads publishers in India.
• Looking to hire senior leaders in product management and engineering specialising in Adtech, subscriptions and payments.

Feb 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Focusing on Monetization - Ads, Payments and Subscriptions @Hotstar

Sep 2015 – Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I lead critical parts around Inmobi supply - SDK (iOS and Android), SDK Infrastructure(SDK Telemetry, Config Service, SDK reporting pipelines), Anti-Fraud system (Network Abuse Prevention Platform) and Event Service (for both API and SDK integrations).
• InMobi AdSDK is the primary means by which the app developers and publishers interface with the InMobi Ad Network. Integrated into several thousand apps across the iOS and Android Phone platforms, the SDK features in more than a 800 million downloaded app instances, with over several billion ad requests daily. We have built several innovative ad formats using the SDK as a platform - native ads, interactive ads, Ads with rich end cards, reinvented video ads etc., It also acts a platform for supporting key initiatives like viewability with the help of third party viewability vendors - an offering that has created trust amongst advertisers.
• The Inmobi SDK can send telemetry information back to Inmobi to help track its functional health and catch issues live before the publisher brings it up with our support team. It also helps troubleshoot some of the issues that are hard to catch from an Ad Serving perspective. The Config system helps us build a flexible offering to different publishers and mobile apps based on various criteria.
• Anti-Fraud system helps reduce fraud in Inmobi supply. We work on massive amounts of data (both offline and online) to separate out genuine traffic from bot and other invalid traffic. Our platform helps advertisers bid on clean supply. A platform that is built to innovate.

Jan 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

• I have rejoined Riverbed in Bangalore. We are actively ramping up the team here and am hiring people with strong fundamentals and experience in Network Technologies, Systems Management and Web UI Technologies. We are also hiring folks with good automation experience for our Quality Assurance team here in Bangalore. Please reach out to me if you are interested.

Aug 2007 – Feb 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Manager in the device management group for one of the Riverbed product lines in storage area. In addition to managing I was also very hands-on. I worked on the python based CLI, SNMP, stats and added support for Virtual Interface using the LINUX bonding driver module.

Feb 2009 – Jan 2014 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Since Jan 2011 I have been dabbling in mobile app monetization for iOS and Android platforms. It is part of the Display Advertising umbrella in Yahoo.
• Was part of CAE we built a part of system that would process feeds/listings to generate ads dynamically. The ads were targeted to the end-user based on Behavioural information and location of the user.
• Was part of the paid search (text advertisements/Sponsored Search) team in Yahoo! and was responsible for the canonicalization product. The canonicalizer normalizes user queries to match normalized keywords that were bidded by advertisers.

Jul 2004 – Jul 2007 · 3 yrs

• I was one of the founding engineers at Identity Engines. I transitioned soon to a manager role with significant hands on responsibilities. As a manager my responsiblities included Protocols, Platform, Policy Engine and MiddleWare for our appliance that deals with Network Identity Management. As a manager I was also responsible for Release Engineering infrastructure.
• I also played the role of product/program management from the engineering side for several releases and was responsible and involved in taking the product from requirement phase through various product phases (development, testing, shipment) and final customer escalations.
• In the hands-on role I implemented RADIUS, EAP and security protocols for the main Ignition Server product line. I also helped build various parts of the framework (SMTP alerts, SNMP queries) for the appliance. I also made signficant contribution to release engineering bash scripts for build automation.

Apr 2002 – Jul 2004 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Web Avalanche and Web Reflector product was a hardware which had custom TCP/IP stack that was used to stress test Network Equipments from the likes of Cisco (cat6k groups) and Enterprise Websites of companies like Microsoft, Intuit etc.,
• Mainly worked on the TCP/IP stack to make it RFC compliant. Was also involved with other network protocols like PPPoE etc., as a project lead. Also worked with the SSL components (OpenSSL) and HTTP Application layer for performance improvements, etc., Became a manager and lead the next generation hardware drive.

Apr 2002 – Oct 2002 · 6 mos

• Caw Networks got bought by Spirent. Work description explained there.

Jun 1996 – Apr 2002 · 5 yrs 10 mos

• Joined as a fresh graduate, later became a team lead and then the engineering manager for the core product line, Central Dispatch, that was used in several companies for load balancing web server. Ebay, Charles Shwab, Siebel and Etrade to name a few.
• I had worked on various components of the TCP/IP stack, SSL and the kernel driver on various platforms: SOLARIS, Windows NT/2000, LINUX, HPUX, AIX etc.,