Apr 2025 – Nov 2025 · 7 mos · On-site

• As Associate Director of Engineering at mPokket, I lead engineering strategy and execution across core business verticals—Loan Disbursement, Marketing Technology, and Customer Retention. I drive architecture modernization, platform scalability, and engineering velocity, aligning deeply with business outcomes.
• 🚀 Key Highlights
• Re-architected the Loan Disbursement system into a modular, cloud-native microservices platform, enabling 2x scale (1L → 2L+ daily transactions) with near-zero P0/P1 incidents.
• Built an in-house FinOps Utility Platform to streamline bank integrations, reconciliation, and SLA management.
• Launched a dynamic, rule-engine-driven Retention Platform empowering product & marketing teams to run reward and segmentation campaigns independently.
• Champion cross-functional execution, collaborating with teams across Product, Architecture, Data, Finance, Compliance, and HR to ensure end-to-end alignment.
• Spearheaded hiring campaigns, scaling the backend engineering team by ~25 members in a single drive; own performance and career development for 20+ engineers.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence through mentoring, process maturity, and focus on business impact.

Apr 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · On-site

• 1. Managed, Mentored and guided a team of ~15 engineers, fostering their professional growth and achieving a 20% improvement in team satisfaction scores, while also facilitating three promotions within the team.
• 2. Implemented and standardized software engineering processes and best practices, resulting in a 40% reduction in code defects and a 25% increase in overall development efficiency.
• 3. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and address performance bottlenecks, leading to a 30% improvement in system performance and a 15% reduction in production incidents.
• 4. Developed and executed a strategic plan to migrate legacy systems to a microservices architecture, resulting in a 50% reduction in system downtime and a 20% increase in scalability.
• 5. Implemented processes to improve code reviews, design reviews, release management, infrastructure stability, system scalability.
• 6. Implemented agile best practices by adhering to important agile ceremonies such as Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Grooming, Refinement, Reviews, Retrospective

Jun 2023 – Mar 2024 · 9 mos · On-site

• 1. Lead the development of multiple projects based on Java, ReactJs, Spring Boot, PHP, Kafka, MySql, Redis, Postgresql, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS Document DB, RabbitMQ, DataDog, Coralogix.
• 2. Created multiple HLDs/ LLDs and collaborated with cross team to get the approval.
• 3. Lead multiple Agile best practices and executed Sprint ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Grooming, backlog refinements, sprint demos, retros.
• 4. Collaborated with product managers, project managers, designers, and business stakeholders to define project requirements, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• 5. Collaborated with Department head / HR Business partners, to setup the Goals & Objectives & run the performance appraisal.
• 6. Conducted multiple 1 on 1 with team members to learn more about them and to exchange timely feedbacks.
• 7. Setup multiple processes to improve Documentation, Communication, Productivity, Code Reviews, Unit Testing, estimation

Apr 2023 – Jun 2023 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 1. Lead and managed team of 10 dev focused on implementing backend solution & helped them with reviewing their HLDs and LLDs
• 2. Lead multiple hiring activities and built team from 1 to 15 members
• 3. Implemented and standardized software engineering processes and best practices, making significant difference in code defects and increase in overall development efficiency
• 4. Designed, developed, maintained multiple projects such as Rakuten Pay, Rakuten Sports OTT, Rakuten Energy
• 5. Developed and executed strategic plan to migrate legacy systems to microservices architecture, resulting in 50% reduction in system downtime and 20% increase in scalability

Nov 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 1. Worked as a Technical Lead in Rakuten Sports which is an OTT platform offers VOD content and digital learning opportunities by famous sports personalities.
• 2. Created architecture of Rakuten Sports Digital Hub & Rakuten Sports Digital Academy.
• 3. Created HLDs & LLDs of Rakuten Sports Digital Hub & Rakuten Sports Digital Academy.
• 4. Collaborated with Engineering leaders & cross teams to get approval on HLDs & LLDs
• 5. Lead the development of Rakuten Sports Ecosystem PAAS
• 6. Collaborated with business leaders to determine project specifications and scope.
• 7. Lead sprint ceremonies such as planning, grooming, refinement, scrum, retrospection.
• 8. Mentored & lead teams (of 15 personnel) focused on implementing backend solution & helped them reaching greater heights in their career inclined with organization vision
• 9. Lead multiple hiring and team building initiatives.
• 10. Have setup multiple processes for Code Reviews, Release management, Git Branching Strategies, Estimation Techniques.
• 11. Defined parameters for technical development tasks such as API, Deployment & data acquisitions
• 12. Collaborated with DevOps for continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes
• 13. Lead multiple trainings, imparting knowledge of best practices for protecting data and minimising errors
• 14. Have attended various trainings such as Presentation Fundamentals, Conflict Management in workspace, Kubernetes Administration, Certified Scrum Master

Nov 2019 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 1. Lead & developed multiple projects of Rakuten Energy from India based on Java, PHP, MySql, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Jenkins
• 2. Lead multiple hiring initiatives and built a team of 12 members in India.
• 3. Collaborated with offsite team located in Tokyo to migrate Rakuten Energy legacy application from monolith to Microservice based environment.
• 4. Migrated multiple application from Docker Swarm to ZXD (In house Kubernetes based Platform as a service)
• 5. Collaborated with offsite team to move legacy deployment to Rakuten One Cloud.
• 6. Attended Security Champion training & Lead Secure software design practices & security audit from the team.
• 7. Have setup multiple processes for Code Review, Release management, Git Branching Strategies, Estimation, WBS.
• 8. Mentored team of 12 members and helped them setting up their Goals & Objectives (OKRs) and their learning curve.
• 9. Worked with program manager for team’s performance evaluation.
• 10. Delivered in-depth Software training, imparting knowledge of best practices for protecting data and minimizing errors
• 11. Have attended various trainings such as Presentation Fundamentals, Conflict Management in workspace, Kubernetes Administration, Certified Scrum Master.

Mar 2019 – Oct 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 1. Worked with technology leader to transfer the ownership from Rakuten Tokyo to Rakuten India.
• 2. Developed multiple applications of Rakuten Energy ecosystem using Java(Spring Boot), PHP(CakePHP & Laravel), Node, React
• 3. Worked as a full stack developer to design, develop and deploy applications.
• 4. Collaborated with offsite teams to do low level designs and reviews.
• 5. Initiated microservice based development & helped migrating applications from monolith to microservice based environment.
• 6. Lead Java based development from Tokyo and Bangalore team.
• 7. Helped business & product to setup QA team from India.
• 8. Collaborated with offsite team & product manager to do knowledge transfer to India Team.
• 9. Lead multiple hiring initiatives of Rakuten Energy India Team.

Aug 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

• 1. Developed and managed multiple projects such as Order Management, Inventory Management, Catalog Management, Retail Platform, Trade Platform, Merchandising Platform, Reports Platform
• 2. Collaborated with cross team such as Finance, Retail, Marketing, Product, Business to collect requirement specification
• 3. Developed and automated multiple flows, systems, components, softwares which helped in reducing tech dependency, manual effort by 50% and increasing overall productivity of non tech department by 60-70%
• 4. Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
• 5. Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management and product management staff.
• 6. Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
• 7. Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.
• 8. Worked as individual contributor & as a project specific lead
• 9. Designed, Architected & Developed multiple business platform and new initiatives such as Zivame Retail Platform, Zivame Trade Platform, Merchandising Platform, Catalogue CMS to meet the transformational need of the organisation

Apr 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

Sep 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

Mar 2014 – Aug 2014 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• Served as a Junior Web Developer. Involved in design, coding, testing & implementation of complex E-commerce structure

Jan 2013 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• Woked On French based Web Applications & development.
• Involved In SEO & Data Management through Scraping Using XPath Query.