Sep 2024 – Feb 2025 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Transitioned from Zivame to Shein India, merging Tech and Product teams.
• Headed Engineering Architecture charter for Shein India and Zivame.

Apr 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · On-site

• Technical Leadership
• Spearheaded technical architecture, collaborating with CTPO and business leadership to shape engineering strategy
• Directed security initiatives, leading to Zivame's recognition as a top-performing, externally-secured company and winning the Best in Cloud Infrastructure Security (E-Commerce) award
• Led data engineering initiatives, establishing a scalable pipeline for data-led decision-making
• Dockerised multiple micro-services for scalability, isolation, portability, and cost efficiency
• Business Growth
• Led architecture development for D2C, 1st Party Marketplace, and 3rd Party Marketplace segments, boosting EBIDTA Positive P&L
• Strategically planned and architected the new homepage, targeting improved CTR, CVR, and reduced time to first add to cart
• Implemented a split of Zivame's internal currency, enhancing overall conversions by 6.12%
• Integrated Shiprocket tech aggregator solution, improving operational efficiency and customer retention, resulting in increased retention (38% to 42%) by 10.5% and reduced CS calls to order by 12%
• Managerial Excellence
• Oversaw the Architecture Council team, managing technical architecture across Software, Data, Security, Infrastructure, and Tooling
• Implemented Agile Software Principles and methodologies, enhancing operational efficiency within tech teams
• Provided mentorship, coaching and leading a team of 50+ engineering members, including Engineering Managers, QAs, Architects, and Leads across various tech functions
• Demonstrated strong leadership and management skills, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence within tech team

Sep 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

• Spearheaded the creation of Zivame's first-party marketplace, resulting in significant business impact for the company
• Successfully scaled and stabilized Zivame's infrastructure and services, leading to the re-architecture of numerous modules in the existing stack
• Achieved cost optimization and stability in architectures from a technology perspective, resulting in a 4x increase in scale at half the infrastructure cost
• Oversaw multi-warehouse initiatives to enable Zivame to operate on scale from multiple warehouses nationwide, improving SLAs and enhancing efficiency in warehouse operations

Apr 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed a customer escalation issue solver system to efficiently debug escalations and issues using logs and information retriever, utilizing diagnosis tools for quick resolution.
• Led the re-architecture of the segmentation service to a larger scale, expanding capabilities to onboard new vectors and migrating to Aerospike from Redis for improved data storage and throughput.
• Spearheaded the re-architecture of the Identity and Authentication (IDEA) platform into a micro-service architecture, breaking down into smaller services with defined domains.
• Successfully increased the scale of the IDEA platform by more than 3 times while using half the amount of hardware, thanks to the new re-architected platform.
• Managed the Data Migration for the entire Myntra userbase without any downtime or data loss, ensuring synchronization of two databases using Kafka queues in a project spanning 3 months.

Apr 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led a team of engineers in the development of an A/B experiment platform
• Designed, implemented, and integrated new features in the A/B experimentation platform, including exclusive, overlapping, and combined experiments, as well as a sample size calculator
• Spearheaded the creation of an event delivery pipeline (Airbus) while co-leading the team with another engineer
• Developed a multi-dc solution for the event delivery pipeline with built-in recovery mechanisms for failure scenarios, a pioneering project within the company
• Successfully onboarded over half of the company's event pipeline onto Airbus
• Facilitated the onboarding of over 1000 different types of experiments, assisting multiple PMs in decision-making for feature launches

Jul 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed the Chameleon A/B testing platform from scratch
• Oversaw design, architecture, implementation, onboarding, and customer feedback for the project
• Created a segmentation service for running segmented experiments
• Onboarded over 200 A/B experiments within six months of Chameleon's launch

Dec 2014 – Apr 2015 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Created a Virtual Trial Room, for virtually trying clothes with a real-time visual feedback from the system.

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed an end to end small hospital platform for managing daily tasks, such as patient registration, OPD, lab tests, etc. and generating cumulative reports based on the results.

Aug 2013 – Jan 2014 · 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Developed Operation Theatre OpenMRS Module for HISP India.

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Did an internship in training in OpenMRS module development.