Jul 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led a team of 10+ engineers to improve the partnerships program of Razorpay which contributes to 40% of the MTUs on the payment gateway.
• Achieved the highest Manager Recommendation Index in the org.
• Mentored and Inspired people to be the best version of themselves and got multiple engineers promoted.
• Led initiatives like security improvement program and adoption of certain Razorpay-specific tools across all of the teams in the BU/organisation.
• Single-handedly built a system to perform parity checking of requests and responses on live production traffic between 2 systems or versions of services that works seamlessly at Razorpay scale.
• Led the improvement of Razorpay partners’ NPS scores by fully automating the partner commission calculation for all of the Razorpay payment products, and automating the payouts to partners.
• Optimised KYC flows, and user onboarding funnel. Made process improvements that led to significant improvements in efficiency and sprint velocity.
• Drove the planning and execution of engineering activities while guiding the team in the finalisation of architecture and best practices.

Nov 2021 – Jul 2022 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Led a team of 20+ engineers and managed everything from onboarding fully remote team members to performing performance reviews.
• Built a generic payments reconciliation platform to perform reconciliations and handle payouts to business partners of all of the Oyo business verticals.
• Ran multiple initiatives and projects in parallel. Rebuilt and revamped the recon platform to solve some major problems while handling regular business requirements and product initiatives on the side.
• Improved the tech support tickets resolution time by 80% while reducing the cost of this charter by improving processes to provide clear priority, SOPs for RCA and resolution, moving common repetitive issue resolution to tech support folks by training them and utilising on-call engineering bandwidth to resolve root causes.

Jul 2021 – Nov 2021 · 4 mos · Hybrid

• Advised on technical strategy, stack, and roadmap while witnessing the entire cycle of launching a product all the way to winding up until the company shut down in Nov 2021.

Feb 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hybrid

• Led the development of Chef Buddy App from scratch and revamping the existing Foodybuddy App for scale while witnessing the entire cycle of launching a product all the way to winding up until the company shut down in Oct 2021.
• Hired, led and mentored the development team, performed code reviews, set up development practices and processes with improvements in all parts of SDLC to increase execution speed.
• Set up and maintained deployment infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline on Jenkins, and daily devops activities like automating backups, planning disaster recovery, upgrades etc.
• Migrated existing codebase to cloud-native microservices architecture with reliable scaling, logging and monitoring support.
• REST and GraphQL APIs development using node.js, typescript, MongoDB, MySQL, redis, rabbitMQ, jest, TDD, AWS (EC2, RDS, ECS, ECR, ALB, SES, SNS, CloudFront).
• Web app development using react.js, typescript, ES6, redux, redux saga, server-side rendering using next.js and do SEO.
• Mobile app development using react native.

Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 · 4 mos · Bangalore Urban district, India · Hybrid

• Architected, implemented and released new features as an individual contributor and mentored the team to drive the development of Foodybuddy - a food-ordering app.
• Set up and maintenance of deployment infrastructure, reduced infrastructure cost on AWS by 50%, load and stress testing, troubleshooting and resolution of various performance issues as the system scaled exponentially in a short time.
• Took ownership of the backend development, introduced best practices, reduced tech debt, and migrated the outsourced parts of the project to the in-house team resulting in overall improved execution speed at a significantly reduced cost.

Dec 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban district, India · Hybrid

• Led the engineering efforts to build a platform of multiple products from scratch used by startups, and SMEs for networking and mentorship as well by blue-collar job seekers to find jobs.
• Designed cloud-native scalable microservices architecture, finalized coding standards and practices, wrote boilerplate code in initial stages, and evaluated tools and technologies.
• Developed data warehouse and ETL pipeline using airflow, PostgreSQL and bigquery with redash for visualization to solve data analytics problems.

Jun 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Responsible for the entire backend development and ops of a large-scale health-tracking app Maya with more than 8 million downloads and 1.2 million monthly active users.
• Released new features from start to end including work on the frontend, backend, middleware, messaging queues, deployment, infrastructure, devops, security, set up and integration of APM tools (sentry, new relic, nginx amplify), database administration, automation backups, plan disaster recovery.
• Witnessed the entire cycle of growth-focused initiatives to potential acquisition deals until we decided to wind up the team in Aug 2018. The app has been running without any significant maintenance since then.

Feb 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Developed the flagship product of the company named Uolo Notes which scaled to 30M+ messages/month, DAU of 200K and MAU of 450K.
• Built a highly Available and Scalable messaging platform using RabbitMQ, Redis and AWS Components.

May 2014 – Feb 2015 · 9 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Developed a cloud-based business process management tool which consists of HRM-CRM and employee management along with managing project creation to invoice generation for a market research company.

May 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Remote

• 1. Provided academic project development services and trained engineering students on various technologies
• 2. Developed few products for various clients
• Billing management software for a supermarket
• Examination seat allotment system for colleges/universities
• Educational institution management software