Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Role- Engineering Leadership: Building Google Play engineering in India and leading multiple teams, with a vision to ingest, process and visualize multi source data and transform end user experiences and to add value to billions of Android users on Playstore and the way they see and manage app content( video, entertainment, audio, books, social etc). Direct interface with top app developers as well on a brand new product- Collections ( via Engage SDK , a publicly available platform that the team owns). Exciting charter and ownership areas, good challenging problems to solve, highly impactful changes with some of the finest minds in the industry.
• Tech stack- Java, general software engineering, Android, Kotlin, Compose.
• Hiring Committee member, Google Champion interviewer, mentor at Google.

Nov 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Scaling Google Fleet- Engineering Leadership (Product Development)
• Role and responsibilities:
• India Engineering Lead (Product Development team)- Building a unified frontend platform for Google's planet scale infrastructure management product for fleet utilization analytics, scale and optimization. Uber TL for the platform collaborating with senior leadership on infrastructure management and analytics.
• Google Champion, Google calibrated interviewer for senior level technical and leadership interviews (L5+), I also love to volunteer for initiatives empowering communities, students and women in technology.
• Patent filed, innovator.

Jun 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Engineering Leadership. Defined and executed org level strategy of centralized data ingestion, processing and distribution platform used by multiple systems. Manager of managers role, 45+ team members.
• 1) Credit Usage Monitor( Big Data )- Real time and Historical Analytics Platform.
• Technologies- Java, Spark Streaming, Kafka, Hadoop, Gemfire cache, Microservices, Hbase, Tableau, Impala, Spark, Spring Boot.
• Role: Global Engineering Lead
• Built the system from inception as global engineering lead - design, development, delivery, business and engineering collaboration.
• As global lead of the program, managed entire lifecycle of the application.
• Built best in class global engineering team from scratch across Bangalore, Mumbai, Glasgow, London, US, set up processes around design, development, code review, support.
• Team/career management responsibilities of global group. Widely appreciated for building a culture of performance, teamwork.
• Defined the strategy and roadmap, partnered with Product, Business, Operations, Technology to redefine and API’fy services, stream real time, build data/analytics driven decision system.
• Post Trade Technology, CIB - Big Data
• 2) New Big Data Lake Initiative- Java, Big Data, Kafka, Airflow, Tableau, Hbase, Oracle.
• Global engineering lead and technical program owner , collaborating with core architecture teams to build a set of generic services to ingest, transform, process high volume data into Hadoop cluster and subsequently publish them to downstream systems for reporting. Team Size: 15
• Role: Global Engineering Lead and Big Data SME.
• Leading the Big Data re-platform initiative from a technical standpoint for line of business. Development and delivery of this crucial data platform as global engineering lead.
• Building and mentoring a new global development team for this purpose, collaborating with wider app teams.
• Taking informed decisions on tech stack, use cases vs. workflows vs. technologies.

May 2012 – Feb 2017 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

• Technical Lead and senior programmer of a web-based credit checking application that receives transactions from mulitple upstream systems and takes decisions on whether they have enough headroom to go to market and if breaching, allows officers to view and control different aspects of the approval process.
• Technical Lead & Subject Matter Expert( Full stack) - Built core modules from scratch as a senior programmer and technical lead, managed deliverables from offshore team, led a team of consultants and full-time employees for day-to-day deliverables, business discussions, design and development of application, support UAT and Production releases, L3 support for technical issues.

Feb 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Engineering Leadership role : Morgan Stanley Select UMA is market #1 UMA product in Wealth Management globally and I was the global engineering owner of the trading platform for this line of business.
• Role: Global Engineering Lead/ Owner
• Market #1 UMA Trading Product Platform: Global Engineering Lead of this crucial high volume trading platform with a geographically distributed team and high functional complexity owing to trading algorithm.
• Re-platformed , refactored highly complicated legacy trading application suite to build components on modern tech stack, API adoption, increased scalability of the platform enabling high volume trades to be processed with much faster speed.
• Pushed for and introduced automation thereby mitigating risk with deliveries, faster time to market.
• Built excellent working relationship with senior front office business counterparts and product teams, lauded for bringing positive change in team culture, reducing gap between business and technology.
• Team, career management and Scrum Master responsibilities for global team based out of Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, New York.

Dec 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

• A Fortune top 100 giant in the Financial and Investment Banking domain, the group focusses on the following lines:
• >Retail Banking, Specialised Financing & Insurance
• >Global Investment Management & Services (GIMS)
• >Corporate and Investment Banking
• Worked as a technical lead and full stack senior programmer in the investment banking domain(Structured Finance) on technologies like JSF,Java,Hibernate,JPA(EJB 3.0) ,Spring,Richfaces,Ajax,XML,Spring Batch. Explored significant UI technologies as well as backend engineering technologies as a full stack developer.
• Projects :
• a) Deal Structuring and Approval
• b) Credit Portfolio Management

Nov 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Senior Technical Consultant and Offshore Technical Lead, Scrum master involved in Design and Development. Job responsibilities involve requirements analysis, participation in design ,development and testing of use cases for automated case management system for our U.S based client, daily interaction with onsite team over conference calls, work allocation,team management,effort estimation.

Jan 2007 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Software Developer- Product Development/ Global Services - Curam is a market leading Social Enterprise Management (SEM) product widely used to assist governments in the social welfare programs across counties, states and as such involves large scale implementations across the globe.
• The product is highly framework driven and requires specialized knowledge and certification. Involved in analysis, design, development of core product modules as well as subsequently customizing them for global clients onsite with system integration partners. Travelled to Australia and Canada to assist global teams for significant duration.

Jul 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Software Developer/Full stack Programmer- Java ,J2EE, Webservices based design, development of a new resume crawling product(job search domain)- VEDA. Worked with a group of engineers to build the product modules, especially module lead on inter process communication. This was a new product being built from start and launched by 3i- Infotech Ltd.