Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Played multiple leadership roles and Led B2B/B2G charter for Reliance JIO - Product Embibe ( 17 patents and 7TB+ data lake).
• Building India’s NEP-scale digital learning infrastructure. Designed and scaled multi-tenant, cloud-native systems delivering real-time learning, assessment, and content delivery with 99.99% uptime, serving 14M students and 40K educators across 10K+ institutions in 28 states. Drove architecture, execution, localisation across 465+ exams, 12 languages, and large-scale public-sector adoption to enable equitable, high-quality learning nationwide.
• 🔹 Scale & Performance:
• Scaled and Architected 8+ products, 50+ Microservices, Led 70-80 Engineers & Leaders across levels , with 300+ APIs to handle 1M+ concurrent users in 6hr window with p99 <300-500ms latency and 99.98% uptime for online apis.
• 🔹 Infra & Cost Efficiency:
• Led end-to-end AWS to Azure cloud migration, covering workload discovery, dependency, architecture design, phased service migration, and post-migration optimization to improve cost, performance, governance, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery. Drove the >50% reduction in cloud costs. We followed 5R approaches which are - (Rehost (lift-and-shift) - Refactor (e.g., ECS → AKS) - Rearchitect (e.g., EC2 monolith → AzureMS) - Rebuild (serverless) and - Replace (SaaS adoption).
• 🔹 Developer Excellence:
• Standardized architecture via CQRS, PubSub, and caching patterns. Instituted CI/CD, API governance, & design reviews across all teams.Build SDKs , Defined SLAs, Monitored DORA.
• 🔹 Leadership & Collaboration:
• Spearheaded roadmaps, aligned stakeholders across engineering, product, UX, academics, and clients. Mentored teams on scalable architectures, platform and reliability.
• If you're building at scale — especially in EdTech, SaaS, or platform infra — and want to exchange ideas or collaborate, let’s connect.

Jan 2023 – Oct 2023 · 9 mos

• As Engineering Leader for Embibe’s B2B & B2G charter, I architected and scaled India’s largest AI-driven education platform for public institutions, enabling population-scale access to reliable digital learning infrastructure across the country. I super-headed -
• Cloud Native| Multi-tenants Products | Infrastructures | Platforms | 99.99% Uptime | 10K+ Customers | 40K+ Teachers | 14mn Students | 450+ Exams | 12 Indic Languages | Partnered with 28 States Across India | $MN NEP aligned Opportunity
• 🔹 SSO Onboarding Platform:
• Led the development of Embibe’s Self-Service Onboarding (SSO) system — a high-capacity platform built to handle 1 million+ concurrent users with <500ms latency. Designed for scale using microservices, Spring Boot, Redis, and Azure Event Hubs.
• 🔹 Microsite Rollout with Niti Aayog & Army Schools:
• Delivered personalized Microsites across 28+ Indian states to democratize digital access in partnership with government bodies. Successfully onboarded 10K+ admins, 44K+ teachers, and 600K+ students, unlocking pathways to the $800M New Education Policy (NEP) initiative.
• 🔹 UDISE Infra App for Principals:
• Launched an app used by 2.33L+ school principals to collect infrastructure data, enabling us to optimize learning outcomes through SKU-level product recommendations tailored to each school’s readiness.
• 🔹 B2G Command Center Dashboard:
• Built a real-time admin analytics dashboard that tracks onboarding and engagement across N-ary tree hierarchies (departments, zones, schools) with live insights. Foundation laid for future metrics like UDISE usage, learning outcomes, and AI-led engagement scoring.

Sep 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Head of B2B Engineering | Built Embibe’s First School App | Scaled to 1M+ Requests | Cloud & Cost Optimization | $5M Revenue Launch
• At Embibe, I led the B2B product and engineering charter from the ground up — building mission-critical platforms for schools, educators, and institutional partners across India. My work spanned full-stack product development, system design, platform scalability, cloud strategy, and customer-centric execution.
• 🔹 School App from Zero to Nationwide Scale:
• Spearheaded the design, development, and launch of Embibe’s first School App, serving thousands of schools. Led the product lifecycle end-to-end — from concept to rollout — driving 1M+ requests in 12 hours at <500ms latency, directly contributing to $5M in new revenue.
• 🔹 Content Serving Platform (CSP):
• Architected a high-performance CSP by separating read and write workloads from the production database. Enabled scalable delivery of educational content to thousands of educators without impacting transactional integrity.
• 🔹 Cloud Cost Optimization & Infra Migration:
• Executed a multi-phase cloud migration from AWS to Azure, and later to Jio Cloud as part of the Reliance-Microsoft alliance. Reduced codebase size from 2.5 Cr LOC to <1 Cr, leading to significant infra savings and performance uplift.
• 🔹 High-Throughput Feature Expansion:
• Launched scalable modules like Onboarding, Assignments, and Tracking, tuned to handle peak-load concurrency across institutions, boosting adoption and engagement KPIs across India’s school systems.
• 🔹 Design-Led Product Thinking & Roadmap Ownership:
• Partnered closely with UX, PM, and clients to define product strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and drive delivery. Embedded design-thinking practices into engineering workflows, improving usability and product-market fit.

Sep 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Engineering Leader | Scaled EdTech Platforms to 100K+ RPS | 1M+ DAUs | Java | ScyllaDB | K8s | Kafka | Cloud Infra
• As a hands-on engineering leader at Embibe, I’ve built and scaled high-performance teams, platforms, and products that power personalized learning for millions. My work spans B2C product engineering, backend platform architecture, scalable data pipelines, and cross-functional leadership across fast-growing ecosystems.
• 🔹 Team Leadership & Hiring:
• Built and mentored a 15+ member engineering team from scratch, leading hiring across campuses and lateral talent pools. Fostered a strong culture of architectural ownership, design thinking, and continuous learning.
• 🔹 B2C Product & App Engineering:
• Led the development of Embibe Student App v2, launching high-impact features like UserHome and Timeline using Java, Spring Boot, Redis, MongoDB, and ScyllaDB, deployed on Kubernetes. Scaled the app to handle 1M+ daily active users with <500ms latency.
• 🔹 Platform & Blog Scalability:
• Engineered a blogging platform capable of 100K+ requests/sec using HAProxy, NGINX, Aerospike, RDS, and ElasticSearch. Integrated a smart recommendation engine that boosted engagement across content surfaces.
• 🔹 Systems Engineering at Scale:
• Designed multilingual, exam-flexible platforms supporting large concurrency across India. Achieved seamless performance under peak loads with Spring WebFlux and reactive APIs.
• 🔹 Mentorship & Technical Upliftment:
• Actively mentored engineers and team leads on system design, caching strategies, DDD, and microservices best practices. Drove adoption of scalable patterns and modern DevOps.
• 🔹 Data Platform Integration & ETL:
• Built bi-directional Kafka pipelines and Spark+Airflow-based jobs to integrate acquired platforms like Funtoot and OnlineTyari into Embibe's ecosystem, improving data intelligence and learning continuity.

Oct 2018 – Aug 2019 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• 🚛 Senior Engineer at Walmart | Scaled Driver & Delivery Systems | Millions of Users | 1,000+ Stores | <300ms APIs | $300Mn Saved
• As a Senior Engineer at Walmart, I was part of the early-stage core team that built Spark Driver — a mission-critical system designed to onboard, assign, and manage delivery drivers across 1,000+ physical stores, enabling near real-time customer order fulfillment.
• 🔹 2019 – Foundation Year Impact:
• Joined the team when Spark was handling ~100k orders/day in peak, and Walmart relied on third-party driver platforms, paying ~$30-35 per order — leading to $300M/year in external delivery costs. Spark was envisioned to eliminate this spend and build full-stack delivery control in-house.
• 🔹 High-Performance API Development:
• Developed APIs capable of handling millions of concurrent users with <300ms latency, ensuring seamless coordination between drivers, stores, and customers during high-demand periods.
• 🔹 Scalability Across 1,000+ Stores:
• Helped scale distributed systems to support thousands of physical stores — implementing data access layers, load balancing, and geo-aware failover strategies to ensure platform reliability.
• 🔹 End-to-End Feature Ownership:
• Owned major features from planning to production, contributing to HLD, LLD, development, testing, and deployment, while maintaining tight timelines and delivery quality.
• 🔹 Team Mentorship & Code Quality:
• Actively mentored junior engineers, participated in hiring efforts, conducted code reviews, and influenced architectural decisions to ensure a clean, performant, and scalable codebase.

Mar 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• 🔧 Tech Lead at GE | Java & Golang | IIOT Systems | Scaled to 1000s of Customers | Saved $XXXMn
• As a polyglot engineer skilled in Java and Golang, I led the development of multi-tenant scalable dashboards on GE’s IIOT Predix platform, serving critical business lines such as oil & gas and energy connections.
• 🔹 System Modernization & Leadership:
• Lead APIS Development and Guided junior engineers to drive a successful migration from Java to Golang, improving performance, scalability, and code maintainability across core platforms.
• 🔹 Real-Time Analytics Products:
• Designed and delivered in-house analytics products that enabled real-time tracking of project costs and resource utilization—empowering GE stakeholders with actionable insights.
• 🔹 Customer Impact at Scale:
• Onboarded thousands of GE customers onto our newly built platforms, with seamless integration across industrial use cases and high-volume data systems.
• 🔹 Business Impact:
• This initiative eliminated third-party vendor reliance and delivered ~$250Mn in savings, while giving GE full ownership of a critical product ecosystem.

Feb 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• 🛒 Associate Tech Architect at Target | Checkout Systems | Scaled to 300K Orders/Hour | Real-Time DataSync | Cassandra + Oracle + Kafka.
• At Target, I led backend engineering for the checkout functionality of Target.com — a mission-critical system responsible for processing millions of customer orders daily across both online and in-store channels.
• 🔹 Microservices for Checkout Flow:
• Developed and scaled REST-based microservices using Core Java, Spring, and Kafka, orchestrating complex order and payment processing flows in a highly concurrent environment.
• 🔹 Data Sync at Scale – Cassandra ↔ Oracle:
• Designed and built a bi-directional data sync platform using Kafka CDC pipelines, syncing data between Cassandra and Oracle in real-time.
• This system scaled seamlessly from 70K orders/hour to 300K orders/hour, maintaining strong consistency across transactional and analytical stores.
• 🔹 Team Leadership & Code Quality:
• Led a team of 5 engineers, conducted architecture reviews (HLD/LLD), drove code quality standards, and championed continuous delivery using Gradle, Jenkins, and GIT.
• 🔹 Production-Grade Tooling & Performance:
• Utilized Hystrix, Servo, RxJava, Tomcat, Apache Httpd, and Archaius to ensure observability, resilience, and fault-tolerance across services.

May 2014 – Nov 2014 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• 📡 Platform Engineer | Push Architecture | Real-Time Messaging at Scale | RabbitMQ | Java | SOA
• As part of the core infrastructure team, I contributed to designing and implementing a highly scalable, asynchronous Push Architecture (SOA) system capable of processing millions of messages per day between source systems and external consumers. The platform followed a real-time Change Data Capture (CDC) pattern, optimized for durability, availability, and throughput.
• 🔹 Architecture Highlights:
• Watchers (Producers): Built multi-threaded database watchers that continuously monitored changes and emitted events to RabbitMQ exchanges. Each watcher generated events with routing keys for intelligent queue dispatching.
• Message Queue Cluster: Architected a RabbitMQ-based cluster with logically partitioned queues (RMQ1, RMQ2, RMQ3…), each bound to specific routing keys and dedicated to 3rd-party API consumers.
• Multi-threaded Consumers: Developed worker thread pools per queue that asynchronously fetched messages, processed them, and called external REST/SOAP APIs provided by downstream systems.
• Full Push Model: Eliminated polling by implementing a decoupled, push-based, event-driven system. Each queue had acknowledgment + failure-handling, ensuring reliable delivery and retry logic.
• 🔹 Business Impact:
• Enabled real-time integration with multiple 3rd-party providers, powering critical B2B workflows.
• Scaled seamlessly to handle millions of daily messages, with guaranteed delivery, fault tolerance, and monitoring.
• Delivered a complete SOA platform that was highly available, durable, decoupled, and production-ready for large-scale message transfer systems.
• 🔹 Tech Stack:
• Core Java, MyBatis, RabbitMQ, SQL Server 12, REST API, Jetty, Dropwizard, Eclipse, Maven, Jenkins, Git, Stash

Dec 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• 📰 Software Engineer | Large-Scale CMS for Times Group | Java | Scalable, Asynchronous Architecture
• As part of the AGI (Architecture Group & Infrastructure) team, I contributed to building the enterprise-grade CMS (Content Management System) platform that powered multiple flagship digital properties of the Times of India Group, including Indiatimes.com, Economic Times, and Zoom TV.
• 🔹 Platform Overview:
• The CMS was engineered to be scalable, concurrent, asynchronous, and secure — supporting content ingestion, editorial workflows, and dynamic publishing across millions of daily visitors and multiple editorial teams.
• 🔹 My Role:
• Contributed to end-to-end development of core CMS components, including content editing modules, workflow triggers, and publishing pipelines.
• Focused on clean code, debugging, and modular design, following best practices in design patterns and code maintainability.
• Worked closely with infra and architecture teams to ensure high availability and performance tuning of CMS under heavy editorial and user load.
• 🔹 Technologies Used:
• Core Java, Design Patterns, Hibernate, GWT, Maven, Git, Eclipse, Tomcat, JBoss, MSSQL — architected for flexibility, fault tolerance, and production-grade stability.
• 💡 This CMS platform played a mission-critical role in centralizing content operations for a media conglomerate that serves millions of daily users across various channels and content types — from breaking news to video streaming.

Oct 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• 🗞️ Co-founder & CTO at TheNewsId | News Aggregation & Subscription Platform | Real-Time Crawler | LAMP + Java Stack
• As the Co-founder and CTO of TheNewsId, I led the end-to-end product and technology strategy for a real-time news aggregation and subscription platform built from the ground up.
• 🔹 Product Vision & Execution:
• Collaborated closely with the CEO and engineering team to bring the product vision to life — enabling users to discover, subscribe, and receive real-time updates across news categories that mattered to them.
• 🔹 Real-Time News Crawler & Categorization:
• Built and scaled a custom web crawler to ingest content from multiple news sources. Implemented a categorization engine to tag articles contextually and trigger instant user notifications for subscribed topics.
• 🔹 Trending Keywords & Subscriber Insights:
• Designed features to highlight trending keywords across the platform and allow users to view subscriber counts per topic, driving transparency and community engagement.
• 🔹 Tech Stack:
• Utilized a lightweight and scalable stack including Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Java, and custom queue systems for asynchronous data processing and push-based alerting.
• 💡 Proud to have architected and delivered a platform that combined real-time content processing, personalization, and performance — built entirely in-house with zero vendor dependency.

Sep 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• 🛠️ Effort Tracking System for Program Management | Built In-House | Org-Wide Adoption
• Designed and developed an in-house effort tracking system used by 1000s of projects across a large-scale organization to streamline tracking of engineering bandwidth, cross-team deliverables, and sprint-level accountability.
• This tool replaced fragmented spreadsheets and manual reporting, driving greater visibility, alignment, and execution velocity across multiple product and engineering verticals.

Feb 2009 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr · Bangalore

• 🧠 Competitive Programming & Problem Solving (Top 1%)
• In my free time, I’ve actively pursued competitive programming to sharpen my algorithmic thinking and coding efficiency — often building small utilities to help myself and others become better problem solvers. Highlights include:
• 🔹 ACM UVA Online Judge – Solved a wide range of problems, ranked in the top <1% globally.
• 🔹 SPOJ – Ranked in the top <2% worldwide, with dozens of advanced problems solved across data structures and number theory.
• 🔹 Project Euler – Solved 125+ math and algorithmic challenges, won 6 awards, and reached Level 5 (Top <1% of 244,000+ users).
• 🔹 Facebook Hacker Cup – Advanced to Round 2 in 2012, and Round 1 in 2013 & 2014.
• 🔹 Google Code Jam 2013 – Qualified and reached Round 1C, solving complex algorithmic problems under timed pressure.
• 🔹 Also dabbled with Codeforces, TopCoder, and routinely used SVN/GitHub to manage code submissions and collaborative tools.