Feb 2024 – Jan 2025 · 11 mos

• 🔹 Engineering Leadership & Mentorship
• Led three backend teams of highly motivated engineers in a Java + Spring Boot environment.
• Mentored engineers with clear, quantifiable objectives to strengthen the platform using automation and enhance ownership of services.
• 🔹 Scaling & Growth Initiatives
• Scaled VAS orders from 1K to 5K per day, driving 3-4x revenue growth.
• Reduced inspection costs by 50-60% through strategic platform improvements and engineering-business alignment around repeat inspections
• 🔹 Platform & Product Innovations
• Designed a Car Jockey Live Location Tracking Platform, processing 1M+ location update events per day from mobile inspection apps to improve customer experience.
• Took multiple 0-to-1 products to production, including:
• ✅ Car Health Report – Enabled vehicle diagnostics, adding transparency to the car-selling funnel.
• ✅ Seller Package – Opened new monetization avenues while maintaining 99.9x uptime.
• ✅ Car Photoshoot Package – Take home a photoshoot bundle of your car, in case you want to list it on classified ad platforms
• 🔹 Cross-Functional Collaboration & Business Alignment
• Led product & business reviews with top management, offering technical insights on feature feasibility & cost during ideation.
• Partnered with Product & Business teams to ensure engineering solutions align with high-impact business objectives.

Nov 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

• 🔹 Engineering Leadership & Agile Execution
• Led a 10-member engineering team, implementing a robust Agile delivery model for faster and more reliable feature rollouts.
• Mentored engineers, enabling them to take SPOC (Single Point of Contact) ownership for various payment domains such as reconciliation, tokenization, observability, and security.
• Designed individual development plans to coach engineers towards promotions and career growth.
• 🔹 Industry-First Innovations & Compliance
• Launched CVV-less tokenized payments with 100% network coverage, pioneering this feature in India.
• First-to-market with ALT ID compliance features, ensuring regulatory adherence ahead of industry competitors.
• Developed, in collaboration with major banks, the Debit Card Third-Party Validation feature, increasing card payment share in the investment space by 1-2%.
• 🔹 Scalability & Performance Optimization
• Led the development of IIN (Issuer Identification Number) service, reducing customer drop-offs in card payments.
• Optimized IIN response times, reducing P95 latency from 400ms to 50ms – an 80%+ improvement.
• Achieved 99.9x% uptimes for card payments using proactive strategies like 2-step canary for service deployment, robust alerting and monitoring using grafana and pagerduty and one-click reverting capability with spinnaker

Mar 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

• At Healthkart, I was responsible for designing, developing, and scaling backend systems powering Healthkart, MuscleBlaze, and other brands under the HK umbrella. My work spanned high-performance architecture, event-driven systems, and team mentorship, ensuring robust and scalable e-commerce operations.
• Key Contributions & Impact
• 🔹 Backend Development & System Architecture
• Hands-on coding, mentoring, and technical leadership for backend engineers.
• Designed and implemented microservices-based architectures using Spring Boot for scalability and maintainability.
• 🔹 Scalable & Event-Driven Infrastructure
• Integrated Kafka & Kinesis to support order management, real-time event processing, and delivery tracking.
• Optimized database solutions using SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL), MongoDB, and Elasticsearch to enhance performance and reliability.
• 🔹 Analytics & Data-Driven Insights
• Built analytics solutions leveraging Apache Druid for real-time business intelligence and operational decision-making.
• 🔹 Engineering Leadership & Mentorship
• Mentored and coached engineers, setting them up for success through clear goal setting and continuous feedback.
• Conducted weekly 1:1s to drive professional growth, technical excellence, and team engagement.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs

• Worked with overseas clients (US) in ad tech domain
• Curating campaigns, utilzed spring boot based microservices.
• Dev team mentoring,
• Kubernetes deployment and scaling
• PostreSQL on the DB side as well as Elastic

Jul 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Contributed in building scalable, robust backend applications based
• out of Java 8 and Spring Boot on top of MongoDB and PostgreSQL for
• the nearbuy deal engine.
• Worked with messaging platforms (Apache Kafka) for inter-service
• communication

Jan 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Worked in Telecom Billing space on Comverse Kenan platform to
• deliver high performing backend applications built on top of Java and
• Oracle DB