Jan 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

Jul 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Built and scaled observability platforms, internal tooling systems, messaging, data engineering, M&A (tech merger of loyalty stack into RZP), scaled teams, and helped create the visions for platform expansion and operation excellence take shape for Razorpay.

Apr 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Platform Engineering
• R&D in data processing and distributed systems
• Led and delivered the roadmap for unified observability and event correlation platforms
• Conceptualised and templated reliability engineering vision for Flipkart
• Seeded the reliability engineering vertical

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Led and delivered key PaaS initiatives for Flipkart's Cloud Platform.
• Next generation of cloud monitoring & telemetry platforms for Flipkart. Near-real time event processing systems.
• Focus area: Infrastructure engineering, PaaS, messaging, events, synthesis, correlation, prediction in real time for web scale application monitoring.

Oct 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Led and delivered application monitoring stack (Flipkart Cloud Platform)

Jan 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

• Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering (Logging) @ eBay
• Ported and refactored log publishing layer for 64-bit arch that reduced eventual h/w footprint by more than a quarter to handle the same traffic - (area: C++, logging, messaging, code-porting)
• Architecture and MVP of eBay's OLAP 2.0 using Druid. Addressed hyper cardinality problem for multiple app-server regions with first-class query SLAs of milliseconds, and sub minute data freshness -- this platform is recently replaced by an architecture evolved around Clickhouse by eBay (area: Hybrid-OLAP, λ, stream processing, metrics)
• Developed distributed rate limiting algorithms (area: anomaly detection on streams)
• Enhanced and maintained (+ 24x7 support) ebay's CAL platform that serves 100s TB per day worth of logs - carriage, storage, synthesis, processing, metric generation and reporting modules to different degrees (area: logging, monitoring, big data)

Sep 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore, India

• Member of webMethods Messaging R&D team, worked on jPlus (9.0) release of webMethods Broker software.

Oct 2008 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore, India

• Member of webMethods Messaging R&D team. Worked on 8.0 and 8.2 releases. Intra-Broker communication, security, and performance feature development and research & IP generation (patents etc.)

May 2006 – Oct 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Tech lead for GRIDEcon project team at Bangalore; individual contributor for distributed system design & APIs. This was EU-FP6 sponsored project that pioneered a marketplace and pricing model for the stale compute and storage resources via arbitrage (futures and options) mode of securities trading.

May 2004 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos

• R&D, product development in telecom billing vertical, worked for Intelligent Network Platform (INP) and Pre-delivery Service Agent (PSA) product suites. Formed a special interest group called SIGLin targeted at Linux and open source technologies.

Apr 2003 – Apr 2004 · 1 yr

• Research & development activities in the field of network and information security. Wrote stream analysers and parsers for the distributed network security software systems. Developed fast and efficient online data processing algorithms.