Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 · 8 mos

• Decided to take a career break after having spent 5 rigorous years in Rippling.
• Spent most of my time with my family, caring for my newborn while my spouse took on a new venture.
• Setup tech and ops processes' for my spouse’s new venture - Tailor Boat. In the process, learnt a lot about the custom tailoring industry and how boutiques and tailors work, etc. Automated common workflows to save time.
• Building RotaSync.com - an on-call collaboration automation app.

Oct 2019 – Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos · On-site

• Role: Sr Engineering Manager in the Benefits Product org
• I lead 14 engineers across two teams in the Benefits org - Company Enrollments and Flex Benefits. Common responsibilities across both teams include:
• Manage the team - performance management, mentoring and coaching them and being responsible for their growth.
• Responsible for the engineering roadmap, technical decisions, shipping features, code reviews, mentorship, hiring, recruiting, interviewing as well as handling customer support for the parts of the product I own.
• Company Enrollments (India) -
• The goal of this team is to make it really simple for companies to get new/modify their existing group insurance. This is a team I started and built from scratch, growing it to its current size of 8 members.
• Own and drive the Open Enrollments/New Group Enrollments (OE/NGE) part of the product.
• Flex Benefits (USA) -
• Took over this team in Q2 2023
• The goal of this team is to help rippling customers enroll in and manage non-insurance benefits. We currently offer HSA, FSA and Commuter benefits in the US, and support pensions globally. The offerings are expected to grow over time to include more benefits like HRA, 401k, etc. while also scaling the global pension offering to more countries.
• Currently hiring for this team in the US.
• In addition to the above roles, I've also done the following:
• As a Recruiting Marshall, trained and onboarded new interviewers in the company. Also function as a bar-raiser in the interview loop and lead debriefs to ensure we maintain a consistent standard across candidates.
• Interviewed a significant number (500+) of candidates and contributed heavily to growing the site (including non tech roles - HR, Tech recruiting, etc).
• Lead Rippling Academy program for 2022 - bootcamp for 20 new grad engineers to get them Rippling ready.
• Lead the India campus recruiting program for 2021 and 2022.
• Tech Stack - Django/Python, Go lang, MongoDB, React/JavaScript, AWS

Sep 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr · On-site

• Joined as an early engineer in Rippling (0-100 employees) and one of the founding engineers of the Benefits team.
• Built the first version of the Insurance Product and scaled it to 5000+ customers.
• Went on to be the tech lead for the Company Enrollments, owning the end to end experience for new group enrollments and renewals.
• Responsibilities include technical design, coding, testing, operating the product as well as customer support.
• Was a 0-1 role where the engineering team pretty much owned the end to end product (no PMs, Ops or Customer Support team).
• Built and contributed to a lot of foundational pieces for the Insurance product.
• Hired and mentored new engineers in the team.
• Significantly contributed by interviewing/recruiting in growing the BLR center from 35 engineers to 100+ engineers.

Nov 2017 – Sep 2018 · 10 mos

• Lead a team of 5 engineers in developing the tools and processes for Engineering Excellence for a team of 100 developers.
• Building home grown tools and practices for CI/CD, with focus on devops, and lean engineering principles.
• Helping the application development teams become more efficient and scale to increasing feature demands.
• Key driver of the company's Shift-Left philosophy - bring security and quality closer to development and make it easier for devs to produce quality output.

Nov 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr

• Functioned as a team lead in a team of Javascript engineers (Backend and Frontend).
• Design and develop web based portals and backends using Node.js, BackboneJS.
• Build internal tools and generic libraries to abstract key non-functional elements of the application easing the lives of my peers.
• Championed Security - helping identify and resolve web security issues proactively.
• Design an integration testing framework using Nightwatch.js for automated testing of portals.
• Responsible for code quality, and actively code-reviewing the work of my peers.
• Mentoring junior members of the team to be successful in their role.

Apr 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Independent Contributor in the Visa Developer Platform team, responsible for executing on the road-map for Visa's API first initiatives.
• Designed and developed the early version of the developer platform from scratch, including the developer portal, internal admin panel, API playground, and sample code for clients to integrate with the platform.

Jun 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Software Development Engineer initially at Bing Ads, and later at Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Division.