Jun 2023 – Dec 2023 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Currently, heading backend engineering for SonyLIV. Building seamless, distributed backend systems for providing the best OTT streaming experience to our users and for future explosive growth. Building new services from scratch. Using data analysis and AI-ML for improving end-to-end user experience.

Jan 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the entire team for mutual funds and primary markets at Groww.
• Deeply involved in and driving all aspects, including customer research, product discussions,
• design and architecture, implementation, code reviews, deployments, CI-CD, monitoring and
• observability, RCAs, operational processes, customer support, etc.
• Driving future strategy, product and business roadmap.
• Coordinated closely with business, operations, product and customer support teams to drive more and more value for customers.
• Followed a highly customer-centric and data-driven approach.
• Built multiple new features and scaled existing product to handle increased traffic.
• With razor-sharp focus on customers, brought down customer queries drastically and improved NPS.

Apr 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Leading multiple teams building a number of interesting, highly relevant core payment products. Working on cutting edge technologies.
• Have built multiple projects from scratch.
• Managed and led teams of varying sizes and skillsets, across different verticals, for quite a few years.
• Managed three of the highest visibility, highest impact, and highly aspirational projects in the organization.
• Have worked on multiple payment integrations with payment gateways, banks, other entities.
• Have been actively involved in all of the high TPS, high transaction volume ecommerce sale periods, giving a seamless experience to merchants and customers.
• Have driven successfully the adoption of newer technologies in my team and organization.
• Involved in the entire spectrum - team management, requirements gathering, high and low level design, hands-on coding, project management, observability and monitoring, scalability, post-production systems, etc.
• Gained valuable experience in the entire payments domain.
• Built a generic, config-driven workflow engine which eliminates the need for writing code and helps implement any task as a workflow, thus speeding up its completion and deployment. This is now being used across the organization for various projects as a platform.
• Have developed and evolved various config-driven, generic frameworks/platforms which have reduced the development times and are being used quite extensively in the company.
• Apart from backend systems, also have valuable experience working on and managing UI projects.
• Involved not only in the technical aspects of projects, but have also contributed to strategy and business aspects.

Apr 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Leading the core payments checkout team. Technical leadership combined with team management.

Oct 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Leading the core payments checkout team. Technical leadership combined with team management.

Apr 2015 – Sep 2015 · 5 mos · Baner, Pune Area, India

• Working on Programmatic Direct - Automated Guaranteed - a type of programmatic advertising that refers to the automated direct sale of reserved/guaranteed ad inventory at guaranteed pricing, between buyers and sellers/publishers.
• This product, still being in its initial stages, provided a lot of learning opportunities in terms of exploration, design and implementation from scratch.
• Involves extensive use of Spring, Hibernate, Java, RESTful webservices, MySQL, etc. Gained a lot of knowledge and experience in varied technologies.
• Involved in various critical features, from design to implementation, related to creation and updation of orders, pushing of the orders to ad servers, order negotiation workflows, inventory management, creatives management, etc.
• Worked on resolving some very critical customer issues.
• Gained valuable exposure to the programmatic advertising domain, as also internet based domains.

Nov 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Baner, Pune

• Working in the security and identity management domains.
• Responsibilities at GS Lab:
• August 2011 – till date:
• Working on an Intel product which is a security gateway and an offering for the SOA market. Gained valuable exposure to Security and Identity Management domains while working on this product.
• The work here involves working on the backend (primarily Java), frontend/GUI (GWT – Java based), command line interface (Java) and installer (both Windows – MSI installer and Linux shell script installer).
• Involved in design of important features and components, and their implementation.
• Also responsible for managing and coordinating the team, taking care of deliverables, being the seniormost member of the team. I am the principal point of contact of the team for the client.
• Have had considerable experience in handling vital customer issues, dealing directly with the customer and mitigating and solving their concerns and problems.
• Specific Contributions
• Have full ownership of the product backend, command line interface and installer.
• Involved in refactoring of the command line interface using Java features like annotations.
• Working in technologies/frameworks like JMX, OSGi, JAAS, GWT, Hazelcast.
• Working on Cassandra database.
• Worked on WIX-based msi installers.

Oct 2010 – Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Baner, Pune

• Software Development
• Have worked in the conferencing, security and identity management domains.
• Responsibilities at GS Lab:
• February 2011 – July 2011
• Worked on an Intel product in the security domain which deals with securely exchanging authentication and authorization data across various agency domains. The project involved developing the UI using Java and the Eclipse RAP framework.
• Specific Contributions
• Involved in development and enhancement of features.
• Bug fixing.
• Worked on developing an XPath editor for the product.
• Gained valuable exposure to security-related concepts.
• Gained experience working with XML files, WSDL files and SAML.
• October 2010 – February 2011:
• Worked on kTalk, a tele-conferencing solution with some features of group-sms based services. It is a product offering of GS Lab.
• It allows users to schedule conferences/meetings via sms, UI and Outlook plug-in. The back-end is developed in Java and the front-end in PHP, JavaScript, HTML.
• Specific Contributions
• Developed/modified modules in the back-end which dealt with the sms-related functionality of the product. Registration of organizations, top-ups and conference scheduling are done through sms in this product.
• Refactored the sms parsing module for future scalability and robustness requirements.
• Worked on other core backend features like the billing logic for the product, etc.
• Customized the kTalk Outlook plug-in for customer releases. This involved working in C# and VB Script.
• Involved in bug-fixing both in the back-end and front-end.
• Developed the ability to take a holistic view of the product.

Jan 2008 – May 2008 · 4 mos

• I did my Final Year (B.Tech.) project “Stealth Encryption over VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)” at Symantec Corp., Pune.
• The project involved encrypting the voice data in such a way so that any intruder would not come to know that the voice data has been encrypted. We used voice steganography to hide the voice data in some other wave file using a database of pre-recorded conversations and various algorithms.
• The project was developed in Java.