Oct 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Building a reliable and promising e-commerce and retail experience across Fynd, Jio & Reliance Retail.
• This covers -
• > Performance Engineering & Reliability
• > Monitoring & Observability
• > Quality Engineering
• > Building engineering productivity tools
• > Test automation
• > Managing delivery & releases
• > Build automation & CICD
• > Assess scale readiness, service availability & resiliency
• > Application monitoring & alerts
• > Prod issues, RCA & Risk mitigation
• > Hiring

Sep 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Feb 2020 – Sep 2020 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Apr 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• One among the early team member to join Hotstar tech/leadership team Bangalore/Mumbai
• Areas of specialisation - video (transcoding vod/live), player (web-videoJs, web-shaka, iOS, Android, smart Tv OS such as Apple TV os, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, androidTV, Firetv, Roku), test automation, performance and resilience testing
• Key deliverables
• Performance lab - supported IPL 2019 to withstand 25M concurrent users
• Traffic modelling/Game days - analyse historical matches to understand user behaviour, simulate game with all types of traffic patterns & load
• Video encoder test framework - This is to verify every step in the process of generating adaptive streaming starting from raw VOD/live to HLS/DASH
• Test automation - Rest APIs, Data pipeline/analytics events, Android, iOS, WEB, Living room apps
• Risk mitigation framework - setup to handle panic scenarios and to gracefully degrade the system
• Fault injection - framework to introduce faults/failures in the infrastructure covering CPU, network IO, DB
• Failover/DR testing - framework to test the routing of traffic through different availability zones
• Ai for use case coverage - framework around mixpanel (data analytics tool), Sumologic to analyse user journeys on a given sample data to enhance test case coverage
• Release management - drafted the process for change management for both client apps and backend services
• CI/CD pipeline with test automation for client apps and backend services
• Live incident management system with defined severity levels and SLAs
• Service Health management/monitoring using kibana and gecko board.
• Hotstar international launch USA and Canada
• In-house user management and payment services
• Release of refactored client apps with enhanced design on new service layer
• Tech stack
• Java, python, Scala, Php
• Gatling, Taurus, Jmeter, Locust
• AWS, Akamai, cloudinary
• Sumo logic
• DynamoDb, aerospike, MySQL
• Consul, Hystrix
• Kafka

Jul 2016 – Apr 2017 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• + Led the Product & Engineering activities, a team of 4 Engineers, 1 Digital marketing & 3 fashion designers/stylists
• + Designed & developed backend system for recommendation & personalized fashion shopping experience for kids b/w 0-12 Years of age
• + tinytodd.com (not operational now) was a Designer fashion online marketplace for kids & showcased close to 1K designers/sellers & 10K+ SKUs

Sep 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Jordan | Dubai | Bengaluru

• + One among the initial member to join souq.com technology center in Bangalore
• + Drove the testing activities by building a solid team of SDETs & quality engineers in Dubai, Jordan, Bangalore & Delhi
• + Designed & built testing frameworks & test strategies to assess backend & front-end systems effectively
• + Performance testing/monitoring of backend services & client apps over in-house AWS infra
• + Implemented CI/CD pipeline covering test automation, load testing & failover testing
• + Moved from Sr. QA automation role to Quality Engineering Manager role

Feb 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• + Worked closely with AIG New Jersy on their underwriting system as developer.
• + keys skills - Java, Mainframes, MySQL, DB2

Dec 2006 – Feb 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• + Started my professional life
• + worked closely with State Farm Insurance USA on their Mainframe systems as a developer
• + keys skills - Java, Mainframes, MySQL, DB2