Aug 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Reduced migration time from 7 days to <1 hour by designing the next-gen architecture for the product agnostic data migration tool.
• Increased success rate from 39% to 90% for C2C migration by extrapolating logs, metrics and analytics events in order to classify and prioritize the biggest offenders and low hanging fruits.
• Detailed an integration strategy to effectively deliver the next-gen product agnostic data migration tool. The approach entailed creating fluid pods during each sprint, drawing members from diverse teams (comprising 5 teams with ownership of 10+ microservices and ~100 people).

Aug 2018 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Increased the scale of Fund Transfers by 100x (10 to 1000 transfers per second), infra reduced by 20x and cycle-time reduced by 10x (1 week to 4 hours) by decomposing the monolith into microservices. * The decomposition effort has served as a blueprint for future decomposition endeavors.
• Reduced banking interaction time from 1.5 hours to <1 minute by transitioning from file-based to REST APIs by leading a team of 7 engineers. Honored as the “Best Engineer of the Year”.
• Optimized refund time from 30 minutes to < 28 seconds by refactoring the refund engine replacing batching with reactive programming techniques.
• Ensured a 99% uptime for fund transfer operations by identifying and addressing performance issues in banking systems, and by deploying adaptive switching mechanisms.
• Engineered a versatile, language-agnostic test runner framework that orchestrates environment setup, end-to-end test execution, and structured outcome reporting.
• Redefined reliability by meticulously computing the availability metrics for outgoing payments and lending products, bridging the gap between perceived system uptime and true systems availability.
• Initiated the creation and implementation of an automated system for assigning roles and permissions, streamlining the process for new engineers to effortlessly commit code from day one.
• Identified the critical need for expediting the onboarding of new interviewers due to the surge in hiring demands. My approach refined the process, resulting in significant time savings and a marked increase in efficiency.

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos

• Architected and led the efforts of the Central Reservation System for hotel management as an independent microservice by leveraging Domain Driven Design. Built an open source diff-and-patch library for a range of comparison needs too.
• Designed and executed the policy service to facilitate Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), enhancing system security and user management by ensuring precise access rights aligned with user roles. This strategic implementation underscores a commitment to robust security practices and streamlined operations.

Jul 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Reduced cloud platform costs by 4x, from $150,000 to $40,000 annually. This resulted from strategic measures, including database optimizations, multi-layered caching, CDN utilization, auto-scaling of nodes, edge caching and leveraging serverless computing.
• Led a team of engineers through inception, design, development and delivery of a fashion-based ecommerce platform within an astonishing 45-day timeframe.
• Lead a team of fashionistas & engineers to implement a unified sizing scheme to improve the customer experience.
• Built a highly concurrent, high-scale counter for computing likes, views, shares, and more, leveraging sharded counters and delayed aggregation.

Apr 2010 – Jun 2015 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Improved McAfee Secure coverage by enhancing the precision of automated URL classification by incorporating metadata from a broader range of sources.
• Dramatically decreased the McAfee Secure dashboard's load time from 3 minutes to a mere 5 seconds through database query optimization and the introducing layered caching.
• Enabled developers to execute multiple daily deployments by cutting the autorating system's build time from over an hour to less than 10 minutes.
• Optimized query per second (QPS) and reduced latency by leveraging Apache Lucene's capabilities.

Jun 2007 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Slashed the processing time of a billion-row batch job from 3 hours to just 15 minutes.
• Created a template-driven tool to generate boilerplate code, boosting developer efficiency.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Pioneered the Life Sciences Data Hub, streamlining the integration of multi-source clinical data into one platform, and led the evaluation of Oracle Fusion's new components through targeted prototyping, underscoring a commitment to innovation and data-driven research.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

• Delivered innovative solutions - an export/import data and advanced full-text search capabilities, and developed a proof of concept for graph generation.