Mar 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• As an Associate Director of Software Engineering, I spearhead Axtria’s flagship mobile App, aligning engineering initiatives with business objectives to propel organizational growth .
• Key responsibilities
• ⁠ ⁠Develop and execute technology roadmaps, aligned with business objectives
• ⁠ ⁠Foster innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning
• ⁠ ⁠Drive technical debt reduction and software quality improvements
• ⁠ ⁠Collaborate with product management to define product vision and requirements.
• ⁠ ⁠Analyze industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor landscape
• ⁠ ⁠Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with technology providers
• ⁠ ⁠Communicate technical vision and strategy to stakeholders

Aug 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• As an Engineering Manager for ET Markets, I am responsible for driving the development of this brand-new initiative from scratch. My key responsibilities include:
• Leading and managing a high-performing team of software engineers, driving the roadmap to support our long-term vision while tactically executing on day-to-day activities.
• Collaborating closely with product, business, and leadership teams to ensure alignment and deliver on business priorities.
• Continuously improving our management and engineering processes, from planning and estimating projects to ensuring best practices are followed across the software development lifecycle.
• Hands-on coding and troubleshooting, working alongside my team to ensure the highest quality code is delivered.
• Owning and managing our services, overseeing the delivery of features, fixes, and daily operations.
• Driving recruitment efforts to attract and mentor top talent, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team.

Nov 2021 – Jul 2022 · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Setting the architectural direction of the platform
• Validate and support technical solutions owned by the team
• Team building and people management
• Owning the complete core-platform initiatives
• Hiring and mentoring the team
• Ensuring the team to adhere to agile methodologies

Mar 2021 – Nov 2021 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Oct 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Work on improving overall application architecture for better testability.
• Code-reviews, approach brainstorming, mentoring developers, and sharing sessions.
• Standardize CI process, review guidelines, and development workflow.
• Work on core initiatives like application performance, size, launch-time, build-time, and more.

Apr 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• ➢ Bootstrapped and architected iOS apps for 99acres.com (India's leading property portal) and Jeevansathi.com (matrimonial portal)
• ➢ Developed best practices for development of highly scalable mobile and web solutions.
• ➢ Tackle client tooling, build system and other platform specific challenges. Improving overall client engineering efficiency by monitoring and reducing build time, lower CI downtime, better code/pr management etc.
• ➢ Experiment newer architectures for existing app with continuous refactoring. Spreads interest about mobile application development within organization.
• ➢ Worked on cross platform mobile technologies like react-native to build cost effective mobile solutions.
• ➢ Was involved in hiring, training and team formation processes.
• ➢ Coordinated with multiple teams including product, marketing, UI, QA, support, sales, design, operations, and backend.

Oct 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Jul 2011 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Responsibilities:
• ➢ Developed and deployed Multiple Apps for top product organisations such as Zomato, Reviews42, Asian paints etc.
• ➢ Unit test and automation testing of the iOS apps using xcode.