Jun 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site

• As Head of Engineering and site leader for the e-Reporting & Compliance Charter, I led global Engineering, UX, and Product teams to architect, build, and scale a planet-scale financial big data platform. Engineered to ingest and process exabyte-scale data, the platform leveraged a robust AWS-native stack (Redshift, AWS Glue, EMR, Athena, Airflow, Lake Formation) to execute complex financial reconciliations for over $X trillion in annual transactions. This automated mission-critical tax, accounting, and payments reporting for global regulatory bodies (EMEA, UK, Asia, Oceana) and served as the foundational FinTech data lakehouse for advanced analytics, BI, and machine learning.
• Owned end-to-end data platform strategy, design, and delivery, leveraging a full AWS-native stack to build a highly scalable, fault-tolerant data lake and analytics ecosystem for financial reconciliation.
• Pioneered machine learning–driven reconciliation pipelines and anomaly detection models to improve accuracy and automate validation across complex financial ledgers, resulting in a significant reduction in manual audit overhead and a faster month-end close.
• Partnered with senior Finance, Tax, Legal, and Accounting leaders to define product vision and reporting standards, translating complex regulatory requirements into scalable data architecture and reusable compliance services.
• Drove data governance, lineage, and observability initiatives to ensure full traceability and audit readiness across all distributed data sources and jurisdictions by respecting GDPR and other data protection norms.
• Built a central web based platform on top of the BigData platform called Compliance Central for automated e-Reporting via SAFT standards to be used across OECD countries.
• Scaled high-performing engineering teams across multiple geographies, establishing best practices for big data engineering, data modeling, and cost-optimized cloud computing to ensure platform resilience and compliance.

Jun 2020 – Feb 2021 · 8 mos · Singapore

• Driven by a passion for accessible education, I co-founded a Singapore-based EduTech HR platform to connect global institutions with educators for live online courses.
• Owned the 0-to-1 technical strategy, product outlook, and the design of its scalable, multi-tenant platform architecture.
• Successfully bootstrapped the technology from concept to a live product, culminating in a successful pilot launch in Kazakhstan.
• Stepped away from the part-time venture post-launch to manage personal and family health needs that required my full attention.

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• As a senior engineering leader, I led multiple global product and engineering teams to architect, build, and scale Booking.com’s Cross-sell Ads Tech and Connected Trip Platform — a cornerstone of the company’s transformation into a multi-product travel marketplace unifying Hotels, Flights, Cars, and Attractions.
• Led multiple global engineering and product teams to build the "Connected Trip" vision from the ground up, architecting a unified multi-product marketplace (Hotels, Flights, Cars, etc.) serving millions of daily visitors.
• Owned the Connected Trip Discounts & Promotions platform, unifying global loyalty, earn-and-burn, and incentive systems across all product verticals to power “do X, get Y” personalization.
• Architected and delivered the platform for dynamic, real-time travel packages, supporting both pre-bundled and on-the-go cross-selling with complex, multi-product pricing.
• Delivered the high-scale services for cross-vertical discounts and promotions, unifying the global earn-and-burn loyalty program to drive customer engagement.
• Partnered with Product and Data Science to relentlessly optimize platform conversion and customer LTV through a culture of rapid, large-scale A/B experimentation and built a core ML/AI backbone for the offer and cross-sell recommendation.
• Built a Travel Package Booking.com product from the ground up and launched in USA market

Sep 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Owned the 0-to-1 platform product vision, architecture, technical product strategy, and technology roadmap for the BookingSuite AppStore (store.booking.com) — a B2B multi-tenant SaaS marketplace connecting accommodation partners with third-party technology providers.
• Architected the marketplace platform from the ground up, enabling seamless partner onboarding, billing, and app integrations.
• Scaled the system for global multi-tenant SaaS delivery, ensuring reliability, extensibility, and data privacy across thousands of partners.
• Drove alignment between business, product, and platform engineering to accelerate partner ecosystem growth and developer enablement.

Aug 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Owned the global technology strategy, architecture, and product roadmap for Booking.com’s core Payments and Billing Platform, powering billions of euros in transactions across 190+ countries.
• Architected a highly scalable, microservices-based FinTech platform that was PCI-DSS compliant and designed to accelerate product innovation — enabling capabilities like loyalty rewards, refunds, and multi-channel pay-in/pay-out across all business units.
• Led the solution architecture and engineering strategy for complex new financial products, while driving seamless payment gateway integrations with global providers including Adyen, iDEAL, PayPal, Ingenico, and WeChat, ensuring coverage across diverse markets and currencies.
• Partnered closely with Finance, Legal, and Compliance leadership to define secure, resilient, and regulation-aligned systems supporting real-time global transactions. Served as a key member of the Product Technology Group’s leadership council having CFO, CTO, and SVP Of FinTech on the table, influencing upstream strategic and architectural decisions for FinTech innovation across Booking.com product verticals like Hotel, Flights, Rental cars, and Connected Trip Platform.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Promoted to Engineering Manager, leading 3 cross-functional teams responsible for critical FinTech platforms.
• Scaled the Financial Billing Infrastructure to support operations and innovation across 196 countries.
• Managed the Financial Tooling team, focusing on business operations and deep integration with ERP systems (SAP).
• Led the team building partner-facing (hotel supply) payments and finance products for global billing and settlement.

Apr 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Led the engineering team for Booking.com's core Billing Platform, scaling it to handle invoices in 90+ currencies and 43 international languages for operations in 200+ countries serving more than 3 million hotel partners.
• Drove the platform's technology stack strategy, strategic roadmap, and key integrations with payment gateways and ERP systems (SAP).
• Owned the architecture and compliance (SOX, PCI-DSS) for the billing system, partner payment platform, and customer refund platform.
• Collaborated with Finance Directors and Product Leaders to expand billing capabilities and support new business models globally.

Aug 2012 – Apr 2013 · 8 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• As a core developer on the Billing & Finance Tooling team, I was responsible for building and maintaining the backend systems for Booking.com's global billing operations.
• Contributed to the core billing platform, helping to solve complex challenges in a high-scale, high-availability environment.
• Rapidly promoted to Team Lead / Engineering Manager within 9 months. Was among the first 100 engineers to join Booking.com

May 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Providing strategic technology leadership and product advisory to startups and scale-ups. I partner with founders to navigate high-growth phases, build scalable platforms, and mentor emerging technical leaders.
• Key Advisory Services:
• Fractional CTO & Leadership: Serving as a strategic thought partner for founders and providing hands-on mentorship to first-time or co-founding CTOs.
• Product & Growth Strategy: Guiding early-stage companies through 0-to-1 product development and 1-to-N scaling challenges.
• Technical Architecture: Advising on scalable, secure, and compliant system design for long-term growth.
• Domain Specialization:
• FinTech: International Payments, Financial Data Platforms, and Compliance.
• Cloud Billing: Architecting complex subscription and transaction-based recurring billing systems.
• E-commerce & Online Travel: Designing and scaling high-volume, high-availability platforms.
• PropTech and Travel Tech

Aug 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• As a Staff-level engineer, I was a key architect of NetApp's internal developer platform, which powered the build, test, and release pipelines for 3,000+ global engineers. My focus was on engineering a robust, automated CI/CD and SCM ecosystem for the flagship ONTAP OS.
• Engineered a suite of web and CLI applications in Perl, Python, Java, C, C++ to integrate and automate SCM workflows across Perforce, CVS, and Git.
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipeline integrations connecting build systems (Bamboo, Maven, Jenkins) with a large-scale, proprietary test automation infrastructure used to validate the ONTAP OS.
• Drove automation that directly supported the multi-protocol (NAS/SAN) and multi-platform (Appliance, VM, Cloud) release strategy for ONTAP, improving developer productivity and release velocity.

Apr 2006 – Aug 2010 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Played a crucial role in developing and supporting mission-critical web applications for Texas Instruments' global intranet, serving various BUs.
• Owned the architecture and development of new web-based tools, leading the technical design from concept to deployment.
• Provided technical mentorship to the complete team, groomed junior developers, and led code review sessions to ensure code quality.
• Actively involved in the team's staffing activities, including conducting technical interviews and helping to scale the team.

Jul 2005 – Mar 2006 · 8 mos

• Various projects for small web development companies based upon internship and on-the-job training.