May 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Building tech for next gen fintech capabilities to enable scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient
• payments for Grab business verticals that serve 35 million+ customers across SEA region.
• Payments Switch, an intelligent payment gateway, backed by AI driven smart routing, and
• configurable integrations to enable seamless support for a wide range of payment methods.
• Driving the Platform strategy and build of foundational capabilities like – Ledger system to enable
• wallets, near real time Reconciliation to detect and auto resolve anomalies, and a robust Settlement
• platform for the merchant and driver partners.
• Driving innovation in agentic payments via GenAI and MCP servers to enable agentic commerce.

May 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• We are building products to digitally transform the experience for 6 million+ businesses, with an approach that is customer backwards.
• Building 'Airtel Thanks for Business' - one-stop platform and marketplace catering to all B2B products portfolio for self-serve across the customer lifecycle phases for Growth and Experience.
• Airtel IQ - incubated the first cloud based multi-tenant CPaaS platform from a Telecom operator. The platform had amassed 150+ customers with a revenue of 10s of crores in the 1st year of launch. https://www.airtel.in/iq
• IoT Hub – flagship connectivity management platform that enables 20 million+ devices, and provides connectivity solutions – eSIM with OTA RSP, always ON dual connectivity, location tracking. Also implementing e2e IoT solutions to automate business processes for Auto, Utilities (HES/MDM), Fintech customers.
• Airtel Xsafe – incubated the first home IoT surveillance solution from a Telecom operator with Wi-Fi enabled AI security cameras. The product is scaling up on the premise of a great mobile App experience, and other growth levers.
• Edge Cloud – conceptualized and launched the 5G enabled edge computing cloud with IaaS and PaaS capabilities at Network edge and on-premise edge. Currently, solving for Industry 4.0 manufacturing automation via IIoT, and ultra low latency use cases in surveillance for smart cities.

Dec 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Airtel Thanks platform – built the flagship Loyalty & Rewards program on Airtel Thanks app for 100+
• million mobile and broadband customers. End users were offered subscription based SaaS product
• benefits as hard bundles and/or soft bundles. It led to 50% churn reduction, accelerated upgrades
• driving higher ARPUs, daily App installs increased by 20%.

Feb 2015 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Responsible for setup, design, build and operations of a futuristic API Platform and Enterprise
• Service Bus, that enables multiple digital initiatives and transformations at Airtel. A robust,
• distributed, and scalable middleware platform with built-in automation and self-heal that serves 100+
• million transactions/day across 700 APIs at 99.99% availability.
• Open API Platform – a partner ecosystem exposing key APIs like Mobile Identity, Digital Auth
• and KYC, Credit Score and Carrier Billing solutions – serving more than 120 customers.

Dec 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

Sep 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Lead Technical/Performance Architect for very large scale Korea Telecom BSS project responsible
• for application performance engineering and DevOps enablement.

May 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Onshore SOA/AIA Integration Architect for a leading luxury retailer in UAE.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 · 4 yrs

• Consulting clients on setting up SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) in their Enterprise, SME support and reviews for Delivery teams on Middleware technologies, Solution Planning/RFP/RFI/Orals for Pre-Sales, developer advocate, building reusable assets, POCs and trainings.

Oct 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Led the flagship Application Integration Architecture(AIA) team as Product Development Manager. Responsible for Technical Architecture, Design, Development and Release of Five industry/domain specific AIA PIPs on 10g and 11g platform -
• 1. Oracle EBS Manufacturing integration with Agile PLM
• 2. Integration of PeopleSoft Financials with Oracle EBS Financials Accounting
• 3. Siebel CRM integration to Oracle Incentive Compensation
• 4. Primavera P6 integration with Oracle EBS Projects for Project Portfolio Management
• 5. Agile PLM for Process integration with Oracle Process Manufacturing
• +
• 6. Contribution to Oracle AIA Foundation Pack with architecture best practices, utilities and common services, documentation content and official AIA forums/blogs.
• 7. Design and Deliver re-usable SOA components and utilities to be leveraged by other integration projects, e.g. Integration Flow Monitor, UI based integration framework (US Patent), custom XPath functions.

Jul 2003 – Sep 2007 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Core Business Intelligence Products -
• > Oracle Daily Business Intelligence (DBI)
• > Oracle Balanced Scorecard (OBSC)
• Design and Build of Technology Integration projects between strategic Oracle BI product lines like Oracle DBI, Oracle Discoverer and OBIEE.