May 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

Dec 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · United States · Remote

• (Previously Garvis.ai) Led a team to help transform the architecture to a multi-tenant scalable service to handle 10x the volume of data both for running AI models and user requests.

Jan 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

• Head of Engineering, contributed to overall product and technical direction & vision as well as a hands-on leader jumping on to resolve critical issues.

Jun 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore, India

• Endurance is a Massachusetts based company catering to small businesses helping
• them establish their web presence. They are better known for their hosting and domains
• brands like Hostgator, Bluehost, BigRock etc.
• As Sr Director for Engineering for the Retail APAC and Domains business, have led multiple product teams through different stages of development activities including scalability and reliability concerns for online brands. The position requires close collaboration with the product, marketing and program management teams and ensuring the engineering team delivers on the goals. A key focus is on mentoring and enabling the tech teams for growth as well as working with program management to achieve the benefits of agility in the development process.

Jun 2016 – May 2017 · 11 mos · Bangalore, India

• Finaskus is a fintech startup making its foray into the robo-advisory space of financial services. It provides a mobile-first automated personal finance planning and transactions
• platform.
• As ‘hands-on’ CTO, have lead all technology related decisions, discussions and development efforts at the company. Launched the Android and web application for the robo-advisory service with a robust and secure backend deployed on AWS.
• As Cofounder, have been through all the decision making and evolving of product, marketing, business development and strategy planning required of an early-stage startup.

Jul 2004 – May 2016 · 11 yrs 10 mos · San Jose California

• Senior Computer Scientist and Technical lead with an established credibility in leading teams towards building solutions from scratch using a plethora of server and application technologies.
• Actively collaborating with the research lab on video related technologies. Constantly mentoring team members.
• Laid the foundation for the web-based video player and helped direct its technological evolution.
• Assisted in evaluation of innovative ideas including identifying key architectural components of an end to end Cloud DVR system.
• Worked on a Video Publishing solution specifically leading its security evaluation as well as designing the scalability and high availability features using AWS. Andriod and iOS video players were used to demonstrate the solution.
• Working in a Senior Engineering role on a 1.0 for, a shrink wrap product that allows users to build animations using HTML5.
• Previously, technical lead on a web service-based cross-domain single sign-on solution (Adobe Pass) for video content entitlement with stress on the security model.
• Worked for 2 product cycles of Adobe Illustrator.

Oct 2002 – Oct 2003 · 1 yr · Redwood City, California

• Yodlee provided a web based financial account aggregation product for the web. Owned core backend features like facilitating Single Sign-On using SAML and porting the backend to Linux.

Feb 2001 – May 2002 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mountain View, California

• CoVia's product enabled creation of web-based Content Management. The product was built using C++ at the core interfacing with Java and JavaScript used for developing the Web Client.
• As a core team member, designed and developed various features using C++ and object databases.

Jan 1995 – Jan 1999 · 4 yrs · Mumbai, India

• Worked on various projects spanning different verticals like Retirement Benefits Systems, Credit Card billing system and a Nuclear Medicine Information System for customers based in the US and Canada.
• Technologies used were C++, Oracle, SQL Server, Object Modelling Tools etc.