Mar 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Promoted to lead the entire UI organization across Web Applications, Mobile Apps, and Marketing Website. My focus was to drive high-quality outcomes with lean teams, align engineering execution with broader business goals, and shape a product experience that scaled with confidence.
• Key Contributions:
• Team Efficiency & Delivery: Maintained high output with limited resources, prioritizing strategic execution and predictable delivery.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Balanced long-term UI roadmap with ongoing stakeholder needs to support scalable and maintainable growth.
• Strategic Product Ownership: Focused on solving critical user and business problems that aligned directly with company-wide objectives.
• Payment Stack Innovation: Oversaw and coordinated the design of a new B2B payment stack in partnership with NPCI and Bharat Connect.
• People Growth: Took full ownership of team development—mentoring, structuring, and enabling team members to grow into senior roles.
• Exit-Ready Engineering: Strengthened product delivery predictability, contributing significantly to the successful acquisition of Happay’s SaaS (Expense & Travel) arm by MakeMyTrip in Feb 2025.

Nov 2019 – Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Rejoined Happay to build strong engineering culture, upgrade frontend and mobile standards, and drive critical product evolution as the company entered the enterprise segment.
• Led multi-functional teams across web and mobile, focusing on scaling quality, delivery, and team capability during a pivotal growth phase.
• Key Contributions:
• Culture and Standards:
• → Established robust engineering practices across both Frontend and Mobile teams, setting high standards for code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Enterprise Product Transformation:
• → Worked closely with teams to adapt and enhance Happay’s platforms (Expense Management, Travel, and EPIC – Corporate Credit Card) for enterprise-grade security, customization, and scale.
• Cross-Platform Leadership:
• → Took ownership of leading both frontend and mobile engineering teams, ensuring alignment in architecture, UI/UX consistency, and feature delivery across platforms.
• Crisis Leadership during Covid:
• → Optimized team structures without compromising output, embedding a "do more with less" mindset to maintain high-quality releases during Covid challenges.
• Strategic Impact:
• → Strengthened the product and tech foundation, directly contributing to Happay’s successful growth trajectory leading to full acquisition by CRED in 2022.

Apr 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the frontend transformation at Happay by modernizing the technology stack, scaling the team, and driving critical improvements across both live and new platforms.
• Key Contributions:
• Product Revamp:
• → Introduced modern web architecture by migrating from jQuery to React.js, improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Live Product Enhancements:
• → Continuously enhanced the live platform to maintain client satisfaction while building the next-generation product.
• Team Building:
• → Built and scaled a high-performing frontend team by hiring top engineering talent and fostering a strong, collaborative culture.
• Roadmap Execution:
• → Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define and deliver the roadmap for Version 2 of the platform, tightly aligned with business priorities.
• Engineering Best Practices:
• → Implemented component-driven development, rigorous code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery and maintain code quality.
• Culture and Process Leadership:
• → Helped shape the engineering culture, setting onboarding processes, coding standards, and knowledge-sharing practices for long-term team success.

Apr 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Contributed as one of the early engineers, building the foundation of Happay's core platforms and enabling rapid product growth among top startups and SMEs.
• Key Contributions:
• Product Development:
• → Spearheaded the development of Version 1 of the Happay Employee and Admin dashboards using HTML, CSS, and jQuery, setting up a scalable and user-friendly platform.
• Successful Client Rollouts:
• → Played a critical role in launching the product with early adopters like OYO, Grofers, and Swiggy, driving market penetration and growth.
• Feature Enhancements:
• → Continuously enhanced product features based on evolving client requirements, ensuring customer satisfaction and high retention rates.
• Data-Driven Insights:
• → Collaborated directly with the CEO to build usage analytics dashboards, helping position the company for investor discussions and fundraising efforts.

Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Joined Happay in its early days and contributed as a core member during the 0 to 1 journey, building the first version of the platform and directly supporting the company’s successful pivot from B2C to B2B.
• Key Contributions:
• Product Development:
• → Spearheaded the development of Version 1 of the Happay Employee and Admin dashboards using HTML, CSS, and jQuery, laying the foundation for a scalable, user-friendly expense management platform.
• Successful Client Rollouts:
• → Played a critical role in launching the product with early adopters like OYO, Grofers, and Swiggy, enabling rapid market penetration.
• Feature Enhancements:
• → Continuously enhanced features based on client feedback, ensuring high satisfaction and supporting product-market fit.
• Data-Driven Insights:
• → Built usage analytics dashboards in collaboration with the CEO, providing key metrics showcased to investors and stakeholders.

May 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• As part of the frontend team, I contributed to two key products — Sprint (Hackathon Management Platform) and Recruit (Hiring Platform). I focused on delivering engaging user experiences, modernizing legacy systems, and building impactful admin and participant features.
• Key Contributions:
• Sprint (Hackathon Platform):
• → Built the Emoji Reaction module for hackathon idea comments to boost engagement.
• → Developed admin control features for better hackathon management and made multiple UI/UX improvements to enhance usability.
• Recruit (Hiring Platform):
• → Modernized legacy Question Bank views by rebuilding them with React, improving performance, responsiveness, and user experience.
• Frontend Modernization:
• → Took ownership of migrating outdated interfaces to scalable, component-driven architectures.
• → Worked closely with product and design teams to align frontend enhancements with business goals.

Jul 2013 – Apr 2014 · 9 mos · Bangalore

• Worked on various type of applications including android,iOS.
• Used Sencha Touch framework to develop both web apps as well as hybrid mobile apps.
• Worked on Ext JS to build dashboards for various clients.
• Integrated most of the APIs of google such as weather api,place api,navigation api,etc.