Aug 2021 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Hybrid

• TakeLessons.com:
• 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦, establishing processes and technical standards
• 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 across 5 countries (US, Canada, Europe, India, China)
• Drove AWS-to-Azure migration strategy for mission-critical platform
• Led product management initiatives for onboarding platform, collaborating with designers and vendors
• 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝟕𝟓% 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 through strategic optimization
• Established component library and design system, improving development velocity
• Managed live site reliability and incident response for customer-facing platform
• Optimized development processes, improving team productivity by 40%
• Bing.com AI Platform:
• 𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈-𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 (Bing Pros), contributing to Microsoft's AI-first strategy
• Managed full-stack architecture decisions for platform serving millions of users globally
• 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 across US, Canada, China, India, and Europe
• Delivered core Profile and Dashboard features critical to platform adoption
• Managed vendor relationships for background verification systems
• Drove multi-market deployment strategy (US, India, global)
• Established security and quality standards across development lifecycle
• Collaborated with Product Management on feature definition and requirements
• 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭:
• Scaled engineering team from ground up • Led strategic technology migrations with zero downtime • Managed complex stakeholder relationships across product, design, and vendors • Drove measurable business impact (75% performance improvement, 40% productivity gains) • Successfully managed global, distributed teams across time zones
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: TypeScript, React, Next.js, C#, Azure Cloud, A/B Testing, Telemetry

Sep 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Vancouver, Canada · Hybrid

• Managing a team of 25+ freelance developers for clients across Canada, US, Australia, India, Dubai
• 4+ Million CA$ in revenue in 6 years.
• Managed technical delivery for investment mgmt platform serving global markets (Orbis Investments, Vancouver). Coordinated with distributed teams across Canada, Bermuda, and Australia
• Work involved communicating ideas and discussing requirements with client and dev team
• Speaker at numerous React and Frontend end conferences and meetups internationally
• Open-source contributor and corporate trainer (React, Angular, Vue)

May 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led 15-member development team for Tesco's Clubcard loyalty program
• Managed stakeholder relationships across UK and India operations
• Drove React adoption and team capability building
• Active contributor to React development community in Bangalore

Jan 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

• I have delivered many corporate training sessions on Front End Technologies. Most of my training sessions are hands on and participants get to create an application by themselves at the end of the session. This helps them understand the concept in a much better way than just listening to a PowerPoint presentation.
• I specialize on training in following technologies:
• JavaScript as a language
• AngularJS 1.x and 2.0 frameworks
• ReactJS library
• JQuery
• MEAN stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS)
• BackboneJS

Sep 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

• I am currently working as a freelance software developer with expertise in front end development using JavaScript. User experience is my strong area. My current projects are based on Angular.js, Node.js, Backbone.js and MEAN stack

Oct 2015 – Oct 2019 · 4 yrs · Bangalore, India

• Why Wallora?
• We see a lot of people struggle with managing their expenses and monthly budget. In earlier days, it was a much simpler situation for a salaried person to manage their monthly income and expenses. Mostly there used to be a single member of the family earning and all expenses used to be in cash transactions. Hence people could withdraw cash from bank at the beginning of the month and spend in control throughout the month. But in today's digital world, our lifestyle has considerably changed and changing more. In many households, there are more than one person earning. Also one person has more than one stream of income. Similarly expenses are not limited to just cash transactions. Credit cards, net banking, alternate currencies are used in majority of our expenses. Also many products are bought overseas involving multi currencies. Our expenses are more ad hoc in nature than those a few years back. Also an average person in today's world involves in more activities than they used to earlier. This stops people from making a monthly plan and keeping a tab on all expenses, as data entry in most tools are time consuming. All these factors together makes it very difficult for an average person to keep track of their resources.
• We started Wallora with a vision to help individuals with no finance background, manage their personal finances well. This is an intuitive and intelligent tool that can help its owner to plan ahead, spend wisely and save well.
• When?
• Wallora is now live at https://www.wallora.com

Mar 2015 – Sep 2015 · 6 mos · Bangalore

• I lead UI team at ecoInsight Inc. My primary responsibilities include the following:
• Develop HTML5 app for features which were previously part of Silverlight app
• Evaluate path to move from Silverlight app to Windows thick client (WPF) app for part of project
• Maintain consistent UI design for Windows and HTML5 app to give seamless User Experience
• Working with UI Designer to come up with new controls UI/UX for HTML5 based on Material Design concepts and Windows Tile design
• Evaluate UI best practices for web and thick client
• Help marketing team with company website design and code
• Mentoring team members to inculcate development and testing good practices

Jan 2015 – Mar 2015 · 2 mos · Bangalore

• I lead UI team at ecoInsight Inc. My primary responsibilities include the following:
• Heading the initiative to move from Silverlight to HTML5
• Bring in coding best practices to the development team
• Introduce Agile as a SDLC methodology
• Interact with PM in Atlanta office to understand customer requirement and convey back to team

Jan 2010 – Dec 2014 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• I lead a team of 11 members for one of the largest Consultancy firms in the World. My responsibilities include the following:
• Understand client requirements and communicate the same to the offshore team
• Development of features. Making sure bad code is refactored and the code delivered is of high quality
• Overlook monthly release happens on time with quality
• Mentor junior team members
• Work with QA to enable them to test features and clear hurdles
• Make sure all stakeholders are always aware of the progress made by the team and that any feedback is communicated back to the team
• I am also leading the initiative to redesign the current application from Silverlight to HTML5, as well as re-architecture the server-side code
• Skills: Programming · C# · .NET · Web Applications · JavaScript · Data Modeling · Web Architecture · Computer Science

Oct 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune

• I work on .Net technologies in the Telecom domain. Recently I was entrusted with the role of a interim Module Lead for a project. I developed code and looked after the activities in the UI team.
• My responsibilities include Planning and tracking, Reporting progress, Requirements gathering from system engineers in US, Communication with stake holders, Designing and Development of the product and some other misc activities like interviewing, helping other teams in .Net modules, etc.

Mar 2004 – Jul 2007 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Pune

• My activities include Developing, Mentoring, Project Planning-Tracking, Handling Build drops to QA, Working with technical writers, Looking at Build-Deploy issues, sometimes interacting with clients and with onshore teams, etc.
• Working on Compliance Center product (Network security domain). Technology used is primarily C# .Net

Jun 2003 – Feb 2004 · 8 mos · Pune

• My job profile includes Research on Speech and Multilingual Technologies.
• The language translation system and Indian language learning products developed by our team are used in Parliament of India (Rajya Sabha)