Mar 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led a team of 10+ developers and designers in designing, developing, and deploying cutting-edge ed-tech products.
• Worked with the leadership in designing the product roadmap and was responsible for the overall engineering delivery.
• Set up processes and inculcated a culture of openness and collaboration ensuring delivery of high quality products and bolstering team happiness.
• Hands-on technical leadership, particularly in database design and backend architecture, leading the design and implementation of critical systems scaling from 0 to hundred thousand users.
• Scaled the system to support 20x DAUs over 2 weeks due to a massive surge in demand. Scaled to over a million API calls/hour peak rate.
• Mentored and coached team members to foster professional growth. Set up short-term and long-term career goals and helped achieve those.

May 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• IC: Worked as a Full Stack Engineer, building products and automating flows. Scaled products as per surge in demand ensuring high availability.
• Lead: I mentored and managed engineers across projects. Allocated tasks and timelines, and helped unblock them whenever needed. Set up documentation and knowledge-sharing processes to enhance cross-team collaborations.
• Data: Using my data analytics and visualization skills, I created multiple dashboards, strategic as well as operational, aimed at tracking and improving the organization's testing and automation process by providing real-time analysis and comparison. This added to the team's productivity in providing better Quality Assurance to Cisco's customers.
• Innovation: Introduced Python, NoSQL, React, Redis, and GraphQL in projects migrating from existing LAMP stack to leverage the benefits of the latest technologies based on the project requirements.

Dec 2014 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• My role was to cater to the automation needs of Mobility Unit. I was working as a Full Stack Engineer on the web portal. Also, using my Tableau skills, I created multiple dashboards aimed at tracking and improving organizations testing and automation process by providing real time analysis and comparison. This added to the team's productivity in providing better Quality Assurance to Cisco's customers.
• Developed a new Cisco Internal Tool using Angular, Python and MySQL. This tool is used for creating, updating, approving and delivering ‘Statement of Compliance’(SoC) for Cisco Product releases. Earlier this was done manually and was a tiring, repetitive and error prone process requiring huge effort and multiple verifications but this tool automated the complete flow.
• Built a Test as a Service Platform completely from scratch using Flask, Python, PostgreSQL and REST APIs. Also developed complete pipeline for continuous delivery.
• Lead a team of people working on different web tools and automation projects.
• Was awarded for improving and delivering ‘Statement of Compliance’(SoC) for Cisco Product

Jul 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Developed a Cisco Internal Tool used for tracking automated test runs and weekly status of MITG, Cisco. It helps in creating automated reports and reduces the time taken to scrub by over 70%. This also helps in reducing the time spent on manual tracking.
• Solely responsible for development and integration of tool to database as well as a responsive web based interface with ever increasing features.
• Technologies Used : PHP, MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap
• Role : Web Developer, Tool Developer, DBA
• Received "Cisco Star Award" as a recognition for high level of performance.

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Worked with the Unified Access Business Unit:
• Developed Network, User and Bug dashboard using PHP, mysql and shell scripting
• Performed L2 Testing
• Performed testing and script development for Automated Regression Testing

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Udupi, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Worked as a database administrator on a product that used MySQL database management system