Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

• Led 3 teams of a total 14 engineers to power the indirect business of OYO (10+ services & ~$40 Mn of annualised revenue)
• Responsible for Performance Intelligence for OTAs & Open APIs for OYO. Assigned additional charter of Global OYO Hotels OTA Connectivity and 7 additional reportees six months into the role
• Conceptualised and delivered complex projects like OTA Revenue & Experimentation Platform enabling yield maximization for OTA listings by targeting discounting interventions powered by data science
• Charted out product & technical plan Open API Suite for OYO 2.0, identifying market opportunity and developing a viable product valued at ~$8 Mn annualised revenue
• Certified as a Bar Raiser for hiring at OYO and led/assisted several campus & off-campus hiring drives for ICs/managers
• Prepared Annual Operating Plan, 2-year Vision Document and Quarterly Roadmap to define team & sub-teams’ charter

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Tech Lead in the Partner technology team, which managed the indirect demand & supply partner integrations of OVH
• Led the technical merger of TUI brand into the OVH stack by planning & executing the migration of direct website, indirect integrations, patron portal without any outage while coordinating with ground business teams/external service providers/leadership to add $2.2 Million additional revenue channels & cost-saving.
• Designed migration of 60+ supply partner integrations & 20+ fragmented services into a Global Distribution Platform that created new revenue streams for existing partners & also became the SaaS offering for OYO
• Implemented a Change Management System and set coding guidelines across the team to minimize faulty deployments
• Mentored a pool of 7 developers during the tenure and was the L2 reviewer for 60% of the production code
• Devised and developed a real time logging & monitoring Framework for the OVH infrastructure leading to 200% TAT improvement in debugging and 5x quicker issue detection

Jul 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Member of a multi-national backend team which powered the entire OYO Life business - app, website, admin portals
• Developed the recurring payments feature coordinating changes across multiple teams to ensure stable release that gathered ¥5.1 Million month over month
• Led the migration of 50+ microservices & DBs from AWS to Kubernetes to save 35% costs & improve service availability
• Contributed to backend inventory, ordering and payment systems right from the very initial stages of business

Feb 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Delivered key feature releases independently like Overbookings Model & Powerplay that led to ~30% higher hotel occupancy
• Led the team to be the pioneers in completing the org-wide M2M (Monolith to Microservices) movement that broke down a monolith being worked upon by 200+ developers into 150+ microservices.
• Consistently among the top-code contributors in the team and founded several microservices during the tenure

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Tech Lead in the Partner technology team, which managed the indirect demand & supply partner integrations of OVH

Jul 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Tokyo, Japan

• Member of a multi-national backend team which powered the entire OYO Life business - app, website, admin portals

Dec 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Founded an in-house data scraper service to garner data from public websites with failure detection & resolution

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 · 11 mos

Jun 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Planning Central Engine Team for Oracle’s Fusion Supply Chain Management Product
• ‣ Designed, coded & integrated 20+ enhancements to allow user to edit few input parameters after a successful run of the Plan and Re-run it without requiring to initialise the entire input again
• ‣ Upgraded the measures computation logic from Java to PL/SQL to improve memory footprint of the product
• ‣ Fixed many issues while directly interacting with customers & QA Team with efficient turnaround time
• ‣ Devised Ruby scripts voluntarily to enable the team to reduce resolution time for bugs by around 70 percent
• ‣ Completed Java, SQL & PL/SQL certifications through Oracle University

Jul 2013 – Dec 2013 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Reduced Captive Portal Performance testing time by 75% by writing TCL automation scripts for the entire procedure using IXIA Network Traffic Generators
• Conceptualised a sorted file database for the results of the above automation which increased monitoring efficiency (feature added beyond project objective)

Jul 2012 – May 2013 · 10 mos · Pilani

• Led a 70-member team of students to put up a 4-day photography exhibition during Oasis’12 & Introduced the concepts of Photo-selling & Fun-Corner in the exhibition
• Coordinated a photography workshop at BITS fully sponsored by Canon India
• Organised inter-college photography events viz. Exposure, Flip-Flop, Best Oasis-Dp during Oasis’12