Jan 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Apr 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Building the next-gen insurtech platform in Qoala along with FairDee (Thailand) responsibilities. Helping core engineering, shared services and devops to help improve the engineering culture and mindset everyday bit by bit.
• We are always looking for talent, if you want to contribute in an environment which creates culturally great engineers, give me a buzz. For specific openings please visit the jobs section on our Qoala LinkedIn Page.

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Apr 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

Jan 2019 – Nov 2025 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Thailand

• FairDee is part of the Qoala Group. We were acquired in April'21 and continue to operate as the FairDee brand in Thailand.
• We empower small independent business owners and agents with a digital insurance platform to serve their customers and local communities, and by collaborating closely with our insurers to create new and innovative products for consumers.
• Prior to acquisition, we have been recognized for our innovation and have been selected to be Top 5 insurtech companies to join the Swiss Re Global Accelerator Program, Top 10 in Fintech Challenge organized by SEC Thailand, and Winner of Singapore ASEAN Pitchfest.

Apr 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• We partner with major insurers to develop and distribute innovative products like cashback car insurance, providing a fair and personalised insurance experience to consumers. Currently live in Singapore and Thailand!
• Singapore - https://www.vouchinsurance.sg
• Thailand - https://www.fairdee.co.th

Aug 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Tenory is a creative learning platform. Currently focused on music education, tenory provides schools and studios a software solution to manage their student’s practice routines. For an end consumer we provide content/tools to learn, practice and share music.
• Tenory started as social network to discover and share music. Users uploaded their recorded music videos and got feedback from the community
• A few of the things we are working on:
• Video transcoding engine - Highly distributed and scalable system which can ingest video as a file or url and transcode it to any resolution along with watermarking | Golang, ffmpeg
• Search service - searched over 2 millions songs and returned results based on popularity and user interest | Golang, elastic search
• Social Graph service - maintained relationships across various entities in the system to improve recommendation and power the social feed | Golang, neo4j, redis
• REST Api Auth gateway service | Django Python
• Data fetching system which fetched latest news, songs and albums from more than 100 sources | Django Python
• SaaS offering for music schools - Top 15 schools in Bangalore use the system actively
• SaaS Product: https://sync.tenory.com
• Web: https://www.tenory.com
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tenory.app
• iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tenory-creative-learning-app/id1281249035

Jun 2016 – Jan 2017 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Ray is a practice management software for clinics. It was Practo’s first product and the single largest contributor to the company’s revenue.
• Led a team of 22 high performing engineers to deliver and release Ray V7 bang on time
• Deployed end to end system for patients to pay online during demonetisation within 2 days (42 hours)
• Created paediatric and ophthal EMR solutions to help doctors with a much needed solution to digitise their prescription and clinical notes
• Got and maintained the uptime of 99.99% for Ray services

Sep 2015 – May 2016 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led a team of 4 to build the next set of EMR capabilities in Ray.

Jul 2012 – Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Internet Acceleration Product for Windows
• An end to end solution for the user and the network operator to save on bandwidth using compression, personalized prefetching and caching
• Part of a team of server engineers and dev-ops to deliver a real time internet acceleration service handling traffic up to 200Gbps
• Developed solution for prefetching Facebook wall on a user’s device based on his preferences, this increased the page load time by more than 50% even under bad network conditions.
• Solely responsible to reverse engineer the Youtube flash and html5 player to enable transcoding of streams on the fly. Involved decompiling the swf player code and understanding so that loopholes could be found.
• Part of the team that developed an out of path client side load balancing solution which became the key piece for horizontal scaling and deployment in hybrid cloud environment
• Vertically scale the system to handle up to 32 parallel real-time video transcoding sessions (480p and 360p) on cc2.8xlarge AWS instance
• iCelero Browser for iOS
• Ideated, designed and developed a very fast browser which would pre-fetch the content from the websites regularly used and work flawlessly in any network condition including airplane mode.
• Designed and developed a solution in python to send updates to a website to the app so that it can be cached.
• Used TMCache on the iOS side to cache the websites and serve content to the browser.
• Dynamic ad removal was implemented to make the website rendering faster. Bloom filters were used to do the lookup as fast as possible.
• Chatfly
• A visual messenger that lets you chat on the fly while engaging with content from your favorite apps. Merchants can publish their businesses on Chatfly using interactive flyers via which they can communicate with prospective customers.
• Responsible for the server side functionality of the Chatfly App. A horizontally scalable architecture for application servers using AWS ELB as the load balancer was developed.

Dec 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida Area, India

• Onmobile acquired Dilithium Networks.

Jun 2009 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Area, India

• Dynamic Content Adapter (DCA)
• DCA is a platform used to transcode video in real time, the ability to change formats, bitrates and resolutions helped in streaming videos to any device in any network conditions.
• Was a core part of the team looking into caching, transcoding and streaming of video content. C++ and PHP were used for development.
• HTTP Adaptive Live Streaming (HLS) - Developed the module for streaming data to iOS and Android devices by preparing manifest (m3u8) files dynamically. The design was such that dynamic manifests can be generated on the fly; one application of the same is dynamic ad insertion.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 · 0 mo · Noida Area, India

• Designed and developed a neural network for Customer Profiling and Product up selling in C++ so that useful recommendations for VAS can made to customers. This project was later started as a full time project named Discover Now

Sep 2007 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Started GRAD with the aim of helping school and college students understand physics using practical methods and hands on experience in robotics and animation.
• GRAD successfully helped students from over 50 colleges and 10 schools in and around the NCR region.