Mar 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

• At Games24x7, one of India’s leading consumer internet companies with 120M+ users, I scaled products like RummyCircle, My11Circle, PokerCircle, and Wowzy from inception to tens of millions of players, supporting 5M+ concurrent sessions and 30M+ transactions per minute. I drove revenue growth and profitability by building cloud-native platforms, advanced engagement systems, and AI/ML-powered personalization, while reducing infrastructure costs by 30% and sustaining 99.98% uptime. Beyond platforms, grew the engineering organization from a startup setup to 300+ people with <6% regrettable attrition, fostering a culture of high performance and innovation. Key initiatives included AI-driven retention and monetization, UGC and community engagement, ML-based fraud detection, and AI-assisted engineering to accelerate velocity and time-to-market.
• Games24x7 is one of India’s leading multi-gaming companies, offering a diverse portfolio across skill-based games, fantasy sports, and casual titles. Backed by marquee investors such as Tiger Global and The Raine Group, the company is driven by a vision to build a 21st-century scientific gaming enterprise from India for the world, rooted in community, creativity, and data-driven innovation. With over 120M registered users playing 5B+ games annually, Games24x7 powers some of India’s most popular platforms, including My11Circle, RummyCircle, PokerCircle, and Wowzy.

Apr 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Helping diversification of portfolio by rolling out new real money games.
• Rolled out a generic multi-player real/casual gaming platform.
• Building key tools to support contextual communication.
• A keen focus & interest in quick ideation to deployment of games & features
• Leading and growing a dynamic team to support scaling up of the tech stack for India's largest real-money gaming company.

Sep 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Building My11Circle.
• Helped build a technology stack which has enabled My11Circle become one of the top 2 fantasy platforms in India.

Jan 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led engineering for RummyCircle, India’s largest online rummy platform.
• Built scalable rummy gaming infrastructure powering millions of players with 99.99% uptime, directly enabling 15x revenue growth.
• Delivered Tournaments platform, scaling to 300K+ concurrent players in a single tournament

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Setting up a tech centre in Bangalore from scratch.
• Building a neutral platform for both shippers and transport companies to grow their business. End to end technology solutions to supercharge the logistics operations.
• Freight Tiger is a technology-driven logistics innovator that's redefining freight management in India—leveraging an integrated suite of digital products, industry partnerships, and social impact initiatives to improve visibility, efficiency, and equity across the supply chain.

Jul 2006 – Jan 2016 · 9 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

• BT India (BT plc., UK’s largest landline & broadband provider; first R&D center outside the UK)
• Joined as founding engineer team, contributed to migration from legacy to microservices-based modern stack.
• As a member of founding team of BT’s first R&D center outside the UK, I led the digital transformation of network diagnostics, surveillance and performance monitoring platforms. Our work improved service reliability for 15M+ customers by driving 40% better Right First Time (RFT), 25% reduction in MTTR, and deploying predictive analytics and early ML models for proactive fault detection that cut downtime by 20%.