Dec 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Transformed Airtel Digital engineering into a high-performance culture, leading a team of 350-400 engineers.
• Developed a unified platform strategy for Prepaid, Postpaid, Broadband, and DTH services across digital channels.
• Spearheaded the redesign of the Thanks app, achieving over 100 million monthly active users and scaling clickstream events to 2-3 billion daily.

Aug 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Noida Area, India

• Led all growth products including Paytm App. Responsible for leading and rolling out multiple new products. Part of CEO Office and led engineering transformation across multiple teams.
• Responsible and owned Tier 1 platforms with requests scaling to 20K requests per second.
• Built a strong next level leadership team and a strong culture of metrics across teams.
• Paytm App Engineering: Restructured the entire app team and app architecture to get a faster release cycle. Owned core metrics for App including build app architecture restructuring for a large multi-vertical development team. Led metrics better than all competitors.
• Growth and Promotions Platform: Built a central promotions platform catering use cases from payments, commerce, journey campaigns, loyalty, referral with multiple gratifications etc.
• Order Platform: High throughput scalable order system which can scale easily from 1K TPS to 10K TPS with multiple microservices and sharded database.
• Cloud Infra, Tools and Services: Built cloud tools from monitoring, deployment, build/release management, infra tooling.
• Launched multiple products for new business initiatives for multiple teams – Chat, Contactless Ordering, Merchant Store and Mini Programs Platform – enabling third party merchants and internal apps to be launched on Paytm

Dec 2015 – Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Noida Area, India

• Head of Product and Engineering at Paytm Mall: Led all product and engineering deliverables for Paytm Mall and Platform Services for Marketplace Engineering.
• Responsible for board representation for all product and engineering initiatives.
• Built 300 people strong engineering team for ecommerce business.
• Product Management and Engineering across entire commerce functions for Paytm Mall (Catalog, Search, Recommendations, Order Management, Logistics, Promotions, Seller Platform, Mobile Consumer App/Web).
• Restructured key platforms to lead consumer and seller journey from online commerce to an Offline O2O led commerce/retail journey.
• Re-architected platforms on consumer web, app, and logistics/fulfilment - leading multiple verticals to coherently exist on common platform services and develop faster.
• Led vertical specific engineering teams for Digital Recharges, Utility Bill Payments, Movies, and Entertainment.
• Setup Devops, Cloud Infra and Site Reliability Team. Built platforms for infra, application and business monitoring.

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

• Actively invested in seed-stage startups, focusing on innovative solutions to everyday problems.
• Collaborated with passionate founders at Crofarm, Otipy, Yoho, ChattyBao, Middleware, and CodeCrafters.
• Evaluated business models and market potential, leading to strategic investments that fostered growth.
• Developed a keen understanding of emerging market trends and consumer needs.

Feb 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

• Indian Angel Network is a network of Angel investors keen to invest in early stage businesses which have potential to create disproportionate value.

Feb 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

• Love interacting with young entrepreneurs building next generation of growth startups across product, technology, growth, leadership, business development, IPR etc.

Jul 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Near.in was a managed marketplace for local services that standardized local services with upfront pricing / comparison shopping and enabled people to buy local services at the click of a button. The aim was to make buying local services as simple as buying a product online.

Oct 2011 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• I led Wirkle to a successful acquisition with Location Labs US (now Avast). Post acquisition, I was responsible for integration of India engineering operations with US successfully. Managed multiple engineering teams building family safety products for large scale web applications and deploying successful consumer products for Tier1 telecom operators - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint.
• Lead Wirkle (a 70 member team) to a successful acquisition with Location Labs US, in Sept 2011. Provide overall M&A support for engineering integration between India and US.
• Led design/architecture, feature development, performance/scalability building Mobile Parental Controls platform on Java stack for deployment on Sprint and Verizon.
• Worked on improving performance and features for Spatial Storage platform (Java stack) and geofencing Android library.
• Location Labs is the leader in mobile location-as-a-service with consumer products that enhance the personal safety of millions of users.

Nov 2004 – Oct 2011 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Co-founded Wirkle which was later acquired by Location Labs (now AVG). Wirkle launched one of the world's first mobile only social network - LinknSurf. The platform won international recognition at 3GSM Barcelona in 2007.
• Conceived LinknSurf - a social network around mobile content on mobile phones, personal & group messaging, blogs, profiles, fans.
• Built WAML (Wireless Action Markup Language), a mobile markup language enhancing user-experience for phones. Built an highly optimized (< 128 KB) app with an in-built mini web browser (supporting WAML). Holds US Patent for the platform.
• Designed/developed/architected the server side platform. The platform provides support for aggregating RSS/Atom feeds from the web; search using Apache Lucene, includes transaction sync protocol for syncing a user state between server and mobile device; device heterogeneity support.
• Wirkle later pivoted to Outsourced Product Development model with focus in consumer mobile space. Touched upon almost every part of the mobile app ecosystem. Built telecom grade client/server platforms within Social Networking, Instant Messaging, Location Based Services, Multimedia Streaming etc.
• Responsible for all engineering/pre-sales activities for customers - primarily building consumer products for US customers.
• Served as Solution Architect and Built multiple server platforms on Java stack - Video Surveillance Platform on mobile for DVR/IP Cameras/Web cams, Instant Messaging Platform using Jabber, SyncML server and Web applications.
• Built Mobile Products - UI SDK for J2ME, Consumer Apps - Restaurant Finder, Social Networks and test/porting across hundreds of handsets - mobile web/iPhone/Android/Blackberry/Symbian/J2ME.

Jun 2002 – Nov 2004 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Austria

• Software Engineer and Researcher in the area of semantic web, knowledge and content management. Did lot of study on metadata systems, information retrieval and making software application context aware using metadata/ontologies.
• Designed/Developed solution architecture for semantic (metadata) middleware systems.
• Developed desktop software in Java for ontology based multimedia authoring tool. Also, open-sourced an ontology visualization tool (RDF Graph Visualization Tool (RDF Gravity).
• Wrote project proposals, technical deliverables, publish papers in international journals.

May 2001 – Jul 2001 · 2 mos

• Worked on a Middleware for Next Generation Multimedia Information Systems using peer to peer framework - JXTA.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

• I wrote a lot of software in assembly for Personal Digital Assistant for Tourists. Tourists could carry on this digital device and could see location aware text, audio/visual information of monuments. The device had a GPS chip.
• software (in C and assembly) for an 8951 micro-controller based handheld device (built within the project) to provide Location Aware (using GPS) Audio, Text, Visual and Map information to tourists.
• a GIF decoder (87a, 89a formats) in assembly for viewing images, interfaces in assembly for GPS, LCD display, Key buttons, Audio and serial port for the handheld.