Aug 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Founding engineer with a leadership charter, responsible for both the architectural and operational direction of the SaaS control plane.
• Led the design and development for several foundational components spanning backup scheduling and execution, data immutability, realtime analytics, multi-tenant multi-region support, rich query APIs, health monitoring, and authN/authZ.

Apr 2019 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Technical lead for the AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) service.
• Created a platform to automate ingestion of new open-source Kafka versions into MSK. This helped our team achieve an AWS-record time of < 1 week in delivering new Kafka versions to customers. This became a gold standard for other managed AWS services that leverage open-source software.
• (Patented work) Designed and led the integration with AWS IAM. This offered a higher standard of security and flexibility compared to the native Kafka options.
• Implemented a solution for detecting slow / stuck data volumes (containing customer data), thus making it possible to automate self-healing. This helped reduce operational load significantly.
• Built a proof-of-concept and high-level design for accessing MSK clusters through AWS PrivateLink. And mentored a senior engineer who helped deliver this project (by which time I had left Amazon). This helps customers easily access MSK clusters from any number of VPCs out-of-the-box.

Apr 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Responsible for making quality-of-life improvements for knowledge scientists (ontologists / linguists) who helped codify Alexa's question-answering rulesets.
• Reduced deployment time of these rulesets by optimizing the pipeline structure.
• Worked closely with the question-answering service team to optimize performance of the question interpretation engine.

Jan 2015 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

• Led the development of several internal products used by account managers who helped customers optimize their ad spend on DoubleClick.
• Drove adoption of the microservices architecture and a standard tech-stack across all our products.
• Earned the coveted Java readability reviewer award for raising the Java code quality bar at Google.
• Organized classes on algorithms for analysts and product managers.

Jul 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bala Cynwyd PA · On-site

• Responsible for adding features to our internal historical+live market data viewer.
• Improved historical data query performance by an order of magnitude, by optimizing market data storage.
• Built a predictive analyzer to model quoting behavior of market makers trading options on the PHLX exchange.

Sep 2011 – May 2012 · 8 mos · Philadelphia

• Algorithms and data-structures
• Distributed systems

Feb 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Invented a novel arm planning algorithm for the PR2 robot, making common gestures practically feasible.
• Demonstrated a 100x speedup (from over 200 to under 2 seconds) in some robot-arm maneuvers.
• Co-authored a paper for the International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Shanghai, China.

May 2011 – Aug 2011 · 3 mos · Chicago · On-site

Jul 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune Area, India · On-site