Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• After being a techie for my entire career, chose to step away and do something entirely different. Balancing left brain, right brain skills. So solving operations, finance, growth, marketing at Stylobug. Infusing data, processes. Proud of what we have achieved in this short duration.

Oct 2016 – Oct 2020 · 4 yrs · Gurgaon, India

• Great usecase of driving business transformation using data and technology.
• Stylo Bug Enterprises, incorporated in 2016 is an online only fashion brand dealing in kids clothing. Currently it is listed on Myntra, Amazon and other marketplaces. Their strength is in designing and doing in-house manufacturing with great quality.
• Like any other fashion business, reducing inventory was the key. Conceptualised and helped execute a product which via data would generate insights on quantity of each design that should be manufactured, thereby reducing inventory. Introduced data collection within the factory to optimise (increase speed, trackability, reduce wastage) manufacturing unit. This coupled with backward integrated supply chain led them to do record business in the EORS sales on Myntra in 2019. The company became Top 10 seller in its category on Myntra within a year. Its peak orders (for a day/week) were 100 X of last year's. Mindboggling scale. Never heard of!!
• The Myntra team acknowledged this and icing on the cake was that all of this was achieved with 1/5 of the resources (designs/styles) of the leading sellers. Proud of investing and be associated with this business.
• While the founders are a passionate bunch and full credit to them for execution, this association proves one of my hypothesis. Engineers armed with business knowledge are lethal assets. Elated to discover this side of mine. Some boastful story this is!!

Sep 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana

• Leading a team at AccessPoint payments team. Journey of unlearning and learning.

Jun 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Zomato is hiring across all teams. In case you are interested, do reach out to us.
• AdTech: Zomato Ads generate about 40% of the overall revenues. We are looking to build next generation high scale adtech system for our merchant, users, sales partners.
• Gold: The product that is loved by entire India. How do we keep on innovating, not only in India but across the globe balancing the push and pull of troika of our users, merchant partners and even us Zomato/Zomans.
• New Initiatives: Some new products are in pipeline to enter unchartered territories and serve our users better.
• In short building Zomato for next phase of growth.

Apr 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Currently education sector is a mess. Teachers/principals arguably don't want change in teaching methodologies since their work-load is high, parents want something cost effective. Students sadly don't have any decision making and everyone makes it for them.
• I believe it is time to make an impact in this sector, one school at a time with over 200 million school going students and 300,000 private schools
• Designed/architected all the (front end and back end) products to cater to below business needs
• Communication:
• o Personalized news feed on the wall.
• o Attendance.
• Learning:
• o Quizzes based on your class-subject-chapter-topics as per NCERT and CBSE guidelines.
• o Content (pdf/doc/html/videos) relevant to the student.
• Ecommerce suited for schools
• o Books Marketplace.
• o Fee Payment systems.
• Micro services architecture with components handling upto 2000 rpm - 4000 rpm.
• Responsible for IT budget.
• Lots of exciting inhouse innovations.
• o Devops automations: CI/CD with Ansible and Jenkins, 1 Click Environment automation and more.
• o Few automations (on monitoring usage of environments) reduced 20-30% of cost on AWS infra.
• o Team structure: Mix of inhouse, in-sourcing, out-sourcing team to fulfill business mandate of a profitable tech startup.
• o Innovative release process: Concept of release owner introduced who takes all big/small decisions in a release.
• o Mix of horizontal and vertical teams ensures high productivity.
• Technology: Java, PHP 7, Angular, Android, Objective C, Aerospike, Kafka, Mysql.
• If this excites you, come once and talk to us about the product that we are building. Its a suite of product that would become the Academic OS.

May 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs

• Advise startups and enterprises wrt their technology challenges. Help them strategize
• Leadership hiring by leveraging my network.
• Tech platform setup to reduce future mistakes
• Architecture decisions to be future ready.
• Technology practices to boost productivity
• Product decisions.

Apr 2015 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

• Working for Snapdeal. Have been helping Snapdeal execute the mobile strategy from technology perspective for last 2-3 years.
• Last one year was phenomenal for mobile apps team, having built lots of products with small team and with amazing benefits. Now team has grown 8-10 fold. We need to find way to execute right things, execute still faster and keep innovating (some really cool things are on cards).
• Mobile API aggregator (first system that mobile apps would hit): Handled a scale of 5,00,000 concurrent users at peak diwali traffic with ms response times. Incredible journey. API layer was scaled (2X-10X), made fault tolerant, secured and whole lot of other initiatives to make the system robust. Monitoring and alerting and other aspect too were strengthened.
• Mobile apps (iOS, Android, Windows): Single owner throughout Snapdeal journey since its inception.
• Launched SD Push, new age notification platform which targets to send notifications to entire Snapdeal user base in mere 15-20 mins!! It has been created from scratch, allows you to segment based on several axes of user activity (time of visit, no. of visits, category, product, orders etc). This would now be integrated in other "pearl" apps. ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Achievements that we as a team accomplished in this short duration:
• Android, iOS, Windows and iPad apps were featured on the respective app stores with 4.1+ Rating
• iOS and iPad app reached 1st position on app store; best material design implementation in India
• Golden Peacock Award for most innovative product (Application Referral) among 300 entries.
• While bulk push systems achieved 1-2% conversions, SD push notification system achieved as high as 4-5% conversion rate.
• In the ecommerce journey, scaled the API product 100X (or may be more) and team upto 20X. Managed teams from 5 member teams to 120 member teams.

Nov 2011 – Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Joined Snapdeal in its early days when it was still doing deals.
• 1) As early member of dev team, enhanced website a bit helping with Marketing tools. Developed various SEO tools and other marketing initiatives for the website. Reworked retargeting, analytic scripts which make the pages heavy and cluttered. Improved the performance. Later Managed a team which was responsible for managing the buy experience on the site i.e. right when you add a product to cart, place an order to thank you page.
• 2) Set up teams who initially developed mobile site from scratch. WAP site was launched in early 2012. Worked with team of 10 devs to launch various features, trying to bring parity to website features. Conversion increased from 0.5% in early days to 5.5%. Scaled and launched various design iterations with merchandise and tight quality controls.
• 3) The same team put together order management functions (backend service to add to cart, place an order, cancel an order, return an order) together from scratch.
• 4) Set up team to launch mobile apps in early 2012 when no one even thought of it. Due to low traction, put it on maintenance mode for a while. The team got disbanded and then later built another team to take up mobile apps as they exist today. Talk about an intrapreneur's journey!!
• 5) Briefly looked at Search functions, catalog management functions in very small capacity.
• Very proud to have built, hacked and crashed various systems at Snapdeal.

May 2011 – Nov 2011 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• On my return back to India, I continued with CenturyLink (Qwest was acquired by Centurylink and renamed to CenturyLink) and this time helped build team expertise around Qwest's telecom product.
• Team benefited from my experience in US at onsite to understand where does what they do fit in the entire ecosystem of applications.

Apr 2009 – Apr 2011 · 2 yrs

• I was working with Qwest Software Services, Bangalore for past 2 yrs. Now I work with their parent company Qwest Communications, US.
• Responsibilities as Developer:
• Participated in the development of entire VoIP product onto the framework. Now it is being ported on to an enhanced framework which would work with Hibernate and Spring.
• Participated in design of the pages using J2EE 1.4 guidelines and different J2EE design patterns.
• Consumed Web Services and TIBCO bus services for exchanging information from an internal service provider.
• Made interactive GUIs extensively using AJAX.
• Develop ITRs with a small team of 3 people.
• Responsibilities as Dev Lead:
• Single Point of Contact for all issues related to this project. Any issue with project management, architecture solution, defect, production issues are referred to me.
• Working with analysts/System Engineers to work out the requirements (BRs).
• Working with dependent teams to negotiate a solution.
• Work with analysts to help translate BRs into technical requirements (ITRs) and prepare LOEs.
• Work with project managers to work out an iteration no. for the ITRs. Agile methodology is followed for all deliverables.
• Responsible for ITR delivery and tracking.
• As module architect, design the requirements and prepare HLD for the dev team to follow. This design architecture is then ratified by the SEs and Program architects as part of CMMi requirements.
• Guide the team through technical hurdles during development.
• Track development status thru integration, unit testing.
• Responsible for defect tracking and resolution
• Responsible for deliverables in the projects which include CMMi-3 deliverables like HLD, LLD, review records, unit test plan.
• Production support post deployment.
• Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and also wrapped up Use Case diagrams, Activity flow diagrams and Class diagrams of modules using Visio and Microsoft Office 2007.

May 2007 – Apr 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

• I have been working in projects which involve deep understanding of Java, J2EE, Struts framework, webservice, Ajax, Hibernate technologies.
• Also as a senior member of the team, I see that not only do I complete my module but others too are on track. So that involves ensuring code quality, maintaining low defects, enhancements etc.

May 2006 – Aug 2006 · 3 mos

• I worked briefly with Airbus at their location in Bristol, UK as part of Infosys assignment.

Aug 2004 – Apr 2007 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• My First Company