Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Oct 2021 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Drove product strategy and engineering execution while owning part of the P&L, aligning technology investments with growth and profitability.
• Launched BhanzuBuddy, an AI-powered homework assistant used by students, and built an AI-driven class QC system improving teaching quality.
• Developed a proprietary class environment (IVS-backed) with collaborative features, enabling scale and richer learning experiences.
• Led three teams — Product, Engineering, and Learning Experience — and partnered with Marketing, Sales, Ops, and Finance to ensure cohesive execution.
• Championed GenAI adoption early, embedding it into multiple workflows, while driving cost optimization across the org.

Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Aug 2018 – Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked as an architect across Personalization, Ads, and Order Management Systems, ensuring scalable design and system optimization.
• Smart Substitutions project in the Personalization team, enabling customers to automatically receive the best substitutes for out-of-stock grocery items.
• Provided technical leadership as an individual contributor: driving architecture decisions, optimizing software systems, and conducting design and code reviews.
• Mentored engineers across teams.

Nov 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Majorly worked on migrating Target's search onto Zettata search platform.

Dec 2014 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Scaled to Head of Engineering, leading hiring, mentoring, and growing the engineering team.
• Partnered with enterprise customers to ensure smooth onboarding and technical adoption.
• Delivered measurable business impact: algorithms drove a 10–30% lift in revenue per search and improved site conversion metrics for multiple global retailers.

Aug 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

• First engineer at the company — built an e-commerce search engine from the ground up, enabling large retailers worldwide to deliver more relevant results.

Sep 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Transitioned Slabble into InMobi, scaling from a 3-member founding team to a multi-disciplinary org with product managers, UX designers, and ~10 engineers.
• Led innovation through multiple POCs and product builds, including:
• A video ads platform extending InMobi’s monetization capabilities.
• A white-label mobile/iPad-first OTT solution for TV networks — a precursor to platforms like Zee5 and Sony LIV.
• One of the first HLS-based live event transmission systems, pioneering mobile video streaming at scale.
• Drove cross-functional collaboration between product, engineering, and design to rapidly execute on market-shaping opportunities.

Dec 2010 – Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Founded and built Slabble, an ML-driven contextual information delivery system — a precursor to what later became widely known as Google Now.
• Designed and implemented a platform that pushed relevant content to users at the right moment, from news and traffic alerts to entertainment videos.
• Served as sole engineer in a 3-member founding team, taking the product from concept to MVP in under 6 months.
• Blended product vision, engineering execution, and early user experience design to validate the idea rapidly.

Sep 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · On-site

• Designed and developed the core framework for InMobi’s real-time ad serving and click-processing platform — the backbone of the company’s advertising business.
• Scaled the platform to handle 9 billion ad requests per month while maintaining average response times under 10ms.
• Spearheaded research and implementation of next-gen ad serving algorithms, and click fraud detection patterns, strengthening system reliability and ROI.
• Specialized in performance engineering and advanced data structures, while also supporting other teams in optimizing applications.
• Led and mentored engineers, driving execution on mission-critical designs and evangelizing technology across the org.

Jan 2006 – Aug 2008 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Began career in infrastructure engineering, contributing to core messaging and centralized logging systems. Developed our own serialization technique for complex objects. Implemented across C/C++, Java, Perl, and PHP.
• Implemented vertical search solutions across multiple Yahoo! properties, including Finance, Kids, and The9, improving discoverability and user experience.
• As part of the Application & Participation Platforms group, built company-wide platforms for feed gathering and processing, supporting large-scale content delivery.
• Proactively contributed to infrastructure optimization and scaling, improving system efficiency and reliability.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 · 3 yrs · Punjab · On-site

• Taught programming languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, Javascript etc) and computer basics like data structures, operating systems, networking etc.
• Taught physics and mathematics to 11th and 12th grade students preparing for JEE and medical entrance exams.
• Assembled and sold personal computers to individuals and SMEs.