Jan 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Managing the team responsible for the look and feel of the Facebook App

Feb 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Design Asset Infrastructure
• Leading a team of engineers in building tooling and infrastructure to effectively ship design assets across the Facebook ecosystem
• Native Android on Animation Infrastructure
• Building the animation tooling and infrastructure to help product teams develop more expressive and delightful product experiences.
• Native Android on Account Access
• I spent a year and a half as an Android engineer on the Account Access team supporting and extending the Facebook Android Login Infrastructure and building new features in Account Security. This includes One-tap Login, Localized Authentication, 2FAC and researching new Account Recovery and Authentication methodologies.

Sep 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Native Android on Protect & Care
• I spent a year and a half as an Android engineer on the Protect and Care Native team in Facebook London building new product experiences in the Account Security space. This included a number of new product features such as 2FAC, Security Checkup, Security Checkpoints, Objectionable Content Filtering and User Survey Tools.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• •- Feature developer on FarmVille, a social farming simulation game and one of Zynga’s most successful titles ever with an astounding peak daily active user (DAU) count of 34.5M. Developed new game features and improved on current ones in collaboration with product, design and art teams in a fast-paced develop-and-release environment.
• Feature developer on Zynga India’s first in-house, cross-platform game (Facebook, Android, iOS), Hidden Shadows where I developed UI systems, sharing and virality mechanisms.
• • - Lead a 2-month initiative to migrate YoVille to Zynga’s internal cloud, which helped save close to $3M/year of server costs.

Jul 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• • Full Stack, Rapid Application Developer for low-frequency trading applications. Developed and managed an entire Back Testing Application ecosystem in C# and Silverlight that was used to validate trading portfolio strategies and simulate portfolio returns. Developed a global index aggregator that consolidates stock market index updates across multiple feed sources and presents all historical updates consistently across indexes.

Jul 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• The goal of the project was to develop a seamlessly integrated multimodal interface that augmented the keyboard and display interface with a speech and handwriting recognition interface. This would improve the overall ease of access in Indian languages on the computer. I was part of a development team that built Indian Language Speech and Handwriting Recognition Engines built with C++ and Qt.