Nov 2022 – Jun 2023 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Recruited and mentored a dynamic team of 7 developers, fostering a culture of efficiency and collaboration that resulted in the timely delivery of numerous products.
• Spearheaded the development and implementation of a cutting-edge social network, revolutionising online activities by introducing interactive synchronous features such as audio-video chat.
• Led and developed a scalable project for influencers to identify their fanbase by analysing comments data from their YouTube page, conducting sentiment analysis to gauge fan loyalty.
• Developed a robust and scalable superlink service, empowering creators to expand their fanbase and engage with a broader audience, while effectively increasing their online presence.

Aug 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led collaboration with third-party tools like Coralogix, Datadog to monitor system health and quickly resolve system outages; conducted sessions to train developers to use these tools.
• Revamped and standardised tech logging practices to reduce cost by 40%; organised a week-long event to refactor the entire codebase.
• Improved developer experience to significantly reduce dev-QA cycle time by introducing new processes and tools; conducted sessions and code reviews.
• Collaborated with various teams to implement agile methodology and processes for efficient development planning and releases.

Aug 2020 – Jul 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Spearheaded a team to design and develop a scalable and customizable task-based reward system to tempt players into performing certain actions to drive various growth levers, improving user retention and rake on platform.
• Led a team of 10+ members to launch a beta version of social product in record time with features like gameplay with audio-video chat, friending, self-hosted games etc.; integrated DGraph to create social graph of users.
• Designed and developed a system to enable growth ops to provide personalised offers to users, increasing money-flow and revenue of the system by 30%.

Jun 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Evaluated and integrated first game server (Nakama) to enable seamless real-time multiplayer gaming experience across geographies. Developed first in-house multiplayer game poker, contributing to more than 75% revenue
• Conceptualised and developed core game logic and enabled in-house game studio to develop new games at increased pace by decoupling platform features like cash transaction, matchmaking etc. from game server
• Single-handedly built fully automated KYC system to remove manual verification efforts and reduce operation costs; added functionality to accept documents like PAN, Aadhaar, DL, Voter ID etc.
• Integrated new payment gateway cashfree; improved existing system for quick reconciliation to ensure accurate accounting and easy switch between different gateways in case of downtimes

May 2019 – Feb 2020 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Conceptualised and developed a system for farmers to provide visibility into crop timeline with timely reminders of farming cycle activities.
• Developed a versatile system to efficiently store user posts with comments, likes & reactions; invented a scoring system to prioritise posts in user timeline basis user interests. Implemented caching to reduce API response latency.

Jul 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Led team of 3 developers & designed redis based backend architecture in Lumen framework for online resume builder which automatically transforms the resume into user’s college format & provides live feedback for user’s content.
• Developed system to identify images in profile documents (resume, job description) such as profile photo, college logo using Image processing to provide feedback according to university guidelines.
• Revamped product release system by building self-serve dashboards and eliminating all development dependency leading to onboarding new clients in less than 24 hours, a reduction in release time by 80%.
• Integrated SSO - Single Sign on authentication by working with 30+ institutions including Oxford, CMU, Kellogg, MIT & major federations like InCommon, CareerHub & CAS improving user experience and engagement with application.

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Created an application in Scala + Spark for large files processing and tokenised the sensible data with the help of HSM module
• Created a security module in Java for Asymmetric Encryption and decryption of files
• Automation of the entire framework and module along with support for SAS, HADOOP frameworks.