Jun 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led the end-to-end development and launch of Murf.AI’s AI-driven dubbing product, unlocking new enterprise markets and driving significant revenue.
• Defined and executed a scalable AI infrastructure strategy, optimizing cloud costs by 20%
• Scaled the engineering team to 2.5x, fostering a high-performance culture with <5% attrition.

Jul 2015 – May 2023 · 7 yrs 10 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area · Hybrid

• As CTO, I co-founded a company in the education technology sector and grew it to an annual multi million revenue.
• Over the past 8+ years, I successfully led two business pivots and increased the user base to over 5 million installs and 200,000 paid users, equivalent to approximately 0.4% of India's population (1.39 billion).
• I have extensive experience managing technology teams of varying sizes, uptill 30 individuals, and have a successful track record of hiring and developing engineers.
• I implemented microservices (15+) using Golang to enable the company to handle over 100,000 API requests per minute, resulting in a 99.9% service availability rate.
• I developed a scalable streaming service capable of serving at least 100,000 customers and optimized its performance based on user bandwidth constraints.
• I reduced monthly AWS costs by 60% through in-depth analysis and optimization of the company's infrastructure, lowering costs from $25,000 to $10,000.
• I also conducted multiple reviews using the AWS Well-Architected Review (WAR) framework and implemented recommendations to improve cost efficiency, performance, reliability, operational excellence, security, and sustainability.
• In addition to my expertise in backend development with Golang, I have also worked with Android, React, and React Native. I have designed and implemented a cost-effective microservice for handling 50,000 daily test API requests, featuring three levels of caching for optimal performance from a single t3a.small instance.
• Managing tech teams remotely for the last 3 years.

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Was given the lead role to develop an enclosing SOAP API over an existing REST API.
• The project involved making the thing from scratch up(from gathering specifications to the final API).
• Had the opportunity to learn project management, server management, team management to mention a few. Research & Learning the technologies involved was an integral part of it.

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Bangalore

• Worked on Java technologies - Spring, maven, hibernate, activiti dynamic workflows, orbean dynamic forms being some of them. Some databases like mysql and mongodb.
• Had the opportunity to design from bottom up a highly flexible and dynamic hospital workflow system.