Jan 2023 – Apr 2023 · 3 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France · On-site

May 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

• I have been working on the backend of some of the non hyper-casual initiatives at Voodoo. My day to day involves working on open ended problems, looking at and analysing data to make decisions, mentoring other engineers in the team.
• Reorganised the architecture of multiple projects to prepare them for scale. This involved moving from a service oriented architecture to microservices and distributed systems, wrapping the infrastructure modules (like kubernetes and terraform), setting up health metrics and alerts, and more.
• Worked on the matchmaking system for Blitz, a social casino app. Improved on the existing skill based matchmaking to improve player experience while retaining business goals. Heavily used data to drive decisions and test changes.
• Set up the a/b testing framework to allow testing and analysis of various features on multiple target populations.

Apr 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Implemented UI workflow for a new product focussed on promoting used vehicle sales on Google.com
• Worked on identifying the Query Intent for vehicle sale. Improved upon the existing classification model to increase the precision from 91.72% to 98.14% and the recall from 64.58% to 95.38%.

Oct 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune Area, India

• I was responsible for re-imagining and restructuring the devops at MindTickle. Involved full ownership of the technical product as well as it’s implementation. Led a team of 4 engineers.
• Worked on creating a secure and agile environment for continuous development and delivery of product streams at MindTickle. Scaling the infrastructure for the transition from service oriented architecture to microservices.
• Evangelized the use of containers and cluster orchestration. Experience of kubernetes in production.
• Automated and decentralized processes to help scale without "DevOps" becoming the bottleneck.
• Created processes for monitoring and alerting the health of the system for improving up-time.

Aug 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Pune Area, India

• I was an early part of the development team at MindTickle and was involved in various projects which touched parts of the entire technology stack.
• Build automation and parameterization was one of the most challenging projects that I took up. This involved building a system that could handle multiple project builds as we moved to the microservice architecture. Ansible was used for automation and Jenkins was the CI.
• I set up a system for secure access of servers at MT. This involved hopping and LDAP authentications, all of which were done from the scratch. AWS EC2 and openLDAP were used for the same.
• I was briefly involved in making the first version of the Android application for MindTickle.
• I was involved in the architectural redesign of the backend system at MindTickle. My primary concerns were taking care of efficient and searchable storage of user data. I used Elasticsearch extensively for this project.
• I designed and maintained the email template and evaluation system. This involved problems of burst traffic and throttling. We later added trace and status storage for every mail so that mail jobs could be identified for failures.

Jan 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I was involved with flipkart's digital flirtation, flyte. Flipkart tried to create a market for digital music and ebooks.
• I was responsible for the fulfillment flow of the digital platform. This involved real time delivery of digital products after authentication and encryption (if required).
• I developed the DRM (Digital Resource Management) system for flyte ebooks. Encryption and fuzziness were a primary concern to prohibit piracy.
• I was also involved with the initial versions of the android app for flyte music player.
• Helped in Content Management module which was built using Cassandra and coded in scala.
• Worked on intelligent suggestions and auto-complete over the digital catalog.

Jul 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad