Aug 2021 – May 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Normalyze was acquired by Proofpoint in October 2024**
• As part of the founding team led Controlplane engineering from inception, scaling both the team (head count) and platform architecture across core systems. Actively involved in hiring, building the team, product decisions and mentoring.
• Multi-Tenant Resource Graph – Designed and developed the central graph platform powering data scans, risk analysis, and access governance across the entire product ecosystem.
• Signature Builder – Designed and delivered a robust Cypher query parser with strict read-only safeguards, enabling custom risk signatures while maintaining security posture.
• Data Access Governance – Built the foundational platform processing 100M+ daily cloud audit logs across multi-platform environments, powering access lifecycle, governance, and risk automation features.
• Activity-Based Anomaly Detection – Invented a cloud-agnostic risk detection system identifying hidden data exfiltration (filed US patent), creating a key competitive differentiator.
• Onboarding Experience – Redesigned cloud provider onboarding from single-account to organization-wide, reducing time-to-value to <60 minutes while expanding scope.

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Senior Engineer @ Gardener, an open source Kubernetes as a Service platform
• https://github.com/gardener/

Feb 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Worked on newer model of data ingestion into thoughtspot database.
• Built a generic system test framework that could be used across development, test and support for building better testing across the product. The framework helped increase code coverage significantly in backend microservices.

Jan 2018 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Worked on design, development & automation for Micro Services Platform of Nutanix
• Part of core platforms group and worked on enhancements and fixes in Nutanix cluster manager service, SNMP and Micro Services layer
• Worked with a set of experienced engineers and learnt micro services system architecture and kubernetes from them. Got to work on various layers like node scaling, envoy, flannel, kube proxy, etcd DNS management in kubernetes stack.
• Lead/Mentored a team of interns and graduate engineers in Micro Services Development.

Aug 2017 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Back in 2015, I did some trials on idea sharing and building a team with varied skills which builds a product. I had parked the results of the trials for some time after a POC due to my full time job and other engagements. Recently I got a chance to work on the POC and make it into a usable product.
• IdeasPlatter is a product aimed at helping people like you and me to ideate, collaborate and startup! You can select categories you want to ideate in, select your skills, post ideas and even collaborate on others ideas. It just doesn't end there. You can like, share, comment and discuss on an idea you are working on! This is a hackathon, but open for everyone and every field of your choice!
• Built using : Django, DRF, React.js, websockets, Postgresql, redis, django-channels (async)

Jun 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Designed and implemented a fully functional automation for a complex piece used for verification of graphs and charts.
• Co-wrote Nutanix System Test Framework with other leads and implemented a functional REST API verification module
• Worked in virtual teams for different services of nutanix in finding and resolving critical issues in the product.
• Learnt on job about RBAC, Intent based APIs and worked on them being one of the first engineers onboard Nutanix Self Service Portal
• Learnt on job about docker containers and worked on development and automation being one of the first engineers onboard Nutanix Container Service
• Skills: Python, Golang, Docker

Aug 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Joined XenClient and was part of refactoring XenClient API refactoring team to renovate APIs from SOAP to REST based architecture.
• Instrumental in building automation framework and feature quality for XenClient.
• Built a functional web based test suite formatter for easier and faster test execution which could customize entire set of tests according to feature needs all through UI. Enabled faster developer check-in and targeted testing for code fixes made.

Aug 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Started my job in NetApp platforms group and contributed initially to platform diagnostics and feature development & quality.
• Worked on building Feature Integration System Test framework using multithreading, subprocess along with efficient log management.
• Mentored interns and extended the framework to a more web based single click execution model.

Jan 2011 – Apr 2011 · 3 mos · Bangalore, Karnataka, India