Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Global head of Technology for Simfoni's SaaS based AI driven Spend management platform(Spend Automation and Spend Analytics).

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · Remote

• I run a consulting Practice to help companies build products from ground up, leverage technology and adopt best practices. In Short i am a fractional CTO when you dont need to invest money into a full time one or have a gap.I work in the 3 areas that a CTO function involves people, process and Technology. My present interests include NoCode and Machine learning. I can support you in the UK, US and India. Below are some of the my present projects.
• Consulting CTO on a Bank Digital Transformation project from a legacy system (Completed)
• Architecting and Building a SaaS application from Ground up, parts of which i am building with assistance from ChatGPT . I am using bubble.io to build this. (Domain details in Stealth) (In Progress: On hold)
• Consulting CTO for a company building IoT driven Asset Intelligence and Management software. Helping my client productize its offering, making it scalable and enterprise and helping build a team to take the tech to the next level. Also helping build a predictable de;livery engine leveraging Agile processes(Build and handover completed).
• Built a SaaS MVP and did a BOT (Forcesight Online :Next generation SaaS E-Commerce platform for online merchants to grow their top line.) (Project completed)
• Architecting and assisting the internal team of a SaaS startup to build a LeadGen platform(Completed)
• Conducting workshops to Build AI Agentic Software using various frameworks and workflows(In Progress)

Jun 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Tamil Nadu, India

• Fentacle is an Early Stage Startup in the SaaS B2B IoT/AI Space.
• Monitor conditions of Assets. Sensors are constantly emitting data.
• Leverage the data to create actionable insights and do pre emptive/predictive maintenance of assets.
• Know your Assets (KYA) from the insights you get from their histories.
• Save Money by deploying the right assets and increasing their lifespan all from insights your assets give you.

Jul 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area and Chennai India

• Head of the Company's Engineering Delivery Org
• Scaled from a team of 25 Engineers to 100 Engineers and was part of the leadership team that grew the company revenue 5X.
• Introduced/Evolved Engineering best practices in Process and Technology
• Drove the Refactoring of the technology stack for Chargebee's SaaS based Subscription driven Revops Software.
• Substantially improved Velocity and Productivity through tech and Engineering Practices.
• Influenced the Branding and Culture of the Engineering org and made the CB Engineering org an exciting place to come and work.
• Introduced Agile best practices and constantly improved it making it part of the culture.

Jun 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• CTO in Charge of FundsIndia's SaaS based Online investment platform
• Scaled the organisation in terms of People and Technology.
• Drove the building of mobile Apps for the platform on Android and IoS
• Drove the moving of the backend from Cloud Hosted to Cloud Native on AWS leveraging AWS services.
• Introduced and evolved Engineering best practices in Process and Technology.

Jan 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · India

• Synup is a startup in the location based marketing space providing a Unified Marketing and communication platform for local businesses worldwide.
• Started the Company from Ground up raised first round of funding and wore both CEO and tech hats
• Built the technology stack from Ground Up as a SaaS offering hired the first team and got a MVP out to enable early revenue generation.
• Scaled the company to USD 1 Million ARR within 2 years of Launching and started work on raising the next round of funding which was successfully completed.

Apr 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr · Chennai, India

• Country Manager and Engineering head for Scantron/GlobalScholar.

Jun 2009 – Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Chennai, India

• Efficient Frontier was taken over by Adobe
• Was appointed by Adobe to run their Chennai Development Centre as Centre Head and GM after the takeover.

Jun 2009 – Jun 2012 · 3 yrs · Chennai Area, India

• India Engineering VP and overall Country Head (including Sales and operations) in Chennai India.
• Efficient Frontier used Modern Portfolio theory in the digital marketing space.
• India Engineering was approximately 3/4th of global engineering
• Hired the engineering team, scaled operations, helped build a world class MarTech Product that was sold to Adobe for 400 Million dollars and became part of their marketing cloud.

May 2007 – Jun 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Chennai Center Head for US based Open Source Company. Manage Development, QA, Support and Pre Sales Activties. Engineering lead for company's high profile flagship product.

Mar 1998 – Apr 2007 · 9 yrs 1 mo · Redwood Shores, CA, USA (and later Bangalore, India)

• Some of the Projects I worked on and managed include (Accross US and India)
• Rollout of first version of Enterprise Linux (Community and Oracle collaboration)
• The Oracle Database Appliance
• Various features in the Oracle database on Non Unix (NT and Netware) Platforms
• Oracle Internet Directory.
• Role as head of APAC to manage tech issues in high value customer accounts

Jan 1991 – Jan 1998 · 7 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked on various features of Sybase Sqlserver database on the Windows NT Platform.
• Part of the initial 3 member development team that authored the initial 2 versions of Norton Antivirus
• Worked on various features of the Gupta SQLBase database server and Network libraries.