Sep 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Head CTO's Office, VP Engineering - Data, Platforms and Infra, leading org size of 150+ SWEs and 4 Directors. Heading Data, Platforms and Infra at Inmobi which can scale to 100 Billion adrequests/day scale, with a scale of 2 trillion Ads per year, 250K requests/sec for 1.7+ billion mobile users. Part of core leadership team of InMobi.
• Build highly scalable and complex platforms on InMobi's core Data Processing, Infra, ML, BI and Analytics. This group has multiple open source committers across top Apache projects and have pioneered open source projects. As part of this role, we build world class Platforms to build data/ML driven products around reporting, analytics, recommendation, prediction, billing/ pricing, fraud detection/prevention, anomaly detection and insights. We also build capabilities on horizontal initiatives on Data, such as security and privacy. We did this while ensuring cost and operating efficiency, by using fundamentalconstructs of understanding workload patterns, exploiting infrastructure heterogeneity and building for platform elasticity.

Jun 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Heading All Things Data at InMobi!
• Heading Engineering for Big Data , Big Data Platforms and Infrastructure, BI and Analytics at InMobi with one of the largest scale of big data globally - 30B ad events ingested per day, 80TB data processed per day. InMobi is a thought leader in Big Data & Hadoop with a strong foot print and contribution in the open source eco-system.
• Part of core tech leadership team of InMobi. Managing a 40+ SWE rockstar team working on InMobi's core Data Platforms. This group has multiple open source committers and have pioneered multiple open source projects - Conduit, Apache Falcon and Apache Lens. Working closely with tech, product and business executives & leaders around the overall data platform strategy and data driven products and to continuously innovate on products by pushing the complexity to data platforms. Building world class data infrastructure to build data driven products around recommendation, prediction, pricing, fraud detection/prevention, sizing, etc.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Working as an individual contributor (Architect) in the Big Data Labs at American Express Technologies.
• Provide technical guidance to a team of big data engineers. Responsible for architecture, design and implementation of several innovative products using the extended Big Data Ecosystem in AMEX.
• Some major projects include:
• A Real Time Data Ingestion and Extraction Capabilities for Big Data( structured and unstructured )
• Design of the Hadoop based data warehouse for AEXP, taking care of privacy issues, access control, PII protection, etc

Jul 2010 – Aug 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• DoCircuits (www.DoCircuits.com ) is a Cloud Based Electronics Circuit Simulation app. It allows users to build complex analog and digital circuits on a browser and on mobile devices, simulate them mathematically on the cloud, use virtual test and measurement devices to provide inputs and read signals, process gigabytes of big “analog” data on the cloud and share analysis with co-workers and peers. At DoCircuits my primary role was
• Raising funds, interfacing with key stakeholders (investors, customers, partners, etc). We raised early stage funding from key venture capital firms in India.
• Bring new partnerships and land large strategic customers
• Hiring the best for the company across sales, product and engineering
• Building a brand for the company, participating in talks, events, seminars, increasing visibility for the product
• Strategizing and helping run the entire Digital Marketing campaign for DoCircuits
• Staying on top of the competition and knowing everything they're doing and then figuring out which of those actions need a response and which are noise.
• Governance

Apr 2006 – Jun 2010 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• R&D Product Manager responsible for software product development product architecture, vision and roadmap, research of low power static and simulation based verification solution. ( MVRC and MVSIM)
• Lead a cross-functional team of R&D Engineers, UI/UX developers, Product Validation/software testing engineers to develop cutting edge software solutions for low power verification. 20+ engineers reporting directly and indirectly for this.
• Architect the software product using some of the best used software design paradigms
• Lay down software development and quality processes internally in the team and ensuring very high quality / no risk software.
• Was instrumental as part of the top management in ArchPro Design Automation for a successful acquisition into Synopsys
• Principal Investigator to various software projects with academia.
• At ArchPro (acquired by Synopsys)
• Director of Engineering for low power verification and Synthesis software products. Built and led engineering teams, responsible for product development, product management and delivery.
• Developed industry first products from scratch : verification and synthesis low power software products – MVRC and MVSYN, took them to market successfully which finally resulted in a successful exit in form of an acquisition by Synopsys
• Working with MVRC and MVSYN involved writing complex compliers in C/C++, working on algorithms to detect functional errors in these large chipsets.
• Multiple patents filed on software technology created in ArchPro.

Jan 2003 – Apr 2006 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• Project Leader for Low power and derivative design product in Atrenta, led team of 7 people to create world class electronic design automation software products. The products involved working at multiple levels of abstraction for data as well as design, writing compliers, translators and layers on top of that.
• Product managed, interacted with customers, created key custom wins and handled large accounts
• Started a derivative design product from scratch with a small team of 3+ members and was responsible for the first key account.
• Filed and granted 3 patents on low power.

Dec 2001 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr 1 mo · Schaumburg, Illinois, United States · On-site

• Founding engineer and was part of core team for compiler development for high level synthesis product
• Work on developing compilers involving features like pipelining that would target distributed FPGA systems.
• Handled independent complex software projects on high performance computing and compilers
• Published multiple papers in technical conferences