May 2018 – Sep 2018 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Inbound Sales Automation (Y Combinator W17)

Apr 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Consumer Tech

Sep 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• (Acquired by Uber)
• FriendLife (Social Network, LiveStreaming)
• ❒ Android App
• Led team of 3 engineers & a QA to design app architecture and implement several social features
• Developed offline-first app using various persistence techniques & network sync strategies
• Implemented feed, notifications, messaging, post creation & user profiles
• Optimised app’s performance by using several profiling tools in Android SDK. Improved memory usage, data usage, startup time, battery consumption and rendering time
• Added extensive logging abilities, both third party and in-house, that helped monitor crashes,
• performance issues, network failures & app usage behaviour leading to 99% crash free sessions
• Enhanced Gradle build process to automatically generate different APKs for multiple environments and wrote sanity checks in Groovy to avoid common build generation & deployment issues
• ❒ Backend
• Designed and implemented several APIs in Python for Android/iOS apps
• Designed MySQL Database tables making appropriate tradeoffs to improve query execution time
• Optimised and scaled APIs using Caches, CDNs, Database indexes, and load balancing
• Developed autoscaling background task queue using Redis and uWSGI Spooler; workers count adjusted based on number of tasks currently pending in queue with support for delayed execution
• Developed notification service on top of APNS and GCM with a transparent API that could be used from cron jobs or APIs to schedule push notification or realtime updates to users
• Developed an image thumbnailing service in Python that generated different sizes of user generated images and stored them in AWS S3
• ❒ DevOps
• Developed custom system to allow developers to test their version of code directly against production databases by prefixing their system usernames as subdomain before API endpoints

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Bangalore

• Worked in the IFS (Intuit Financial Services Division) team.
• Learned & applied Open Source Apache Flume technology to efficiently collect, pre-process & move large amounts of log data from various IFS applications into a centralised HDFS file system
• Analysed collected log data to effectively generate valuable insights about user behaviour
• Received Intuit Spotlight Award for creating an app to visualise user purchase data in a 1-day hackathon
• Received Pre-Placement Offer(PPO) at the end of my internship