Jul 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Leading a team of 20 engineers, including 2 Engineering Managers building Block’s Next-Gen Point of Sale (POS) for Food & Beverage

Aug 2017 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• India’s Largest Offline Commerce Savings and 3rd largest online food ordering platform with $12B+ GMV and 6M+ users
• Led a team of 55 engineers and 7 product managers, responsible for product strategy and engineering decisions (technical architecture, resource allocation and timelines) for Magicpin's user-facing Android and iOS apps and web-based merchant dashboard

Apr 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area/New Delhi

• Established India office and led day-to-day operations, hired and trained India team
• Led day-to-day operations, manage team of engineers and product analysts to increase
• engagement with APAC clients
• Revamp and enhance Blueshift’s mobile SDK to support event tracking, comprehensive stats and
• push rendering

May 2011 – Apr 2016 · 4 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led a team of data scientists, engineers and product managers responsible for designing and building the pricing platform that powers Walmart Global e-commerce. The platform uses machine learning and convex optimization techniques to determine the optimal price of a product. First engineer on the product, hired and built the team from ground up, defined and led the evolution of the product from proof of concept to an integral part of the company. Responsible for technology roadmap, revenue targets and growth strategies for the group.

Jun 2010 – May 2011 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led the backend team and contributed to developing various aspects of RightHealth.com search engine(Kosmix's flagship product) including indexing, categorization, taxonomy generation, query categorization and performance.
• Responsible for most engineering efforts for Context Links which enabled linking relevant concepts from all over the web back to RightHealth.com.
• Defined and build a new product contextual ads product which allowed 3rd party websites to drive traffic to their site from the RightHealth Publisher Network.

Jun 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr

• Part of the core Secure Enterprise Search team that developed technology to enable organizations to search across protected and disparate information sources like email servers, web applications and databases. Some of the projects that I worked on:
• Evaluating and implementing techniques for detecting similar web pages.
• Providing parameters for the administrator to customize relevance of search algorithm.

Jun 2008 – Sep 2008 · 3 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Intern with the Semantic Database Group. Worked on providing SPARQL support and specifically improving implementing 'OPTIONAL' and 'FILTER' constructs for Oracle's RDF databases

Sep 2007 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Worked on developing algorithms and techniques for information retrieval and vertical search of biomedical databases leveraging ontologies and other structured meta data sources.

Feb 2007 – Jul 2007 · 5 mos

• Developed an ingestion pipeline for graph databases which performed validation and inferencing based on graphs and ontologies for large RDF data-sets(∼10 Million). Tech Report - https://hplabs.itcs.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-110.html

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos

• Database Research Group under Prof. Dittrich. Researched on prototyping semantic technologies based solutions for data-integration and search

May 2005 – Jul 2005 · 2 mos