May 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built a platform and product suite for digital wallets for Latin America - www.cashi.com.mx. Started as the first person in the team, hired a fully remote team of ~50 engineers, product and program managers that built and launched APIs and iOS/Android native Apps within a year during the pandemic. Product is on the hockey stick growth path with customer acquisition and transaction volumes and with many new features and wallet integrations live.

Aug 2016 – Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• MoneyTap/Freo is a Sequoia, NEA and Prime VP funded Fintech startup, established in late 2015.
• ● Built the engineering and data sciences team 10x
• ● Built the solution for India supporting multiple banking partners and scaled it.
• ● i18n'ed it and launched in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and the Middle East with local banking partners, with support for local operations and regulations in a year.
• ● Built and integrated data sciences to augment regular product APIs; with independent release and monitoring cycles and A/B testing of models.
• ● "Design first, API next, UI last and UX all the time" - mode of release of several versions of products.
• I lead data sciences, data engineering, technology and QA teams. Owned technical roadmap and delivery of service and apps on a biweekly release train after prioritising needs from product, customer success, marketing and tech debt; by building a team of engineers to deliver Android/iOS/Web/WhatsApp channel apps, B2B APIs and SDKs, and analytics plus credit-decisioning APIs powered by data sciences.
• Daily tech stack include Java, Spring Boot, Postgres RDS, Redshift, aws cli etc; and Vue.js, numpy/Jupyter, node-red etc for fun.

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Apr 2014 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs

• Ezetap is a Social Capital, Helion Ventures funded startup focusing on digital payments. As part of the founding team, I built the software engineering team from the ground up, service and product from when it was a pre-alpha prototype and the company had 5 people, to a live system supporting thousands of customers with B2B enterprise integration, extensibility and configuration options to support various different kind of 3rd party and partner requirements.
• ● Built the solution for India supporting multiple banking partners and enterprise customers and scaled it.
• ● Designed and launched the product in Nairobi, Kenya and Dubai as well with local operations and banking partners.
• ● Apps, SDKs, APIs for B2B integration were all envisioned from day one, with intention to support not just Ezetap hardware, but others too.
• Design, architecture, delivery, security and solution provisioning with key clients were primary responsibilities. Regularly hands-on in:
• ✔ Looking out for product improvement opportunities. Requirements collection, prioritisation and release
• ✔ MySQL performance tuning
• ✔ JVM performance tuning, load tests with grinder
• ✔ Analytics automation with node.js, curl+bash, python, elasticsearch, kibana, logstash
• ✔ Cross platform apps with node-webkit, react.js/bootstrap/backbone.js
• ✔ Cordova/Phonegap Android apps
• ✔ Spring MVC, JSTL
• ✔ Visualizations and UI framework with d3.js, jQuery, bootstrap, highcharts
• ✔ PCI DSS and PA DSS certifications
• ✔ Server side REST APIs
• ✔ System security and monitoring

Oct 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Jun 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Joined IBM as part of Sterling Commerce being acquired by IBM.

Jul 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Started as a Software Engineering Manager in Yantra; got acquired by Sterling Commerce. Became Senior Manager and then got acquired by IBM and left IBM after a year.
• Key responsibilities
• ● Delivery Management and L3 support of Supply Chain Management OnDemand (SaaS) products
• ● Performance monitoring and tuning of software on multiple environments.
• ● Management and solution design for on-boarding of new clients and their business requirements.
• ● Champion agile development methodologies.
• ● Reduced product release frequency from yearly to quartely.
• ● 100% improvement in the quality of development when measured by defects found out by QA.
• ● Responsible for v1.0 of Sterling Store Inventory Management. Managed a cross functional team to deliver a custom solution based on this product to a retail customer.
• ● Engineered v1.0 of an ExtJS product to configure and evaluate reverse logisitics policies using a rule engine.
• ● Responsible for v1.0 and next 8 releases of IBM Sterling as-a-Service Supplier Portal
• ● Architected v2.0 of IBM Sterling as-a-Service Supply Chain Visibility by converting an existing Eclipse RCP based product to a web based, multi-tenanted solution with more features. Delivered eight further releases of this product.
• ● Took over management of L3 support team when it was supporting 3 customers and one product. In two years, the team supported 20+ customers and two products while meeting SLAs with ease so that staff could be redeployed to regular product development.
• ● Became part of IBM in Jan 2011, when my employer from 2005, Sterling Commerce was acquired by IBM.

Jul 2005 – Jul 2008 · 3 yrs

Mar 2004 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Built a new and inexperienced team from the ground up to take over delivery of new version of 3 legacy BioInformatics products from an erstwhile US team, with very little KT. Products were on various Unix systems and were built using C, C++, Perl and Xlib.
• Delivered one release of all the products
• Delivered a monthly DNA/Genome data subscription service with India team
• Managed a team on development of an MFC based product
• As the only person in the team who knew Perl, delivered the next version of a web based product all by self.
• Part of a team of managers that conducted hiring for development group.

Feb 2004 – Mar 2004 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Mar 2001 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Hands-on development, architecture and leading web developers to develop solutions on Oracle, Python and Zope.
• Maintain applications in ASP, C and PHP.
• Several successes in taking ideas to POC to implementation, working with Content Management, HR, Marketing, IT and Training departments. Architected and Delivered an Enterprise Content Management system that drives nature.org, in-house digital photography archive, HRMS self service tools are some of these.

Mar 1998 – Mar 2001 · 3 yrs · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Consulting, at the client site The Nature Conservancy, VA.
• Y2K remediation of client's in-house systems on Pro*C and Oracle
• Support sunsetting of an existing CRM system and migration to a new CRM system by delivering data migration utilities, parallel integration agents and data verification across systems.
• Delivered a web portal for reports based on Perl on HP-UX that scans large number of directories and files to prepare an index for users to easily find their reports.

Apr 1995 – Feb 1998 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore, India; Annecy, France

• Client coordinator for Adidas-Salomon; stationed at Annecy, France.
• Lead offshore teams remotely.
• Proof of concept to delivery of a data warehouse
• Design, develop and deliver Supply chain management projects using Oracle Forms, Oracle Designer/2000 and Pro*C on WMS, product data management for manufacturing, sourcing and distribution.

Sep 1993 – Mar 1995 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

• Setup and maintain Novell Netware networks
• Support networks at Reserve Bank of India, Indian Postal Service and clients in software industry
• Support hardware and systems at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre