Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Delhi, India

• Led engineering for India’s largest EdTech merger pre-BYJU’s acquisition. Modernized systems and internal tech capabilities.
• Key Achievements:
• Built in-house test platform to replace third-party tools; supported 10x YoY scale with zero downtime
• Introduced cloud-native architecture and scaled internal platforms rapidly
• Integrated AI-based enrichment tools into CMS, improving academic content discoverability and reuse

Mar 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana

• Continuously improving the efficiency of product and deliveries through processes and technology
• Built serverless distributed system to avoid loss in business during peak traffic
• Evolved centralized platform to facilitate common operations across organization
• Delivered cross platform (React Native) mobile apps for both consumer and internal operations
• Became the first team in FinTech-India to deliver Google Amp Email – Was featured in Google IO -2019
• Delivered OCR pipeline using AI for evaluating customer documents in real time. This was a manual process previously and used to take days to complete

Jan 2013 – Mar 2019 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• Grew from Team Lead to AVP/GM with responsibilities not limited to:
• Managing complete life cycle of products
• Owning technical implementation of product(s)
• Architected & Developed applications required for target environments
• Independently designed, deployed and maintained Big data projects
• Managing team of over 15 members
• Introduced new technologies and tools for overall improvement of operations in the department
• Introduced Agile practices and associated tools (CI; Scope, Task, Release management)
• Coordinated with ODM, business stakeholders & external vendors like Airtel, Adobe, Process9, Times Group,Cube26 etc. for inclusion of features to enhance user experience
• Modify Android framework to facilitate all team members in customization of ROM

Feb 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Worked on official apps for several football clubs and leagues for various platforms like Blackberry, WebWorks, Cascades and Android. While the binaries were different, I designed the code and build pipeline, so that single code base could generate them and ensured reduction in time required to release the products.
• Lead the development team
• Preparing project estimates and project development strategy
• Design the Cascades version of the application
• Mentoring the team members for the use of technology and frameworks
• Develop the code of the application
• Porting the code from other platform
• Developed applications required for target devices and Blackberry, Android OS versions
• Coordinated with various stakeholders for the successful deliveries

Jan 2010 – Jul 2010 · 6 mos

• Orbit enhances the native address book by enabling communication on all major social networks.
• As a member of core technical team of Orbit,along side the blackberry application,2 out of 3 server side applications were made by me which had high through-put and low latency in delivering messages to users. I designed and implemented distributed architecture of services with combination of SQL, NoSQL databases.
• Lead the development team
• Preparing project estimates and project development strategy
• Prepare High Level Designs
• Develop the code of mobile application & Messaging Server
• Coordinated with various stakeholders for the successful deliveries
• Helped with customer support for identifying and delivering real time fix of the issues.

Jul 2010 – Jan 2011 · 6 mos

• Worked on messenger application for Blackberry platform.
• Lead the development team
• Preparing project estimates and project development strategy
• Develop the code of the application

Oct 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Took the ownership and delivered several applications and framework which would help end customers to migrate WAP site to native Blackberry application without any coding effort.
• Independently developed both client and service side application to participate in Android Developer Challenge-2.
• Lead the development team
• Preparing project estimates and project development strategy
• Prepare High Level Designs
• Develop the code of mobile application & Messaging Server
• Coordinated with various stakeholders for the successful deliveries
• Helped with customer support for identifying and delivering real time fix of the issues.

Jul 2006 – Oct 2008 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Worked on m-Commerce applications, games and implemented custom algorithm to optimize storage and network usage. Also lead the efforts for exploration of Android in the organization and participated in Android Developer Challenge-1
• Developed applications required for target devices and J2ME,Blackberry, Android OS versions
• Coordinated with various stakeholders for the successful deliveries