Jun 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr · Greater Chennai Area · On-site

• Worked as a Lead Backend developer. Tech: Kotlin, Spring Boot
• Designing & implementing backend systems
• Developing and maintaining scalable GraphQL APIs
• Self-initiatives on ways to improve the performance & scalability of the system
• Drove performance optimization initiatives on GraphQL APIs
• Drove non-functional roadmap items for the team

Nov 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

• Worked as a Backend developer. Tech: Java Spring boot, Ruby on Rails
• Designing scalable solutions for our Product requirements
• Drove API performance optimization initiatives (API response time reduced by ~500ms)
• Improved the application observability by collecting performance metrics
• Built observability and monitoring tools for the Reporting platform
• Led APM tools such as Datadog integration around our products
• Developing and maintaining scalable REST APIs
• Following Test Driven Development(TDD)
• Code reviewing, mentoring junior devs, etc.
• Worked on AI Chatbot PoCs
• Received 2 Spot awards

Jun 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

• Worked in Freshservice (IT Service Management) product's core(Tickets) module as a ROR developer.
• Integrated Single-Sign-on(SSO) FreshID 2.0 with FS
• Designing scalable solutions based on the Product requirements
• Developing and maintaining scalable REST APIs
• Conceptualized and implemented solutions for US Region production outages using AWS
• Conceptualized and implemented ERM (Enterprise Release Management) as a Ruby Gem and integrated with FS
• Led optimization of existing APIs by reducing the response time and AWS cost
• Code reviewing, mentoring other devs, etc.
• Handling L2 support tickets without breaching SLA
• Was part of Application on-call
• Worked on Workflow Automator enhancements
• Received 1 Award for Act with Urgency in Organisation Engineering All Hands
• Received 4 Spot Awards in Product engineering all hands

Aug 2015 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Worked as Full stack developer and delivered projects successfully
• Tech stacks: Android and iOS app development, WebApps using Angular 2, and APIs using Java Spring boot
• AWS consulting and cost optimization, Website performance optimation
• Building, deploying, and managing Containerized applications on the AWS cloud
• Android & iOS app build automation system using Fastlane Ruby Gem
• Code reviewing, mentoring junior devs, etc.

Mar 2015 – Aug 2015 · 5 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Worked as a Javascript developer
• Designing Chrome browser extension UI to show the contact info on the right side of the Email in Gmail.com
• Integrate OAuth to fetch contacts from Gmail, Friends list from Facebook, Friends, and Followers from Twitter, and connections from LinkedIn
• Developing a module to upload the fetched contact data to the user’s Dropbox datastore(Key-Value Store)
• Developing a contact matcher to merge the contact information from multiple sources
• Developing a contact sync module to sync contacts from the connected sources and manage conflict
• Fetching and displaying Facebook posts, LinkedIn shares, and Twitter tweets of the contact on the right side of emails.
• Porting the Chrome plugin for the Firefox extension

Feb 2013 – Dec 2013 · 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Worked as an Automation Test Engineer
• Develop test cases based on product functionality captured in functional specifications
• Document and track test activities using Test Lifecycle Management tools - Testlink
• Automating test cases for repeatability and ease of execution using scripting languages such as Perl, Shell, and Expect script
• Performance testing using Spirent Avalanche L4-7 Test Tool
• Performance utilities like httperf, iperf, and wget
• Troubleshooting network activity using tools such as Wireshark.

Jun 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• - Worked as a Android application developer