Feb 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Led and mentored a high-performing global engineering team of 15 engineers and managers, collaborating across projects
• Implemented innovative strategies to improve conversion rates at the top of the funnel, resulting in an increase in qualified leads
• Practiced philosophy to “always keep shipping”. At least 1 major release each month
• Led remote and hybrid team dynamics with an empathetic leadership approach; established strong communication channels, facilitated virtual team-building activities, and achieved 0% employee attrition (remote + hybrid)
• Setup a hiring process and worked with a recruiting team to build a brand new Engineering team in India, against a challenging hiring environment and scaled from 0-15 engineers
• Orchestrated the revamping of interviewing panels and processes to ensure a targeted candidate assessment, achieving a 80% improvement in hiring success rate and reducing the interview process duration by 50%.
• Prolific interviewer (300+ interviews)
• Implemented a comprehensive vendor evaluation framework, leading to the identification and removal of costly vendors, resulting in an annual savings of $1M+ while improving operational efficiency.

Aug 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Collaborated with product and marketing to gather requirements for an automated discounts engine. Managed team that built automated and self serve rules engine for marketing teams to automate milestone based discounts. (Processes 10000+ loans per day, allocates $100,000+ in discounts )
• Worked with vendors to estimate usage quotas, draft contracts and evangelize the product within the org. (Launchdarkly, segment.com)
• Built high performance, highly available and well documented public APIs to ingest leads from partners. (<100ms p95 latency)
• Built and managed a growth engineering team that built several features and products targeted at top of the funnel with a focus on AB testing and increasing user acquisition.
• Active interviewer (150+ interviews).
• Managed and guided 4 reporting engineers. Weekly 1x1s, performance reviews and career development.

Oct 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs

• Built a communication aggregation engine that uses webhooks to aggregate all emails, sms and calls.
• Introduced activemq into the infrastructure as a means of asynchronous communication between services.

Dec 2013 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Greater New York City Area

Mar 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Mobile and Server side Software Development.
• Mobile software maintenance.

Aug 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Responsible for development and maintainence of the Grooveshark Symbian App.
• Symbian App Version 1.0 released.
• Qt version under development.

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos

• Wrote a Java applet for acquiring digital content from users.
• Technologies used: Java, Swing.