Apr 2024 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• As an Engineering Manager at Aspire, I lead a team of backend and full-stack engineers to design, build, and scale microservice-based systems that power Aspire’s fintech ecosystem. My focus is on building reliable, high-performance APIs and scalable architectures that support key business functions like payments, transfers, and onboarding.
• I collaborate closely with product and design teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, while ensuring code quality, maintainability, and security across services. I emphasize clean architecture, service ownership, and operational excellence — ensuring every feature is measurable, tested, and production-ready.
• I also mentor engineers, drive peer reviews, and set engineering standards around design patterns, CI/CD, observability, and incident management. Beyond delivery, I help shape the roadmap and guide decisions that balance short-term impact with long-term scalability.

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Working with Sukuto.com and Pankhuri.co to create web and mobile applications.
• Primarily focused on architecting backend microservices, enforcing best practices, conducting code reviews, and providing guidance to developers.
• Engaged with WebStack Academy to design and refine the MERN full-stack course curriculum, actively coding projects, and delivering instructional classes.

Apr 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Established and enhanced delivery processes, resulting in quicker go-to-market and the rapid evaluation of experiments.
• Accelerating the development and release of multiple features in the Consumer App by collaborating closely with developers, participating in coding, testing functionality with QA teams, and ensuring on-time delivery.
• Mentoring and nurturing team members. Proactively maintaining a high-caliber team by letting go of underperforming individuals.
• Development and maintenance of Ravens (notifications service) that handled 12M notifications per day, integrated with CleverTap, leading to monthly savings of $3,000!
• Managed and delivered the website and implemented best SEO practices.
• Providing support to team members from Marketing and Business teams, ensuring all requirements are met, whether Consumer App-related or not.
• Developing a sense of ownership and discipline among fellow employees, and creating a culture of knowledge sharing by conducting multiple sessions on various topics.
• Managing the Partner App team for a short tenure.

Jul 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the design and implementation of Palash's initial Customer and Trainer App, integrating Agora SDK for live streaming and socket technology for real-time chats, while ensuring cross-platform compatibility with Flutter.
• Employed ElasticSearch for course data management, Redis for efficient user data caching, and orchestrated the development of the Admin Panel and Customer website. Backend infrastructure was built on Node.js, hosted on AWS EC2, utilizing MySQL as the primary database, and S3 for content storage.
• Formed and managed a 4 member development team specializing in Flutter and Backend MERN stack.
• Directed fundraising efforts securing $600K, and overseeing technological and legal aspects of the company.
• Achieved notable milestones with Palash, reaching 100K DAUs, facilitating 12 daily live courses, and managing 1500+ daily posts, generating a monthly recurring revenue of $12,000.
• Successfully orchestrated the acquisition of Palash by Pankhuri.co in March 2022, ensuring a smooth transition and rebranding to 'Pankhuri' aligning with the new corporate vision.

Sep 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, India

• Led the tech direction, nurtured the team culture, and drove product delivery by assembling a 12-member team for website, Android, iOS, and IoT engineers.
• Initiated the launch of the initial versions of the Customer Website, Customer and Partner App, and Admin Panel using PHP, ElasticSearch, MySQL and AngularJS single-handedly, even before hiring the first developer.
• Engineered a core Search Engine using ElasticSearch and MySQL, significantly reducing customers' search efforts and enabling better deals.
• Successfully launched a multi-language web portal, resulting our acceptance in Y Combinator (YC) S17.
• Developed a comprehensive customer support process that reduced call times from over 12 minutes to just 4 minutes by implementing a system that determined the next set of communications needed with the customer.
• Introduced MongoDB for data logging and analysis, enhancing the product and reporting for marketing and operations.
• Collaborated with IoT engineers to create India's first dockless petrol and electric bike, Wheelstreet GO.

Oct 2015 – Jul 2016 · 9 mos · Mumbai, India

• Created a tool to predict the diseases based on inputs of the user which became the core functionality of the app
• Built the Tech Team aligned with the vision of the company
• Worked on the Android platform to enhance the UI and UX
• Integrated the payment gateways to enable ease of payment via Credit Card, Debit Card, Net Banking and Pay Pal
• Created a backend for doctors to answer the questions and chat with users real-time
• Ideated strategies to acquire users
• Optimised Play Store listing to push the app in the top search results
• Ideated the concept of blog and marketing around it
• Worked on Elastic Search, Android, PHP, Yii 2.0, AngularJS, etc.

May 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, India · On-site

• Joined Grabhouse as the first developer and built the MVP. Developed the first two versions of the customer website and admin panel backend.
• Automated tenant and owner banner creation process that saved the design team 200+ man hours. Users could share it instantly on social media resulting in 50% MoM growth.
• Setup UrbanCocktail blog in WordPress that had 1M+ peak traffic. Managed integrations of WordPress plugins like Yoast SEO, Akismet Spam Protection, WP Rocket, etc.
• Integrated RabbitMQ for sending Emails and SMS boosting response time by 20%, and MongoDB to log and track user actions.

Mar 2008 – Apr 2011 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Nashik · On-site

• Built a subscription based software for commodity traders to show buy-sell signals on AmiBroker.
• Sold 1.5K subscriptions in the first 2 years
• Worked on PHP, MySQL, .NET, Web Hosting, C Panel, etc.