Aug 2024 – Nov 2024 · 3 mos · India · On-site

Jan 2024 – Nov 2024 · 10 mos · Singapore · Hybrid

• Payments and Data. Couldn't scale and took the hard call to close it down.

Mar 2020 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Asia

• Build Octifi part of YCW21 with a team of smart engineers from the ground up and took it to millions in revenue per month and finally sold to LatitudePay (Australia).
• An alternative to credit card designed for the underbanked south east asia market. Say goodbye to high interest rates and escalating debt. Buy what you want today and pay over time. Split the cost into easy instalments. No interest and no hidden fees.
• Months of hard-work has finally paid off.
• Designed and architected the entire stack for payments, signup, merchant onboarding, authentication, account management, ledgers, payment gateway integration, Card management and more.
• Developed Consumer and Merchant App for both platforms (Android and IOS).
• Strong focus on security, with focus on detecting Genuine buyers, Genuine sellers and Genuine devices. Using a combination of identity, device fingerprinting, collusion detection ML algorithms.
• Hired a security team for pen-testing for secure hardened applications from Day1.
• Last but not least. Strong focus on best development practices, on google cloud with code coverage along with CI/CD
• Currently researching on machine Learning Credit Engine augmented by Alternative Smartphone meta Data.

Jul 2019 – Mar 2020 · 8 mos

Aug 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Singapore

• Building Payments team to grow cashless economy across South-east Asia in 8 different countries. Working with a tech-family of smart full-stack and backend engineers working on challenging problems of Issuance, Transactional processing, Online acceptance, offline POS integrations, credit card processing and scalable architecture to integrate with Payment gateways and other cashin and cashout channels.
• For customer retention and cross-selling, Building a Loyalty program to serve our customers better with features that include membership tiers, subscription programs, promos, partner rewards and real time campaigns.

Apr 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• As an early employee of Ola, I've been fortunate to be part of the hyper growth phase that Ola has seen. My learnings in Ola has been in all dimensions including
• Technical - Engineering excellence, Security focus, Metric driven development, Open source!
• Business - Strong business acumen
• Product - Agile, Reacted to market well
• People - Build two teams from scratch *35 member each, Hired other leaders in the org.
• Execution - Fast pace, Result focussed
• Summary:
• I work in a challenging environment in a fast paced company where I help solve multiple p0 issues in limited time and bandwidth. I work closely with product managers in redefining the product, help business scale and, bring clarity, vision and order to chaos. As an early member @ Ola, I also helped in hiring my team and several other leaders in the organisation.
• Experience:
• Early on, I've worked on several pieces of backend services including Inventory management, Accounting, Billing, Invoices etc.
• Build the Big Data Platform team from scratch (0 - 35) that drive business decisions every day. Here, I work with technologies like Apache Storm, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop etc.
• At present, I handle the entire payments domain for Ola including Ola Money. Here my challenges include building the team from scratch and scaling the systems and business. Built the team from scratch and helped business grow to 8x in 10 months!
• Tech Stack: Majorly Java web-services on Apache Mesos, Marathon, Dropwizard, SpringBoot with Hibernate, Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Redshift, Spark, Kafka, Apache Storm, Redis, Aerospike and Hazelcast, Couchbase along with trusted mysql for transactional data.

Nov 2014 – Apr 2015 · 5 mos

Nov 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr · Gainesville, Florida Area/Bangalore India

• As part of University of Florida incubation hub, at SkillCafe, we created a predictive analytics engine that predicts what your next career move should be. Finding the right culture and skill fit company was never this easy.
• As a founder, my responsibilities surpassed any one job description. From defining product roadmap to company strategy, from creating a business plan to marketing. Some times, I created Infographics, Banners and presentation deck for investors pitch. Majority of the times I was doing Backend engineering where scalability and UX were my core focus.
• Tech Stack: Majorly Python, Django, SciKit, NLTK, AngularJs, Node.js, Ionic framework for web-apps

Dec 2009 – Nov 2013 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Singapore

• As Development manager I managed a team of 15 people where I was solving Endpoint Management problems using IBM Bigfix. IBM BigFix (formerly IEM/TEM) is a systems-management software product developed by IBM for managing large groups of computers running Windows, Mac OS X, VMware ESX, Linux or UNIX, as well as various mobile operating systems such as Android / Windows Phone.

Nov 2005 – Dec 2009 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• I was the 20th employee hired for Apigee (now acquired by Google Cloud)
• As a development lead worked with apigee product to create a word class application API gateway that reformed into a framework / platform for api management that provided Rate-limiting, Caching and analytics.
• Worked with very talented and smart people (tech leads, architects) in designing secure, scalable and high performance applications mainly in C language on fedora Linux.
• Designed and developed frameworks for statistics and parsing xml and xpath and Interfaced the software with hardware for performance.
• Tech Stack: Majorly C language on fedora Linux, Java, XML etc.

Oct 2004 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked as a SDE in Windows where I designed and developed featured for a windows product - WSRM (Windows system resource manager). My primary role was to ensure on-time product delivery, resolve last minute issues and defects, communicate status to upper management and coordinate activities with peer teams across geographies.
• Tech Stack: .Net, C#, Windows

Feb 2003 – Jun 2004 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Responsible for the entire server infrastructure I was sent to Seattle, USA for finalizing the re-design with product architects. Led the team to create an application server, redesigned the tcp/ip protocol improved its scalability to 600 concurrent sessions on one server.
• Tech Stack - C++, Windows

Jan 2001 – Feb 2002 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Area, India

• Joined as an Intern and was extended an offer of employment, which was my first job. Worked on a java application which helped configure and bootstrap the device communicating using a proprietary UDP protocol. Implemented SNTP protocol in C on a vxworks device with 32 MB RAM.
• Tech Stack: Majorly C language on Vxworks, Java