Nov 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru

• Managed and mentored a distributed team of 60+ including Engineering Managers and architects, providing guidance, support, and professional development opportunities
• India
• Developed and executed a comprehensive engineering strategy that supports the overarching business goals of the fulfilment division from reservation to operations generating $1 billion in revenue
• Led ML and AI features and integration of demand and supply matching of rental vehicles based on historical reservation data and precomputed fleet score, 20% reduction in upselling of vehicles
• Created and managed the technology roadmap, identifying key milestones, deliverables, and dependencies
• Collaborated with architects to review and approve system architectures (Microservices, Micro-frontends and event
• driven systems), ensuring alignment with organizational standards
• Collaborated with C-level executives, product directors, business stakeholders, and other departments to
• understand and prioritize technology requirements
• Implemented best practices in project execution and delivery, including Agile methodologies (velocity, burndown
• charts, cycle time, production bugs, initiative progress tracking)
• Fostered a DevOps culture, promoting automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery practices
• improving deployment efficiency
• Raised employee engagement scores by 30% through initiatives such as hackathons, innovation challenges, and
• cross-functional collaboration events
• Developed and managed the software engineering budget, ensuring optimal resource allocation. Worked closely with
• HR to recruit, train, and retain top talent within the engineering teams

Aug 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Coimbatore Area, India

• Responsible for overseeing design/architecture, development, delivery support of multiple SaaS and Mobile applications spanning across variety of areas including e- commerce, financial systems, healthcare, ERP and IoT (Internet of Things)
• Providing overall strategy and technology direction for the development of applications and communication infrastructure supporting the company’s solution
• Acted as the client’s primary contact for technical matters regarding the performance of custom software including requirements definition, status updates, scheduling, support plans, release schedules, etc
• Strategic planning for all product development efforts to include the subsequent testing, release and production environment needs
• Overseeing all activities of the development groups (development, QA, and application release)
• Leading and enhancing agile methodology for the design, development, test and release of products and features
• Recruiting, managing and continuously developing through leadership and collaborative team building a team of
• technology professionals

Feb 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Defined technological strategies on conjunction with the development teams for Mobile, Web and IoT projects
• Evaluated development teams, identifying strengths, problem areas and developing plans for improving performance
• Responsible for the successful creation and delivery of iOS and watchOS Chronicled apps to the marketplace by managing risks and opportunities
• Designed and developed Credential SDK for managing certificates, public and private keys and trust policies in iOS
• Evaluated new technologies and tools for innovation and development excellence including implementing build
• automation and dependency managers
• Collected requirements, coordinated and led Temperature tracker IoT and Android projects
• Designed the core Bluetooth custom libraries for communicating between low energy devices for Mobile and IoT projects

Jul 2014 – Feb 2015 · 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Introduced new technologies and professionalized teams, including software design and development, testing and deployment strategies; promoted training and continuous improvement in the Engineering team
• Designed and documented modern development practices for apps that use REST API and authentication schemes such as OAuth2
• Involved in product design and engineering to create a best-in-class iPhone app for integrating IoT (Internet of Things) devices
• Designed a high-performance, scalable, cloud-based software platform to orchestrate the behavior of physical and digital things in the IoT space

Jun 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs · Chennai Area, India

• Led WaveMaker Developer Community (http://dev.wavemaker.com) to oversee product development, release processes and delivering training materials
• Managed a team of designers and developers to create websites for WaveMaker App Enablement Suite including WaveMaker Studio, Cloud and Gateway
• Migrated WaveMaker Community Platform by upgrading to the latest Drupal, WordPress, Jira and setting up better network monitoring tools
• Managed a team of 20 mobile application developers, overseeing their work, and ensuring that they build high quality apps
• Architect for building a consumer owned PHR (Personal Health Record) system shared by consumers with appropriate caregivers powered by LAMP stack
• Designed a Mobile, Cloud-based Marketplace to help Personal Trainers and other Fitness Professionals attract new clients and reduce downtime
• Designed and Managed Continuous Build and Continuous Integration environments in SCRUM and Agile projects, combining and automating tools like XDebug, PHPUnit, Frank, TestFlight, Selenium, and WebDriver with build processes to provide detailed Metrics and rapid feedback for development teams and managers
• Designed Dashboard for admin users to set and control individual Android tablet’s settings powered by LAMP stack

Jan 2010 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Chicago, IL, USA

• Managed a team of Developers to successfully implement Peergroups offering using MVC Architecture, a major module to compare fundamental financial data in the Document Research product
• Hired, mentored, coached and supervised technical team in Mumbai, India and helped members take on greater responsibilities
• Developed detailed project plan for Transcripts iPad project used by professional researchers in the investment industry to showcase events, transcripts, and SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filing content. Project Plan encompassed all key workflows disciplines including Business Modeling, Requirements, Analysis and Design, Implementation, Test, Deployment, Configuration/Change Management and Project Management
• Established workflows and customized JIRA for managing project-related issues and processes
• Introduced Continuous Integration to the team using Jenkins/Hudson platform
• Automated the entire build processes, unit testing and User Interface testing
• Designed and implemented Morningstar Document Research (MDR) python feed parser that completely automated the RSS feeds collection and reporting
• Collaborated with team of architects, developers and graphic designers to revamp Morningstar Document Research website, http://documentresearch.morningstar.com/
• Introduced client side jQuery library to the team work process to create Rich Internet Applications and developed plugins to be reused for different Equity product teams

Jun 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, India

• Co-ordinated onsite activities at Redmond and supported the software release for DELTA system
• Responsible for leading a team of junior engineers for design and development of test software for DELTA system
• Analyzed and designed GUI based test data archiver tool. Accountable for all aspects of this project from
• conception to completion, including project scope, schedule, documentation, and management of the project team
• in collaborative, team-based environment
• Facilitated information between client and project team, requiring a thorough understanding of the capabilities and
• limitations of numerous client and server based technologies
• Re-designed legacy ATEasy framework with 100% improvement in performance and provided ability to extend,
• reuse and maintain through proper OO design
• Developed use cases, UML diagrams, user requirement specification documents for DELTA Helper modules
• Implemented auto login, configuration and management scripts for WAP network devices

Jul 2004 – Dec 2004 · 5 mos · Bangalore, India

• Designed and implemented the BOSS (Batch Operated System Simulator) pass/fail utility. Prepared detailed documentation and user manual for the tool.
• Nurtured an innovative idea and submitted a Research paper on Multi Protocol Adapter. Realized this idea by developing a software library of communication protocols.