Feb 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

• As the VP Engineering at WorkSpan, a SaaS platform for enterprises to manage their partner ecosystems, I lead a global engineering team of 80+ engineers across India and Europe, covering frontend, backend, QA, SRE and program management. I also serve as the site lead for the India office.
• I have been instrumental in growing the revenue by 3x in the last 2 years and securing Series C funding. I have delivered critical 0-1 initiatives such as co-sell applications with leading cloud providers, built innovative core platform capabilities, improved platform performance and scalability, and established engineering processes and strategy.
• I created a fun and engaging engineering culture to keep the team motivated and the attrition low and helped developing talent within the team.

Jan 2019 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• As the site lead and Director of the India development center, I have built and managed a team of over 20 engineers. I have also overseen the legal, financial and operational aspects of setting up and running the India office.
• Delivered significant platform and scalability improvements such as introducing PostgreSQL, data integration infrastructure, real-time reporting and improving app loading performance.

Nov 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Designed and implemented key features of WorkSpan's backend architecture. I created the one-object architecture, a metadata-driven approach that allows customers to customize their schema & workflow in WorkSpan. I also built an ETL pipeline using Dataflow to sync data between our datastore and BigQuery for advanced querying and data analysis.

Feb 2014 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• MathChat is a mobile app that allows students from middle and high school to work together on math problems. It enables students to get help with their exact math problem in real time from their friends and the MathChat community. Students can easily enter their homework problem, collaborate on an interactive shared whiteboard by drawing, typing math and messaging, and get instant help from the ever growing MathChat community. Some of the achievements:
• It was accepted into the ImagineK12 accelerator, a program for education startups, in 2014.
• It has more than 350k downloads on the AppStore and is one of the top 50 free education apps in the US.
• I was responsible for developing the iOS app using Parse and Firebase as the backend, and later rebuilding it in Xamarin to make it cross-platform for Android and iOS.

Sep 2010 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Developed a system to help advertisers predict the performance of their display ad campaign on the Google Display network.
• Worked on the backend for Google Car search which connects car buyers with dealers directly through the search results page, by exposing current inventory and sales information.

Apr 2010 – Sep 2010 · 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Jan 2010 – Apr 2010 · 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Worked on the Ning Ad Platform for targeting ads to users. Developed classification algorithms and machine learning jobs on Hadoop.

May 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Primary engineer working on the backend services for Socrata, an online social data player, (formerly Blist) to provide data APIs for creating/modifying tables, views, and queries in the cloud on large government datasets.

Jan 2006 – Apr 2008 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Led a team that owns the interfaces with the Amazon ordering & item platforms with the fulfillment centers. The team is responsible for building highly available robust services which run in a 24/7 distributed environment and form the core software infrastructure in an FC. Managed a team of 5 engineers in Seattle and 3 remote engineers in India

Mar 2003 – Dec 2005 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Developed software for optimizing the space layout and labor costs for a fulfillment center by directing product to the appropriate location in the fulfillment center.