Jul 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Designed high-throughput distributed systems | Led org-wide chaos readiness at Dream11 | 100% uptime at IPL scale | Optimised Spark Jobs | Mentored engineers | Set engg standards | Drove tech roadmap
• Led design and execution of a high-throughput order management system capable of handling 40K+ orders/sec; with minimal latency for contest joins.
• Architected and drove implementation of a schema-registry-based CDC pipeline, reducing Kafka cluster storage costs by 99%; led stress and scale testing to optimize throughput to 7K rows/sec/table.
• Spearheaded development of a DB-agnostic shard-management library and a MySQL Aurora-based flash-sale solution, achieving 80K spot-fills/sec; collaborated cross-team to integrate across contest workflows.
• Optimised the contest ETL Spark job (100M rows), reducing job run time by 50%, from 3 minutes to 1.5 minutes.
• Led org-wide Service Operational Maturity (SOMA) program across 20+ services; established reliability gates, conducted chaos drills, and ensured zero-downtime readiness during IPL season.
• Defined and institutionalized engineering standards org-wide; created technical guides and mentored teams to adopt best practices in reliability and scale-readiness.
• Owned org’s technical roadmap, led cross-team design reviews and PoCs, mentored engineers, and drove backend architecture decisions at org level; active participant in hiring and leveling processes.

May 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Led microservices, CI/CD, observability | Scaled joins to 40K TPS | Spark Streaming Leaderboard | Saved $1M via re-architecture | Delivered features & chaos-ready ops E2E | Core contributor to Dream11’s 20M+ RPM revenue stack
• Core contributor to Dream11’s revenue platform, with services handling gameplay, contest joins, and listings at 20M+ RPM.
• Re-architected join systems to save $1M annually; optimized homepage APIs for 40% lower latency and 50% less CPU usage.
• Designed and implemented a real-time gaming leaderboard using Apache Spark Streaming, aggregating and ranking player scores from live event data with sub-second latency.
• Deep ownership of contest-join service (Akka, VoltDB): rewrote major flows using SOLID principles, scaled to 40k TPS peak, and improved reliability.
• Led microservice design, deployment, CI/CD automation, load testing, and system observability setup with chaos and monitor tuning.
• Delivered multiple product features end-to-end, handling testing, infra provisioning, and production rollouts across a hybrid AWS-like environment.
• Developed business-critical UAT, load, and functional test plans; improved on-call processes and documented recovery playbooks.

Jan 2020 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Built Flipkart’s real-time FinTech platforms | Replaced 2hr batch with 500 TPS live accounting | Scaled billing and collections infra | Designed alerting with Elastic | Owned E2E SDLC & on-call ops
• Part of the FinTech team, designing and building critical backend platforms for high-volume financial transactions.
• Designed and developed an instant accounting platform replacing periodic 2-hour batch jobs; enabled real-time reconciliation for ~100,000 transactions daily (~500 TPS peak) and faster merchant settlements.
• Re-architected the consumer billing and collections system to resolve scale bottlenecks, reducing processing time from 2 hours to instant, and improving system performance for peak loads.
• Designed and implemented a business alerting platform leveraging the Elastic Stack for proactive monitoring and anomaly detection.
• Owned end-to-end SDLC, including testing, deploying services, and participating in on-call rotations to debug and resolve critical platform and customer issues; created runbooks for operational efficiency.
• Collaborated on multiple product feature developments, delivering robust backend services on Flipkart’s large-scale in-house infrastructure similar to AWS/GCP.

Mar 2019 – Jan 2020 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Part of the R&D team
• Designed and Developed a backend service to search over millions of data objects
• Converted on-premise monolithic products to REST web services running over AWS

Jun 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Neer24 played a pivotal role in revolutionizing water delivery services by leveraging technology for timely and high-quality service. As the CTO and Co-Founder, I led the development of a comprehensive application stack, focusing on both backend and frontend solutions. My responsibilities included stakeholder management and making key business decisions that shaped the company’s direction.

Nov 2016 – Apr 2017 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Implemented a custom calendar feature for the Newton email app.
• Developed new algorithms for email search, download, and sync.
• Collaborated with teams across Android, iOS, Mac OS, and Windows platforms for consistent user experience.