Mar 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Spearheading strategic initiatives in India and leading the implementation of a new operating model to optimize team performance and elevate customer experience.
• Driving presales efforts with regional and global teams to bring forward solutions and teams that are best suited to cater to customer requirements.
• Developing Solutioning and IP strategies across all solution areas.

Dec 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs

• Leading innovation initiatives through collaboration with global delivery and managed services teams, focusing on the implementation of proprietary solutions to augment service offerings and drive business value for clients.
• Collaborating closely with sales and delivery teams to identify emerging trends and opportunities for technological innovation.
• Driving the integration of Microsoft technologies across ecosystems to create transformative solutions for clients worldwide.

Jun 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Leap DNA (Product – targeting European enterprises):
• A Cloud Management Platform solving governance and control problems in cloud adoption for large and medium-scale enterprises by automating deployments of Cloud resources against staff requests.
• Identified and solved Cloud Adoption problems of organizations with compliance-heavy operating environments by conducting customer interviews and designing a solution that solves governance & compliance pain points
• Built a team of high-caliber engineers with .NET, Web API,and ReactJS skills and created a vision for the team keeping them aligned with business goals
• Improved adoption and utility of the product by incorporating an API-first approach. This improved visibility of the product in a complex multi-vendor environment.
• Minimized technical debt by introducing best practices for the engineering team since Sprint 1
• Evolved the product from a single-customer MVP to a mature multi-customer enterprise solution
• Maintained an engineering roadmap for 3 years through continuous conversation with customers to identify new opportunities
• Designed the solution on Azure using .NET Core-based services and APIs along with a CI/CD approach to suit the delivery model subscribed by customers
• Key contributions
• Pivoted the product into a model to fit the needs of a larger customer base using declarative automation capabilities
• Maintained a profitable development team through 3 years of license renewals by continuously enhancing capabilities and creating a strong relationship with customers
• Reduced retention on the engineering team by ensuring a balance between a challenging and healthy work environment

Apr 2019 – Jul 2019 · 3 mos

• Digital Research Environment (Dutch University):
• A digital research environment(DRE) for a medical researchers across a consortium of Dutch Universities to work on a common catalog of research datasets and bootstrap workspaces to operate on the data in a fully compliant environment.
• Improved discoverability of datasets by building a dataset search API backed by Azure Search
• Enhanced user experience with a user interface built in Angular supported by auto-suggest API

Sep 2018 – Mar 2019 · 6 mos

• Continued work on Loyalty Consortium while providing guidance on implementation of solidity based contracts and extending interfaces via Web APIs

Feb 2018 – Aug 2018 · 6 mos

• Loyalty Consortium(UK):
• A distributed system designed to assist a consortium of merchants and vendors participating in an airline loyalty program for a global brand. One of the early adopters of Web3 in 2017.
• Lead a small team of developers in understanding technologies like Ethereum and implemented a proof-of-concept for customer validation with ERC20 and ERC721 contracts using Solidity
• Reduced functional risks by highlighting the need for mechanisms such as double spend protections and multi-party encryption to protect the privacy of transactions
• Simplified repetitive task of DLT client installations with the incorporation of Docker and Packer
• Key Contributions
• Fast-tracked the first technical draft by helping stakeholders identify the strengths and weaknesses of distributed ledger technologies (Ethereum, Corda, Quorum).
• Reduced engineering overheads by advocating against hype-driven decisions and promoted the use of centralized storage solutions where applicable

Jan 2017 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Organisational Pulse (Product –targeting European enterprises):
• A SaaS service for CIO teams to track Office 365 usage patterns and observe KPIs against recommended metrics.
• Worked with the sales team to help gather requirements and convert them into technical design
• Reduced report generation time against email, calendar, and messaging activity by implementing a multi-threaded sync service in C# using Azure Table Storage to maintain a custom index
• Simplified product installation in compliance-heavy Azure environments with Azure DevOps and well-document runbooks
• Key Contribution
• Reduced the infrastructure costs to accommodate pricing goals of 0.01 euro/per Office 365 user (primarily storage costs)
• Ensured alignment of leadership team and development to meet capability and feasibility expectations

Aug 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Charts365 (Reporting tool for Healthcare organisation):
• ASP.net service hosted on Azure Web App backed by Table & Blob Storage to display created dashboards using HighchartJS
• Reduced compute requirements by off-loading data pre-processing to on-premise sync services
• Reduced storage costs by opting for NoSQL storage (Table Storage) for pre-processed data (<100k rows) and carrying out in-memory calculations (<1000 rows) on the API against user queries
• Improved query performance at the cost of cheap redundant storage with different indexing in a NoSQL data storage
• Intranet Dashboard (European Telecomm):
• An Intranet Dashboard backed by Office 365 to be used by a global team at a European Telecomm provider. The solution listed global and regional announcements with a personalized feed for over 17k users.
• Trimmed the number of HTTP calls to the new feed API on navigation-heavy UI by implementing a browser session storage-based cache (new browser capability for the time)
• Developed stakeholder confidence with periodic preview releases and demos
• Led a hassle-free go-live for 17k users globally by optimizing API and static asset response

Jul 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs · Pune City

• Co-founded Logic Engine with a team of passionate electronics engineers who saw opportunity in delivering value to manufacturing SMEs through convergence of two technologies - Cloud & Embedded Systems (now popular as IOT). I led the technical efforts in building a cloud service that helped aggregate data from our in-house hardware gateways installed in manufacturing plants. This setup allowed monitoring plant activities and running reports for performance improvements and raise hazard alerts.
• We faced hurdles in building a scalable business model that would ensure a sustainable position in market which was just experiencing the rise of IOT. We decided to shut down our services in 2014 after taking away with us life lessons in achieving product market fit.

Dec 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 mo · Pune City

• Worked on Internationalization (multi-lingual support) of an existing healthcare solution using ASP.net.
• Integrated a Datatables.net + Knockout.js interface with Microsoft Sharepoint's Javascript Object Model to provide a robust CRUD UI for lists.

Jun 2011 – Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Pune

• As part of the Internship, I worked on building a GUI that allowed users to update code for modules on the Colayer platform. The JavaScript enabled GUI implemented the longest common sub-sequence algorithm to allow users to track changes on the updated modules.
• I further co-ordinated with the design team working on FollowerRate.org (a social influence calculation app based on twitter and klout).

Aug 2009 – Sep 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• During these 3 years, I got the opportunity to interact with teams from Microsoft and develop apps on Windows Phone. One of the apps (ElectroPhone) built, received special recognition for receiving exceptional ratings on the marketplace.
• I also conducted hands-on sessions at colleges in and around the city, on Microsoft technologies to increase student involvement and awareness. I primarily focused on Windows Phone and Windows Azure (now Microsoft Azure).