Oct 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Heading the technology department for payment, remittance, B2B, and remittance as a service verticals.
• Built and scaled B2B payment services to generate a monthly profit of 2 million USD

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Building a technology venture in stealth mode — shaping the future at the intersection of AI, PropTech, and EduTech.
• Our focus lies in designing intelligent systems that transform how people live, learn, and make decisions — powered by data, automation, and human-centered design.
• Currently leading product vision, technical strategy, and early-stage innovation efforts to build scalable, impact-driven platforms.
• The mission: use technology not just to disrupt, but to meaningfully improve real-world ecosystems.

Mar 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Heading the engineering department for B2B, B2B2C digital distribution transformation

Jun 2022 – Mar 2023 · 9 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Responsibilities:
• Strategic Leadership: Mentor the engineering team, fostering innovation and excellence.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with executives to align technology with goals.
• Strategic Planning: Set goals and OKRs, aligning the department with company objectives.
• M&A Expertise: Lead due diligence for expansion opportunities.
• Architectural Excellence: Guide architecture design, enhancing solutions and reviews.
• Financial Stewardship: Manage budgeting, cost control, and planning for efficiency.
• Operational Excellence: Establish engineering standards, policies, processes, and procedures.
• Talent Development: Conduct performance reviews and create growth plans for team members.
• Technology Vision: Collaborate with the CEO to strategize the technology roadmap for alignment.
• Hands-On Mentorship: Provide hands-on guidance and support to nurture technical capabilities in engineers.
• Achievements:
• Architectural Transformation: Successfully revamped the e-commerce platform's architecture and workflows, enhancing performance and scalability.
• Organizational Enhancement: Reorganized the tech organization and executed strategic hiring initiatives, ensuring the right talent in key positions.
• Innovative Business Model: Launched the Distribution As A Service Business model, expanding revenue streams and market reach.
• Mobile Innovation: Introduced an iOS app for the merchant marketplace, enhancing accessibility and user experience.
• Fintech Advancements: Launched Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) and Payments solutions for the Fintech vertical, driving financial innovation.
• Merchant Empowerment: Revamped the merchant app for improved performance and user experience, bolstering merchant engagement.
• Seller Management: Launched the Seller portal, streamlining seller management and onboarding processes for greater efficiency.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates(Remote/global) · On-site

• Description:
• Techrise is a full-cycle product development studio and innovation lab. We partner with governments, enterprises, and startups to translate ideas into scalable, market-ready products while also building and launching our own in-house SaaS tools.
• Key responsibilities & achievements:
• Act as a fractional CTO and technical co-founder for early to growth-stage startups, overseeing architecture, team building, and product strategy.
• Lead end-to-end product development for clients: from technical feasibility and MVP builds to scaling and deployment.
• Provide technical due diligence for venture capital firms and angel investors during funding rounds.
• Spearhead in-house product initiatives, identifying market gaps and building niche B2B/B2G SaaS solutions.
• Facilitate workshops and strategy sessions for government and enterprise digital innovation projects.

Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Responsibilities:
• Squad Leadership: Managed and mentored four cross-functional squads, each consisting of 8 individual contributors (ICs), and one Engineering Manager, overseeing a total of 36 engineers.
• Strategic Alignment: Defined yearly OKRs/KPIs, aligning them with the company's mission and vision, ensuring a clear focus on organizational objectives.
• Roadmap Development: Crafted and executed yearly/quarterly product and technology roadmaps, driving innovation and aligning with company objectives.
• Mentorship & Growth: Conducted regular 1:1 sessions with Engineering Managers to nurture career growth and provided mentoring to foster personal and professional development.
• Leadership Impact: Organized skip-level meetings to provide guidance and support to indirect reports, strengthening leadership capabilities within the organization.
• Talent Development: Developed and recruited highly skilled technology members, ensuring that teams were well-equipped with top-tier talent.
• Scaling Excellence: Led architecture review and development efforts, focusing on scaling up existing and future systems within and across tribes, enhancing efficiency.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Cultivated and enhanced relationships with engineers, managers, and all relevant business stakeholders across multiple teams.
• Financial Acumen: Oversaw budget forecasting and planning, ensuring resource optimization and financial accountability.
• Performance Excellence: Conducted comprehensive 360° performance reviews, facilitating continuous improvement and excellence.
• Achievements:
• Collaborative Restructuring: Successfully restructured teams and tribes around domain focus, enhancing collaboration and alignment.
• Strategic Execution: Achieved all set OKRs for the year, demonstrating a track record of strategic execution and accomplishment.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs

• Responsibilities:
• Versatile Leadership: Wore multiple hats including Architect, Director, and Tribe Lead, orchestrating strategic initiatives and fostering innovation across the organization.
• Cross-Continental Leadership: Managed and mentored a cross-continental logistics tribe through regular 1:1 sessions.
• Strategic Talent Management: Led hiring efforts and nurtured team growth in alignment with yearly budget forecasts, ensuring optimal resource allocation.
• Cloud Migration: Spearheaded the migration of existing systems from Data Centers to Google Cloud Platform, enhancing scalability and resource efficiency.
• Dockerization Strategy: Developed a strategic plan for Dockerization of existing systems, simplifying the migration process to GCP.
• Operational Enhancement: Identified limitations within existing systems and associated processes, procedures, and methods, introducing innovative solutions.
• Performance Optimization: Conducted stress testing, fault tolerance testing, and successfully scaled up systems by 10x, ensuring performance excellence.
• Product Roadmap Alignment: Worked in tandem with the Director of Product and Business leaders to shape the yearly/quarterly product roadmap, aligning technology with business objectives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Managed and nurtured relationships with stakeholders across the organization.
• Architectural Excellence: Provided insights and guidance through pull request and architecture reviews, ensuring the highest standards of quality and efficiency.
• Achievements:
• Logistics Transformation: Launched Logistics As A Service from scratch within a remarkable three years, encompassing 12+ backend services, 4 mobile apps, and 3 web apps, revolutionizing logistics operations.
• Crowdsourcing Innovation: Proposed and launched crowdsourcing for couriers, relieving pressure on in-house couriers during promotional sales events.
• Fintech Advancements: Successfully launched the Blipay Wallet, enhancing the financial offerings of the platform.

Jun 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Responsibilities:
• Led Seamless Collaboration: Orchestrated a seamless collaboration with the Architect from tech design to execution, ensuring precision and alignment at every step.
• Mentored Emerging Talent: Championed the growth of junior team members, fostering a culture of excellence through mentorship during the development phase, resulting in a 25% improvement in their productivity.
• Scrum Methodology Expert: Spearheaded sprint planning and backlog grooming sessions, delivering accurate estimations and meticulous story planning using Scrum methodology.
• Microservices Advancement: Engineered the expansion of existing systems through microservices architecture, achieving a 30% increase in scalability and a 20% boost in system efficiency.
• Innovative Microservices: Conceptualized, designed, and executed groundbreaking microservices, solving complex business challenges and delivering demonstrable Proof of Concepts (POCs).
• Business-Technology Alignment: Captivated business users with compelling application demonstrations, forging a profound connection between technology and business goals, resulting in a 15% increase in UX.
• Code Quality Steward: Steered development, testing, design reviews, and PR evaluations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborated seamlessly with business analysts, development teams, and infrastructure specialists, delivering high-availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
• Operational Excellence: Elevated system performance through proactive adjustments and bug resolution, driving remarkable operational enhancements, resulting in a 20% reduction in system downtime.
• Achievements:
• Microservices Pioneering: Engineered and launched four groundbreaking microservices, fortifying our ecosystem and delivering indispensable support.
• Legacy Transformation: Spearheaded the seamless transition from a legacy system to our cutting-edge solution, revolutionizing efficiency and transforming our Transportation Management System (TMS).

May 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr · New York, United States · Hybrid

• Responsibilities:
• Global Team Coordination: Managed and coordinated teams across New York, Hong Kong, and India, ensuring seamless collaboration and alignment.
• System Analysis: Conducted a comprehensive analysis of the existing system, meticulously documenting all connecting flows between subsystems.
• Efficiency Enhancement: Identified redundant calculation flows and championed the consolidation of calculations into a single entity, adhering to the Single Responsibility Principle.
• Process Redesign: Redesigned and implemented flows post-identifying redundancies, collaborating closely with the VP for the project.
• Testing & Deployment: Spearheaded rigorous testing, integration, and successful deployment to production after completing the entire refactoring process.
• Production Support: Undertook weekly support-rota for trading systems, resolving production issues before traders began their day, ensuring uninterrupted operations.
• Achievements:
• Streamlined Systems: Streamlined a minimum of 9 redundant/legacy systems, significantly enhancing system speed and reliability.
• Cost Optimization: Reduced maintenance costs by an impressive 30%, previously allocated to address issues stemming from redundant systems.
• My experience at Goldman Sachs was marked by a commitment to efficiency, collaboration, and continuous improvement in the financial industry.

Jul 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · bangalore

• Responsibilities:
• UI Development: Contributed to the development of controllers, EAO (Entity Access Objects), and Entities for User Interface (UI) in alignment with Change Requests (CR) and Use Cases.
• Unit Testing: Created and executed comprehensive unit test cases using JUnit, ensuring code quality and reliability.
• Database Expertise: Proficiently wrote SQL queries for debugging and data retrieval, enhancing code accuracy.
• Test Automation: Analyzed the test suite for the project, identifying common functionalities suitable for automation.
• Framework Development: Pioneered the development of a comprehensive test automation framework using Selenium, streamlining testing processes.
• Achievements:
• Agile Automation: In a remarkable feat, developed the entire test automation framework for the team using Selenium within a timeline of just 3 months, elevating testing efficiency and accuracy.
• My tenure at Unisys was marked by a dedication to software development excellence and innovation.