Sep 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

• RIF'd
• Worked across the board on multiple projects:
• 1. Cluster Cloner: Startree's single-click, idempotent tool that can migrate and certify live Pinot clusters without the user having to stop ingestion or back-fill data.
• 2. RLS/CLS in Pinot: Primary designer of row-level and col-level security in Apache Pinot. Ref: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q_PgVN2WpKfAyagBzwPTU1KXV3tp1kuVfGRH4J6F8xk/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.kcuujbxeyw2s
• 3. Graviton Migration: Led Pinot's ARM64 readiness and certification.
• 4. Observability: SME of all things observability at Startree. Wrote exhaustive frameworks to test alerts + metrics in Pinot/Startree.
• 5. DevEx: Concourse to GA migration, environment level alert customization, etc.

May 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Edge: Building Razorpay's API gateway
• Observability: Distributed tracing with Hypertrace and Apache Pinot. Hypertrace with Pinot provides unprecented insights into your applications and systems at an average scale of ~ 300,000 spans/s and peak of 800,000 spans/s.
• Core engineering for Observability in Razorpay.
• SME for Pinot and Hypertrace. Primary maintainer of Observability's Pinot cluster.
• Contributor to Hypertrace, Apache Pinot, among other projects: https://github.com/suddendust/
• Primary organiser of and speaker at the first ever Pinot meetup in Bangalore: https://www.meetup.com/apache-pinot-bangalore-by-startree/
• Led the cost optimisation initiative for Observability, specifically Pinot, and brought down the overall infra cost by 50%, resulting in the lowest per GB cost of tracing in the market (compared against major SaaS providers).
• Ref: https://engineering.razorpay.com/distributed-tracing-with-hypertrace-30b0334d0c0b

Oct 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Designed and implemented cloud-native, reactive microservices that orchestrate the lifecycle of a GHS order.
• Designed and implemented workflows for substitutions, refunds and returns for GHS.
• Wrote a minimalist framework to synchronise API calls using Redlock and AOP.
• Wrote an annotation-based idempotency framework for our APIs using AOP and Redis.
• Perf testing, JVM performance tuning, etc.

Jul 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Led the e2e integration of the Customer Order Service with the Order Fulfillment Service.
• Implemented post-checkout workflows for Tesco Mobile - Deliveries, returns and refunds.
• Led COS' migration from v3 tokens to JWTs.

Jul 2017 – Dec 2017 · 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Full-stack software development for the SPN (Sellers Providers Network) team. Although I worked primarily on the backend, I did a bit of UI development as well. My main deliverables include writing APIs, a URL shortener, internationalisation of our websites and the SPN Guarantee program.