Dec 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Building and leading strong Engineering teams for AckoDrive.
• ★ Led engineering evolution of Acko Drive from MVP to scalable, SEO-optimized car-buying platform,
• expanding landing pages by 11x, improving SEO traffic by 6x, and doubling business conversion
• ★ Owned the technical roadmap and collaborated with product, design, and business teams to deliver
• high-impact features across Acko Drive, Garage, and eCommerce charters
• ★ Increased team productivity by 50% by adopting AI tools, plugins, agile practices, and new process
• improvements
• ★ Enhanced website authority by 3 points by reducing 5xx/4xx error pages by 95% and streamlining
• site performance
• ★ Architected core tech stack for extensibility to support future verticals and new product rollouts
• ★ Automated cancellation flow, eliminating manual work, saving 10 man-hours daily, and improving
• customer experience
• ★ Championed agile sprints, retrospectives, and peer mentoring to foster a high-performance,
• ownership-driven culture

Dec 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Key Achievements:
• 1. Led the engineering evolution of Acko Drive from an early-stage MVP into a scalable, feature-rich, SEO-optimized car-buying platform — expanding landing pages by 11x and driving a 6x increase in organic traffic
• 2. Delivered initiatives across multiple charters, including Acko Drive, Acko Garage, and eCommerce — aligning technology investments with business growth and operational efficiency
• 3. Leading platform initiatives to transform Acko Drive into an expert-led, insight-driven eCommerce platform — simplifying every stage of the car ownership lifecycle, from discovery to post-sale services
• 4. Architecting for extensibility — enabling the core tech stack to support future verticals

Apr 2022 – Dec 2022 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Working towards building and enhancing EWA (Early Wage Access) product.
• ★ Expanded India tech team from 5 to 25 engineers across backend, Android, QA, DevOps, and
• support, while also restructuring global teams across US, EU, and India for efficiency
• ★ Directed delivery of 10+ projects improving funnel conversion and sales volume, leading to ~2.5x
• increase in customer conversions and ~2x growth in business
• ★ Ensured budget-neutral operations while aligning global team structure with product and business
• needs

Dec 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Key Achievements as people manager in the last 3 years:
• ★ Built and scaled a 15-member engineering team (backend, frontend, Android, QA), delivering 80+
• projects including modular, scalable systems for Mi Credit App
• ★ Expanded Mi Credit offerings from personal loans to business and gold loans, boosting conversions
• 4x and business by 3x
• ★ Reduced partner onboarding time by 50% through reusable frontend screens and backend flows,
• enabling 2.5x sales growth
• ★ Enhanced underwriting process 3-fold by integrating credit bureau intelligence, increasing partner
• conversion by ~1.5x
• ★ Spearheaded Experian credit bureau integration, modular KYC workflows, and SMS smart gateway
• to optimize marketing costs
• ★ Aligned product and technology strategy to create robust, flexible financial services infrastructure

Jun 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jun 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Aug 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• ★ Reduced partner onboarding and integration from multiple weeks to <1 week using configurable
• workflows, boosting business by 2.5x–3x
• ★ Improved application submission by cutting processing time 70–75% with Robo Arm Service that
• automated document analysis and partner submissions
• ★ Set up 0→1 platforms for international markets (Singapore, Malaysia, Australia), leading
• development efforts and market entry tech readiness
• Core member of the AMS (Application Management System) team that aims at making the application process paperless for instant disbursal of various financial products. Two flagship products of the team that I had worked are:
• (1) STP (State Through Processing):
• o A workflow configuration model that speeds up the integration and onbaording of various products of numerous financial partners
• (2) Robo Arm Service:
• o Analyses and pushes the statements and documents submitted by the customers to the partners' (bankers') site/server along with the application details. It also pre-fills any forms required on partners' site on behalf of the customer

Nov 2012 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• ★ Designed and developed car booking system from scratch, adding 500+ monthly bookings
• ★ Extended backend services to support mobile app development, resulting in 5% growth in early
• months and projected 10x scale in coming years
• ★ Integrated multiple bus partners, increasing profit margins by 25–30% from those channels
• Off the development track:
• ● Led the campus hiring process in Dec 2014
• NIT, Durgapur
• VIT, Vellore
• ● Mentoring freshers and junior engineers

Aug 2009 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Working with TRMS tech team.. Developing tools (Investigator Workbench) for internal quality analysis of investigators (BRI/MRI)

Mar 2009 – Jul 2009 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Working with MarketPlace team.. Developing the platform for selling & buying of hotels, tours, packages, etc.

Mar 2008 – Feb 2009 · 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Worked with teams like Nextance, ETI

Jun 2007 – Feb 2008 · 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Working with Panama team.. dealing with sponsored search results.