Mar 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Managing a cross-functional team of engineers delivering Breezy Perform, ensuring roadmap alignment, quality, and predictable delivery.
• Defined and executed the AI roadmap across Perform and Hire, launching Candidate Match Scoring and Resume Audit, improving recruiter efficiency by 40%.
• Collaborated with leadership to define AI system boundaries, model evaluation, prioritize ethical, privacy-compliant AI features aligned with user value.
• Driving team performance through regular 1:1s, appraisal cycles, and growth conversations. Mentored junior engineers into feature owners.
• Actively contribute to hiring, onboarding, and cross-team coordination with Design, QA, and Product teams.
• Balanced team leadership with technical oversight of architecture, scalability, and reliability across AWS, Kubernetes, and event-driven systems.

Jan 2023 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Acted as the technical bridge between product and engineering to scope features, plan, and ship value quickly.
• Led Breezy Perform’s launch, transforming onboarding from 2 weeks for mid-size enterprises to self-service same-day onboarding for SMBs.
• Designed architecture and established AWS infra, CI/CD, and observability, achieving 99.99% uptime.
• Led infra cost optimization efforts resulting in ~64% reduction by right-sizing, upgrading and consolidation on AWS.
• Integrated with Slack, Intercom, Salesforce, and Stripe, enabling automated user sync, subscription
• management, and notifications that boosted adoption and engagement.

Sep 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led a team of 6 engineers building ACT, a platform for managing hospital go-lives and early production support.
• Coordinated backlog grooming, release planning, and stakeholder alignment, cutting escalations by 35%.
• Introduced test automation and containerization, increasing sprint delivery speed by 30%.
• Mentored engineers via 1:1s and appraisals, developing two senior ICs within the team.

Aug 2018 – Aug 2021 · 3 yrs

• Designed and developed authentication, notifications, and course assignment modules for an eLearning platform with 500k+ users.
• Delivered APIs with sub-200ms latency and contributed to microservices architecture reviews.
• Strengthened observability with Splunk and New Relic, reducing production incidents by 25%.
• Engineered secure authentication flows, fine-grained access control, LDAP Sync and implemented SCIM for SAML-based IDP user synchronization, ensuring seamless enterprise user management and HIPAA compliance.

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos

• Built a hybrid test automation framework with Java and Selenium, reducing regression testing from 4 days to 0.5 days.
• Performed load and stress testing for 10k concurrent users, ensuring platform stability.
• Integrated automation into release cycles, reducing post-release defects by 15%.

Aug 2013 – Dec 2017 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Partnered with British Telecom and Verizon Telematics on QA and automation projects.
• Built API and functional automation suites, improving release quality and delivery speed.