Dec 2015 – Dec 2021 · 6 yrs · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Founded and led the technical and organizational direction of a data and analytics company delivering large-scale IoT and real-time analytics platforms deployed across manufacturing and industrial environments.
• Built and managed a 20-member multidisciplinary engineering team, covering data engineering, platform development, analytics, QA, and DevOps, while remaining hands-on with core system architecture and critical design decisions.
• Designed and implemented end-to-end IoT data pipelines and analytics systems supporting equipment-rental and plant-operations use cases, with live deployments across manufacturing facilities including TVS Motors, Saint-Gobain, and other large industrial plants.
• Led CXO-level technical and solution discussions, including architecture presentations, system walkthroughs, and roadmap reviews, translating complex operational requirements into scalable, production-grade platforms. Represented the company at international industry forums, including Big Data Summit Dubai (2016), where I presented platform architecture and use cases.
• Owned business and technical strategy development, including solution positioning, platform roadmaps, and execution planning, while handling RFI/RFP processes, technical proposal development, and solution validation.
• Managed vendor selection, procurement, and integration across domestic and international partners, working closely with suppliers and technology vendors in India, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China to support hardware, IoT, and platform requirements.
• Maintained end-to-end responsibility for system reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability, prioritizing operational stability, data quality, and performance over short-term delivery metrics.

Feb 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Management of globally located offshore big data team of up to 23 professionals to develop the end to end Analytics Pipeline, using various big data technologies. Key achievements in a short time include,
• Designed and developed unified big data pipeline for realtime ad bidding analytics from scratch using Java, Kafka, Spark, druid and couch base.
• Automated the benchmarking of different NOSQL and graph databases using python, Java and YCSB.
• Developed C++ and golang based components for the conversion tracking and frequency capping features of adserver.
• Developed C++ and golang based components to integrate with third party api’s for programmatic request handling and profile targeting of adserver.
• Moved heavy weight request handling components from c++ to golang which scaled the ad request handling from 2k requests/sec to 50k requests/sec.
• Developed REST based web services using ruby for third party to consume our data.
• Developed test automation framework using ruby rspec for mobile and desktop ads.
• Worked closely with QA and dev-ops team to help with smoother product release.
• Established big data training for the scrum teams, business users and development teams for every Agile release in order to attain efficiency.

Jul 2010 – Feb 2014 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• I worked here through cognizant.

Dec 2008 – Feb 2014 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Edison, NJ

• Hands-on big data architect responsible for implementing big data solutions for various clients of Cognizant. Managed and directed a large team of developers, functional and automation test engineers for Enterprise Web, Mobile, and Cloud application product lines generating >$25M in yearly revenues.
• Responsible for:
• Migrated C++ based related search systems at Ask.com to Java, Hadoop and Hive based architecture.
• Designed and developed unified data pipeline from scratch using Storm, ZeroMQ and Hadoop eco system.
• Developed Python based Adult Content classifier using SVM liblinear model.
• Developed C++ based bloom filter for auto complete backend.
• Handled application that generates 105 TB data and delivered related search in seven different languages.
• Architected, redesigned and implemented Say media’s Web, Mobile and Cloud application across all phases of product development
• Designed and developed Unified Big Data pipeline from scratch using Storm, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive and HBase on Amazon AWS architecture.
• Developed sentiment analysis tool using python to track user sentiments about typepad.
• Development of Onsite/offshore team of up to 35 professionals, increase the group’s productivity and focus through the identification of resources and priorities necessary to execute plans, tracking performance and make budget/resource reallocation decisions, talent acquisition and development activities and performance management activities include setting performance standards, job goals and appraisals.
• In a short span of time improved test coverage from 10% to 85% of the product code coverage.
• Implemented successful, high visibility Product Releases from concept to roll out.
• Collaboration with globally located teams, Client interactions and product management throughout SW development life cycle to develop project schedules and appropriate resource allocation models for all dev related activities

Dec 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

• I worked here through cognizant

Feb 2008 – Dec 2008 · 10 mos

Jul 2007 – Jan 2008 · 6 mos

Jul 2007 – Dec 2007 · 5 mos

• I worked in airvana through Velankani in Bangalore

May 2005 – Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2005 – May 2005 · 4 mos

Sep 2003 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos

Jan 2002 – Sep 2003 · 1 yr 8 mos · Chennai Area, India