Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 · 11 mos · On-site

• Built the merchant onboarding compliance engine that reduced gateway onboarding from 24 hours to under 5 minutes. Covered 800,000+ merchants. Integrated AI-powered website assessment for RBI-mandated underwriting. Same-day activation increased 4x.

Jul 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led engineering for Plum’s order and vendor systems. Rebuilt infra to handle 1.5x throughput with reduced failure rates.
• Designed DSL-based vendor onboarding to eliminate routine engineering work.
• Built full-stack ops dashboards, improving visibility and faster course correction.
• Owned audit readiness across systems and passed cleanly with tighter controls.

Sep 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Halved procurement turnaround time by redesigning order workflows.
• Improved repeat usage through better ops tracking and feedback loops.
• Grew team ownership, velocity, and delivery despite shifting product priorities.

Dec 2020 – Aug 2021 · 8 mos

• Took a planned break during the COVID phase to prioritize family and recover from sustained burnout after two high-intensity startup roles.
• Used the time intentionally to rebuild technical depth — re-architected parts of Crisp’s stack for performance and simplicity, reinforced system design fundamentals, and bridged foundational gaps from my bioinformatics background.
• This period helped reset, reflect, and return stronger — with clarity on the kind of problems I want to solve and the environments I thrive in.

Mar 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 2 mos

• Built a real-time AI news app with 9-minute average session times, well before LLMs went mainstream.
• Closed a $1K/month B2B licensing deal with Bloomberg; covered twice the infra cost, proving both demand and efficiency.
• Prototyped metadata-driven video generation for short-form publishing.
• Ran product, infra, and growth solo after 2020, keeping the app live and lean until sunset.

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 · 4 mos · Remote

• Improved Billbox onboarding by redesigning templated integration flows, cutting support overhead and go-live time.
• Rebuilt the event pipeline with a modular design to reduce latency and ease future expansion.
• Developed an ML-based parser using SpaCy for accurate plan extraction, replacing brittle pattern-matching logic.
• Drove design clarity and long-term maintainability across critical onboarding paths.

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led backend architecture for a creator-focused subscription platform.
• Built the first Stripe integration for recurring billing and plan management.
• Used Cloudflare Workers for edge rendering, cutting infra costs while scaling to millions of views — all built in a 2-member pod.
• Designed a plug-and-play integration layer to simplify future additions.

Nov 2013 – Feb 2014 · 3 mos · Chennai

• Spearheaded architecture and development of scalable RESTful API services supporting mobile and web platforms, focusing on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Led product innovation by ideating and prototyping tools like StitchemApp (early UI prototyping tool) and Clearsoup (agile-inspired project tracker) to improve developer productivity and reduce context switching.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals, driving meaningful product impact.
• Mentored junior engineers, helping them grow into senior technical and leadership roles — fostering a culture of development and ownership.
• Contributed to social media marketing and development for Fontli, a niche app-based community for typeface enthusiasts, showcasing cross-functional versatility.

Jun 2011 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Chennai

• As a Python developer with Imaginea, I worked on building custom, niche Python based solutions both for Imaginea's labs and Imaginea's clients with a focus on critical performance in solutions.
• Clearsoup - Diverging off a purely traditional Agile mangagement pattern, Clearsoup is a quasi open task management system that is loosely bound by the Agile lifecycle model to leverage on the best of both worlds.
• Working off a stack of Tornadoweb on both the API and the web layers, Clearsoup incorporates MongoDB as its datastore interfacing the API stack with the Mongo store through Mongoengine for its ORM needs. Worked primarily on the stack design for both the API and web layers.
• PairUp - A PoC collaborative editor with a particular focus for code editing. As part of an internal code jam, built PairUp to satiate oft occurring needs for parallel peer/mentor development and brought across a native GTK+ solution built over Python 2x with gio for asynchronous I/O support within the application
• Shoptouch – Worked primarily on the data scraper framework built over a Django/Scrapy based backend framework for a shopping application targeted at mobile application space. In addition, worked closely with API development for the application with a focus on the realtime processing features.
• Technologies: Python, Django, MongoDB, Redis, Regular expressions.
• Mixup Travel - Worked on the routing engine and improvement of performance/functional prioritization of the engine that lay as the core of the Django based web application focusing on a niche of travel management/routing. The web stack with Django + MongoDB fed off the routing engine built on top of TornadoWeb as its web framework for its non-blocking HTTP server.
• Technologies: Django, MongoDB, Tornado Web Server.

Sep 2007 – Mar 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · On-site

• Took ownership of multiple technical roles across campus departments, driving improvements and building solutions that supported academic and administrative goals. Identified early opportunities to apply and grow my skills, going beyond typical student jobs to shape impactful projects.
• Led IT infrastructure management for the School of Theology, ensuring reliable systems for faculty and students.
• Delivered data analysis and reporting solutions for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics to enable better research insights.
• Designed and maintained efficient databases for the School of Law, improving data accessibility.
• Developed custom Django web applications for the Earth & Environment department, accelerating digital workflows.
• This hands-on experience sharpened my ability to align technology with organizational needs and laid the foundation for my future leadership in product and engineering.

Aug 2006 – Dec 2011 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Managed and moderated an online forum for university students, fostering a positive and respectful community.
• Owned the development and maintenance of the forum software to ensure smooth user experience.
• Handled conflict resolution and interpersonal issues among members, promoting constructive discussions.
• Gained early experience in software development, community management, and leadership.