Jul 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Engineering leader for Data Charter at JioHotstar (merged entity of JioCinema and Disney+Hotstar). I head the below engineering initiatives at Disney+Hotstar scale.
• Data Platform and Engineering
• Experimentation platform
• Audience Platform (To manage customer cohorts)
• Martech, SEO and notifications

Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

• In this supervisory engineering head role (previously termed senior director), I have got the opportunity to lead, shape and head engineering initiatives for all of 'Growth and International' charter for Disney+ Hotstar! Our fabulous team is working on the Disney+ rocket ship launch to multiple new geographies of the world, including customer acquisition, demand generation, retention, payments, audience cohorting, segmentation, engagement, notifications etc. The best of all is we innovate on behalf of our customers. We innovate and engineer for growth of all Disney+ product/software features across countries including India. We execute/deliver features/projects on A/B nature to precision with incremental updates focussed on business/customer metrics. We have migrated to the latest architecture at Hotstar across 25+ countries !

Jul 2019 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs

• July 2021 to July 2022 - Led 3 charters - new payment issuance initiatives for Consumers [Digital Emerging Payments] for emerging markets, QA for emerging markets including team building from scratch; scaled team to 23 with positive impact for end customers.
• 2019 to 2021 - Successfully led the engineering initiatives for an EdTech offering from pre-beta stage to a successful monetisation stint, tailored for India from Amazon - https://academy.amazon.in/ We cater to students who aspire to top JEE and NEET.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• 2016-2019 Managing payments for India specific Digital products checkout, including new payment instrument roll out like UPI, AmazonPay and processor integrations for Credit Cards.

Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 · 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• + Technical Manager for leading e-business clients working on latest technical stacks
• + Solutions architect for web, mobile and cloud based projects
• + Responsible for account growth, mining and helping clients business needs
• + Technical support and consulting for pre-sales on demand
• + Aiding prospective customers with proposals including technology evaluation
• + Software methodologies (Agile/Scrum/Kanban/XP etc.) trainer (Lego4scrum workshop emulation)
• + Responsible for Product engineering delivery road map execution (multiple products - in house and client based)

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• + Adopter and Innovator in Internet of Things (IoT) space
• + Technical Consultant with prior software Architecture and designer role
• + Client engagement and account mining
• + Functional leadership and crafting next generation leaders
• + Lead and meticulously mentor towards technical proposals and bids
• + Future oriented thought process which is driven by the technical community
• + Scrum master/ Agile product owner

Jan 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Competency Manager / Practice Lead for Java. Primary Java consultant with experience scaling across vertically and horizontally in other IT technologies as well.
• Other activities include, Account mining, Talent acquisition, Knowledge Management, Proof of concepts, Technology harvesting etc.

Oct 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Consultant In Business Engineering and Research.
• Technology Consultant with prime focus on Java, J2EE and related technologies, frameworks, design patterns, design diagrams etc. I belong to the Solution Delivery team in client location and I am basically a part of the Java Center of Excellence. Apart from involvement in SDLC phases, client interaction, process/project monitoring I am also into talent acquisition, technical expertise solution and strategic planning.

Oct 2010 – Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

• My primary duties included, business analysis, design, architectural reviews, coding, team leadership, client relationship management, estimation, proposal, process compliance, audits etc. I do consultation for several Java projects in MS&S, Europe Portfolio- Software Delivery.
• I work in a environment with multiple technologies and stake holders related to Information Technology for Ford. I also behold active participation in Java Center of Excellence.

Jan 2010 – Oct 2010 · 9 mos

• Software design, coding, maintenance for a very large web application of a leading IP related client. Played various roles including leading a module all throughout the incremental version development as per new CR in a challenging environment (reward/penalty program with net business of $5m usd) with client developers as well. Also involved in UML designing, java/j2ee design patterns, dhtmlx and ajax based POC projects.

Sep 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Java based web application development, end to end across every layers in Extreme Programming (XP) model

Sep 2007 – Aug 2008 · 11 mos

• Junior team player for a e-learning client. Roles were to design and develop UI pages using JEE frameworks like struts/spring along with java scripts and XML validations, build and deploy across multiple environments.