Sep 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Architected and developed the authentication system of a new serverless offering of Azure Storage, removing customer overhead for secret management.
• Spearheaded the telemetry efforts of the new serverless feature, bootstrapping the metrics, service monitoring capabilities.
• Delivered the last access time tracking feature for Azure Blob Storage. This allows the customers to optimize storage costs based on data access patterns.
• Developed and led various components of the serverless offering of Azure Storage, including diagnostics of failures, blob processing and task scheduling.
• Developed a migration solution for Azure Storage containers with a container level immutability policy to a blob version level policy. Helped in the customer retention of some major Fortune 500 companies.
• Part of the on-call rotation for the partition layer of Azure Storage, crucial role for the broad service availability.
• Developed an optimized task splitting mechanism in efforts to push Lifecycle management' success rate to 99.9%.

Dec 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

• As part of the Azure Blob Storage and Data Management team,
• Designed and developed Immutable Storage with Versioning service, supporting blob level immutable (WORM) policies, enabling customers to safeguard critical data against accidental or malicious alterations.
• Developed robust data management capabilities such as blob version, snapshot management with lifecycle management policies.
• Part of the team's on-call responsible for maintaining SLO, with less than a day response rate for any severe issue.

Sep 2019 – Nov 2019 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Previously FamPay. Simplifying digital payments in India for teenagers. Involved in the core product development team and the zero to one bootstrapping of the company.
• Was one of the three people involved in the alpha and beta version development of the product.
• Contributed towards design and development of the technical infrastructure.
• Created the payment and settlement workflow for card payments.
• Integrated shipping and logistics APIs for card ordering.
• Contributed towards various events and outreach activities to improve branding.
• https://fampay.in/

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Remote

• Created openwisp-radius, a python package from scratch for monitoring and management of FreeRADIUS databases using APIs and web interfaces.
• Added new core functionalities to django-freeradius and extended them to openwisp-radius.
• Maintained a raddb conf repository as a reference to users who want to set up FreeRADIUS with django-freeradius.

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked with the software engineering and the DevOps team.
• Automated disaster recovery for utilities like Jenkins.
• Automated the deployment and integration pipelines for easing the production push process.
• Developed the CloudFormation configuration generation framework for automating the CF template generation.
• Worked on various AWS services and developed utility scripts for success and error reports.

Apr 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr · Roorkee, India · On-site

• Led a team of 40 engineering students. Recruited, managed and mentored the students in the group.
• Hosted DevCon, the first developer conference of IIT Roorkee collaborating with various other college groups and industry.
• Managed the development and deployment of the intranet portal of the college called Channel-i and its diverse suite of applications. These include the study portal, recruitment portal and various others.
• Led and managed GSuite applications for the campus community.

Nov 2017 – Jan 2018 · 2 mos · Remote

• Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 take part in Google Code-in: The global, online contest introducing teenagers to the world of open source development. As a mentor, I
• Created various bit sized to major tasks for contributors to get started.
• Mentored contributors, helping them make first contributions.
• Collaborated with various other members of the open-source community to identify and improve areas.

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Remote

• Created python package openwisp-network-topology, the module of OpenWISP2 which is used to visualize and monitor the mesh network topologies.
• Managed launches of new versions of django-netjsongraph and openwisp-network-topology and successfully integrated into openwisp2.
• Authored openwisp-utils, a common util library to reduce code redundancy.
• Contributed to django-sortedm2m, openwisp-users, netdiff, ansible-openwisp2, and django-netjsonconfig as part of upstream dependencies.

Sep 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · IIT Roorkee

• Onboarded sponsors for the magazine and the events for two consecutive years.
• Led and managed a team of 20 students to organize events and bring sponsorship for the magazine.
• Successfully drove recruitments, magazine distributions, and all the relevant operations.

Jul 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr · IIT Roorkee

• Watch Out! is the official campus media body of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee run by students under the aegis of the Dean of Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), IIT Roorkee. Me, being the member of the Editorial and News team
• Interviewed and covered a lot of ongoing events, senate meetings and discussions.
• Contributed to the list of ideas for the editions of the print magazine.
• Participated in various discussions, debates on various ideas.