Apr 2020 – Aug 2024 · 4 yrs 4 mos · United Kingdom

• Technical lead for Instagram’s Creator Marketplace
• Architected the Creator Marketplace, a place for brands to find creators to work and partner with.
• Contributed to the product strategy for branded content(Content sponsored by brand). Worked with
• PM, Data Scientist and Designers to find the focus items in the space and enable product market fit.
• Developed a system to enable brands to send structured partnership requests to creators on
• Instagram.
• Architected and developed Paid partnerships folder in Instagram messaging for brand and creators partnerships. This enabled creators to get high intent partnership messages.
• Developed the Click to Whatsapp Ads feature to enable advertisers to quickly reply to an enquiry via Ads click.
• Built an experiment and ship fast culture in Instagram org. by helping engineers up level on experimentation and data analysis. This led to decrease in ship cycles and saved countless hours for Data scientists and designers.
• Enabled the culture of technical reviews and better engineering in the organisation by leading initiatives in this space.

Jun 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Singapore

• Working with Grab's Identity and Access Management team. As part of this team my role is to make identity seamless and secure for Grab application and our partners.
• Perviously worked with Pricing where I lead the development of double sided pricing and surge. Before that I was part of Grab's Platform team where my responsibilities and achievements were-
• Engineering Owner for Grab's Category tile integrations. This product helped Agoda, Booking.com ,BookMyShow and Hooq integrate with Grab.
• Engineering Owner and Architect of Grab's developer portal. I architected and built the Grab's developer portal from scratch along with a team of 6 developers. It integrates with several micro-services in Grab and provides a way for service owners to publish their documentation automatically from service definitions. It provides users a unique way to get access to Grab's services.
• Engineering Owner of partner integrations with Grab. Role involves coming up with ways of exposing partner integrations from Grab's superapp.
• Work with Grab's partners to help them integrate with Grab's services. This involves architecting solutions for our partners, building SDKs, writing code samples and sample applications.

Nov 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

• As a part of Mastercard API team, I am responsible for developing Mastercard's developer portal both Backend server in Java and frontend in React. Some of the work I have done in this team are-
• Wrote Python SDK for Mastercard APIs
• Wrote Ruby SDK for Mastercard APIs
• Worked on automated SDK generation based on Swagger
• Working on building Mastercard developer platform both in React frontend and Java Backend.
• Building big data analytics platform for Mastercard’s developer portal

Aug 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Worked in Mastercard Labs on various technologies and mobile application development
• Designed and Developed P2P Middleware for Personal Payments
• Worked on IOT Payments APIs for Mastercard and developed Reference Implementations.
• Wrote Android application for Mastercard’s Pepper(Robot) Application.
• Worked on critical piece of Mastercard Aid Network’s Android application to sync the data when the
• device comes online.
• Worked on developing several reference implementations for Masterpass.
• Supported Nairobi labs team to develop a system to help stakeholders in construction industry in Africa.
• Won several internal hackathons and developed several ideas as part of different initiatives.
• Mentor 2 interns from NUS
• Represented Mastercard in several forums and events such as World Cities Summit.

Jan 2015 – Jul 2015 · 6 mos · Singapore

• Worked in Visa Labs on Distributed and Scalable Databases and Big Data.
• Docker Containers to create large scale machine learning platform..

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Singapore

• Worked in Visa Labs on Distributed and Scalable Databases and Big Data.
• Did a standard Proof of Concept for using a Distributed Graph Database over Hadoop 2.x.
• Automated Proof of Concept deployment in Amazon Web Services.
• Automated Parsing and Bulk Data Loading of recent census data sets.
• Developed various Use Cases including geographical distributions and heat maps.
• Developed a mobile app to accepts payment from paywave card using NFC technology as a part of intern challenge.

Mar 2013 – Dec 2013 · 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Development of tutrr.com, from Java and Postgresql backend to writing HTML,CSS and Javascript. First release was a full revamp of website.
• Hacking mathquill library to customize to the needs of tutrr.com.
• Development of new types of editor (such as for prime factorization). This enabled us to cater to more types of mathematical problems.
• Native android application for tutrr platform. Done as Proof of concept, later led to a full scale development.

Jun 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Development of web applications to support the business mainly MIS/DSS.
• Developed an Interactive webapp to catch geographical( using Google Maps) current and potential sales data. It received a personal appreciation from Bharat Goenka (known as father of Indian Software product industry).
• Designed(UI and Database Schema) and Developed new and interactive Sales/Reports which increased performance of upto 200%.
• Made the reports real time by changing the database schema and using NodeJs.
• Designed and Developed the first Mobile App that was used in the company. The app was developed using HTML5 and Javascript with PhoneGap framework. App was used to assign and monitor the sales target to the partners. This led to creation of a dedicated mobile team.
• Researched on Hadoop and its implementation in the company to process a large number of small sized XML files to get the approximate usage of each feature in the product.

Jun 2010 – Jul 2010 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Project : " Development of a computer program for Data Analysis and Burn Injury Prediction as per ASTM F1930 using C++"
• The Objective was to develop an application that would enable DRDO to test various clothing for military and firefighting purposes.