Jul 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Lithium helps businesses to connect with their customers on social media and digital channels.
• I head engineering for Lithium-India, CoE for Lithium's "Community" product.
• Community accounts for 80% of Lithium’s annual revenue.
• Grew the team from 10 to 50+ engineers in 18 months.
• Currently revamping the Data Platform from a legacy, batch-processing framework to a modern, robust, real-time platform. My team manages 1000+ Hadoop nodes across 3 data centers.
• Built the Data Science team at the India office for Klout (www.klout.com), Lithium’s social media platform that uses social media analytics to rate its users according to online social influence.
• Currently working on a Machine Learning solution to increase user engagement for the Community platform, with an upside potential of USD 10 Million to Lithium’s business.
• I conduct internal trainings on Machine Learning.

Feb 2016 – Jun 2016 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Head of engineering for Infoworks.
• Infoworks is building a Hadoop-based Data Warehouse, and Business Intelligence solutions over Hadoop.
• Conceptualized the first version of the BI / Analytics product.

Dec 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore, India

• Led multiple critical charters at Jabong Labs – Data Science, Data Platform, Catalog service.
• Conceptualized Jabong’s data strategy. Architected the Data Platform that powers the personalization experience of Jabong website and mobile app.
• Conceptualized and implemented a Machine Learning solution for size-related returns that account for INR 100+ Crores (~ USD 15 Million) of annual revenue loss to Jabong.
• Re-architected Jabong’s legacy Catalog system to a service-oriented Catalog in four months.

Jul 2011 – Nov 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore, India

• Owned multiple critical platforms in Yahoo’s cloud infrastructure.
• Managed an Apache-Hadoop based platform that processes all content flowing through Yahoo’s content pipeline. Led the development of an Apache-HBase based Tracking & Monitoring service for the content pipeline. The processing platform and the tracking & monitoring service handle 10 million+ articles, images, videos and listings daily.
• Led the development of an Apache-Storm based highly scalable service that categorizes and classifies URLs into Spam, Adult, Phishing, etc., handling 1000 RPS and built to scale linearly.
• Coordinated a complex cross-functional, SVP-level goal in 2013 working with five teams across four countries.
• Awards: My team was nominated for the prestigious ‘Platform RAVE’ team award (2013) for scaling capacity of the Tracking and Monitoring service by a factor of 15.

Nov 2006 – Jul 2011 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore, India

• Managed fast-paced global teams, with people from US and India reporting to me.
• Conceptualized and led the development of productivity enhancing applications for Oracle Retail, which resulted in savings of more than Two Hundred Thousand contractor dollars annually.
• Conceptualized and led the development of Planner, built on Oracle Fusion Middleware stack for managing all projects, programs and releases of Oracle Retail. Planner is used by 800+ users for tracking and monitoring 250+ active projects and is mission critical for Oracle Retail’s operations.
• Conceptualized and led the development of SE Live – an enterprise dashboard that helps drive key org decisions and productivity of 200+ developers. Built SE Lite – the iPhone app for SE Live.
• Managed multiple Sustaining Engineering teams of different Oracle Retail products, including the flagship Oracle Retail Merchandising System. Reduced the average issue resolution time by 40% while maintaining quality and budget.
• HR: Key member of Oracle Retail’s campus recruitment team; Conducted internal technical trainings on SOA, Web Services and Java Swing.
• Awards, Recognition:
• (i) ‘Manager of the Year’ for building a high performance team (2010).
• (ii) ‘Annual Innovation Award’ for building SE Live and SE Lite (2008).
• (iii) Attended Oracle’s prestigious technology conference – Oracle OpenWorld – in 2008 and 2009

Jul 1997 – Oct 2006 · 9 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• 9+ years of progressive experience with Hewlett Packard. Successfully delivered projects for global clients in areas of Enterprise Application Integration, TIBCO and Java / J2EE.
• Transitioned four projects over three years from onsite to offshore, and successfully delivered under budget and resource constraints.
• Strong experience on proposals, scope definition, requirements gathering, cost estimation, and all aspects of project planning, execution and monitoring.
• Successfully negotiating with the client to increase team size from 12 engineers to 22 (2006).
• Awards:
• (i) ‘Best Project’ award for achieving consistent customer and employee satisfaction score of 4.6/5 for a project for the world’s top consumer goods company (2006).
• (ii) Bronze certificate for contribution to a project for a Taiwanese telecom giant (2003