Apr 2022 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led Engineering for Connect and Confluent Platform, both critical and sizable revenue streams for Confluent.

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos · Jayanagar, Bangalore

• As our Founder and CTO Rohan says “what if you had a Fitbit for your enterprise ?”
• If you knew how work really happens in your enterprise, backed by real data and advanced algorithms, would the roadmap for your organisational transformation be the same ? We bet not !

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Led Flipkart's Cloud Platform group (Data Centers, IaaS, PaaS, Security) - the foundation that powers all of Flipkart's e-commerce stack

Sep 2017 – Mar 2018 · 6 mos

• Building products that help enterprises deliver delightful field service experiences to their customers. Responsible for a global team building field service applications for the OEM market.

Nov 2016 – Jun 2017 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Google acquired Apigee in Nov 16.
• Would have loved to continue the journey but can't move out of Bangalore to Mountain View. Post successful transition / integration, left Google end of May.

Sep 2011 – Nov 2016 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, India

• Member of the leadership team at Apigee.
• Successfully led Apigee Bangalore through the key transitions as Apigee grew. Grew the team from 40 to 140 across multiple functions, transformed Apigee Bangalore to that of a ‘cloud + enterprise’ culture.
• Created and nurtured a self-running, organizational culture. Here is how our employees describe it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmiK_xQowI
• Apigee Edge, our flagship and industry’s first and leading API cloud platform, was completely built out of Bangalore (except UI). Apart from core engineering, the center had a sales engineering team that partnered deeply with our global sales teams throughout the sales process, a devops team that built and ran our cloud operations, a customer success team that designed and delivered API implementations and digital best practices to our global customer base and a support team that helped our global customer base succeed with our platform.
• Apigee went public in April 2015. It was an amazing experience being inside NASDAQ with the team on the opening day celebrating the journey thus far and seeing the team's pictures flash across billboards in Time Square.
• Privileged to be part of this awesome team and making of Apigee.

Nov 2010 – Sep 2011 · 10 mos

• The invisible backend that delivers on the customer promises made!

Jan 2003 – Nov 2010 · 7 yrs 10 mos

• Being part of windows and windows live, shipping products that touch hundreds of millions of lives, is truly humbling!

Jul 2001 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Strategy is all about the paths you don't want to go. Shipping and delivering products is all about tenacity. Building a strong engineering culture is the hardest of all!

Sep 1998 – Jun 2001 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• If you haven't experienced the challenges, pains and the pleasure of growing a startup, you should! It is as fascinating as bringing up your kids!
• The joy of seeing the company thrive beyond 'you' is unexplainable

Jan 1995 – Sep 1998 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Architecting large scale systems is quite simply a matter of trade-offs!

Jul 1991 – Jan 1995 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Building 'mission critical systems' - systems that just-work is both an art, science and lots of passion.

Jun 1990 – Jun 1991 · 1 yr

• Office Automation Solutions on Unix platforms. Unix is beautiful.