Jan 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• AI-Driven Network Management – Architected GenAI solutions to assist network engineers in diagnosing, troubleshooting, and optimizing network performance.
• Enterprise Data Platform Development – Led a global team to build a scalable terabyte-scale Data Platform, integrating ML and analytics to drive actionable insights for Cisco customers.
• Cost and Efficiency Optimization – Designed automated AI workflows, improving troubleshooting accuracy and reducing operational inefficiencies.
• Strategic Leadership & Innovation– Conducted technology evaluations and competitive analysis to position Cisco at the forefront of AI-driven network intelligence.
• Cross-functional collaboration – Worked with global engineering teams and key stakeholders to integrate AI/ML capabilities into Cisco’s next-generation networking solutions.

Oct 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Bangalore Nest Site Lead – Scaled the team from 75 to 200+ engineers, driving innovation across Google Home Apps, Developer Tools and Cloud Services, while delivering on P0 and P1 OKRs for the Nest BU.
• Vision & Product Strategy – Provided thought leadership, shaped product roadmaps, and aligned engineering execution with business objectives to accelerate Nest’s market impact.
• Global Device Certification & Compliance – Spearheaded the Matter-compliant certification platform, enabling third-party hardware manufacturers to test, certify, and deploy OTA updates seamlessly.
• Next-Gen Home Automation – Designed a consumer-facing script editor, empowering users to create and publish custom automations, enhancing smart home personalization.
• IoT Cloud Services – Led the architecture and development of cloud solutions that manage millions of smart devices, ensuring seamless control, real-time data ingestion, and scalable processing.
• Advanced Data Platform for Smart Devices – Optimized data pipelines to enable low-latency processing, predictive insights, and efficient device management across Nest’s smart home ecosystem.
• Smart Home Event Intelligence – Led the Google Home Apps team in developing intelligent feeds, notifications, and event history across cameras, locks, thermostats, and other smart devices.
• Seamless Multi-Device Interoperability – Engineered cross-device synchronization strategies, ensuring a cohesive user experience across the Google Home ecosystem.

Oct 2018 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Positions Held
• SVP Product and Engineering - 04/2021 - 09/2021
• VP Engineering - 10/2018 - 04/2021
• Platform Ownership – Led a 150+ member cross-functional team of Product Managers and Engineers, driving Swiggy’s core logistics, fulfillment, and driver experience to optimize fleet efficiency, reduce cost per delivery, and enhance Customer NPS.
• Annual Operating Planning & Execution – Spearheaded strategic planning, aligning technology roadmaps with business KPIs, ensuring scalability, profitability, and market leadership.
• End-to-End Order Fulfillment – Built and scaled AI-powered logistics solutions, optimizing order lifecycle from SLA predictions to last-mile delivery through ML-driven assignment algorithms and real-time fleet planning.
• Driver Lifecycle Management – Led the development of driver onboarding, payment automation, shift planning, fraud detection, and governance, ensuring a seamless driver experience.
• Tech Leadership & Talent Strategy – Partnered with HR to define technical career ladders, compensation frameworks, and hiring strategies, fostering a high-performance engineering culture

Feb 2018 – Oct 2018 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Site Lead & Acting Chief Architect – Led and scaled the Data Platform team in Bangalore from 80 to 120 engineers, driving Platform & Data-as-a-Service solutions across Visa.
• P&L Ownership & Visionary Roadmap – Managed P&L for Reference, Metadata, and Data Quality platforms, establishing a 3-year strategic vision for data issue correlation and root cause analysis using job lineage & quality alerts.
• Big Data Platform Development – Designed and optimized Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka clusters, enhancing data ingestion, transformation, and loading (ETL) across Visa’s data ecosystem.
• Metadata & Reference Data Management – Oversaw the management of 800+ reference tables, leveraging log analysis, schedulers, and automation for metadata-driven insights.
• Data Quality & Compliance – Developed a Data Quality platform enabling developers to implement consistency checks for 5K+ jobs at table & field level, ensuring data integrity & governance.

Aug 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Platform Leadership & Revenue Growth: Led the Offer Listing platform, the 10th most visited page on Amazon, driving billions in revenue by showcasing marketplace seller offers. Spearheaded key releases resulting in millions in revenue uplift and built an experimentation platform to accelerate Marketplace business growth.
• Turnaround & Strategic Expansion
• Amazon Pay & Flexible Payments (FPS) Leadership – Scaled Amazon Pay team to 50+ members before taking over the Flexible Payments (FPS) team in crisis mode—high attrition, no management, and a deprecated product roadmap.
• Organizational Stabilization & Growth – Rebuilt FPS from 35 to 65 engineers & TPMs, driving a 3-year roadmap for a config-driven, low-friction seller onboarding & wallet service, ensuring KYC compliance.
• Global Marketplace Enablement – Partnered with European and U.S. teams to create a cross-geo strategy for seller account creation, continuous monitoring, and anti-money laundering, unlocking new revenue opportunities.

Oct 2012 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• AdTech Leadership: Led a 50-member engineering team (Dev & QA) and 4 managers to drive InMobi’s highest revenue-generating business. Partnered with Product Managers to define the 2014 strategy & roadmap, ensuring seamless campaign tracking and advertiser CPD target achievement.
• Platform Scalability – Scaled the AdServe platform to support multiple business lines and exponential traffic growth, optimizing infrastructure for peak performance.
• Growth, Optimization : Led AdTracker & LifeTime Value platforms, driving 300% growth in tracking and scaling LifeTime Value to 500M+ users. Unified both into a single, powerful analytics product.
• Billing, Fraud & Forecasting Excellence – Built best-in-class fraud detection systems, reducing fraud rates to <0.5% while leading forecasting & billing innovations to enhance business predictability and revenue accuracy.

Jul 2009 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Engineering Manager II, July 2009 to Mar 2012
• Helped in feasibility study, initial design and getting a project in the search area off the ground with a small team of 3 people. (Dec 2011 to March 2012)
• Co-ideated, evangelized, and managed an ecommerce initiative in India with a team of 4 people. (June 2011 to March 2012)
• Archival and Compliance Solutions – Engineering Manager in charge of, and Co-Tech Lead for the project which spans 3 offices across the globe and involves 14 developers, directly managing a team of 9 engineers in India. Worked with product management to define product requirements, created the multi-year vision for the product and built the team in India. Actively managed 15 dependencies across the company to ensure that the product’s needs are prioritized. Pro-actively engaged with teams to find solutions where needed. Drove the project from inception, through proposal and evangelization, to design and implementation, to delivery. Co-inventor on 3 patents (pending). The product taps into a $4B market, and is a major driver for Google Apps adoption by medium to large businesses. (Jan 2009 to June 2011)

Aug 2006 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• worked on SMS Channels from the Hyderabad, India Office.
• Worked on abuse management for Google Apps from the Hyderabad, India office and managed a team of 3 people.
• Worked on various features at Youtube including cache optimizations, and end-to-end development of the profile picture upload feature, which had an adoption of greater than 25K uploads per day within a few days of launch.
• Worked on payments system for a year at Google, helped launched international payment platform.

Mar 2006 – Aug 2006 · 5 mos

Sep 2004 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Technical lead for Debit Card system. Developed the timeline for the DC platform in conjunction with Business and Product. Aided business in SLA negotiation, took the lead in re-architecting, to stabilize the platform and meet future needs.
• Enhanced servers for the Credit Card system. Developed and maintained batches for ACH and Credit Card systems. Major features were Finsys side of Auth Settle that is the core of the Merchant Feature team's strategy and Gaming that is projected to derive $10 million in revenues.
• Improved efficiency of several batch tools. Improved run time of critical ACH tools so that they ran 40% faster.
• Added reconciliation tool that runs in 2 hours as compared to 14 hours previously, thereby deferring hardware upgrade and saving the company $2 Million.
• Aided in developing simpler error logging and exception handling, resulting in improved productivity for Operations.
• Received mid-year promotion in recognition of work.
• 0 bugs since April 2005

Jan 2000 – Sep 2004 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Sr Software Design Engg.
• (Linux, Solaris and Windows)
• Designed and developed several debugger views, and UI widgets for the vxWorks IDE
• Acting Team Lead for the test team. Created the schedule, defined priorities for a team of 4 people incl. 2 people in India.
• Wrote analysis documents detailing various options for the next gen IDE. Helped to write the Product Spec, and defined the workflow. Sr Management used these documents in their decision of the development roadmap for the IDE.
• Co-inventor of the patented autoscale feature, developed in C++, Tcl & Java. This feature analyzes symbol info in the application and suggests the min. set of vxWorks Components needed to build a working system. Coordinated with the branch in England, to ensure timely delivery.
• Facilitated communication between two divisions in order to build consensus. Proposed a solution and worked with representatives of the divisions, Sr Management and the Arch. Council to evolve a transition plan.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

• Software Development Engineer, Desktop Finance Division (Windows 95/98/NT)
• Worked on personal tax preparation software launched in November 1999. Participated in all aspects of the product development cycle, from designing, implementing and debugging to finalizing the test cases to be run.
• Designed and implemented a module to partition application data into various components, and seamlessly integrate the user-required components on the client side.
• Wrote a program to access and apply logging information contained in MS Access, using DAO/ODBC classes.
• Optimized size and performance of the application, using on-demand loading.
• Wrote a COM object to return various application properties, extended the MFC toolbar class to manage multiple toolbars, and designed and implemented various User Interface elements.

Jan 1997 – May 1997 · 4 mos

• Wrote DLLs in Visual C++ to interface with encryption/decryption programs.