Dec 2015 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Apr 2015 – Dec 2015 · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Leading Technology and Products at Zopper.

Jul 2014 – Apr 2015 · 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Oorja has product line focused on text based mobile advertising and Gratification platform currently serving over 120 million customers every day. USSD Mobile advertising solution serves upwardly of 7 Billion impressions on a single live network in a month. The solution creates micro-segments over a large data set (order Terabytes of telecom usage data) for effective targeting.
• I have been responsible for Technology and Product Deliverables with primary focus on Engineering Team & Product Management, Architecture, New Product Conception, Product Definition and Roadmap.
• Accomplishments:
• 1. Significant performance improvement in system serving more than 250 million requests in single deployment per day leading to 1/4th cpu usage and less than half memory usage compared to earlier deployment coupled with timeouts (no ad inserted within 1 sec and hence message forwarded without insertion) between 0-1% compared to double digit timeouts earlier
• 2. Reduction in operational involvement of developers (other than feature development) from about 1.5 man day to less than 2 man hours a day on Oorja Wallet (a gratification platform) by mix of improving the system, appropriate automation and proactive reporting in the system.
• 3. Lead multiple product definition, roadmap and development including Push notification system for Airtel which will enable Airtel to push network notification on smartphones through various Airtel and sister company apps at the rate of more than 10 million notifications a day.
• 4. Involved in defining product features and customer acquisition mechanisms for “Magic Recharge” app which has reached nearly half million downloads in short time.

Feb 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon

• Leading Digital product definition and development. SCP is a key personalised digital learning platform being used in Macmillan worldwide. It delivers a range of educational materials via desktop, iPad and Android devices. Primarily the materials are: page faithful eBooks, online tests & grade books, multimedia assets etc. Product will be available to more than 1 Million student in India from upcoming academic year. More than 100K student and teachers in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and Ireland etc. are currently using it.
• Implemented Agile development methodologies across geographies including in outsourced team, leading to higher efficiency and increased visibility and compliance to timelines.
• Developing and deploying various internal and external systems for Macmillan India such as Online MDP, Intranet, Digital Asset Management system, Online store, Internal IT assets and ticket management systems etc. I relied on using open source platforms as base for all of these systems.
• Partnering with Third party digital education solution providers and ensuring integration and custom development.
• Involved in business transformation and change management program to improve overall business efficiency and outcome that included changes in Sales, Finance, IT, Editorial and Marketing processes etc.

Feb 2009 – Aug 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Ownership for development of Adobe AIR on Mobile platforms. Led team, which brought first version Adobe AIR on Android to market. Later I owned Adobe AIR on iOS and contributed to Flash Platform development (Adobe AIR and Flash Player) on Android.
• Took up challenge and successfully delivered demo for AIR on Android for time critical MWC 2011 Launch, in less than 6 weeks after AIR was blocked on iOS.
• Transitioned India team to Agile Scrum development methodologies within the framework of Adobe’s product development process, which further lead to migration of Global AIR team to agile development.
• Lead AIR on Linux earlier and was responsible for first release of AIR on Linux.
• Played critical role in defining feature set for Adobe AIR on mobile platforms.
• Filed Joint Patent at USPTO “Providing Efficient Reference and Access to Media Regardless of Origin” which enables Still and Video Camera APIs in Flash platform.

Jun 2008 – Feb 2009 · 8 mos

Jun 2007 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Involved in all stages of product development including
• Identifying business problems and architecting solutions by leveraging power of cross functional teams,
• Defining Product spec and Architecture and Delivering product,
• Responsible for defining web and product analytics needs, analyzing consumer behavior on products and using analysis for user driven product development.
• Prime responsibility of defining product spec and defining technical architecture for products.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

Jun 2000 – Jun 2007 · 7 yrs

Jun 1997 – Feb 2002 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Mehfil.com was a popular Indian music-streaming portal, which was featured in HT City Front page and several print and online magazines. It was appreciated by likes of Gulzar, Asha Bhonsle , Remo Fernandes, Shiamak Dawar, and Hans Raj Hans etc. Mehfil.com was premium content provider for Pacific Internet. Mehfil was among most popular Indian music sites during 1998-2001, with around 7000 unique visitors per day.