Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Building the financial super-app for 35 million global Indian diaspora.
• https://goinri.com

Aug 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · New York, New York, United States

• Member of Checkout Foundations team for Instagram and Facebook Shopping surfaces
• Built and managed large scale backend infrastructure with a strong technical focus on performance, reliability and testing
• Led the Async Purchase team, reducing latency by 50%

Nov 2018 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Managed tech and product, acting CTO for last 6 months of tenure at Eloquii, a start-up acquired by Walmart in 2018
• Led and executed supply chain operations transition to a new 3rd party logistics provider thereby reducing the overall operational cost by 20%
• Designed and implemented event-based architecture for order management system that would publish events to multiple micro-services with use-cases such as sales order creation, validation, export to logistics partner, shipment, returns, email notifications, customer rewards, business reporting
• Implemented factory design pattern for generalizing multiple payment and refund interfaces (Vantiv, PayPal, Affirm) used during cart checkout
• Developed a personalized recommendation system for email marketing campaigns to 300k users with AWS Personalize-Hierarchical Neural Networks, resulted in improving click rate & conversion rate by 45% & 23% respectively
• Technical Stack - Java SpringBoot, Python, MySQL, AWS Managed Services - SQS, SNS, Elastic Cache, Lambda, Personalize, CI/CD, Docker

Apr 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Designed and built low-to-mid frequency automated trading systems in Python to trade index options on National Stock Exchange India
• Built pub-sub messaging pipelines to process real-time market tick data using websockets, Celery (distributed task queue) with RabbitMQ & Beat scheduler
• Developed an analytics dashboard in VueJS & Flask to manage trading portfolio, metrics charting rendered using Google Charts and tune system parameters
• Technical Stack - Python, Go, Celery, VueJS, Redis, RabbitMQ, Google Cloud

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Greater New York City Area

• Developed medical cost reduction strategies using patient claims data, provider trends, industry insights and competitor analysis, for four of the 10 largest healthcare insurance payers in the US
• Organized and led product development workshops on feature ideation and prioritization for client’s product and data science team that generated over 20 new ideas with projected savings of c. $80M
• Co-developed an anomaly detection tool for detecting healthcare fraud, waste and abuse incidents; successfully piloted the tool across two insurance payers identifying unqualified payments of c. $30M

Apr 2016 – May 2016 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Developed financial valuation models and prepared pitch books for current transactions and potential clients
• Identified future targets in domestic Private Sector banks due to Central Bank policy on ownership dilution
• Conducted due-diligence & advised a sovereign fund for a potential $40M investment in the cement industry

Aug 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Part of the founding tech team (first 10 engineers)
• Developed product road-map for Buy vertical, and led overall execution with a team of 4 software engineers
• Built a lead generation system with inventory recommendations that automated the manual workflow of 80 customer representatives, resulting in 15x improvement in operational efficiency
• A/B tested customer communication comprising newsletters and follow-ups between drip email marketing and personal follow-ups and tracked metrics resulting in increase of overall user engagement by 25%
• Conceptualized the design and delivered end-to-end implementation of a payment interface; initiated discussions with the payment gateway vendor on technical integration; the payment interface later went on to support transactions exceeding $8M in total
• Created a high performance url shortening service using Golang and Aerospike Flash DB which serves approx. 11,000 transactions per second
• Technical Stack - Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Built a Pairs-Trade model on statistical arbitrage for algorithmic trading in Indian equity markets
• Created a mean reverting, beta neutral investment strategy that generates contrarian trading signals in R
• Back tested the strategy on end-of-day and intraday data for 100 stocks spanning over a 3-year period