Jul 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Led multiple teams in the Indeed Jobseeker org, driving tech transformations and improving job seeker experiences.
• Currently leading the Indeed's SEO Growth and Onboarding engineering teams. SEO Growth team builds and manages a repository system for millions of jobs with real time updates to maximise SEO traffic.
• Previously, led the Discovery Experience team, responsible for the Homepage and Search Results page experiences. Led the transition to a discovery based experience using job feeds. Helped launch new LLM features. Incubated a new career pathing tool called Pathfinder.
• Managed managers and senior engineers - guiding them to effectively lead their teams and projects.

Jul 2019 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Led the Alerts Acquisition team, focusing on acquisition of effective email jobalerts by jobseekers, in the scale of 100MMs. Drove development of and migration to a new alerts management system. Influenced the adoption of microfrontends.
• Developed a vision for and led the new Job seeker Notification Center team. Identified cross-org opportunities to integrate Mobile App Notifications with Notification Center. Led the research for and implementation of browser-based notifications.
• Managed the Homepage team, helping drive the rearchitecture of Indeed Homepage webapp to decouple frontend and backend, to adopt latest frontend paradigms and to support increased developer velocity.
• Grew engineers via coaching on next level behaviors; setting short term and long term goals aligning with product OKRs; providing feedback via 1:1s, monthly retros and quarterly evaluations.

Oct 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Lead projects across Indeed's business systems.
• Launched multiple new business tools, scaling them for org wide adoption - including but not limited to an internal performance management system, an employee record management system, an interviewer management system, an employee onboarding system among others. Many of the tools are still canonical and in vogue at Indeed.
• Helped grow the product space from a few experimental tools to a multi-team org with 16+ engineers.
• Trained multiple interviewers, setup onboarding process.

Jul 2016 – Sep 2016 · 2 mos

• Selected as a lead in second cohort of Indeed University, a 3-month onboarding program for new hires to Indeed + an incubator for new ideas.
• Advised 3 teams as an engineering lead in exploring, pitching, prototyping and validating ideas.
• Coached 4 other direct reports.
• With other leads, introduced a working group structure for running Indeed University - a model that was replicated in future IUs.

Oct 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Continued work on Mobolt systems after its acquisition by Indeed.
• Designed and developed a code-less configuration system for onboarding new Mobolt clients. Helped scale Mobolt apply process to 100s of clients.
• Developed a new client management system.
• Designed a new Selenium Grid to parallelize the application submission process.

Jan 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Founding member of MoBolt, part of the core team that built the mobile apply solution - to enable job seekers apply to jobs using mobile devices. Led the design and development of a backend framework which is used to customize client implementations of Mobolt apply solution. Defined the tech stack. Hired multiple engineers.
• Mobolt was acquired by Indeed in 2014.

Jul 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Preparation for All India Civil Services Examination.
• Placed AIR-584.

Jun 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

• Worked in Identity and Access Management Suite of products (OAM, OAAM, OpenSSO); Worked for integration and compatibility of different products in the suite.
• Acquired experience in Java, Web Applications Security and UI design.