Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

• Product Lead for WhatsApp Payments in India.
• (Transitioned from SWE to Product)

Apr 2020 – Sep 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Engineering Lead for WhatsApp Payments in India. Previously, led the team that built Novi on WhatsApp.

Jul 2019 – Sep 2019 · 2 mos · Menlo Park, California

• Built strict FIFO ordering in LogDevice, a distributed logging platform in Facebook, to support streaming appends. New capability enabled onboarding more teams to use LogDevice. See https://logdevice.io/

Mar 2019 – Jun 2019 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California

• Built a distributed signal collection service to monitor load and server failures for Slicer, an
• auto-sharder for data center applications at Google. Enabled fine-grained service monitoring
• at scale. Refer https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/adya for details.

Jun 2017 – Sep 2017 · 3 mos · Redmond, Washington

• Built one of the fastest open-source key-value store, called FASTER, that is an order of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art and developed a new semantic checkpointing consistency
• that allows for almost zero-overhead concurrent checkpointing of a database. Published our
• research in SIGMOD 2018 and 2019.

Jun 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I was part of the Programming Languages and Tools (PLATO) group at MSR India. Built a realtime deterministic stream processing engine for multicores that involves novel
• non-blocking concurrent data structures and dynamic scheduling heuristics. Published our
• research in BIRTE 2019.

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed a novel method of personalizing email campaign using the linguistic style of
• target segment and proved its usefulness using crowd-sourced experiments. Published our
• work in CICLING 2015 which won the best paper award.