Nov 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Apr 2021 – Oct 2021 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Sep 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Integral part of small backend platform team which handles 100M RPM at peak working with several scalable distributed systems - vert.x, kafka, cassandra, aerospike
• As lead of framework team, identified opportunities for code & performance optimizations across services and created internal libraries for logging, better database clients, integration tests, memoization, db migrations etc. Setup code standards and created archetypes for new services & CI tools to automate these checks.
• Own several key microservices - API Gateway, Auth, Job Scheduler, Contest Recommendation
• Identify and help resolve several critical security issues

Jan 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Built an application to help high school students (in US) plan their undergraduate admission process
• Part of development team building an application to manage a company's Objectives & Key Results OKRs (of Google fame)
• Worked on a offline-enabled Hospital Management System using CouchDB/PouchDB
• Learn ML/AI

Apr 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Business:
• Phase II (Jan 2016 - )
• Expanded to Bangalore, Delhi along with Mumbai.
• Serving reputed clientèle from Logistics, Retail, Food Industries.
• Phase I (Apr 2015 - Dec 2015)
• Started as an intra-city ondemand commercial vehicle provider (reusing most of the technology platform build for GoGo)
• Within a few months, we were doing 1L+ in daily revenues, but were burning more cash than we can sustainably afford. Hence switched to the B2B contractual model (see Phase II)
• My Role:
• Majorly involves building and overseeing the product development - Web Portal for support, vendors and clients, Android App for the drivers & customers.

Nov 2014 – Mar 2015 · 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked on an auto-rickshaw aggregation platform in Mumbai city
• The underlying technology differs from the mainstream cab aggregators w.r.t.
• Drivers need not have smartphones
• We are truly aggregators (broadcast the requirement rather than assign it to specific driver)
• Voice based booking process which makes it very easy even for non-tech savvy customer
• Used a combination of cell-tower triangulation and IVR to automate the complete flow.
• Had to pivot before the final launch as the SLAs provided by the Telco partners made the business unviable.

Jul 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• * Full stack ruby on rails developer with roles including performance optimization, devops

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Part of team building a new semi-structured data analytics product
• Work involved use-case analysis in a specific customer environment
• Implemented examples of how simple metric analysis can be integrated with log analysis and exploratory data visualization using Dojo and Rave

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

• Ruby on Rails developer
• Chronus is a startup aimed at providing easy-to-use mentoring software solutions
• Worked on multiple projects in a short duration, got familiar with using Ruby on Rails (RoR) and various Web UI Testing tools like Selenium, Watir, Cucumber, Capybara , Process monitoring tools like monit, cron, document extraction using headless openoffice and using Amazon S3, EC2 instances.
• Awarded Pre-Placement Offer (PPO)

Apr 2011 – Mar 2012 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Lead a two-tier team of 20 students responsible for all web related activities of SARC including website, Phonathon and Mentorship Program
• Designed a workflow and developed an interface for the Alumni Student Mentorship Program where
• alumni and students can interact with one another

Aug 2010 – Apr 2011 · 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Responsible for maintenance of hostel website
• Made a GMail chat bot for complaint management and knowing the current mess menu
• Took the initiative to provide logins to all secretaries for quicker update of website content