Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Explored a bunch of different ideas from finance to legal to dev tools

Jan 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Currently leading Kafka Platform organization owning charter across various critical fronts related to Resiliency & Operations, Developer Productivity, Security Infrastructure and Control Plane.
• Previously established Kafka Storage organization from a 3 person project team to a 20+ people organization across US and India. Led the team to deliver Infinite Storage on Confluent Cloud, a key feature for offering a Cloud Native service. It significantly reduced the operational toil and contributed towards improving cost margins. Also, established the Durability SLO for Kafka on Confluent Cloud.
• Leading a cross functional working group across engineering to build tools for career development. Launched Mentorship program, established career rubric for ICs and Managers, established a framework for career conversations and continuous feedback.

Jul 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Machine Learning Platform
• Built a diverse team of Software Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers to build
• infrastructure to build, train, test and deploy ML in production
• Successfully onboarded first customer on platform and built a pipeline of customers to
• onboard later
• Growth Platform
• Successfully planned and executed the reorg of team from San Francisco to Seattle
• Scaled the team from 5 engineers to 11, including a full time remote team of 6
• engineers
• Grew the usage of platform tools 2x and helped increase experimentation velocity by 3x

Apr 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Tech lead for a team of 3 engineers to build backend of early stage messaging product
• Designed and launched various features including support for presence, typing
• indicators, notifications for user activity and an admin panel for debugging
• Architected and developed various features on Dropbox’s Android app including Search,
• the user onboarding framework, crash reporting, email verification using Google Oauth

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Part of the founding team building a cross platform collaboration platform focused on private groups
• Designed and built a fully native Android application with quick access mode using interactive system window from foreground services, allowing easier multitasking with other applications.
• Developed a caching mechanism for Android, similar to Core Data (for iOS), on top of SQLite. This mechanism fetched data from network, stored on disk and propagated events to UI
• Developed photo viewer for the iOS application with horizontal scrolling for viewing different files and vertical scrolling for viewing different versions of a file
• Acquired by Dropbox in April, 2014 - http://www.droptalk.us

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed infrastructure for local and remote wipe, used in Facebook Home, that enabled users to gain back the control of their phone in case of app malfunctioning
• Built a framework for memory cache syndication and management that helped reduce the OOM crashes by 25% in Facebook android application
• Extended location picker on Facebook Android app to build support for it in Facebook Poke
• Extended Newsfeed on Facebook Android app to build support for it in Pages Manager

Mar 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Led the development of Snapstick’s platform on Windows and iOS. Built native applications with embedded browser for both the operating systems.
• Designed and led development of developer APIs and Javassript SDK for platform. Partnered with early customers to launch games on top of platform.
• Developed a multiplayer-multilevel Snake game using HTML5 using the SDK to demonstrate the capabilities of platform.
• Designed and developed a relay service, supporting WebSockets and HTTP, for duplex server and client communication. Scaled service to handle 10,000 events / sec.
• Built a crawler to fetch videos from users feed on Facebook, balancing between the politeness to Facebook servers and freshness of stream

Aug 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led the development of SMS sending infrastructure of SMSGupShup that involved handling of ~100million messages / day
• Coordinated with national and international vendors for integration of SMSC into the infrastructure.

Sep 2007 – Sep 2007 · 0 mo

• Gained knowledge of claim interpretation in field of Intellectual Property Rights.
• Studied patents of upcoming cutting edge technologies and evaluated them against existing technologies in industry to decide their future potential

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos

• Investigated protocol independent compression technique for Content Distribution Networks, and explored the advantages of content-based compression over other techniques.
• Set up a test-bed with an in-production tool and evaluated the tool to identify the technical challenges in its wide scale deployment.
• Identified issues of TCP congestion window size, fairness and scheduling;

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos

• Carried out a detailed literature survey to understand existing routing infrastructure of Internet.
• Devised a metric to quantify routing efficiency based on IP prefix assignment scheme of Internet.
• Evaluated current prefix assignment and proposed a new prefix assignment strategy to improve the routing efficiency.