Jun 2022 – May 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Kraze app was our pivot from qorner.
• India's first gaming app for TV show fans.
• Aiming to solve fan-engagement for TV show fans and TV show producers, shows
• Built and launched Kraze app, akin to Dream11 but tailored for TV show fans, as a real-money gaming platform.
• Went Viral on YouTube and Telegram
• Scaled to 4L+ users in just 3 months
• Did gaming GMV of over 10Crores in 3 months
• Launched one of its kind Fantasy game for reality shows like Bigg Boss, Splitsvilla, MasterChef
• Launched and managed industry leading opinion trading game on TV shows
• Built a community of over 1L Tv show fans
• Also launched B2B fan engagement and gamification platform for TV channels and shows
• Pitched to shows like Shark Tank, Khatron ke Khiladi & more
• Took a hard decision of shutting down the business
• Responsibly returned leftover money to the investors!
• Got a bunch of acquisition/acquihiring offers but chose a different path for founders and the team.

Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Qorner was India's first financial app for creators which was trying to solve the financial challenges of the creator economy.
• Built Khatabook kind of app tailored for creators to monitor their earnings from diverse sources, alongside a comprehensive influencer payment management system for brands and agencies
• Raised ~700K USD from top investors like Titan Capital, Blume, UpSparks and angels like Kunal Shah, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, and founders of companies like ShareChat, BharatPe, OneImpression etc.
• Collaborated with YouTube to integrate advanced YouTube analytics and earnings tracking.
• Achieved rapid growth, reaching 20,000 creators and surpassing 1 million USD in revenue tracking within a few months.
• Introduced qorner for agencies, a tool to streamline payments, invoicing, and accounting for creators.
• Goal was to make creators financially stable and build a Neo bank to solve access to credit.
• Pivoted to Kraze app later.

Oct 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · On-site

• Promoted to SDM3 in 14 months for exceptional contribution in launching multiple product lines while also maintaining one of the best team rating and connections score across Amazon Pay.
• Managed a 12-member team, collaborated with 5 different product managers, multiple internal teams and external partners like Cleartrip, IRCTC and Redbus team to ensure smooth product operations.
• Played key role in designing the technical architecture & platform for travel & entertainment categories under Amazon Pay, emphasizing bias for action and reusability.
• Collaborated with the IRCTC integration team to launch train booking vertical and worked with Cleartrip's product & tech team to ensure secure integration with security standards of Amazon like mutual authentication, encryption in transit & rest are in place at Partner's end.
• Distinguished myself as a unique Amazon manager by actively participating in design review meetings and writing code

Aug 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · On-site

• Architected and launched Amazon's first travel booking vertical, integrating with various Amazon systems like central auth service, order management service, payments service etc.
• Wrote technical design of Order eventing service to transform travel category orders into Amazon's central ordering system which powered ticketing details on Amazon's order detail page dynamically.
• Presented an in-person talk at Subtech conference in Seattle on enhancing customer engagement with Everyday Habits (EDH) use cases on Amazon.in

Jan 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Managed a team of 6, overseeing their growth and development through conducting design reviews, providing valuable code review feedback, and ensuring their individual progress towards achieving personal and team goals
• Implemented celery-like consumer in NodeJS supporting multiple exchanges, scheduling, memory leak handling, and retry task functionality.
• Designed and architected flights feature, including tech stack, caching layers, database, and intermediate datastore design, and business metrics.
• Improved booking success rate for Uber and Ola partners in cabs category from 56% to 78% by implementing functionalities like cab scanner and error handling framework
• Implemented user persona-based content delivery across the Tapzo app using Kafka, Elasticsearch, MySQL, and DFP
• Implemented a smart trigger feature across services that sends contextual notifications to users based on their recent activity on the app which increased conversion by 8% blended across categories.

Oct 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai · On-site

• Created entire technical architecture of Stitchwood; responsible for all architectural changes, new features on the website along with new technologies to innovate continuously.
• Used Django framework to implement all components of the website as separate and independent modules for scalability.
• Implemented asynchronous processing of long running tasks and scheduled background processes using Celery, Rabbit messaging queue, Flower, and Celery Beat.
• Used cache instead of querying the database for frequent read operations, implemented with Haystack and ElasticSearch, improving website response time by over 45%.
• Integrated website events, chat services (Olark), and telephony services (Exotel) into a single CRM platform (LeadSquared) to monitor the customer lifecycle effectively.
• Created an augmented reality native Android app using Metaio SDK, with SLAM detection and marker-based detection methods.

Sep 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr

• Worked as part of Financial Operations (finops) development team, responsible for reconciliation of all money movement related transaction within Paypal.
• Successfully implemented projects like Global Credit Expansion, Payment Upon Invoice, Merchant Cash Advance in UK and Germany, Braintree Europe Instant Processing, Russia Local Acquiring, Qiwi Integration in Russia from reconciliation perspective.
• Involved in the technical and strategic decisions in major paypal & ebay initiatives

Jul 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Worked on Informatica for batch processing of data, developed a log analyzer tool using java and python django framework to automatically suggest solution based on error history
• Created a real-time monitoring system with client application on android and iOS platform to remove the manual effort needed to continuously monitor the status of running processes.
• Selected as one of the three global finalists from asia pacific region in labrats (paypal's annual innovation competition), got the certificate of excellence for the same.
• Participated in various hackathon events and got selected as India regional finalist twice.

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Speech to Text Converter
• Developed a domain specific and speaker independent speech recognition system for transcription of pre-recorded audio files with substantial accuracy.
• Implemented using Sphinx3 in java, used feature extraction, incorporated domain specific training of acoustic and language models.
• Extended the utility of the program by integrating the automatic subtitle generation feature so that it can be played simultaneously in any audio player along with the subtitles.
• Automated the process which was being done manually and taking 3-4 hours for an individual to transcript a one hour audio file; included as an internal product of the company.
• Rated A+ (Exceptional) in overall Personal Evaluation Report