Aug 2021 – Jan 2022 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Mar 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• As an engineering manager on the Microsoft Family Safety team, led a team of 12 engineers across various engineering disciplines, and a wide seniority spectrum in the following areas -
• Product engineering - feature development on the Family Safety Mobile App backend across 3 key micro services in areas of location and driving safety
• Infrastructure - development and upkeep of shared infrastructure responsible for hosting 10+ microservices on the C#/.NET Core/Azure Service Fabric stack
• Security - defining and delivering security guidance for the organization across 3 products
• Some of my key accomplishments include -
• Defining the vision and direction for cloud services development to facilitate rapid prototyping and feature delivery across 5 engineering teams
• Planning and defining the roadmap for bringing backend services on the path to production by ensuring launch readiness across areas of feature completion, observability, alerting and incident management
• Collaborating with cross-functional partners across mobile and web engineering, design and product management for roadmap planning and execution
• Developing the career and learning path for team members and potential future leaders
• Hiring and retaining best in class talent

Feb 2019 – Mar 2019 · 1 mo

• As a technical lead on MileIQ and other incubation projects, ideated, architected, delivered and scaled multiple product features on the Python/Django/Kubernetes backend services stack. Worked on all areas of cloud services development. Key accomplishments include -
• Architecting and scaling real time processing pipelines using Kafka/Azure EventHub and consumer orchestration using the Python/Django/Azure Kubernetes Service Stack
• Pioneering the adoption of Apache Kafka-backed processing pipelines across multiple products in the organization by designing and delivering key components of the infrastructure including shared code and observability changes. Built low-latency audit trail infra leveraging Azure Cosmos DB
• Driving the delivery of identity integration projects to move users off of MileIQ's custom identity platform to Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Account based cloud identities
• Architecting the identity and subscription platform for MileIQ. Championing the adoption of OAuth 2 for AuthN/AuthZ infrastructure across MileIQ, and other incubation projects
• Evangelizing and adopting test driven development on incubation projects to deliver on the promise of keeping developers accountable to high code quality and delivery standards
• Delivering services on a Kubernetes orchestrated compute platform, and continuous integration/delivery through Jenkins and Azure DevOps. Key components of the stack included Azure Traffic Manager, API Gateways and Azure Front Door

Apr 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Sep 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• During a span of 4 years, worked on 8 different gaming titles, delivered multiple in-house tools and reporting systems, and as a Technical Lead, led high velocity, agile engineering teams on multiple projects.
• Backend feature development:
• Designed and implemented highly available, distributed and scalable core web services currently in use by all of Kiwi’s games
• Wrote custom availability handlers for homegrown webserver-stack (built over Nginx/JavaEE/PHP/MySQL) using Nagios
• Designed and implemented core subsystems like auth, data sharding, JPA entity manager management, and framework for clustered transactions
• Optimized response times by adopting better sharding, caching and indexing strategies
• Implemented feature specific, highly optimized solutions using no-SQL type in-memory datastore like Redis, APC for static data caching and CDN for highly available, and fast rich-media content
• Implemented highly intuitive CMSs for game economy testing and prototyping
• Game Development (LibGDX, Android):
• Hands-on experience in developing high quality social games on Android over LibGDX with a high level of attention to the smallest of details
• Integral part of the team that developed the core game engine, currently being used in all of Kiwi’s 15+ top rated games
• Co-designed and co-implemented major game engine modules like the questing framework, game asset management, and server communications
• Implemented smart strategies to overcome Android device fragmentation by writing custom texture and sound loaders
• Optimized game performance through an in-depth understanding of LibGDX’s asset management on Android
• Team management and mentorship:
• Extensive experience in working with small, high velocity teams, and managing multiple weekly server and client releases
• Good mentorship skills - responsible for rapidly on-boarding multiple developers and QA engineers on the technology stack

Aug 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Hands-on experience on developing application level file system protocols such as SMB 2.1, good knowledge of Data ONTAP 7-mode.

May 2008 – Aug 2008 · 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Developed an inexpensive camera based reader for Color Codes. Subprojects included barrel distortion removal using a single image.

Nov 2007 – Dec 2007 · 1 mo

May 2007 – Aug 2007 · 3 mos · Chertsey, Surrey, England

• Worked with the R&D team at Stanhope Seta, helping them develop a wireless solution to calibrate the ignitor coils on their flagship product, Multiflash.