Jun 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Droice is building a platform to transform big data into big insights. Droice’s AI technology ingests messy, real-world clinical data, from any source, to catalyze actionable insights that empower patient health stakeholders (hospitals, payers and life sciences) to improve the quality of care.
• Responsible for leading and building Droice’s engineering organisation across all functions and products.

Dec 2019 – May 2020 · 5 mos

• Currently leading and managing the India office, team of ~50 across all functions, directly reporting to CEO with HQ office based at Palo Alto, California.
• Responsible for overall planning, execution, hiring, tech-ops budget and maintenance of multiple engineering products (Joyride, Blitz).
• Manage work-flows, while creating well-defined processes and pipelines, for internal as well as external resources across domains (Development, Art, Design, Product, QA, Analytics, Community) working in multiple geographies ensuring high quality execultion.
• Own release planning and management for all modules and clients (iOS, Android, Web and Backend) across projects, using agile methodology.
• Ensure high standards of code, review, testing, deployment and monitoring are being followed.

Dec 2016 – Dec 2019 · 3 yrs

• Joyride - A multi-person interactive video platform for fun activities and live shows
• Leading the engineering team on both client and server side, developing core application modules such as real-time show and user visibility, notifications, monetisation, friending, security, login and on-boarding flows, social gameplay in video chat etc.
• Own release planning and management for all modules and clients (iOS, Android, Web and Backend) across projects, using agile methodology.
• Architected and developed real time session and state management system for social interactions.
• Developed public video chat rooms with user match-making, community moderation and auto-scaling.
• Designed and developed casual gaming experiences ensuring robustness in real-time.
• Technologies: Play framework for Java, REST architecture, MySQL, Redis, Neo4j, Micro-services, Obj-C/Swift

Jun 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Sequel - An interactive Bot development platform for messaging applications
• Led and responsible for the authoring web-based interactive module used by 20k+ developers.
• Initiated and spearheaded the use of NLP and ML for increasing interactivity of bots.
• Designed and standardised data delivery across multiple end-points: APIs, facebook, kik & telegram.
• Developed framework for incorporating any 3rd party web API and RSS feeds into our platform.
• Achieved delivering 5M Messages per day collectively on all messaging platforms and got featured by Kik and Facebook.
• Technologies: Play Framework for Java, REST Architecture, ElasticSearch, Torch, Python, Hibernate, MySql, Redis, AngularJS, goJS

Sep 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Technical Lead for top Android and iOS games - Mystery Estate, Shipwrecked and Shipwrecked 3D
• Transitioned acquired games and their infrastructure seamlessly and extended it for future games.
• Designed and Implemented Asset Framework for external artists enabling outsourced content creation.
• Led efforts to create common-code base to ensure fast development and porting of features, which got used in all of Kiwi’s 8+ top rated games.
• Introduced and took over game development in Unity.
• Technologies: PHP(Kohana), REST architecture, MySQL, Core Java, Android SDK, Libgdx, Unity

Sep 2011 – Aug 2012 · 11 mos

• Senior Developer for games: Monsterama Park and Brightwood Adventures.
• Developed core game engine modules like the quest framework, client notifications, first user experience, asset and download manager, content management system with versioning support.
• Co-implemented A/B testing framework on a custom CMS stack
• Technologies: PHP(Kohana), Core Java, Android SDK, Libgdx

Jul 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Worked on full life cycle of software development which includes developing modules, bug-fixing, unit-testing etc.
• As a part of the Core Development Team, released the White Glove version of Citrix Receiver for BlackBerry.
• Majorly contributed in the release of Citrix Receiver for Java, version 10.0 and 10.1.
• Development Lead for the Citrix Receiver for Java for all further releases including hot fixes.
• Also work on escalated bugs on Xenapp, ICA Win32 Client, Citrix Receiver for Android.

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos

• Conflict Management - Interactive User Interface for admins to handle conflicts
• Aimed to design an Admin Management module, for the desktop interface of a firmwide internal system, to record, eliminate and manage conflicts.
• Designed an interactive user interface using Microsoft WPF, and accessed database APIs using Java based SOAP(Simple Object Access Protocol) services.
• Facilitated auto sorting, auto suggestion of data and background threading.

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos

• HOFSM-SAL Translator
• Worked in collaboration with General Motors India Pvt. Ltd. to design a Translator for the XML representation of a system input domain in HOFSM to its SAL(model-checking language) model.
• Defined the XML as well as SAL structure of Hierarchical Orthogonal Finite State Machine(HOFSM).
• Automated the generation of test cases using SAL model for a given system and test requirements.