Nov 2017 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Leading the development and operation of AWS Kinesis Data Streams. I lead the Control Plane and Data Plane on the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) which is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service. The data collected is available in milliseconds to enable real-time analytics use cases such as real-time dashboards, real-time anomaly detection, dynamic pricing, and more.
• Led and mentored 18 SDEs across Control Plane and Data Plane teams; provided guidance to a 15-person Front-End team.
• Escalation manager for 8 AWS Streaming services; mitigated customer impact and led service recovery during a major AWS outage (11/25/20).
• Increased team size by 40% in four months by improving stability, retention, and hiring new managers/engineers.
• Provided program leadership for all KDS feature releases, including two major features (10+ SDEs each).
• Successfully launched the extended data retention feature for KDS (Nov 2020).
• Led the KDS customized auto-scaling feature for 2 years before its launch in Nov 2021.
• Implemented automation and best practices, reducing high-severity issues by 30% YoY.
• Defined and led the strategic roadmap for KDS, prioritizing availability, scalability, security, cost, and customer features.
• Influenced cross-team initiatives and strategic investments in the streaming/analytics domain.
• Cultivated a high-performing engineering culture; promoted SDEs and mentored for performance improvement.
• Reduced operational costs by driving optimization projects and negotiating headcount adjustments.

Nov 2016 – Oct 2017 · 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM group in Microsoft IDC. Key projects:
• Sales and Sales SMB Modules: Led the development of the new Sales SMB functionality. This involved a new onboarding process (FTUE) and enhanced UI and functionality over the existing Sales features. Additionally supporting the maintenance of the existing Sales module. This was a team of 15 members and two senior leads. As a development manager introduced Agile based planning and execution.
• Services Module: Led the key investigations with developers across multiple teams in the CRM Omni-channel feature for decisions on the technology stack, high level design and architecture.
• Cortana Integration with CRM: Took additional responsibility of owning this area in the absence of a clear owner.

Jun 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Enabling Server backend for mobile games supporting millions of online players. Hands on manager in Java and evolving technologies. Worked across multiple projects to solve problems of web scale. Designed and implemented backend distributed systems to sustain heavy loads. Architected systems to scale horizontally by applying cloud design patterns such as sharding, eventual consistency, circuit breakers and stateless services amongst many others.
• Key contributions:
• Led the migration of an on-premise server backend to AWS for a game with over 2 million daily active users.
• Led the server backend development of all the three games with 12 developers being worked on at the Studio.
• Took over the responsibility of Dev-Ops team in the absence of an owner and manager.

Aug 2011 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad

• Provided the Technology Leadership for the company in the absence of a CTO. Ensured a successful growth path of individuals and the organisation as a whole by ensuring everyone in the company is learning niche skills and Technologies by:
• Learning new technologies myself with online and classroom courses.
• Providing internal trainings and encouraging people to train others.
• Holding meetups. One of the founding members of the highly popular Hyderabad Data Science Group (HDSG - https://www.meetup.com/Hyderabad-Data-Science/) meetup group which has over 5000 members now!
• Networking with CXOs and Technology enthusiasts in startup and tech meetups.
• Hiring and managing talent by involving in hiring decision, mentoring and reviews. Successfully hired many individuals based on potential, who continue to be a great asset for their organisation.
• Experience:
• Resolved problems of web scale for multiple start-ups.
• Prepared designs for applications of web scale – applied Cloud Design Patterns for building distributed systems of scale.
• Created designs for device level storage on mobile devices, followed design patterns and technical solution for mobile applications.
• Designed a highly scalable log file processing system for a Security product. Worked with graph (Titan) and column stores (HBase) for this to scale out.
• Designed, developed and delivered a Real user measurement (RUM) module with over 6000 rps support on MongoDB and NodeJS with limited hardware. The system can be scaled horizontally to support more load.
• Developed a game, Open Face Chinese Poker that scales to millions of users
• Special interests, Ruby on Rails, GRails, large scale data processing. Mobile development platforms: Android SDK, PhoneGap (JQuery, Sencha Touch). Building scalable back-end for Mobile platforms using Open Source technologies such as GRails, Django, Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Webservices (more of REST).

Nov 2006 – Aug 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Lead for Tradesphere application.
• Domain: Trade Compliance.
• Technologies: Java (J2EE, JSF), SQL, PL/SQL, shell scripting.
• Global Dev Lead for S&P fulfillment application.
• Domain: SCM.
• Technologies: Java (J2EE, JSF), SQL, PL/SQL, shell scripting.
• Lead IMS application
• Domain: Inventory management
• Technologies: Java (J2EE, JSF), SQL, PL/SQL

Nov 2005 – Nov 2006 · 1 yr

• Development/maintenance activities on the ezecash (cashier) system for PartyPoker.
• Worked on PL/SQL, J2EE, Linux (scripting), excel (macros).

Apr 2003 – Aug 2004 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Development/maintenance activities on the ezecash (cashier) system for PartyPoker.
• Worked on PL/SQL, J2EE, Linux (scripting), excel (macros).

Aug 2004 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Project Lead, responsible for requirements gathering, design and development of multiple projects at the same time.

Nov 2002 – Apr 2003 · 5 mos

• Development on services projects (J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL).

Feb 2001 – Nov 2002 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Worked in Core Java.
• Responsibilities: development in some modules of Pramati Server and internal application, support to Pramati clients.

Jul 2000 – Jan 2001 · 6 mos

• Routers, switches and solaris expert for client support.