Dec 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Design and extend generic enough solutions to redundant use-cases/product problems as scalable & resilient Platforms to improve the quality of the product and time to market
• Led the initiative to architect a new allocation engine to efficiently match drivers to booking in Grab Ecosystem and enable faster experimentations and model tuning.
• Forecasting Platform to enable DS team to ingest different time-series signals and forecast values for these signals at a configurable schedule.
• Design and review engineering RFC’s for Marketplace tech-family.
• Influence and guide team members through code reviews, design reviews, patent and engineering blogs.
• Identify and automate the operational tasks, saving a lot of our oncall engineer’s time and Tech Ops team.

Dec 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs

• As the responsibilities of Pricing services have grown in tandem with Grab's evolving business needs, I led the overall initiative to platformise and redesign our services to accelerate development velocity and enhance engineering scalability and stability.
• I authored an engineering blog and filed a patent with my team during this process.
• Patent Title: Communications server apparatus and method for processing service requests (Pricing Strategies)
• Blog: https://engineering.grab.com/democratising-fare-storage-at-scale-using-event-sourcing
• As the Engineering Owner of the Pricing Platform, my responsibilities include the following.
• Coordinate among multiple stakeholders (Product, Data Science, Client Services, Web and App) to deliver platforms and products, that serve millions of customers across Southeast Asia.
• Propose projects and work with stakeholders to draft the requirements and work with my team to come up with scalable engineering architecture and deliver projects in highest quality.
• Lead the ideation, prototyping, design, development, testing, and rollout phases of critical engineering components.
• Shape Engineering Excellence targets for the team and guide team members to achieve target SLA’s for our services and automate processes to reduce oncall effort.
• Mentor engineers with technical and career guidance.

Dec 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr

• The Dynamic Pricing team builds critical services that govern the economics at Grab. As these services are crucial for the business to operate, the services have very strict SLA.
• My responsibilities include the following.
• Design and implement scalable, low-latency, and data driven algorithms.
• Design and build distributed systems to calculate price for different services offered by Grab.
• Maintain multiple critical production systems and improve their uptime.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Product, Data Science, and Data Analytics to deliver prices to our customers reliably and efficiently.

Jul 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Designed and Developed Spam filtering algorithm to detect fraud clicks from crawlers and serve them fake ads saving millions of $.
• Developed a Keyword Suggestion Tool to find trending keywords on social media platform based on there ads profitability and serve these keywords to business team.
• Developed Configuration Management System to manage configs across multiple websites, preview the changes, test it and deploy to production without any code changes.
• Developed pipeline to ingest products data and find similar products from million of products and store the results back in database.

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Worked in Amazon Home Services team and redesigned the scheduling service backend to serve different templates and support all devices from the sameAPI.
• Implemented the new scheduling widget for AHS used in Black Friday Sale.

Apr 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

Jun 2014 – Apr 2015 · 10 mos