Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr

• I explored entrepreneurial opportunities in AI/ML while investing in personal growth. As a CTO and co-founder, I validated several B2B opportunities by building MVPs.
• 1. Build vertical agents for enterprise QA and marketing domains.
• 2. Multimodal workflows platform for building ML powered audio, video applications.,
• 3. ML devops and governance space etc..
• We did customer pilots and built our learnings. Hit me up if you are looking to build something in the AI infra and vertical agents space. Would love to chat, collaborate and share my learnings.
• This intentional pause allowed me to travel, strengthen family bonds, read books and gain fresh perspectives on technology's impact on humanity and life.

Aug 2019 – Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Google home & nest intelligence platform.
• Designing high throughput, resilient and low latency systems to improve the IOT platform serving millions of Nest Cameras, Thermostats etc.
• Led a team of 7 members and successfully launched an on-device ML model feedback collection flows and insights platform that improved and measure ML model precision for Nest Cameras, Nest hub, and Pixel devices.

Dec 2017 – Oct 2018 · 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Designed and developed the framework for handling accounting of Ethereum blockchain based tokens to grow trade volumes. Developed a robust asynchronous queuing engine to handle transactions to facilitate load balancing, retries.
• Designed and developed the charts data pipeline which produces charts data in near real time by running transformations over data sourced from the data stores.
• Architectured and developed Pushman, a distributed messaging infrastructure powering the real-time communications at Koinex.
• Developed Koinex Loop, a peer to peer crypto assets transaction platform https://koinex.in/loop
• Developed Koinex P2P, an integration to deposit/withdraw fiat in peer to peer manner. https://medium.com/koinex-crunch/koinex-upgrade-3-0-0-inr-revived-cd6d82c6b7e1
• Responsible for refactoring out bottlenecks from the critical application paths to improve application response time.

Jul 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on the Incentives Platfrom, the SOR for all types of offers/incentives provided by PayPal.
• Working in an ecosystem with a bunch of microservices and async daemons managing the lifecycle and redemption of incentives given to the users.
• Integrated the internal analytics (First Party Tracking Infrastructure) into the system to get better insights of the system.
• Coupled Enterprise Continuous Integration with system components for better quality.
• Managing the internal testing framework for the testing of REST microservices.
• Responsible for adding features, finding and fixing bugs, code-refactoring, optimizations adhering to the SLAs and testing,
• delivering the components to production.
• Primarily used Java, C++, Node.js for development along with Python at few occasions.

Mar 2016 – Aug 2016 · 5 mos · Remote

• Worked on the release automation of the syslog-ng (https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng) project. The task was to create building blocks for the release pipeline of syslog-ng project for frequent releases.
• Authored the project from scratch, https://github.com/black-perl/syslog-ng-autorel/tree/test
• Created a custom changelog generator for the project.
• Gained insights into Git internals, Github API v3, Docker, SOLID principles and OpenSuse Build system.

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Remote

• Developer for the GNU-Mailman project.
• Authored and currently maintaining the Node.js mailman-client. It is the SDK that drives development of Node.js applications on the top of Mailman-core.
• Gained insight into core JavaScript elements like prototypical inheritance model, promises, unit testing methodologies and made heavy usage of open source tools/libraries like Bluebird, Mocha, Sinon, Chai, Lodash etc.
• Proposal Link : http://black-perl.in/gsoc15-proposal-mailman.client-written-in-js
• Project Link : https://gitlab.com/black-perl/mailman-client.js

May 2015 – Jun 2015 · 1 mo · Noida

• Developed a multi-channel marketing tool that allows sellers to upload their inventory to different online market places like Ebay, Flipkart, ShopClues, etc from a single dashboard.
• Came up with effective solutions to sync and track products across these marketplaces.

Sep 2014 – Sep 2014 · 0 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Delivered a talk at PyCon, India 2014 on the tools required to build Human Computer Interaction projects with Python.

Oct 2013 – Mar 2014 · 5 mos

• A cloud based application that powers users to do bulk emailing by using a single email template with features like email scheduling, tracking etc.
• The platform provides fast advertisement and marketing solutions to businesses and can be used for personal purposes too.
• Winner at Startup-dash, New Delhi, 2014 and among the finalists of Google Cloud Developer Challenge 2013-2014.