Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Built a SaaS API marketplace, which can now be found at app.datacloud.sh. This is a highly performant and scalable system that helps SaaS API developers easily sell their SaaS APIs, and consumers find various data processing tools.
• This was a part time venture that I cofounded, with all needed approvals from my full time employer at that time, and then, finally sold what we had built to the current owners of datacloud.sh.

Nov 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Lead the engineering team that builds and maintains the Groups and address book import products (~25 engineers) at LinkedIn.
• During this period in the Groups and Pint (address book import team) team:
• 1. I led a major effort to unify Groups and Events tech stacks, targetted at speedening the rate at which we would add features to both these product by almost 2x, due to the leverage created by the unification.
• 2. Led the effort to create attendee cohorts on the Events product that had a significant lift in the no. of unique contributors in Events.
• 3. Built the events chat experience, in collaboration with the Messaging team, which also significantly enhanced the no. of unique contributors in Events.
• 4. Reduced the maintenance effort of Pint by ~50% by various measures including deprecating low impact features.

Nov 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr

• Led the Lite mobile web and Lite Android App teams (~20 engineers). Lite mobile web is a highly performant version of LinkedIn on mobile and we made it the mobile web experience for Linkedin worldwide. Led the initiative to enable make LinkedIn Lite the mobile web experience for LinkedIn by building a set of over 100 features (including both small and big features) over a period of 9 months.

Oct 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Lead the following teams in the Ola Supply Engineering group (with a overall of > 30 developers):
• 1) Accounting,
• 2) Leasing Repairs, Maintenance, and Tracking,
• 3) Leasing Performance Management,
• 4) Leasing Accounting,
• 5) Supply UI,
• 6) Operator app,
• 7) Partner engagement
• The Accounting team builds the system that maintains the accounts for all of our partners, and financers, and does the payments for all of them. It is a critical system, that deals with maintaining the record of, and doing the timely payments of all of our partners' earnings.
• Leasing is one of the strategically key initiatives of Ola, that helps it in maintaining a captive supply that is largely free from volatile competition. I currently lead three of the teams that are supporting the leasing business.
• The Leasing Repairs, Maintenance, and Tracking team builds and maintains the systems that deal with tracking the maintenance and repairs of our leasing vehicles at workshops.
• The Leasing Performace Management team maintains the system that tracks the performance of our leasing partners.
• The leasing accounting team builds and maintains all the accounting related components specific to the leasing business, such as the lease rental management system, and the leasing Full and Final Settlement.
• The Supply UI team builds and maintains the UI of all of the screens in the Ola Partner app, except for the ones in the booking flow. The team also builds and maintains all of the internal portals that are part of the Supply group.
• The operator app team builds and maintains the Ola Operator app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.olacabs.android.operator The operator app helps our partners to monitor the status and location of their cars and drivers in real-time. They get to see a consolidated view of their earnings from all their cars, and can monitor the performance of each of their cars and drivers from this app.

May 2016 – Sep 2016 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Lead the Operator App, Leasing and Ola Loyalty engineering teams at Ola.
• The Operator App provides an interface for operators to monitor their drivers' performance and their earnings.
• The leasing team provides solutions for Ola's leasing business, such as a tool to track repairs and maintenance of Ola's vehicles, a lead management system, a driver performance management system, etc.
• The Ola loyalty app provides an interface for loyal Ola drivers to manage their value added services provided by Ola, check their earnings, and progress in the loyalty scheme.

Nov 2015 – May 2016 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Lead the driver backend team.
• The driver backend team deals with the backend of the driver app, and also takes care of booking allotments. Lead the project to re-architect the backend to scale the system to a million plus rides a day.
• My team also built a number of internal portals with web UIs.

Dec 2014 – Oct 2015 · 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Lead the InStore, e-commerce and device teams at Capillary. The InStore team deals with all the applications that go the POSs, including the Capillary Cashier Terminal and Store Center, which is basically a caching layer at the Store.
• As part of the InStore team, built a diagnostics dashboard, called Store Care, for the support team to see the current state of the system and any connectivity issues.

Jun 2014 – Dec 2014 · 6 mos

• Leading a team of 10 engineers to build a website editor, themes and modules for Yahoo Small Business. My responsibilities included enabling smooth execution of the project, gathering the requirements from the product managers, planning the sprints and releases, code reviews and people management. I also actively participate in architectural design with lead architects.
• My team was a major part of a bigger team that built the new version of Yahoo Store.

Apr 2014 – Jun 2014 · 2 mos

• Played the role of a engineering manager described above

Apr 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Worked as part of the Yahoo Small Business Dashboard team with front end work involving Javascript (mojito/nodejs), PHP and CSS and backend work involving Java.

Jun 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Worked in Yahoo! Small Business as part of a team that builds a tool that helps our users to build websites, called Yahoo! Site Solutions. Work with both frontend and backend technologies. Have done development in PHP, Javascript, XSL, CSS and Perl. Have worked as part of a team that follows Agile software practices for project management.

Jun 2008 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs · India

• Worked as part of the Feeds team which is involved in processing of feeds from different exchanges around the world. My work was mainly in Core Java and Perl.