Feb 2019 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Oct 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mar 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• User Perceived Performance - Built a performance reporting dashboard to analyze real user metrics using Tableau and Hive for all of Yahoo's media sites (Homepage/News/Sports/Finance). My responsibilities included browser-side tooling to collect relevant metrics, data processing scripts and ensuring quality of data/reports.
• Telemetry - Go-to person for debugging metrics issues in Yahoo Home Page.
• Operability - Ensured the engineering team had complete operational insight into a key multi-tenant Java based API that powers most of Yahoo Media Network's content pages. This reduced production incident debugging time from hours to minutes.
• Resiliency - Implemented an iframe based fault-tolerance solution for Yahoo media sites to work-around internal DNS failures. Over the last year, this solution has helped serve the Yahoo home page even when the front-end servers have been unreachable on multiple occasions.
• Developer Advocate for Yahoo Homepage helping developers onboard and contribute to code-base quickly.
• Technical Reviewer - Homepage design/architecture reviews and Techpulse (Yahoo’s Internal Tech Conference) reviewer.

Feb 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Lead front-end and customer support engineer for the Yahoo Recommends - a content recommendation widget deployed on sites like CNET, Download.com, Hearst Publications, Vox Media. I was responsible for client-side Javascript implementation and integration with third-party sites. I also helped design a MySQL based widget configuration store for different third-party publishers.
• Led a complete rewrite of My Yahoo (https://my.yahoo.com) using a combination of Apache-PHP-NodeJS (first large scale deployment of NodeJS and Isomorphic Javascript at Yahoo). Key responsibilities included source-code organization, client-side Javascript functionality, AJAX workflows, module drag-drop functionality.

Oct 2006 – Feb 2013 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Led replacement of Yahoo’s legacy RSS feed platform with an extensible HTTP cache based solution.
• Integrated Yahoo App Platform applications (FBML like technology) with “My Yahoo”
• Improved "My Yahoo" web page load performance by 25% and setup a mechanism to track page load performance of daily builds in an automated fashion.
• Responsible for search functionality of both Yahoo! Hotjobs recruiter and candidate web sites.
• Led the migration of over 40 million candidate records between different versions of a vertical search platform ensuring functional, performance and relevance parity.
• Regular Yahoo Hack Day and Yahoo Hack U Speaker/Volunteer

Mar 2006 – Oct 2006 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• Created Web-Marker - a marker pen for the web that lets you mark web pages and share them with the world (a purely client-side solution)
• Presented Web-Marker at WWW 2006, Edinburgh

May 2003 – Mar 2006 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Worked as a programmer for a telecom client, building, porting and maintaining network element management software.
• Part-time admin of the Infosys Linux User Group Website.