Feb 2021 – Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Heading Discovery Platform (Search, Recommendation, Merchandising, Geo services, Vacation) and Competitive Intelligence charter!

Aug 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Leading Search Platform initiatives and innovations

Aug 2016 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Knudge is a gamified microlearning platform to help people improve their English skills. Backed by well-known industry veterans, Knudge is currently helping more than 5 million users across the globe.
• Product accreditations:
• Top rated self-learning app on the play store (4.8/5)
• Google Editor's choice app
• Google Play's Best of 2017 (Best Hidden-Gem category)
• Featured in Google's top 5 global apps by Indian developers - 2020
• Chosen for Facebook's FB start program

Jun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As part of the search engineering team, I worked on some of the core search infrastructure projects
• Architected and built systems to support 75x load during sale days
• Built autoconfiguration capabilities for horizontal scaling using puppet
• Brought median latencies down to 12ms and 99th percentile to 700ms
• Worked on near real-time data support for search systems
• Also, worked with the business team on users' search and buying behavior analysis using A/B testing frameworks.

Aug 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

• Conceptualized, redesigned and developed highly scalable web services for Walmart’s health and wellness online retail business.
• Worked closely with the product and frontend team to understand and design user flows. Developed and supported the complete backend system including web services, databases, message brokers and caching systems from requirement analysis stage to production stages.
• Order placing response times reduced to 1/10th (95th percentile)
• Throughput increased by 5x

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Designed and developed highly scalable image storage and serving system that could process millions of images with high throughput and low latencies. Performance tested multiple solutions using the Jmeter tool. Used Amazon S3 for the storage requirement, Akamai as the CDN, and Nginx for reverse proxy and caching. Currently, it is being used to store and serve images for Snapdeal's catalogue for website and mobile app.
• Response times reduced to 1/5th (95th percentile)
• Error rates reduced to 1/20th
• Improvement in Image quality along with the reduction in file size
• Also, worked on the smart pricing project for the product and business team to help compare competitors' prices.