Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 · 8 mos

Jan 2020 – Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Single-threaded Engineering and Product Leader for highly cross-functional (Engineering, Product, Data Science, Analytics, Product Ops, Program) Platform Charters: (i) Location Intelligence; (ii) Trust & Safety.
• Engineering Leader for two additional Platform Charters: (iii) Ads; and (iv) Growth Platforms.
• Responsible for defining the vision and strategy for these core and strategic Platform Charters across all business lines.
• Successfully delivered business impact in terms of cost per delivery and consumer experience metrics, via multiple initiatives across all platforms.
• Additional role as a Technology Leader for: Operational Excellence, Technical Advisor Program (founding member), and Bar Raiser for Engineering Hiring.
• External speaker at various events and webinars; Active leader for Women in Tech initiatives within and beyond Swiggy.

Jan 2016 – Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Chennai, India

• Led R&D and Engineering of deep tech solutions and products in video/AR domain.
• Point105-AR: Designed, developed and launched Point105-AR, a SaaS service that allows businesses and artists to create and manage high quality 3D assets for AR/VR/WebGL immersive applications. Worked with two large enterprises on paid pilots for processing 3D models at scale.
• MaskUp: Designed, developed and launched MaskUp, an Augmented Reality (AR) solution for creating fun selfie experiences and interactive AR gaming for Indian audience. Early beta partner of Facebook AR Studio platform, first to launch 3rd party effects that were used 200M times.

Jan 2015 – Dec 2015 · 11 mos · Chennai, India

• Designed and developed a prototype for peer-to-peer adhoc network using Android smartphones.

Sep 2005 – Oct 2014 · 9 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• Internal and External Loadbalancing Systems, Content distribution and Content Rewriting Systems, Adwords Keyword Recommendation System
• Search Based Keyword Tool: Won the Founders’ Award for this project. Part of core team that designed, developed and launched a keyword suggestion system for ads landing pages. A very high impact project, that helped scale Google’s advertising business tremendously. Responsible for multiple sub-systems like keyword extraction and ads data extraction.
• Page Speed Service: Tech Lead of a team of 10. Designed, developed and launched a content distribution + content rewriting system for external websites to speed up their loading times. Loading was improved by upto 50% using our system. Collaborated with teams across Bangalore, Boston and Seattle to develop and launch this project.
• Web Search: Worked on search quality experiments using knowledge graph data to improve search results for certain class of queries.
• Load Balancer (Google Inc, Mountain View): Worked on Google’s content distribution system that handled internal and external (DNS-based) load balancing between server clusters. Part of core team that redesigned the load balancing architecture to scale up from a few services to thousands of services.
• Professional Service: Google India Women in Engineering ChairPerson for 2 years, evaluated applications for 4 years of GWE-India awards, gave a talk at Grace Hopper India, judge for WeTech program (organized by IIE); conducted a workshop for ACM Hyderabad; gave multiple internal techtalks and noogler tech orientation talks for interns; hosted multiple interns, mentored multiple nooglers; participated & chaired multiple promotion committees; interviewed 100s of candidates for SWE, PM, Eng Manager roles, including college recruiting events in Georgia Tech & IITs.

May 2001 – Aug 2001 · 3 mos · Florham Park, NJ

• Designed and implemented a prototype for content delivery networks for applications.

May 2000 – Aug 2000 · 3 mos · Florham Park, NJ

• Designed a framework for web caching and replication of applications.