Oct 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

Jan 2017 – Sep 2017 · 8 mos

Jul 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Leading a team of around 10 engineers to build a product that powers one of the core pieces of the product page, browse & search pages, and also aids in order fulfilment.
• Responsible for product features, as well as quality. Involved in defining the product roadmap in collaboration with the product management, providing feedback to other developers through code reviews, high-level design and architecture decision making, technology choices made for solving problems, metrics collection and alerting.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As part of the platform team, I contributed to the design and development of Messaging as a service, and a distributed workflow orchestrator. In this period, I gained familiarity with technologies like Kafka, Zookeeper, MySql and Redis.

Mar 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Adobe Edge Animate
• Laid the foundation of a new product feature - vector based animation. My responsibility was to study and evaluate various available technologies and find the one best suited to our product. I was also responsible for defining the scope of the feature.
• Adobe Flash Professional
• Rewrote the entire code editing feature of the product. Integrated Scintilla, the most popular open-source text editing component. Added support for "variable width" strokes. Modified the underlying design to accommodate this extra information. This new feature allowed greater flexibility and expressiveness for creatives.
• Adobe LiveCycle Solutions
• Developed a Adobe Flex based text editor framework with a sample UI application. It was designed to be easily extensible using plugins.

Apr 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on the development of Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite PDF Generator - the highest earning component of LiveCycle ES.
• 1. Improved the success rate of “Convert To Pdf” operations on certain platforms from 96% to 99%.
• 2. Improved the throughput of OpenOffice based conversions by 25%.
• 3. Decreased network bandwidth utilization in “Html To Pdf” conversions by up to 50%.
• 4. As a member of the Rapid Response Team, dealt with high priority customer reported issues with a very small turnaround time.
• 5. Added feature “headless” OCR, which enabled enterprises to convert scanned images to text based PDFs on multiple platforms in a more reliable and faster way.

Jun 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on the development of Adobe Director.
• Text engine - Shared responsibility of optimizing performance of the text component. Also worked on adding Unicode support to the product.
• Physics engine - Added support for "concave dynamic rigid bodies" - a feature not present in any game authoring tool. Also prototyped and demonstrated how cloth simulation could be integrated in to Adobe Director using NVIDIA PhysX.
• COLLADA - Investigated and prototyped importing assets from COLLADA files - an interchange file format for interactive 3D applications developed by Khronos group.

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos

• Developed a Python based CLI application for remote management of GSA boxes.