Aug 2021 – Mar 2022 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Worked on the startup idea “Machine Learning for Beginners” (EdTech).
• Beginners of Machine Learning need an easy way to get an overview, grasp the concepts, understand the applications of Machine Learning and play around with modelling (without getting into the technicalities and programming). Objective is to create an integrated “Machine Learning platform” which provides Live sessions, Online Sessions & Content and provides a UI based tool for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA). The Unique Selling Proposition (USP) & Product Differentiation, is the user-friendly UI based tool which can be used for playing around with pre-created models, to create new models (without programming) and providing Machine Learning based gaming. The Business model targets B2C and B2B customers. In B2C model, the target segment is retail customers. In B2B model, the target segment is Schools (6th – 12th), Engineering colleges & Other institutions, Coaching Centers and IT Companies.

Jan 2017 – Jul 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Currently part of the Merchant Engineering team. Working on the new initiative to provide incentives for merchant acquisition and retention for the Groupon Local Business.
• Managed the Goods Supply Platform Team catering to $1.8B business in the 1st party & 3rd party for NA, EMEA and APAC regions. Driven the following initiatives,
• Supply Consolidation:
• Built a new Goods Supply Platform (called Gateway) for the merchant & catalog management
• Enhanced the Goods Supply Platform to support the $200M marketplace business (3rd party business) on Gateway system
• Consolidated the existing $1.6B 1st party business onto the Gateway System which has improved the merchant experience
• Developed a customer ticketing system for marketplace business, which can be used by merchants to resolve customer queries
• Implemented FBG (Fulfilled By Groupon) feature
• Supply Growth:
• Evolved the Goods Supply Platform into a decision-making platform by providing insights into merchant business, their segmentation details and recommendations for their business growth
• Developed a “content authority” system providing the curated content for different products, which made merchant’s catalog setup easy and fast.
• Merchant integration with Groupon Goods Supply Platform made easy by providing 3rd party APIs for managing their catalog and fulfillment
• Feature enhancements:
• Scalability of the supply platform is improved by introducing the concept of priority queuing and uniform distribution of the jobs.
• Added many other features to the supply system which improved the efficiency of merchant operations team
• Operational Excellence:
• Providing continuous support for the systems and make sure that the availability is 99.99%

Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 · 0 mo · Bangalore

• Came up with a model using the historical equity data & daily intra-day data and implemented the model using Java (containing the analysis/indicators like trends/patterns, moving averages, momentum, breakouts, draw-downs, gap ups and gap downs). The application provides a report at the end of the day for different stocks, regarding how stock would behave next day (like moves up/down or continues up trend / down trend etc.). The strategies have been back tested with the historical data to understand their performance & relevance in the context of different stocks. Also, integrated the application with Zerodha's Kite Connect APIs for doing real-time trading.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Built a SOA product suite for the Walmart’s eCommerce Platform, which globally integrates different business services. The SOA product suite comprises of frameworks and components that operate on a high-scale, distributed and multi-tenant environment. The foundational software components are offered as Platform as a Service (PaaS) to diverse business applications that include eCommerce, Supply Platforms, Logistics Platforms and Partner API integration.
• Responsible for,
• ● External Gateway for accessing the Walmart services by the external consumers
• ● Internal Gateway (using AdroitLogic’s UltraESB) which front-ends the external facing applications
• ● Policy Framework, which provides a way of defining policies/rules at design time using XML language and evaluates the policies using policy evaluation engine
• ● SOA Framework Libraries, providing the cross cutting functionalities like uniform logging, caching, service discovery and policy enforcement. These libraries can be integrated in the consumer and producer applications
• ● Service Registry, a repository of service metadata, Quality Of Service and policy information
• ● Authentication service for Walmart's user credential management & authentication

Feb 2009 – Apr 2013 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Responsible for the content ingestion and indexing sub-systems of Thomson Reuters's Distributed Search Platform.
• ● Developed an index compression scheme for information retrieval with 30+% compression and enhanced search query throughput, resulting in savings of USD 1Million+
• ● Involved in the development of a file based solution for Collection-Set Locator for WestLawNext to support billing and up-selling of features outside of a subscriber's plan.
• ● Involved in the development highly available synchronous loading for quick loading of pre-dockets and dockets
• ● Involved in the development of new features for content loading & indexing sub-systems
• ● Built a new team in Bangalore and successfully completed the transition of development activities

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Responsible for "Greynet Enterprise Manager" application, which enables companies to secure and control greynets.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad

• ● Developed a web-based multi-player poker client providing play money and real money games. The client is an applet and runs with the default JVM in the browsers like IE, Mozilla, Firefox and Safari and also on platforms like Windows, Unix and MAC.
• ● Create a gaming framework which can be used for developing any web based multi-player game.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2005 · 4 yrs · Hyderabad

• ● Involved in the enhancements to the Ad Server system, which is used to serve ads to different channels like UOL website, ISP client and web mail client.
• ● Designed & developed supporting software for the Ad Server system like Order Entry System, Ad Management, Ad Tracking and Ad Reporting
• ● Designed & developed supporting software for the Ad Server system like Order Entry System, Ad Management, Ad Tracking and Ad Reporting
• ● Developed an application called Environment Control System, which is used for building and deploying software in client and production environments
• ● Developed a comprehensive “Email Reporting” to generate macro level statistics related email activity. Email activity includes incoming mail, outgoing mail, mail retrieval & handling spam and UOL has many servers to handle these operations

Oct 1999 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad

• ● Involved in the development of the services, which are used by Preferred Provider Organizations, for provider administration, claims evaluation and repricing. Designed and developed distributed CORBA services called Repricing service, Provider Contract service and Claims UI service

Feb 1998 – Oct 1999 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad

• ● Involved in the development of the applications for the backoffice operations of DEShaw financial services