Jul 2025 – Nov 2025 · 4 mos · India

• Travel, Photography and Freelancing developer
• Took a planned break to freelance and explore different software engineering disciplines and strengthen my technical foundations.
• Travelled across India, photographing cultural festivals while undertaking freelance software projects.
• Supporting small businesses. Built highly optimized websites written with bare web technologies, handled photoshoots and content workflows, helped improve technical SEO, automation scripts for HR workflows and data analysis using AI.

Mar 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore Urban · On-site

• finance technology
• Performed RCA, failure analysis, and fraud detection; led a team of 3 engineers and established fast incident-response workflow discipline.
• Cut cloud spend from $1,100/day → $330/day (~$23K/month savings) by optimizing service logic and data access patterns.
• Improved API latency 25×, reducing critical endpoints from 20s → <800ms to stabilize high-volume financial operations.
• Lowered MTTD by >40% by deploying self-hosted telemetry (Logstash + pod-level agents) for real-time fault detection.
• Increased system resilience by architecting and migrating a monolith into 4 microservices supporting core transaction and fraud-analysis flows.

Jan 2022 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• AI SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Owned telemetry, cutting detection time and reducing on-call load.
• Architected microservices for better resilience and fault isolation.
• Managed Kubernetes on AWS, ensuring reliable deployments and scaling.
• Improved system stability by resolving latency and traffic-spike issues.

Aug 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• AI SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Increased Gmail sync throughput by improving large-scale message ingestion pipelines and strengthening processing stability.
• Built real-time system visibility, reducing failure detection and response gaps through custom monitoring pipelines, alerts, and health metrics.
• Enhanced distributed system reliability using Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and MySQL (AWS) to power fault-tolerant queues, caching layers, and asynchronous task pipelines.

Sep 2018 – Nov 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Working on the platform and algorithms workflow pipelines.
• Developing the inventory search using Elasticsearch and Redis housed on Amazon Web Services, run via Lambda.

Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked on developing machine learning algorithms and building models using Python and Spark to get analytics of huge data from clients.
• Built a platform, over Django Framework for the company to connect to their clients. This platform deployed the machine learning algorithms and analysed the data.
• Working on the workflow and deploy on Amazon S3 servers.