Aug 2024 – Feb 2025 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Solving Automation with AI-driven solutions, primarily working with stock broking firms across India. Fine-tuning OSS AI models for private in-house deployment to automate student recruitment support for universities in the EU.

Feb 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Rebuilt the entire product, leading a team of 8-12 engineers at different times.
• Attendance 2.0, which is more scalable and easier to add new features.
• Payroll 2.0, with the ability to calculate payroll of staff up to 10K or more within a minute and present a consolidated as well as a granular view of the company's payroll for any month.
• Introduction of TDS calculation in payroll, with all its nuances.
• Enhanced security updates in the code, rewriting the authorization layer, from insights based on a vulnerability assessment from a 3P.
• Verification Suite, a way to verify new employees in the company using Govt identities.
• This, among other contributions to the product and design through feedback.
• Role - HOE for the most part

Jul 2022 – Nov 2022 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Blinkit Ads - Launched the new 'Brand Central' platform at Blinkit in the run up to Diwali’22 (deprecating the old way of creating campaigns), giving control to the brands to create and optimize their campaigns/ads on the Blinkit app through a bidding dashboard.
• Though technically still on the Zomato payroll during this time, reporting in the Zomato Ads team.

Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr

• Worked on multiple things during this time post the Nutrition shutdown uncertainty.
• Zomato Vernacular - A central microservice to provide translations in a host of languages across systems at Zomato.
• Zomato Payments - As part of the Platform Pod in the Payments team, enhanced security of the wallet payments by adding device verification, among other things.
• Zomato Catalog - Short stint in the catalog team, where I mostly just understood the systems before moving to Blinkit.

Oct 2020 – Jun 2021 · 8 mos

• Zomato Nutrition - A newly launched initiative to sell manufactured supplements and other nutraceuticals. Built the search platform and reviews & rating platform from the get-go, later taking on ownership of other tech aspects of the project as well, like the cart and payment flows.
• Zomato Nutrition was discontinued around June'21.

Oct 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr

• Zomato Dining - Building for Zomato Gold, Dining & Gold search (restaurant listings) and others in the newly formed `Dining` vertical, combining all pods related to dining under a common umbrella.

Jun 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Zomato Search - Built the Zomato Gold and Dining part of the new search service at Zomato, migrating away from the monolith.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Zomato Gold - A membership platform in its early stages at the time, with 1+1 on food and 2+2 on drinks when dining out. Later turned into a percentage-based member discount.

May 2018 – Nov 2018 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Worked in the payments team on the BFL wallet app (built as a wrapper on the Mobikwik base app) that provides short-term loans, integrating with the loan systems of investor Bajaj.

Apr 2018 – May 2018 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Involved in building and maintaining all logical functionality across website before a user decides to checkout. Primary work on REST APIs as described below.

Jun 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Building and maintaining REST APIs in PHP with extensive use of Apache Solr, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Aerospike, Redis with MySQL as primary database.
• These APIs include product listing across website, filters functionality for product listings, navigation, home page and product description pages.

Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 · 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

• Position - Android application developer
• Project - developed android app for the door step services
• o Got in depth experience of working with android APKs
• o Understood the managerial structure of BSES very well having worked under the DGM

Dec 2014 – Dec 2014 · 0 mo · Greater Delhi Area

• Position - Full Stack Developer
• Project - core developer on various website projects taken up by the company