Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• I led the architectural vision for Drishti’s core infrastructure, focusing on security and deployment systems.
• Acquired by Apple.
• Built a comprehensive secrets platform, improving security protocols and management efficiency.
• Developed encrypted delivery pipelines for private-cloud deployments, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality.
• Provided guidance to DevOps and backend teams, fostering a culture of best practices and innovation.

Jan 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Played a pivotal role in Zoko’s acceptance into Y Combinator W21 by architecting the Shopify integration platform.
• Enhanced the messaging system's scalability by 100X through a Kafka-based webhook pipeline.
• Developed core components such as Zoko Search and the Rules Engine, improving overall platform functionality.

Sep 2015 – Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Led multiple short-term, high-impact consulting and leadership engagements with early-stage and growth-stage startups across ecommerce, search, data platforms, and SaaS.
• Defined system architecture, backend platforms, and scalability roadmaps for products moving from prototype to production.
• Bootstrapped and mentored small engineering teams (3–10 engineers), establishing development standards, deployment pipelines, and operational best practices.
• Designed and implemented search, crawler, and data-ingestion architectures processing large-scale web and ecommerce datasets.

Apr 2012 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Kristiansand, Agder, Norway · Remote

• Worked on EU and W3C-aligned e-governance and accessibility projects, including building the PDF Accessibility Checker that is now listed as one of the W3C-recommended tools for accessibility evaluation.
• Developed a custom site-search engine for Norwegian government organizations, optimized for multilingual content and large public datasets.
• Contributed to Tingtun’s web accessibility benchmarking tools and TERMER platform, supporting standardized evaluation workflows across public-sector websites.

Oct 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Yahoo! Media Team
• Designed and built backend components for Yahoo! Toolbar and the Yahoo! Front Page on the company’s internal cloud stack.
• Led the architecture of the new Yahoo! Bookmarks backend on Sherpa/PNUTS, including NoSQL data modeling, REST API design, and a multi-month migration from an Oracle-based legacy system.
• Contributed to Yahoo!’s IP portfolio by authoring one patent and two defensive publications, initiated independently to improve coverage in the backend and distributed-systems domain.

Sep 2007 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Led the full architecture, specification, and design of McAfee’s NTBA (Network Threat Behavior Analysis) platform from the Bangalore development center.
• Drove end-to-end development across major subsystems: MySQL backend, XML-RPC communication layer, reconnaissance-detection engine, Host Threat Factor algorithm, and aggregation framework.
• Served as system lead while also contributing directly to critical core product components.

Jan 2000 – Jul 2007 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• During this period I held engineering roles at three organizations:
• 2006 - 2007 --> SpikeSource - Staff Engineer (Open Source Platform Engineering)
• 2005 - 2006 --> Infosys - Technical Specialist (Consulting & Research)
• 2000 - 2004 --> Dassault Systèmes - Senior Software Engineer (Product Engineering)
• Developed core engineering foundations in systems programming, application design, and performance-focused development.
• Built and shipped production features across enterprise and product teams at Dassault Systèmes, Infosys, and SpikeSource.