Aug 2025 – Jun 2026 · 10 mos · San Diego, California, United States · On-site

• Part-time campus role supporting graduate studies, developing interpersonal and communication skills.

Aug 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Owned critical microservices on Priority One platform processing millions of transactions daily across digital and physical retail channels. Architected and delivered high-impact features while maintaining 99.9%+ uptime for business-critical APIs.
• Led Next Day Delivery platform integration—architected end-to-end solution coordinating multiple partner teams (Items, Pricing, Promotions, Fulfillment, etc). Delivered production-ready system in 12 weeks, enabling $10M revenue stream and improving customer NPS.
• Pioneered Exchange capability—designed and built Target's first real-time exchange platform, eliminating legacy return-rebuy workflow. Implemented event-driven architecture using Kafka with transactional guarantees, handling 100K+ daily exchanges.
• Optimized platform performance—reduced P99 latency by 20% through query optimization and intelligent caching strategies. System handled 3x Black Friday traffic spike without degradation, saving $500K in infrastructure costs.
• Established CI/CD best practices—built comprehensive test automation framework covering 500+ scenarios across omnichannel flows. Reduced production incidents by 40% and enabled daily deployments vs monthly releases.
• Designed bot mitigation system—created real-time threat detection engine preventing fraudulent checkout attempts during high-demand launches. Protected $1.4M in inventory from scalper bots while maintaining zero false positives.
• Drove platform modernization—core contributor to microservices redesign initiative, migrating monolithic services to event-driven architecture. Led rollout strategy using feature flags and canary deployments with zero downtime.

Mar 2022 – Jul 2022 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Selected for competitive internship program. Contributed production-ready features to Priority One checkout platform handling millions of transactions. Designed system architecture diagrams adopted as team documentation standard. Implemented graceful shutdown mechanism improving service reliability during deployments. Promoted to full-time engineer based on performance and impact.

Jan 2022 – Mar 2022 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Fast-track training program in enterprise data engineering. Built ETL pipelines using Informatica and cloud-native tools for Fortune 500 client data warehouse. Gained exposure to large-scale data processing and enterprise architecture patterns.

Oct 2021 – Dec 2021 · 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Early-stage startup experience building customer-facing web applications. Developed full-stack features using React and Node.js. Participated in product discussions and rapid iteration cycles in agile startup environment.

Mar 2021 – May 2021 · 2 mos · Remote

• Selected for competitive open-source program. Contributed features to production repositories with 10K+ stars. Collaborated with global developer community, improving code quality through peer reviews and following industry-standard Git workflows.

Nov 2020 – Dec 2020 · 1 mo · Remote

• Explored machine learning fundamentals using Python, Scikit-learn, and TensorFlow. Built predictive models and data visualizations as part of early technical learning.