May 2019 – Apr 2024 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Innovate to Evolve was focused on developing sustainable and smart mobility solutions centered around electric bicycles (E-Bikes) for modern urban transportation challenges. The initiative aimed to provide an affordable, eco-friendly, and efficient alternative to congested roads and unreliable public transport systems.
• The concept combined the advantages of traditional bicycles with the convenience of motor-assisted mobility, promoting green transportation, healthy living, and low-maintenance commuting solutions for urban users.
• Key Contributions:
• Contributed to the vision and development of smart electric mobility solutions
• Worked on product innovation focused on sustainable and environmentally friendly transportation
• Explored technology integration for efficient, user-friendly, and scalable E-Bike platforms
• Promoted urban mobility solutions balancing convenience, affordability, and fitness-oriented commuting
• Participated in product strategy, technology evaluation, and innovation planning for next-generation transportation systems

Dec 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune

• As Co-Founder & Director of Technology at Paptronics Pvt. Ltd., led the vision and development of an intelligent digital education platform focused on transforming content publishing and operational processes for educational institutions in India’s emerging digital publishing ecosystem.
• The platform aimed to streamline academic workflows, improve digital book accessibility, reduce delays in content availability, automate planning activities, and minimize manual communication overhead through technology-driven solutions.
• Key Contributions:
• Defined product vision, technology strategy, and platform architecture for the digital education ecosystem
• Led development of intelligent publishing and education workflow automation solutions
• Focused on digital transformation for educational institutions through e-books, online content delivery, and process automation
• Built scalable technology solutions to optimize content management, scheduling, and communication workflows
• Worked on integrating modern technologies to support future-ready digital learning and publishing platforms
• Managed engineering execution, product planning, and startup operations as part of the founding leadership team

Jul 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 11 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• As Co-Founder & CEO of Kangiten Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (KTPL), leading innovation-driven product engineering initiatives focused on IoT, AI-powered platforms, enterprise software solutions, and next-generation digital transformation technologies for SMEs and startups.
• KTPL specializes in transforming ideas, business requirements, and product visions into scalable, production-ready solutions that help customers focus on their core business growth while accelerating technology adoption and innovation.
• With extensive experience in software product development, the organization emphasizes intelligent system design where IoT is not limited to sensor connectivity and cloud data collection, but driven by distributed intelligence, edge processing, and actionable insights at every layer of the ecosystem.
• Key Contributions:
• Driving company vision, technology strategy, and product innovation initiatives
• Leading development of IoT, AI, automation, and enterprise software products
• Helping startups and SMEs build scalable, secure, and market-ready technology platforms
• Promoting intelligent IoT architectures with edge-level processing and optimized cloud integration
• Building high-performance engineering teams and customer-centric product delivery models
• Providing strategic guidance from product conceptualization to deployment and long-term evolution
• KTPL’s core strength lies in innovative product development, scalable architecture design, and enabling businesses to convert ideas into impactful technology solutions.

Jul 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• BookMyLED has been an exciting entrepreneurial and product engineering journey, successfully achieving its first major rollout within 1.5 years across one of Pune’s prestigious townships with deployment on 80 digital screens and minimal infrastructure investment.
• As a co-founded initiative driven by four partners, the platform was designed as a feature-rich digital signage and media management solution for media owners and advertisers. The product focused on delivering secure, scalable, and intelligent content management capabilities for digital advertising networks.
• Key Contributions:
• Contributed to product strategy, architecture, and large-scale rollout execution for the BookMyLED platform
• Built a secure Linux-based digital signage ecosystem with centralized content management capabilities
• Designed multi-level content validation and approval workflows to ensure only authorized and approved media content was published
• Developed advanced features for advertisers and media owners including campaign management, scheduling, and remote content operations
• Successfully delivered a scalable and production-ready platform optimized for low infrastructure investment and operational efficiency
• The journey provided valuable experience in product innovation, startup execution, deployment scalability, and building real-world digital media platforms.

Sep 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• As CTO, led the end-to-end development of PestWatcher, an intelligent IoT-based pest monitoring and prevention platform designed for real-time pest detection, environmental monitoring, and preventive facility management.
• Directed the complete product lifecycle from concept to market-ready solution within 2.5 years, driving innovation across Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, PCB Design, RF/LoRa Communication, Hardware Manufacturing, Enclosure Design, and CE Certification.
• Key Contributions:
• Defined the overall technology vision, product architecture, and engineering roadmap for the PestWatcher platform
• Led cross-functional teams across software, embedded, hardware, and manufacturing domains
• Spearheaded migration from traditional RF communication to LoRa technology for improved scalability and reliability
• Contributed to sensor integration, IoT platform development, and real-time monitoring systems
• Worked closely on rodent behavior analysis and preventive pest management strategies
• Successfully transformed the concept into a commercially deployable IoT product and established the PestWatcher brand in the smart pest control domain

Jul 2010 – Jun 2017 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• As CTO at YOB (Orange Venture United Pvt. Ltd.), led the architecture, development, and successful delivery of enterprise platforms including Kantoorportaal, Docuvaris, SBR Gateway, and ScanBoeken for European markets.
• Under my leadership, these products evolved from conceptual ideas into scalable production-ready solutions serving accounting, document management, compliance, and business automation needs.
• Key Contributions:
• Defined technology vision, product architecture, and engineering strategy for multiple enterprise platforms
• Led cross-functional software engineering teams across product development and deployment lifecycles
• Worked closely with European customers on product planning, requirement analysis, and solution delivery
• Drove innovation in enterprise accounting, document processing, workflow automation, and authentication systems
• Built strong engineering culture through mentoring, team building, and technical leadership
• Successfully managed customer engagement, project execution, and long-term product evolution
• The 7-year journey at YOB significantly strengthened leadership, entrepreneurship, people management, and the ability to deliver business-focused technology solutions at scale.

Oct 2009 – Jul 2010 · 9 mos

• Short tenure at eZest helped as a launching pad for YOB /OVU / PestWatcher.

Jun 2008 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr · NY , USA

• Fund Management Ratings [FMR ]
• The FMR Website is a content distribution portal for FMR research to regional clients in Europe and Australia. FMR users include financial advisors; research associates and fund managers who use ratings and commentary to inform investment advice and/or investment position decisions.
• Developed reusable JavaScript front-end component using Object-oriented JavaScript framework – ExtJS and CSS Cascading Style Sheets. Involved in the integration of this application with an online trading system as this is a part of a whole trading system that provides all the securities-related data from Europe and Australia
• Environment: Spring 2.0.8 , Hibernate 3.1, Core Java,Log4J, ExtJS, AJAX, Eclipse 6.0.1, Apache Tomcat 5.5, Oracle 9i, BEA Weblogic 9.2.2, PL/SQL, XML, CSS, Quartz (J2EE Scheduler), CVS, HP Servers.

Feb 2007 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos · 330 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor ,New York, NY 10017 · On-site

• ALTA was a US convertible bonds trading platform designed to support end-to-end client, sales, and trading workflows for major financial institutions including Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Wachovia, and Credit Research Trading. The platform integrated trading, market monitoring, order management, RFQ handling, and real-time client interaction capabilities within dealer internal systems.
• The application supported traders, sales teams, and participants with functionalities such as order entry, trade execution, market making, trade monitoring, and real-time market visibility for convertible securities.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Implemented the Liquidity Locator Monitor to display real-time bidder/seller information, live pricing, and security-related trading insights
• Developed multithreaded Java components for fetching and updating live market data every 5 seconds
• Implemented dynamic data sorting and monitoring based on stock price, delta, and client information
• Contributed to customization and configuration of the platform for multiple enterprise financial clients
• Worked with distributed enterprise technologies including CORBA, XML/JAXB, Oracle, and Sybase databases
• Environment: JDK 1.5, Core Java, CORBA, Servlets API, XML/JAXB, ANT, IntelliJ IDEA, UNIX, Oracle 8i, Sybase

Oct 2006 – Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 2 mos · NY, USA

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo · NJ ,USA

• The Celgene Order Management System (COMS) consisted of multiple integrated subsystems including Risk Management (RM), Order Processing (OP), Celgene Report Server (CRS), and Interactive Voice Response (IVR). The Risk Management module handled patient, prescriber, and pharmacy registration, validation, and compliance tracking.
• The project focused on isolating complex business logic from tightly coupled application layers by implementing a flexible XML-based Business Rule Engine (BRE), reducing change impact and improving maintainability.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Designed and implemented Business Rule Engine (BRE) 1.0 for managing configurable business rules
• Developed a generalized object caching framework using the LFU (Least Frequently Used) algorithm for performance optimization
• Prepared Architecture & Design (A&D) specifications for the BRE and Rule Cache framework
• Implemented multithreaded caching solutions using Java Collections, Threading, and Reflection APIs
• Evaluated open-source and enterprise rule engine products including Haley, RuleBurst, QuickRules, Versata, Jess, ILOG BRM, JBoss Rules, and JLisa
• Environment: Java 1.4, Rational Rose XDE, Ant, log4j, SUN JAXB/XML, Windows NT/2000

Dec 2005 – Sep 2006 · 9 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• SAS Marketing Automation is a 3-tier CRM and campaign management platform designed to help organizations manage sophisticated, personalized, and data-driven marketing campaigns. The platform integrated customer analytics, campaign management, and data management capabilities to support business-rule-driven marketing automation and customer engagement strategies.
• The project involved improving the testing approach for complex marketing automation workflows and business decision diagrams within a large enterprise codebase. Traditional hardcoded JUnit testing for all business flow combinations was difficult to maintain and scale.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Designed and developed a flexible test automation framework for validating complex campaign workflows and business rule execution
• Simplified test case implementation for marketing automation decision flows and campaign management modules
• Contributed to quality assurance and automation strategy for large-scale CRM and campaign management systems
• Improved maintainability and scalability of automated testing for business process validation

Jun 2003 – Nov 2005 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• TELLnGO 1-2-1 Permission Marketing System (PMS) was an advanced online advertising and interactive marketing platform enabling enterprises to deliver personalized advertisements, alerts, reminders, and customer engagement campaigns through multiple communication channels including Instant Messenger, Email, SMS, and Online Notifications using AOL services.
• The platform supported customized campaign management, interactive web-chat based customer care, and rule-based event triggering using an integrated Rule Engine. The system powered targeted online advertising campaigns for some of the world’s largest brands, including Procter & Gamble (P&G), through AOL Alerts Shopping services.
• TELLnGO Web Services (TWS) extended the platform with enterprise-grade web services for campaign management, user profile management, opt-in/opt-out handling, security token generation, and personalized campaign delivery. The platform enabled enterprises to manage active campaigns, update delivery settings, and send personalized or broadcast campaign notifications to registered users.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Prepared Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), High-Level Design (HLD), and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents for PMS and TWS projects
• Performed project estimation, planning, and configuration management activities
• Interacted with customers to analyze business requirements and convert them into technical solutions
• Coordinated with AOL technical teams to resolve integration and platform-related challenges
• Contributed to campaign management workflows, web services architecture, and enterprise messaging integration

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr · Feltham , UK

• Worked on the Horizon NG modernization initiative for the UK Post Office System at Fujitsu, focused on simplifying legacy application architecture and improving scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency using industry-standard technologies.
• Contributed to feasibility studies, UML-based system design, and RUP-based prototyping for the next-generation platform. Participated in evaluation of third-party tools such as Rational PurifyPlus and CruiseControl for continuous integration and quality assurance. Also contributed to defining development strategies, project guidelines, artifacts, and stakeholder responsibilities for large-scale enterprise delivery.

Jun 2001 – May 2003 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Worked on the Application Service Provisioning System focused on enterprise application provisioning, access control, and lifecycle management. Contributed to the development of an Object Transfer API using SOAP and XmlBlaster middleware for secure distributed communication and enterprise integration.
• Enhanced HP OpenView by integrating support for new hardware devices, custom alarms/events, and database connectivity. Responsibilities included requirement analysis, UML design, SRS preparation, competitor product evaluation, and defining IPMI-based resource management interfaces for monitoring system performance and infrastructure management.

Jul 2000 – May 2001 · 10 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

• ToolSyndicate Inc. was developing an innovative electronic communication platform for delivering interactive applications through email-based technologies. The platform enabled businesses to customize and extend existing applications for real-time communication and collaboration with customers, suppliers, and business partners.
• Contributed to the design and development of scalable enterprise communication solutions, focusing on interactive email-based application delivery, real-time data exchange, and integration-driven business workflows.

Aug 1998 – Jun 2000 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• The Global Entertainment Technology (G-E-T) was an online B2B marketplace platform enabling entertainment industry professionals to buy and sell products and services. Contributed to the design and development of a complete SMTP module using Java Mail API, along with file upload and download utilities implemented using Java Streams. Also utilized Servlet Chaining and Session Tracking mechanisms for efficient data processing and user interaction management.