Aug 2025 – Sep 2025 · 1 mo

Apr 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Aug 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Koo is a Social News update and Opinion sharing micro-blogging platform that’s made in India. Discussions are around the latest news, personal news updates, and most interesting daily topics. It empowers people to express their thoughts in Indian languages with a strong-knit local Indian community.
• Led a team of 3 SDE1s owning two Tier-1 services (File Upload + Analytics); set roadmap, code reviews, on-call, and SLAs.
• Built a TUS-based resumable media upload service in Elixir; scaled to ~750 images/sec and ~50–100 videos/sec with back-pressure, chunk dedupe, and S3 multipart; added alerts/metrics for throughput, error budgets, and p95 latencies.
• Shipped an Elixir Analytics microservice ingesting events for videos/player embeds/ads/errors; scaled reliably to ~250k RPM with idempotent writes, batched flush, and replay-safe ingestion.
• Deployed a 4-node ClickHouse cluster (~50M writes/day) serving real-time analytics at ~200 RPS; tuned partitions/ordering keys, TTLs, and materialized views for sub-second reads and predictable storage.
• Designed event-driven pipelines integrating ML models with backend APIs and in-house data frameworks (async inference queues, feature hydration, result caching, and fallbacks).
• Authored multiple Apache Flink jobs to process Kafka topics from microservices (exactly-once semantics where required, watermarking, windowed aggregations, DLQ + replay tooling).
• Led a content-moderation initiative to detect and block harmful content (fake news/hate speech/etc.); defined policies, added model inference hooks, and implemented audit + appeal workflows.

Mar 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Singapore · Hybrid

• Konigle provides simple business software that helps you run Order Management, Inventory Control & and Customer Insights Software to help improve your profits with every order.
• My responsibility is to handle the backend development including data management and engineering, APIs, Async jobs, and DevOps.
• Created profitJS, A JavaScript-based container that executes in browsers to enable multiple widgets (chat buttons, exit-intent popup, social proof, announcement bar, discount popup) to provide a better user experience for e-commerce site visitors. Used Vanilla JS, CSS, and HTML to build the widgets
• Added multiple Django apps to provide APIs, Asynchronous jobs using Celery/RabbitMQ, to integrate third-party APIs (Shopify, dynamics365, MWS), designed relational database models in PostgreSQL
• Migrated services to GCP from AWS and set up the Kubernetes cluster. Created bash script for autoscaling the cluster. Handled full DevOps
• Set up Airflow with scrapy infra to scrape the websites on a regular interval
• Set up Elasticsearch cluster

Jun 2019 – Feb 2020 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Instart specializes primarily in developing and marketing a Digital Experience Cloud that improves web and mobile application performance, consumer experience, and security. Instart was acquired by Akamai in Feb 2020.
• Worked on the enhancement of NGINX plugins (in C++) which helps in web performance by optimizing HTML/CSS/JS contents
• Set up Web Platform Tests (WPTs) infrastructure to strengthen Instart’s Javascript plugin which runs in the browser. Deployed the test runner in docker containers with Jenkins CI/CD
• Updated features in the configuration management service called cenome.

Feb 2019 – May 2019 · 3 mos · Jakarta and Pune · Hybrid

• Started a new venture in Indonesia, developed a CDP, and successfully ran a PoC with a client. Estimated costs, set up pricing, and managed all technical aspects including backend, data pipeline, and frontend development.

Jun 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• Innoplexus is a consulting-led technology and product development company focused on big data and analytics. I was part of 6 projects from scratch. Majorly involved in designing and building the APIs on top of Elasticsearch data.
• Build a comprehensive and scalable Data and Analytics as a Service for Life Sciences
• RESTful API development with hybrid microservices Architecture using Node.js (Routing Layer), gRPC/thrift (communication Layer), Python/Node.js/Java (Service Layer), and Elasticsearch /ArangoDB /MongoDB /MySQL (DB Layer)
• Implement Search-As-You-Type functionality using Elasticsearch completion suggester. It suggests the name of the entity on the basis of the name and properties of the entity
• Build DApps and write smart contracts on EOS and Ethereum blockchains using C++ and Solidity
• Setup the end-to-end automation pipeline for crawling, aggregating, and modeling the data and indexing it in Elasticsearch
• Worked in an Agile environment with proper use of JIRA and sprint plans. Followed TDD, MR, and code review process. Mentored junior developers.

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Pune