Apr 2022 – Aug 2022 · 4 mos · Remote

• As the Director of Engineering at PLG, I provided leadership and oversight for day-to-day development operations, driving the successful execution of projects and initiatives.
• With a focus on delivering high-quality software solutions, worked with talented team of engineers to achieve business objectives and ensure optimal performance and efficiency.

Feb 2020 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• As the Director of Engineering and Data Scientist, lead the data & analytics team at Moxie, I played a pivotal role in driving data-driven decision-making and enabling the company to extract actionable insights from complex datasets. With a focus on leveraging advanced analytics techniques, I led a high-performing team of analytics professionals to deliver impactful solutions and drive strategic business outcomes.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Spearheaded the analytics team, providing strategic direction and overseeing day-to-day operations to ensure the successful execution of projects and initiatives.
• Led the development and implementation of innovative analytics strategies, tools, and processes to optimize data collection, analysis, and reporting efforts.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, marketing, and operations, to identify business requirements, formulate data-driven hypotheses, and develop actionable insights.
• Oversaw the design, development, and maintenance of robust data infrastructure, data pipelines, and data models to support accurate and timely reporting and analysis.
• Leveraged advanced analytics techniques, including statistical analysis, machine learning, and predictive modeling, to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities that drove business growth and improved operational efficiency.
• Provided leadership and mentorship to the analytics team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration.

May 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area · On-site

• At OpenST, a pioneer in layer 2 Ethereum scaling solutions, I played a pivotal role in developing and advancing cutting-edge technologies for scalable blockchain token economies. OpenST is at the forefront of revolutionizing Ethereum scalability, and our code can be found at https://github.com/openst.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Led the engineering efforts at OpenST, writing smart contracts, subgraphs and enhancement of layer 2 scaling solutions for Ethereum.
• Collaborated closely with a talented team to implement the OpenST Protocol, which enables the creation of scalable blockchain token economies through transposing tokens via gateways between Ethereum and layer 2 utility blockchains.
• Contributed to the design and development of components within the OpenST Protocol that empower economy administrators to create customized token economies aligned with their community and business goals.
• Played a crucial role in the development and implementation of OpenST Mosaic, a layer 2 protocol designed to scale decentralized applications (DApps) on Ethereum by utilizing meta-blockchains running on Ethereum, enabling thousands of transactions per second.

Feb 2016 – Feb 2020 · 4 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area · On-site

• At Pepo Campaigns, I held the position of Lead Engineer, contributing to the development and success of the first full-featured email marketing SaaS platform built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This pioneering SaaS platform empowered organizations of all sizes to leverage the capabilities of AWS seamlessly, eliminating the need for writing code.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Led a team of engineers in the design, development, and maintenance of the Pepo Campaigns email marketing SaaS platform, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborated closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications and deliverables.
• Architected and implemented robust, cloud-native solutions on AWS, leveraging various AWS services, such as Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda, to provide a comprehensive email marketing experience as a SaaS solution.
• Oversaw the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance of the SaaS platform.
• Implemented best practices in software engineering, including code reviews, automated testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, to ensure high-quality and efficient development processes for the SaaS offering.
• Mentored and provided technical guidance to team members, fostering their professional growth and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software as part of the SaaS platform.

Sep 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Lead efforts in Building inhouse email platform on top of Amazon Web Services. Also worked as a team member for Consumer-Web & Content Management System(CMS). My roles include hiring, collaborate with product management to evolve product requirements, validating and translating them into milestones and deliverables and enforcing best practices of rapid development, architecture, design and coding.
• ➢ Leading efforts in-house Email Platform: Built in-house email platform which cut our emailer costs by 20 times. My role include working with management team in hiring, Architectire design, development, scaling, performance optimization, code reviews.
• ➢ Consumer Projects: Worked as lead developer in building browse pages, product pages, fragment caching, query optimizations.
• ➢ Complete end to end system design, development, deployment of Admin, CMS projects.
• ➢ Requirement analysis, Code reviews, code optimization of team members to delivery quality product.
• Ruby on Rails, Mysql, Nosql, Amazon Web Services, CMS, Ecommerce, Memcache, Github

Nov 2011 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Worked as lead developer for multiple CMS projects. My roles included following complete SDLC cycle in agile development environment with a fast growing startup.
• Fab Projects
• ➢ Launch of European Store: Fab purchased German flash sales website Casacanda. We worked on migrating technology to Fab's social commerce platform in Ruby on Rails. It required data migration and multi-language and multiple currency support. This step enabled Fab to target more than 25 countries.
• ➢ CMS Tools for managing sales, products, mailers and workload of merchandising team: Worked as lead develoepr for CMS tools used by merchandising team to create and maintain sales and products. We also created tools to manage emails that are sent to targeted customers.
• ➢ Automation of Sales Building: Automated building invisible sales, inventory movement which saved lot of time and money for merchandising team.
• Ruby on Rails, Mysql, Amazon Web Services, CMS, Ecommerce, Memcache, Github, Website Scaling, Performance Improvement

Jul 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Hireplug.com is a social recruiting platform which helps recruiters recruit from employee social networks.
• Responsibilities:
• ➢ Complete End to end Development, deployment, maintenance of vertical search engines like openingSearch, Talent net search, employeeSearch, people search using solr.
• ➢ Development, deployment, maintenance, performance improvement, scaling of facebook application.
• ➢ Indexing, searching, faceting of jobs.
• ➢ Website scaling, caching, performance improvement of complete website.
• Ruby on Rails, Solr, Facebook Application, Database Design, Website Scaling