Jan 2025 – Aug 2025 · 7 mos · Remote

• Led the key initiatives within Order Fulfillment team for integrating high-scale merchants like Amazon and Agoda as dedicated affiliate networks.

Nov 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Mentored engineers transitioning into backend roles, focusing on application fundamentals, databases, low-level design, and interview preparation. Conducted structured doubt solving sessions covering real-world backend scenarios and best practices, improving mentees’ problem-solving and system design confidence.

Oct 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Architected and implemented the lending on-boarding system that successfully decoupled loan products from Savings Accounts, enabling integration with multiple lending partners and resolving key supply-side challenges.
• Co-led a cross-functional team of engineers to deliver end-to-end requirements within proposed timelines while maintaining high code quality through systematic code reviews, comprehensive unit testing, and proactive mentoring.
• Scaled and optimized system infrastructure to support growing user volume as business risk, fraud, and underwriting policies evolved, ensuring seamless customer experience during expansion phases.
• Enhanced system reliability through state machine optimizations, database performance tuning, retry queues, resilient circuit breaker patterns, REST client optimizations and comprehensive monitoring and alerting infrastructure.
• Built voucher inventory management for storing and dispersing rewards to the users, used by both cards and payments stack. Supporting 500K+ daily events.
• Actively participated in hiring for senior backend engineering roles.

Nov 2020 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Led the pre-checkout engineering pod to continuously improve the product listing and discovery experience alongside seamless integration of video content vertical.
• Built auxiliary services for transactional messages and handle two way streaming data between content & commerce universes. Handling upto two million requests everyday.
• Implemented and improved caching layer across different services that helped in reducing latency by upto 3 times in some cases where round trip times were high.
• Setting up reporting and error logging layers across the services for continuous monitoring and alerts. Built load testing suite which enables team to test critical flows and APIs.

Jun 2020 – Oct 2020 · 4 mos

• Led the CX-Ops engineering pod involving efficient tooling for operations and logistics.
• Designed and built internal tools for CX team that significantly improved their productivity and reduced the turnaround time for simple queries by over two times.
• Supervised the migration of some key data engineering services from AWS to Azure that
• brought down the cost by around 20% across the ETL pipelines.
• Proactively involved in taking cost optimizing measures around tools and infrastructure.

Apr 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Built micro-services for logistics, internal tooling and customer facing applications.
• Driven the automation of customer queries through chat bot and IVR that reduced majority of the manual workload and reduced the inbound calls and emails by over 30%.
• Analyzing and continuously tuning the performance of different services and platforms.

Nov 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Designed and built some internal modules, engineering utilities and worked on external integrations.
• From understanding the requirements to realizing the features and everything in between.
• Providing support across various teams, coordinating and fixing technical issues on priority.
• Mentoring and helping the budding engineers in the team to get them to the speed.

Jan 2017 – Oct 2017 · 9 mos

• Led the development for mobile web app and their NodeJS backend. Implemented features like product search, price comparison engine driven by in house price scrapers and a comprehensive product rating system.
• Technologies used: NodeJS, Express, AngularJS, React, Redux, MySQL, Elasticsearch, AWS Lambda, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, SES, CloudWatch, Cloudflare and Scrapy.

Sep 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Built client facing websites throughout the pivots that happened in the early days as a startup (Mesh, Buddy, SlicePay). Owned multiple client side front-end modules and took care of static client hosting infrastructure. Wrote several server side scripts for data migration and analytics.

Aug 2015 – Aug 2015 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Was part of a training program focusing on technology for the banking domain.

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos

• Part of GSoC'15, developed a procedural terrain generation engine for PySoy, an open source cloud gaming engine.
• Implemented a pseudo random height-map generator using Simplex Noise. Added Tri-Planar texture mapping with improved blending techniques to avoid stretching and overlapping. Added custom shaders to override the default planar mapping technique.
• Also worked on LOD using quadtrees to improve the rendering performance of large terrains.
• Written C bindings to bridge the libraries written in Genie with the Python APIs.

May 2014 – Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

• Developed a Virtual Scene Simulation Software using Unity3D which simulated a drill done during a hazardous attack to quarantine the hazard zone.