Nov 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · India

• Led 10 people across Tech, Partnerships, Sales, and Marketing to build data refining infrastructure for Machine Learning teams.
• Bootstrapped from 0 → 1 and scaled it to 1000+ active beta seats across 20 countries, delivering an automated end-to-end dataset pipeline (acquisition, ingestion, cleaning, and labeling) for computer vision teams across industry and academia.
• Ran end-to-end operations – hiring, people management, OKRs, operating cadence, budgeting, and investor materials.
• PMF validation – reduced training pipeline prep time by 80% in GTM (6-month procurement cycles → weeks) by encapsulating data schema in APIs and using generative AI based continuous validation to ensure quality and efficiency. Self-funded 3 high-fidelity pilots (agritech and self-driving verticals) to prioritize rapid validation over immediate monetization.
• Directed wind-down after a critical data partner acquisition – replacement deal latency was incompatible with sales timelines.

Nov 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Executed platform expansion beyond Selenium; launched Playwright and Cypress support, unlocking $50M+ in new ARR.
• Increased NPS by 20 (4 → 24) for Automate via improvements in performance, CX, feature gaps, and cross-functional SLAs.
• Improved NightwatchJS user acquisition rate by 30% and long-term adoption by 20% with a simplified onboarding flow.
• Defined the “shift-left” strategy for automated browser testing, created blueprint for new AI-enabled testing products.

Feb 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Owner for Detail Page’s “Website Platform and Performance” group, responsible for product and technical strategy.
• Reduced “page ready” render times by 30% (2.5s → 1.8s) using a combination of technical improvements, internal performance budgets, and restructuring of the Detail page. This increased sales by 5% by reducing abandonment.
• Led product strategy for ‘the next billion’ users; optimized performance for low-end devices and poor connectivity in emerging markets. Collaborated with browser developers like Chrome and Firefox to implement a low-data mode in the site.
• Established new company-wide KPIs to reduce failed user interactions – unlocking $100M+ in annual missed revenue.

Mar 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Designated “scale expert”, led worldwide operations among 200+ teams for Prime Day, Black Friday, and Christmas sales.
• Optimized page layout strategies – with rendering time reductions of 10%, and customer bandwidth savings of 15%.
• Extended caching architecture to improve page load times by 28%, enabling annual savings of $500K in computing costs.

Jan 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Early engineering hire; built a 10-person team, oversaw hardware and software development, delivered tech and business goals
• Prepared user insights and projections for investor presentations, critical in successfully closing Series-A funding.
• Product owner and scrum master. Led creation of the advertising platform that enabled first revenues.
• Built systems and designed processes to allow automation of inventory management and annual savings of $100K.

Jun 2014 – Dec 2014 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Software Engineer; owned payment and advertising infrastructure; intern mentorship and general advice
• Developed payment and subscription architecture for ‘Zomato Salt’, the product increased revenue by 10% at launch.
• Built a performant back-end for the native advertising platform, enabling 10X data collection without impacting latency.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 · 0 mo · Remote

• Teamed up with Mozilla Corporation for working on Firefox for the duration of the project.
• Developed an extension to measure and visualize the browser’s resource consumption statistics, interacting with low level APIs to extract the data using Firefox Add-on SDK
• Published the extension to Firefox Add-on store, with 500+ downloads and 14% Daily Active Users

Nov 2012 – Jan 2013 · 2 mos · Bangalore, India

• Created the foundation for a data collection and analysis framework for the company's internal metrics.

Aug 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr

• Contributed with a few of articles every month. Wrote a tutorial booklet about contributing to open source development, using my experience with Firefox as an example.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2012 · 1 mo

• Partnered the editorial team in their day-to-day working for the month, including work on both the magazine and the web portal.