Jun 2025 – Oct 2025 · 4 mos

• Web-based Parquet editor and viewer that empowers users to seamlessly edit, view, and create Apache Parquet files entirely within their browser. Key features include:
• 100% Client-Side Processing: Files are never uploaded to a server, ensuring maximum data privacy and security.
• Intuitive Interface: Allows users to easily modify schemas, add/delete rows, and manage data.
• Rapid Adoption: Attracted over 40 unique users per day in the first month post-launch, confirming a significant need for offline-capable Parquet manipulation.

Dec 2023 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

• 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 & 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽
• Stepped up as de facto Engineering Manager for a team of 6 in the absence of an official manager —
• owned sprint planning, delivery accountability, technical direction, and day-to-day unblocking.
• Drove roadmap alignment with product stakeholders, sequencing analytics platform delivery alongside CRM
• and enrollment features.
• 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
• Saved ~6 months effort of frontend engineering by embedding Superset dashboards directly into the
• student performance reporting system, enabling support for ~200K concurrent users at peak across India.
• Built a Data Lakehouse (S3, Iceberg, Spark, Trino), migrating 300+ tables from Redshift including
• MongoDB, MySQL, and DynamoDB event streams to Iceberg format.
• Led cost optimisation initiative — migrated managed DB services to EC2, achieving ~60% cost reduction
• with zero downtime.
• Built near real-time CRM workflow for lead generation to support student enrollment pipelines.

Jan 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 & 𝗢𝗿𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽
• Led and grew an engineering org of 12+ engineers across Core Platform, Data Platform, and DevOps
• responsible for hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Elevated team seniority by promoting to Tech Leads and mentoring multiple senior engineers, resulting in
• improved delivery reliability and team retention.
• Partnered directly with product and business teams to define roadmap and deliver platform capabilities
• aligned with business goals including Payments, Communication, and Loyalty Management System.
• Collaborated with external security teams to strengthen system security and compliance posture across
• the platform.
• 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
• Architected and delivered a data platform with 1800+ data points enabling marketing, campaign, and
• customer insight use cases.
• Built a large-scale remote sensing platform for Crop Residue Burn detection across 𝟰𝟯𝟵,𝟬𝟴𝟳 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘀 by
• collaborating with 3 application teams.
• Designed Multi-Cloud Architecture with switchover ETA under 30 minutes, keeping cost as the primary
• design constraint.
• Optimised 𝗼𝗿𝗴-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝟯𝟬% without impacting reliability or service levels.
• Implemented Data Quality & Observability platforms ensuring accuracy and reliability across all data
• pipelines.

Jan 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• − Played dual role of Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer (designated Principal Engineer). Managed and mentored team of 12+ direct reportees with appraisal management across Core Platform, Data Platform and Devops − Groomed Software Engineer for his next steps of Tech Lead − Provided leadership and oversight throughout the design to build Core Platform Services like Payment Service, Communication Engine, Loyalty Management System − Built platform for Remote Sensing to enable use cases like Crop Residue Burn detection for 439,087 Acres of farm capturing Satellite Imagery collaborating with 3 additional application teams − Built Data Platform from ground-up with 1800+ data points using Hudi as Data Lake format. Integrated external call centre data from Genesys which provides Marketing, Campaigns, Customer Support and other Business Insights

Aug 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed Operational Data Store for ingestion and serving data of different kind of warehouses across the supply chain products
• Built a modular reporting layer from scratch to be used by clients to pull data from multiple sources and combine into a single report

Aug 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• − Led a team of 6 building a Data Store for more than 54 global distribution centers with latency of 3 sec end-to-end fitting global data into custom data model using Apache Storm − Transformed pipelines into a No-Code self serve architecture with flows defined through XML − Built disaster recovery system involving Apache Kafka, Cassandra and Apache Storm − Single handedly built reporting layer for extraction, transformation and sharing data from Data Store and Source Systems. Designed it to be modular, self-serve Java Spring Boot application − Led the implementation of monitoring and logging using Splunk, Grafana

May 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Responsible for Signals Team
• Developed real time surge pricing algorithms for India as well as International cities based on the pings from driver and customer apps
• Developed real time auto logoff of delivery partner based on the location pings and current action which reduced losses of ~4crore per week for Foodpanda (acquired by Ola)
• Developed Flink Streaming jobs which predicts Demand & Supply using LSTM Model which is further used to distribute the supply across categories to optimise the profit, based on historical conversion rate using Adam Optimiser
• Improved the MLeap & Tensorflow Model Serving Platform to become config based model deployment reducing developer's effort from 4 days to 4 hours
• Mentored freshers from IIT's and brought them to pace for ongoing projects
• Drove re-design for, high throughput (600k rpm), app launch service

May 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• − Developed MLeap & Tensorflow Model as a Service Platform. Further improved it to become config-based model deployment reducing developer's effort from 3 days to 4 hours. − Developed Peak Pricing System for India as well as International cities based on real time streaming data of demand and supply on Apache Flink − Developed Near-Real Time System on Apache Flink which predicts the Demand & Supply using LSTM Models which is further used to distribute the Supply across categories to optimize profit based on historical conversion rate using Adam Optimizer − Developed system for real time streaming application to auto logoff of delivery partner which reduced losses of ~.5 Million USD per week for FoodPanda (acquired by Ola)

Aug 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Worked in multiple global projects within Risk IT throughout the complete SDLC. Hands on experience gathering requirements from the business, writing functional documents, development, testing and implementation. Technologies included Java, DB2, Slang, Procmon, SecDB, Perl, HTML, JavaScript, C++, Unix Shell Scripting, and Autosys
• Developed a module for Risk Managers which cut down the usage of 5 applications for one piece of information to 1 application. This application gave more isights on the trades.
• Resolved numerous technical and user support issues often under time pressure
• Worked on integrating Testing Frameworks with the Product so that other team members can leverage for writing automated unit and functional tests
• Reduced support hours from 200 hours to 80 hours by automating the manual tasks being performed by the support team

Aug 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

• − Developed pipelines to reduce production support from 200 hours to 80 for Mission Control Team − Built Data Visualization and Insight System on real time trades across the clients eliminating need of multiple systems. − Worked in multiple global projects within Risk IT throughout the complete SDLC. Hands on experience gathering requirements from the business, writing functional documents, development, testing and implementation

May 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• − Did a POC for Mobile UI in ExtJS for implementing goods management for stores right from receiving it to putting it on shelf. The success of the UAT by client pushed it to 200 stores immediately. − Customized the Packing part for warehouse management system. − Assisted the onsite consultant team in stakeholder management. − Documentation of the technical design for each of the development done for a smooth transition to CTSO department after Go-Live of the developments.

Mar 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Worked for different Global Clients like eBay, Pepsi, Adidas etc.
• Developed a module using Ext JS and Java backend for store management. This POC was really appreciated by client and was immediately implemented in 1200 stores.
• Gathering Business requirement and Development of various modules in Labor Management and Warehouse Management.
• Assisted Consultants in understanding and envision the modules/modifications being demanded by clients.
• Documentation of the flow, configuration and use cases.