May 2015 – Jun 2020 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led two distinct charters within Outbound Marketing. Customer predictions, responsible for predicting customers' next likely actions and communication customer experience, responsible for utilizing these predictions to generate automated marketing push notifications. Have set the vision for both teams, grown them from scratch and delivered on multiple initiatives, generating multi-million dollars in revenue for the company.

Apr 2011 – May 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• • Architected and scaled Genome Trax - the NGS genomic data analysis application from BIOBASE to handle more than 300 million records.
• • Introduced several new technologies to the team such as MVC frameworks to streamline development and NoSQL databases MongoDB, Redis to improve performance.
• • Designed and implemented a RESTful API to provide programmatic access to Genome Trax.
• • Used Docker to standardize and streamline deployment.
• Focused on introducing Open Source technologies into the organization. Got buy-in from top management and implemented free and open source editions of:
• a) Mail server (postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, ClamAV)
• b) Firewall / UTM / Router (pfSense)
• c) File server (Openfiler)
• d) Server monitoring application (nagios)
• e) Backup server (rsnapshot)
• f) Virtualization platform (KVM)

Apr 2010 – Mar 2011 · 11 mos

• • Designed and developed BIOBASE Knowledge Library API, a RESTful web services API that provides programmatic access to the BIOBASE Knowledge Library.
• • Implemented test driven development – with a custom developed XML based test suite.
• • Designed and implemented a custom MVC framework.
• • Managed a team of 10 including 6 biologists and 4 developers for a services project which involved data munging from numerous public and in-house sources and delivery in a relational database.
• • Acted as functional architect for the customer drawing the roadmap from scope to implementation.
• • Single point of contact for the customer and managed interactions with them.

Jun 2007 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• • Involved in the development of the BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL), a web based product that acts as a user interface for BIOBASE databases.
• • Managed a team of 6 members to implement various enhancements to the product.
• • Optimized performance of the product by introducing technologies such as compression and caching.
• • Involved in the development of Pathfinder, a graphical viewer for BIOBASE pathway data.

Nov 2005 – Apr 2006 · 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Worked in the Biosciences lab and developed:
• R annotation packages for GE's CodeLink Microarrays
• A PubMed search engine which extracts named entities from the search terms and expands them to include synonyms
• An application that computes the shortest path between proteins/genes in a pathway map

Oct 2003 – Nov 2004 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Chennai Area · On-site

• Handled import settlements
• Implemented various IT tools to improve and standardize processes