May 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• On a mission to create India's largest engagement platform!

Nov 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr

• Built & Enabling the best Tech team while instilling the values of the company in the DNA of the team
• Scaling the platform to provide the best content globally to billions of users
• Driving the R&D division to disrupt the way content is consumed
• Platform that delivered Disney+ in EMEA/SEA/SAARC

Jul 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Scaled the platform to service the next 200+ Million users
• Saw through the Disney acquisition & doubling the efforts to reach global with Disney+ hotstar
• Unlocked digital scale and maximum monetization of our properties.

Apr 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• * Built the platform that broke the concurrency world record for a live stream - 25.3 M concurrent streams

Aug 2016 – Apr 2017 · 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Stabilized the commerce stack and streamlined the tech org
• Unlocked several revenue opportunities by plugging leakages and pricing models

Dec 2015 – Jun 2016 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Responsible for technology direction / culture / delivery
• Led rock-star technology team working on diverse tech stack
• Fostered a no-bullshit / no-drama culture built on a foundation of truth
• Oversaw the acquisition of the company

Apr 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Youpid.in was a matrimonial product that leveraged your social network to help find you a match for marriage. Think of it as a trusted LinkedIn type network that had your family in it, that could be leveraged to connect to singles who were serious about marriage.

Aug 2004 – Nov 2015 · 11 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Established and ran all of OpenTable's internal systems
• Successfully setup and ran a 100% remote team spanning two time-zones
• Responsible for operationalising and launching SalesForce
• Amongst the earliest engineers on the team that re-architected the complete technical stack
• Grew from a Senior Engineer role
• Worked across multiple domains and business stakeholders
• Played a key part in enabling our systems to IPO and then through an acquisition

Jan 2004 – Jul 2004 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Radvault provided medical imaging solutions for medium scale clinics and hospitals.
• Took over the entire back-end engineering and wrote the backbone for communication framework which was responsible for picking the closest data-center for medical records.

Aug 2000 – Dec 2003 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Exemplary Software was a spin-off from an HP Labs research project that focused on "Application By Example". We built ERP solutions for indirect procurement using our technology. I wrote and managed the application server that we wrote for our products. Was responsible for dealing with application level access control for client requests. Worked with our architects to create a fault tolerant and scalable application server.

Aug 1998 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr 5 mos · Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Vitrix did Time and Attendance software. Worked concurrently while completing my Masters. Was responsible for architecture and writing significant portions of the client server platform that Vitrix was developing at the time. Highlights were the third party integration support that we built into the product and the scale of using distributed components to orchestrate the entire application. Product worked with biometric solutions and we also had a WinCE / Telephony interface at the time.

Jul 1997 – Jul 1998 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

• First job out of school. Worked for HP on their Lab Management Software (LMS).