Jan 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hybrid

• Led the Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS) & Network Services charter within Flipkart
• [Team Size ~ 50 including 2 Engineering Managers, 3 Architects]
• [Till End of 2024]
• 1. Leading the entire Engineering team for Warehouse Outbound Charter - B2B & B2C usecases across all supply chains (Non-Large, Large, Grocery & Hyperlocal) with four scrum teams
• 2. Leading the Central DBA and SDET team for entire Warehouse Charter - two scrum teams
• 3. Leading the launch of Quick Commerce Business - Hyperlocal / Flipkart Minutes & Pharma / FK Health Plus on Hyperlocal from Warehouse Team
• 4. Led NRT Reports Automation Project across Flipkart Supply Group - Warehousing, Middle & First / Last Mile
• 4. Collaborating with L&D team to upskill & increase tech / behavioural quotient within Flipkart Supply Group
• 5. Defining Individual Development Plan for everyone in the team and reviewing the same during regular one on one basis the Flipkart competency framework
• 6. Actively involved in hiring for Engineering Managers, Product Managers, SDE & SDET roles across all levels
• Critical Business Metrics of Warehouse Outbound - Picking & Packing Efficiency, Units per Shipment, Variable Cost Reduction, Month End Closure Reports for IPO Readiness, Time Taken for Picking Start to Dispatch
• Non Functional Requirements - 8.5 Lakh Shipment Dispatches per Hour during Big Billion Day Festive Sales
• [Team Size - 50+ Engineers]

Sep 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hybrid

• Leading two scrum teams within Warehouse Outbound - Pick, Pack, Stage & Dispatch Tech Team for B2C & B2B usecases within the Warehouse Tech Team across all Supply Chains
• Leading the Grocery & Hyperlocal Supply Chain Projects for Warehouse Outbound
• Groomed 1 Tech Lead to Engineering Manager role
• Collaborating with 10 product managers & multiple program managers and senior management to refine AOP / quarterly plans along with doing weekly / biweekly risk management of various programs
• Collaborating with L&D team to upskill & increase tech / behavioural quotient within the team
• Defining Individual Development Plan for everyone in the team and reviewing the same during regular one on one basis the Flipkart competency framework
• Actively involved in hiring for Dev & SDET roles across all levels
• [Team Size - 1 Tech Lead, 20 Dev, 2 PSE, 2 SDET]
• Leading the Non-Customer Outbound, Inventory Management Charter along with Warehouse Auto-Onboarding Tool as part of Warehouse Supply Chain Management Team [Team Size - 1 Lead, 13 Dev, 2 PSE, 2 L1, 2 SDET]
• [Sept 2020 - Nov 2021]

Apr 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading the Live Entertainment Tech Team (4 scrum teams) and increased overall strength from 35 to 50 engineers in a year (Dev + QA including 4 Tech Leads)
• Setting up charter of Live Entertainment in India which serves as base for few international geographies as well working along with 4 four product managers
• People Management, Setting KPI's & KRA's for everyone
• Own & Architect the entire life cycle of a Live Event
• Designed and planned the launch of two new business lines - BookMyShow Online for Live Streaming of Content & BookMyShow Access for Crowd Management on-ground in a couple of months during Covid-19 pandemic
• 1. Desktop, Mobile Online Flows, Third Party Websites
• 2. B2B Product Flows - Accred, Reporting, DIY Platform for increasing Supply
• 3. POS Flows for Handling Sales On-ground
• 4. Core Transaction System - common for Movies, Live Events, Merchandise along with integration with Ticketing Solutions like Vista, Showbiz, In-House Solutions, etc
• 5. In-House Ticketing Software - BTS serving primarily Live Entertainment
• 6. BookMyShow Platform Projects: Identity and Access Management, Central Config Management Service
• 7. Integration with Printers, Scanners and Solutions like M-Swipe
• Critical Business Metrics for Live Entertainment - Time taken by Ops for Creating New Venue Layouts to New Event Creation, Optimizing Booking Funnel, Reduce Payment & Ticketing Partner Led Errors, POS Software Efficiency for On-Ground Merchandising / Ticketing Experience, Time taken by Ops to create Accreditation Cards for Clients / Business Teams, Seamless Experience for High Visibility Events like Coldplay & Live Streaming of Recorded / Broadcast Events.
• Involved in the hiring of Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Backend & Frontend Developers, SDETs & QAs across the Engineering org

Aug 2018 – Apr 2019 · 8 mos

• Building FX Fulfillment Platform (Aggregator plus A/B Layer) within the Marketplace Ecosystem in Ola and Foodpanda - Logic to Allot a Driver to a Customer Request using a combination of Weighted AI / ML based Signals across various verticals (like Share, Rental, Outstation, Point to Point, Bike, Auto in India and International versus hyperlocal food delivery system like Foodpanda) [August 2018 - April 2019] (Team Size - 15 Dev + 5 QA)
• Involved in the hiring of Backend Developers across the Engineering org.

Oct 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Additional Manager to 8 Dev and building Location Platform in Ola using Scala / Java / Play / Redis / Scylla / Postgresql / Graphhopper / OSRM / Spark [Jun 2017 - July 2018] (Team Size - 10 Dev / 3 QA)
• Lead of Driver Availability / Discovery Component – Cab Info in the Consumer Backend Team built using Dropwizard, Java, Redis (Elastic Cache), Hystrix. Its an orchestration service tested for close to 15,00,000 rpm
• [Oct 2016 - May 2017]
• Lead of Location Based Services built using Play Framework, Redis, Google API integration tested for close to 50,000 rpm (autocomplete / places / reverse geocode) [Oct 2016 - Feb 2017]
• Involved in the hiring process of backend developers

Apr 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Lead of Driver Availability / Discovery Component – Cab Info in the Consumer Backend Team built using Dropwizard, Java, Redis (Elastic Cache), Hystrix. Its an orchestration service tested for close to 4,00,000 rpm [Team Size - 3 Dev / 2 QA]
• Design and Develop Driver to Consumer ETA Tracker for Consumer Notification using Apache Flink (Team Size - 1 Dev / 1 QA) and Driver Incentive Calculator using Apache Spark (Team Size - 10 Dev / 5 QA)
• Design and Develop Logistics Management System or Ola Express in Ruby On Rails / Java, it will serve as a common platform where all merchants like Ola Cafe / Ola Store / Shopper’s Stop can be on-boarded and can request for shippers on demand to deliver grocery / goods. (Team Size - 5 Dev / 2 QA)
• Design and Develop REST-based Api’s in Ruby on Rails / Java being consumed by Ola Store Android Shipper App and Fulfillment System and other internal UI / Backend applications – to deliver grocery. (Team Size - 3 Dev / 1 QA)

Jun 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore, India

• Develop PayPal’s Batch service – Multiple Account Management (MAM) in Java that describes and controls a set of permissions for PayPal master accounts (Partners) to control the business operations of other PayPal sub - accounts (Merchants) for over 50 countries by allowing creation / managing of sub - accounts for Partner accounts.
• Using PayPal's SeLion Framework (TestNG, Selenium) - write Data Driven Functional automation tests for Rest Apis and web browser flows (UI).

Sep 2011 – Dec 2011 · 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Mobile Information Systems

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India