Apr 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Team Leadership & Recruitment: Built and led the Dynamic Product Messaging (DPM) and Data Science team of 11 members; conducted interviews for 80+ candidates and organized 10+ hiring drives over two years.
• Scalable Feature Delivery: Delivered key features like Content Management System, Coupon Management, Data Science (Prediction, AI Recommendation, BTS, MPC, Text and Visual Copywriter using LLM, Segment AI Chat) supporting 800K RPM write/read operations for multi-tenant systems.
• Roadmap, OKR Planning and Appraisal cycles:
• Owned the DPM roadmap, led OKR planning in collaboration with Product Managers, and actively participated in the appraisal process for my entire team on multiple occasions.
• Performance Improvement: Increased Click-Through Rate (CTR) from 10% to 22% in two years, driving adoption by 90+ customers within seven months of release.
• Data Migration & Cost Optimization: Migrated user event data from Neo4J to ScyllaDB, saving $15K/month and scaling from 150K RPM to 800K RPM, achieving target p99.5.
• Automation & Efficiency: Implemented Blackbox/Regression Automation Suites, preventing client-impacting issues and automating manual processes to save time and resources.
• Client-Centric Solutions: Collaborated with sales and marketing to develop tailored engineering solutions based on client needs.
• Cost Improvement Projects: Led cost optimization initiatives by addressing technical debt (db migration, upgrades, bug fixes, pipeline revamp) and realigning teams for effective delivery.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Fostered a culture of innovation, encouraging idea-sharing, and participating in side projects like Merlin CopyWriter and visual for AI-driven campaign creation.
• Team Development: Enhanced team productivity through training and mentoring junior engineers.

Dec 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Leading and mentoring team of 8 members including 6 developers and 2 SDETs.
• Involved in one on one and in review and appraisal cycle for team members on quarterly/half-yearly basis.
• Involved in multiple integration e.g. Slack, MS Team integration with existing product to enhance user experience.
• Delivered end to end Thread feature in existing product (Involved from planning, I2P, development, performance bench marking to production deployment).
• Involved in taking multiple interviews for multiple positions.
• Participated in evaluating and incorporating Online Schema migration tool
• in boot project.

Feb 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Involved in designing, planning and coding of secured ETL framework which process millions of data on daily basis and managing team of 8 members.

Feb 2017 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• # Be a part of architectural design and System design - Abstractions, Concurrency, Scalability, Performance, Availability
• # Designed a config driven framework and parsers to process different file types such as FDR, TSYS, MC, AMEX, CSV, XML, XLS, XLSX, T140, MT940, SD098, SM077, TXT, HTML and custom file formats
• # Building data pipeline, data transformation using UDFs, batch data processing and data ingestion using Apache Spark & Scala
• # Building reconciliation engine to enable user to compare data from different data sources and to create one complete and correct production data-set
• # Data storage, retrieval and aggregations using Apache Hbase, Mapr-DB, Apache Hive, Apache Drill and Spark jdbc connector
• # Spark performance tuning - Spark Dynamic allocation, Broadcast, Accumulator, Data re-partition, Resource allocation at resource & node manager level in Yarn
• # Map-reduce jobs for different flows using Apache Spark and asynchronous data processing using Apache Kafka
• # Used Parquet Columnar Storage for data aggregation and visualisation on tableau
• # Interacting with product managers to gather business requirement and translate that into technical needs
• # Managing a team of 6 engineers, handling on-boarding, training and mentoring for all
• # Taking care of build management in different environments, release cycle, code quality and code review process

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

• 1) Developed an ELK stack for log analysis and provide intelligence to business , security and compliance and provide web analytics.
• 2) Develop a data pipeline using mapr reduce job to execute on EMR and dump into elasticsearch and prepare elasticsearch queries to display it on Highcharts.

Jan 2014 – Sep 2014 · 8 mos

• 1) Work for client 'Opera Mediaworks'.
• 2) Mainly Involved in the development and enhancement of Opera Appstore and Webpass on Opera browser.
• 3) Responsible for interacting with opera payment gateways for subscription and one time billing of products.
• 4) Taking care of Server maintenance and performance hosted on Amazon Web Service.
• 5) Interact with onshore team for requirements gathering, analysis, implementation and testing of the system and with client to understand processes and business problems.
• 6) Responsible for giving deliverable on time.
• 7) Involve in all the phases of development, right from requirement analysis to planning gathering, designing, coding, testing and deployment on all the servers.

Aug 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Project was concerned with Supply Chain Management and Logistics. All modules of project are dealing with monitoring of Consignment and retail Sector.
• Involved with IKEA project and worked in all phases right from designing, building, coding, packaging, testing, deploying and preparing UML diagram.