Apr 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

• 💖 Tech & Business Leadership as Co-founder at TogetherV 💖
• At TogetherV, we empower people to create unforgettable moments for their loved ones—whether it's a romantic date, a surprise proposal, or a special celebration. As the Co-founder and technology leader, I’ve played a pivotal role in building both the product and the business:
• 📌 Full-Stack Technology Development:
• 🔹 Spearheaded end-to-end development of the TogetherV platform, including the Website, Admin Panel, and TogetherV Gifts portal.
• 🔹 Built and deployed the platform on the LAMP stack using PHP-FPM and Nginx, hosted on GCP for scalability and reliability.
• 🔹 Launched the TogetherV mobile app for iOS and Android using React Native, delivering a seamless customer experience.
• 📌 CRM & Automation:
• 🔹 Successfully implemented ZOHO CRM for our sales and operations teams.
• 🔹 Enabled full synchronisation between the CRM and TogetherV backend for lead tracking, customer engagement, and performance analytics.
• 📌 Team Building & Leadership:
• 🔹 Recruited and managed cross-functional teams for Sales, Operations, and Corporate Partnerships.
• 🔹 Built a culture of ownership, speed, and innovation to ensure we deliver unique and personalised experiences.
• 📌 Business Strategy & Growth:
• 🔹 Oversaw marketing and brand positioning to reach the right audience with a memorable narrative.
• 🔹 Managed sales operations, curated service packages, and built strategic corporate tie-ups with vendors, venues, and partners.
• TogetherV isn’t just a platform—it’s an emotion-led service that turns ordinary days into cherished memories. Proud to build a startup that touches lives, one celebration at a time.

Dec 2016 – Sep 2017 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• 🛒 Leadership in Platform Engineering at ShopClues (Senior Engineering Manager) 🛒
• At ShopClues, one of India’s largest e-commerce marketplaces, I led multiple engineering teams focused on user experience, billing infrastructure, reporting, and system security:
• 📌 My Account & Communication (Team Size: 7):
• 🔹 Owned and managed the complete "My Account" section across Desktop/Mobile Web, Mobile Apps.
• 🔹 Built and maintained the unified login system (login.shopclues.com).
• 🔹 Managed customer and vendor communications across email, SMS, and push notifications.
• 📌 Billing System Overhaul (Team Size: 8):
• 🔹 Spearheaded GST compliance implementation in billing systems.
• 🔹 Developed services for invoice and credit note generation under old and new tax systems.
• 🔹 Built a "Tax as a Service" layer supporting HSN/SAC code-based tax component retrieval.
• 🔹 Managed merchant payouts and credit lifecycle.
• 📌 Reporting Framework (Team Size: 7):
• 🔹 Delivered cross-functional order-related reports for multiple business teams.
• 🔹 Integrated the Order Service Ticketing (OST) system into reporting.
• 🔹 Designed a pipeline capturing MySQL bin-logs via Open Replicator, streaming them into Kafka and warehousing the data.
• 📌 URL Shortening Service (TinyURL):
• 🔹 Built and owned a high-availability URL shortening service integrated across ShopClues systems.
• 🔹 Managed its backend infrastructure and database operations.
• 📌 Security & Optimization Initiatives:
• 🔹 Led a team of 3 to patch SQL injection vulnerabilities in legacy APIs.
• 🔹 Personally remediated all SQL injection issues in billing scripts amid the GST rollout.
• 🔹 Removed outdated Adobe Test & Target scripts and cleared ~65 legacy cookies.
• 🔹 Encrypted and remediated email-leaking URLs, retroactively transforming stored data.

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 · 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area · On-site

• 📊 Big Data & Infrastructure Leadership at Cube26 📊
• At Cube26, I contributed to building high-scale data pipelines, messaging systems, and infrastructure that powered apps on over 5 million devices:
• 📌 Events Aggregation Framework:
• 🔹 Designed a multi-layered event aggregation system to handle telemetry from 5M+ devices.
• 🔹 Used Django for API endpoints, Kafka for message brokering, and PostgreSQL for persistence.
• 📌 PostgreSQL Cluster Management:
• 🔹 Managed a PostgreSQL cluster storing 1B+ rows of user event data with high availability, failover, and load balancing.
• 🔹 Enforced access-level encryption for sensitive user data such as SMS and contacts.
• 🔹 Supported Cube26 Marketplace, REOS apps, and RMN library on a unified cluster.
• 📌 Spam Classification Benchmarking:
• 🔹 Built Cube26’s in-house spam classifier for the messaging app and benchmarked its ROC performance against Google Compute Engine and IBM Watson.
• 🔹 Classified over 300K messages, aiding the REOS message product launch.
• 📌 Automated APK Build System:
• 🔹 Developed a build automation system that created, signed, and stored APKs in an isolated environment for every Cube26 release.
• 📌 Cloud Messaging with MQTT:
• 🔹 Prototyped and built Cube26 Cloud Messaging (CCM) system using Emqtt and Mosquitto for real-time communication.
• 📌 Ad Network & ROI Platform Integration:
• 🔹 Integrated event tracking with Apsalar and Appsflyer to support mobile ROI analytics.
• 📌 Business Intelligence Dashboards:
• 🔹 Created growth and event summary dashboards for internal stakeholders and mobile vendors.

Jul 2015 – Dec 2015 · 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

• 🏨 Engineering Scalable Solutions at ZoRooms (Online Hotel Booking Platform) 🏨
• During my time at ZoRooms — an online room booking platform — I led impactful initiatives across backend engineering, API development, and DevOps to drive product performance and reliability:
• 📌 Dynamic Pricing Engine:
• 🔹 Engineered a robust pricing engine enabling dynamic pricing for rooms based on dates and other criteria.
• 🔹 Enabled bulk hotel pricing updates and allowed for multiple pricing sources per room, optimising OTA integration and revenue management.
• 📌 API V2 Development & Integration:
• 🔹 Built a secure API layer with IP-based restrictions, masked IDs, and replay-attack protection using nonce-based checksum authentication.
• 🔹 Successfully integrated APIs with ZoRooms’ iOS & Android apps, and with external partners like Little (ZOVI) and Axis Rooms.
• 📌 Code Scalability & Refactoring:
• 🔹 Led a team of 3 in refactoring the Django codebase, significantly improving system stability and minimizing errors/exceptions.
• 🔹 Implemented advanced caching strategies to boost backend performance and scalability.
• 📌 Automated QA Framework:
• 🔹 Mentored a team of 4 in developing an automated QA framework for backend and API testing.
• 🔹 Integrated the QA system with Jenkins for CI/CD, resulting in continuous code quality improvements.
• 📌 DevOps and Infrastructure:
• 🔹 Handled essential server management on Amazon AWS and managed code repositories via Git, ensuring streamlined deployment and collaboration.

May 2011 – Jul 2015 · 4 yrs 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

• 🚀 Engineering & Product Leadership at Wingify (Visual Website Optimizer) 🚀
• At Wingify, I helped shape Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) — a global A/B testing and optimisation platform. I contributed across engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success from its early days.
• 📌 Engineering Highlights:
• 🔹 Replaced VWO's Frequentist engine with Bayesian models using Monte Carlo simulations, improving performance 10X.
• 🔹 Built Cross Browser Testing (CBT) system with REST APIs, auto-deploying test environments.
• 🔹 Developed Geo Targeting, Heatmaps & Clickmaps, and a live CSS editor.
• 🔹 Led VWO 2.0 backend and refactored it into REST APIs for 3.0 with a team of 3.
• 🔹 Built a multi-role admin panel for internal use.
• 📌 Sales & Automation:
• 🔹 Integrated Salesforce with VWO for payment and lead sync.
• 🔹 Created automated lead scoring, usage tracking, and regional lead distribution.
• 🔹 Built SKU-based pricing with custom discounts for enterprise users.
• 📌 Marketing & CRM:
• 🔹 Ran intelligent drip email campaigns tailored to user engagement.
• 🔹 Integrated HubSpot with Salesforce and VWO for unified marketing workflows.
• 📌 Billing & Accounts:
• 🔹 Integrated with 2Checkout and FastSpring for recurring billing, refunds, and cancellations.
• 🔹 Automated payment failure alerts and enabled in-app billing controls.
• 📌 Growth & Customer Success:
• 🔹 Developed dashboards to track user lifecycle: acquisition, engagement, churn, reactivation.
• 🔹 Supported users via Skype, Webex, email, and created onboarding videos for internal teams.
• Proud to have driven product and business growth at a bootstrapped startup that now powers website optimisation worldwide.

Sep 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• 🔍 Quality Assurance & Innovation at Oracle VLDB Group 🔍
• During my tenure at Oracle India Development Centre, Bangalore, I worked in the Very Large Databases (VLDB) Simulations Group, where my focus was on quality assurance and testing of data warehousing features in Oracle Database:
• 📌 Quality Assurance Engineering:
• 🔹 Specialised in identifying critical defects, including crashes, hangs, concurrency/scalability issues, feature correctness bugs, and performance bottlenecks.
• 🔹 Played a key role in testing and validating the "Edition-Based Redefinition" feature, enabling live upgrades of database components with minimal or zero downtime, a major leap in enterprise database maintenance.
• 📌 OraBeats – Intra-Company Social Collaboration Platform:
• 🔹 Co-creator of OraBeats, a micro-blogging platform designed to foster collaboration across Oracle's internal network.
• 🔹 Enabled searchable information dissemination across teams and hierarchies, aiming to create a rich knowledge-sharing environment.
• 🔹 Recognised for innovation and impact with the Oracle-UROC award, presented by the VP of Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW).