Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

• Guided the hotel content and orchestrator team in architecting a high-performance system optimizing latency, scalability, and availability, while aligning with stakeholder goals for reliability and business impact.
• AI-Driven Hotel Image Classification & Ranking Platform
• Led end-to-end design of a scalable system processing 50M+ hotel images across MakeMyTrip. Deployed AI pipeline with CLIP visual embeddings and metadata to auto-categorize (Room, Exterior, Facilities, Bathroom+), boosting image hygiene. Built multi-stage quality/ranking model assessing sharpness, composition, relevance, and appeal to feature top 5–10 images per hotel. Introduced Category-Weighted, Fixed-Ordering, Semantic Clustering strategies for diverse, accurate visuals. Delivered 2.4% Rank-1 accuracy gain, enhancing engagement/bookings. Scaled ingestion/retrieval via Redis/Aerospike caching and APIs for <50ms latency at peak.
• Next-Gen Semantic Autosuggest for Hotel Search
• Spearheaded re-architecture from keyword to intent-driven suggestions. Created LLM-powered query generation converting long-tail queries to optimized short text for better matching. Engineered hybrid ranker blending semantic similarity, lexical relevance, geo/category signals, and performance data. Achieved +14.5% Rank-1 CTR, -11.3% chars typed, 200–500% Tier-2/3 search uplift. Productionized with pre-computed clusters, low-latency caching, and APIs sustaining millions of requests at <50ms.

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Designed the personalization engine product with microservice and observable pattern. Architected this product and build it from scratch starting from the connector, aggregator, experience manager, and Intent Engine to services. The re-architecture was done with the objectives in mind like high performance, high scalability, and failover handling. Used Quarkus for microservice. This system helps in cross-selling the product.
• Build the team for this and get them on board for new frameworks Quarkus.

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Designed the Hotel static pipeline product for refreshing and mapping hotels with microservice. Architected this product and build it from scratch starting from the connector, and aggregator to services. The re-architecture was done with the objectives in mind like high performance, high scalability and fail over handling. Used Spring-boot for micro services. This system helps in cross selling the product.
• Build the team for this and get them on board for new frameworks Spring-boot.

Apr 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Re-designed the hotel Orchestrator product with microservices from scratch. Architected the hotel Orchestrator product and build it from scratch starting from a connector, and aggregator to services. The re-architecture was done with the objectives in mind like high performance, high scalability, and failover handling. Used Spring-boot for microservice. Build the team for this and get them on board for new frameworks.

Apr 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Lead the development, adoption, and maintenance of the Shopping Cart
• portal from scratch for enabling and enhancing work efficiency of
• Makemytrip’s Sales team for Holiday Package curation, which became
• the backbone of the Holidays system.
• Full Stack development using AngularJS, JQuery, Spring (MVC, IOC,
• AOP, Core, Integration), SOLR, Drools, MySQL, EhCache, Redis, and AMQ.
• Efficiently bridged the communication gaps between Business,
• Product, Sales, and Technical teams using Agile.

Apr 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Started mentoring the new joiners.
• Worked on the movement of b2b monolithic ecosystem on service-oriented architecture thus reducing the release process time by 85%. With this, making changes became faster as it reduced the scope of QA.
• Since we had two data centers, hence moved the b2b web portal in active-active mode, and also we handled the scheduler from configuration having it run from one data center only.
• We made the headers and footer dynamic role-based so that agents can use them as per their requirements and branding.

Apr 2009 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Worked on the development of building the common hotel connecter jar by which multiple platforms (B2C, B2B, and Affiliate) can easily get the raw hotel data and build their use cases on top of that. it enhanced the feature development between the platforms.
• Leading a team of 3 developers for the same.
• Incorporated the same hotel dependency in the B2B system.
• i was recognized as a Star Performer
• Language- Core java
• build tool - Maven

Jan 2007 – Mar 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Have build the b2b admin portal where Agent can see the booking and multiple features which helps agent to do all operation under one umbrella.
• Have build the feature where Agent can easily recharge the wallet through NetBanking/Check.
• Have build single sign on for various modules in b2b portal and served around 25000 user login in a day.
• Plateform: mysql,Struts 2, java