Sep 2025 – Mar 2026 · 6 mos · New York, New York, United States

• Helping lead the Storage Control Plane roadmap at Robinhood, driving initiatives that improve storage scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
• Postgres Connection Pooling at Scale:
• Architected and implemented Robinhood’s Kubernetes-based PgBouncer connection pooling infrastructure for Postgres, with graceful termination, health probes, replica load-balancing/autoscaling, and deep observability into connection metrics
• Implemented various Pgbouncer patches to resolve issues around DNS resolution and replica load balancing
• Storage Autoscaling:
• Designed and led the implementation of schedule-based Aurora Postgres Reader autoscaling, cutting >50% capacity during off-peak hours and saving >$3M annually
• Implemented dynamic pool sizing for PgBouncers to adapt to real-time Aurora Reader capacity changes
• Built control-plane workflows and observability to align storage autoscaling with compute autoscaling
• LLM-Powered Database Insights:
• Designed and led Robinhood’s first MCP (Model Context Protocol)-based LLM platform, enabling natural language queries and agentic workflows over database performance insights and schema changes through Slack and GitHub.
• Helped develop an MCP Server powered by Pganalyze’s GraphQL APIs
• Backup & Cost Optimization:
• Led a cross-functional effort across engineering, legal and compliance to create unified backup strategy across storage platforms
• Eliminated redundancies and helped re-architect backup plans to meet diverse business requirements, saving >$4M annually

Feb 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos · New York, New York, United States

• All things Storage/Proxies

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Gained technical expertise designing features across SQL Server (on-prem), Azure SQLDB (PaaS) and Azure SQL VM (IaaS)
• Experienced with SQL Server Storage Engine, Metadata, Transaction Management and In-Memory database technologies
• Tempdb Memory-Optimized Metadata [C++/C#]:
• Led the development, functional and performance testing of the Tempdb Memory-Optimized Metadata feature for SQL Server 2019.
• Re-architected the SQL Server Metadata access layer to leverage Microsoft’s in-memory database technology
• Alleviated system table page latch contention using latch-free/lock-free data structures and optimistic concurrency
• Recorded up to ~2-4x higher throughput (batch requests/second) with the feature enabled
• Azure Arc - Managed Instance (Hybrid Cloud - SQL Server) [C#]:
• Led the initial design and development of the Automated Backup and Point-In-Time Restore service for Managed Instance – Azure Arc (SQL Server in Kubernetes)
• Functioned as the tech lead of a team of 3 engineers.
• Implemented microservices leveraging gRPC and Microsoft’s Finite State Machine framework for control plane workflows in a Kubernetes cluster.
• Customer Engagements:
• Investigated and resolved over 60+ on-prem SQL Server customer cases across various components in the Storage Engine including Metadata, Access Methods, Transaction Processing and In-Memory databases
• Shipped over 50+ hotfix changes addressing bugs and issues from on-prem SQL Server customer cases
• Leadership:
• Pioneered a new on-call model (Alpha) across the Azure Data SQL Server organization, which successfully ramped-up 120+ engineers to the Azure SQLDB service and Livesite workflows.
• Led multiple bootcamp sessions to educate engineers about SQL Server engine fundamentals and Azure SQLDB architecture + live site tooling
• Participated in extensive cross-organization discussions with Leadership to restructure and optimize the existing on-call model with minimal disruption to the existing on-call workflows

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs

Sep 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

• - Working on Database Systems (SQL Server/Azure SQL)

Jun 2016 – Sep 2016 · 3 mos · Redmond, Washington

• Designed and developed a tool for managing Azure storage accounts. Used this tool to reduce the Usage Service Team’s Azure storage consumption by 75%, which translated to a cost savings of ~$120,000 per year
• Analyzed large Azure usage data sets using Microsoft’s big-data system (Cosmos) to identify patterns of data loss, and wrote C#/Scope scripts to successfully ensure all usage data was rated and billed in the new usage system being developed for Azure
• Wrote scripts to aggregate Azure usage consumption data based on various parameters to generate billing reports for customers, and designed and developed an API to expose this data to Azure customers

Jun 2015 – Sep 2015 · 3 mos · Orange County, California Area

• Full stack development in a service oriented architecture supporting development for SendGrid's user dashboard
• Dashboard provides analytics regarding customer's email delivery, efficiency, finances, etc.
• Working in Javascript (Backbone.js framework), Python/Gevent/Flask API, and Go back end services
• Helping to extend systems that are event driven, asynchronous and operate at scale

Mar 2015 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · UCLA

• Bruin Entrepreneurs is the largest student-run entrepreneurship organization in UCLA
• Events organized by BE include a Weekly Speaker Series (featuring established entrepreneurs), bVentures (an accelerator for start-ups founded by students), Product Challenge (a quarter long product and solution development competition) and LA Hacks (the biggest collegiate hackathon in the US)
• BE's various partners include UCLA VC Fund, Blackstone Launchpad, Cooley LLC., Amplify LA, AWS, Richardson Patel LLP, and more

Mar 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr

• Founded and developed a web platform on which users can create mobile applications and edit them in real time
• Website gives users the functionality to select pre-built templates to use in their app, upload content and change the UI of the app
• Developed a live-edit feature that enables users to edit their created apps, and see the changes reflect in an emulator on the site
• Back end scripts automatically build and package applications into iOS, Android and Windows applications
• Implemented the back-end and API using GO-lang, and used the Backbone.js framework on the front-end
• Data stored in Postgres databases, and native app creation facilitated using the Ionic framework

Nov 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Director of LA Hacks- the biggest collegiate hackathon in the United States
• Co-director of the Sponsorships team for LA Hacks 2015
• Raised over $200k towards hosting the event
• Managed relations with over 40 companies in technology and venture capital
• LA Hacks hosted 1400+ students over a 36 hour long hackathon
• Hosted a Forbes 30 Under 30 panel at LA Hacks, which included 5 panelists who were featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list

Jul 2014 – Sep 2014 · 2 mos

• 1). Browser based eBook Reader
• Developed a browser based eBook Reader for the website : www.newshunt.com
• Handled the User Interface as well as the back-end implementation of the online eReader
• Gained knowledge pertaining to making websites more robust and secure to XSS attacks
• The Reader was developed using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, PHP and AJAX
• 2). Tizen OS Mobile Application Development
• Gained experience developing Mobile Applications for Samsung's Tizen mobile OS
• Used Tizen's Web Development framework to build mobile application prototypes

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos

• Designed and implemented micro-controller(Arduino) based circuits
• Built a light-sensing robot that traced the direction of the strongest light source in its surroundings using an Arduino based circuit. This also graphed the intensity of light being sensed by the robot in real time on the computer using the software- Processing
• Built a robot whose motion was controlled by a 2-AXIS joystick controller and an Arduino