Sep 2021 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Head backend engineering and Data platform.
• Hire, grow and deliver on Video Engineering team, Performance engineering team, Auth engineering,Web and Discovery platform team.
• Working on mutli-cloud architecture, and GCP, Azure migration efforts.
• My teams
• implemented custom video analytics stack using clickhouse, which enabled data points for video ads.
• built custom ML models for discovery of popular personalities in images enabling image search.
• migrated from AWS to GCP with zero downtime.
• identified and reduced trans-coding cost by 95% by building custom transcoding pipeline using AWS Lambdas.
• have achieved 80% reduction in CDN cost by load balancing using multiple CDNs.
• migrated to NextJS improving latency of p95 by 60% for Web app users.
• improved search results latency & quality and reduced AWS OpenSearch cost by 70%.

Jul 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Team - AdTech - Deals and Incentives
• Goal - Automation of multi-billion dollar deal programs(AdSense, RevShare, PSP etc,) across Google Ads.

Apr 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

• Head Transactions platform, Book-keeping system, Vendor Master data system, SMS Routing System, Payments platform teams
• Lead a cross functional team(app, back-end, design) with India business goals.

Apr 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

• Built the entire team of 20+ engineers right from hiring.
• Lead the team:
• to build highly scalable, reliable(http://uptime.is/99.999) and sub millisecond latency Transactions Platform.
• to build Book-keeping system automation of payment flow to vendors with integration with banks.
• to build SMS routing system basis cost, vendor uptime, country.
• to build analytics platform using ClickHouse

Mar 2015 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs · On-site

• Manage team of 40+ SE, SSE and TLs delivering entire B2B solutions of redBus. (API partner platform, Bus operator platform and Agent business platform).
• Worked on internationalization of B2C stack of Wallet and Cashback system, SMS System and Transaction System.
• Devised event based workflow from Transaction system.
• Rearchitected book-keeping system for complete redBus(B2B and B2C) enabling full automation till payment.

Apr 2014 – Feb 2015 · 10 mos · On-site

• Scale the infra to make High-Availabiltiy infra significantly improving uptime.
• Dockerized the platform enabling quick and error free delivery.

Feb 2010 – Apr 2014 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Design distributed solutions for applications running in restricted DMZ infrastructure.
• Design solutions to make high availability applications.
• Develop Java framework and JS components to enable faster time to market for other developers.
• Design and develop JavaScript UI components for web-applications.

Jul 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Wrote JavaScript templating system for a time critical application used by 900+ Call-center users.
• Involved in complete SDLC from requirements gathering to deployment.
• Mentored junior developer to learn and passionately code in JavaScript.