Apr 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Edureka is a unique story in today's hyper funded startup world. Bootstrapped for almost 6 years, it is only recently that founders have raised money.
• I am leading the technology transformation and the engineering of innovative products to build a sustainable moat.
• Key Areas Working On
• Leading a team of 60+ members, including managers, powering digital Commerce, mobile apps, BI, Site Reliability, Infrastructure, and LMS
• Building live online classroom platform using MERN, Microservices, currently 10K MAU
• SEO optimization, reducing the load time from 5s to <2s, improving the desktop
• page score from the 70s to 99 and an increase in organic traffic by 10%
• Driving re-engineering of existing stacks to Microservices architecture using React, Node, etc. to
• enable product and tech teams to be more responsive to business needs
• Building a low-cost analytics stack & data lake using Red Shift, Power BI, Hevo, etc. to enable the
• organization to make data-driven decisions faster
• Mobile Apps -- iOS and Android.

Aug 2014 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

• Uolo is a prime example of what a motivated team can achieve with limited resources. The mantra we have been following is optimal engineering. Scale as the business grows and keep a laser-sharp focus on customers.
• Few things I am proud of are:
• Successfully built, scaled the company from Zero to 1K Customers
• Hired, managed, and mentored world-class engineering team
• Led the Engineering of Uolo Messaging Platform from grounds up. The last usage was 30M+ messages /month and DAU, MAU (Daily Active User and Monthly Active User ) of 200K and 450K
• Worked closely with 50+ customers to prioritize the feature road map and built the
• product iteratively as per the market feedback
• Key Functionalities Built:
• Highly Available and Scalable messaging platform using Rabbit MQ, Redis and AWS Components
• Single Sign-On for users to seamlessly login into vendor partner products
• Blogging platform for users to publish their content
• API platform for vendor partners to access user data
• Key Tools/Technologies: PHP, Symfony, RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, Apache, Elastic, ELK, Python, AWS, Android, iOS, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, DevOps, Agile, Java, Angular, Spam and NSFW classification using Machine Learning

Jul 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• As second line Manager responsible for multiple key projects across domains
• Managed cross functional team of 30+ engineers

Apr 2011 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr

• MBA – focus on Product Management. Excelled in – Marketing, Finance, Business Analytics and Strategic Management of Information Systems to master the nuances of IT Product business
• Mentored a 5 member PGP team to define new product strategy for retailer. Team achieved a top 10 rank and won a cash prize of 60K
• Presented paper titled “Sustaining India’s Growth” to a panel of CXOs and faculty at ConneXion, the annual industry-academia event of IIMA
• Developing a comprehensive business plan to set-up a new Payment Gateway to meet the growing demand of e-commerce industry

Sep 2010 – Mar 2011 · 6 mos

• Interfaced with business users from North America and India during requirement analysis, development and implementation phases for releases and updates to understand and address requirements
• Collaborated extensively with Business users, QA and Release Management teams to define roadmap of applications in merchandizing area
• Led the engineering team of 30 plus members across geographies to architect and develop $14 M 24/7 Vendor Application from grounds up. Incorporated critical new features mid-way, yet delivered the first phase in original schedule of 12 months – leading to higher customer satisfaction
• Worked closely with UI experts on vendor and item management applications to shape and define UI features
• Won multiple awards for performance and team management

Mar 2006 – Aug 2010 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Successfully ramped up and managed geographically distributed cross functional team of 40 plus people in the merchandizing division
• Hired, trained and mentored people across functions and locations – Minneapolis and Bangalore
• Established and rolled out framework for conducting in-house training on processes and technologies that resulted in increased productivity
• Initiated and led the technology user forum to facilitate the sharing of best practices and solutions to Target specific issues

Mar 2003 – Mar 2006 · 3 yrs

• Developed Enterprise Analytics Product in a fast pace, hyper-competitive start up. The product is successfully implemented at two leading US based FMCG organizations
• Led three member team to performance engineer the product – met the customer need in quick time span of two weeks

Dec 2001 – Feb 2003 · 1 yr 2 mos

• • Developed gambling applications for Entertainment Client. Involved in entire lifecycle – requirements, planning, design, testing and deployment.

May 2000 – Dec 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos

• • Developed web applications for various Silicon Valley based start-ups

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr

• • Developed modules for flagship banking product FlexCube Retail