Mar 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

• Built a team from scratch to develop a Container Management system for effective warehouse inventory management, storage, retrieval, and standardization at AWS, earning an average customer experience survey score of 4.8/5.0.
• Developed the vision to modernize the platform architecture and replace legacy processes to improve Inventory accuracy resulting in building logical parity and eliminating ~400K unused storage and recovering $60 million of unidentified inventory.
• Directly engaged with logistics users on-site to understand their pain points and built open lines of communication building customer trust.
• Actively managed performance and head count, supporting promotions, addressing poor performance and headcount reductions with emotional intelligence.

Dec 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• As a founding member, built a high-performing cross-functional team of 35 members, including Engineers, SDMs, and TPMs, to support Tier 1 HCM system managing ~2.5 million employee profiles.
• Grew the adoption of the system by 100% to over 800 systems across Amazon, supporting ~5K TPS.
• Developed an in-house suite of services to serve as the single source of truth for HCM data, enabling deprecation of legacy HCM system.
• Expanded a team from 7 engineers to 35, managing promotions and performance to foster career growth, aiding individuals to achieve more.
• Improved operation excellence with continuous improvement reducing ticket by 70% improving customer trust.

Aug 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Boston, Massachusetts

• Led the final mile, warehouse technology portfolio, providing strategic direction and technical advancement through SOA, graceful error handling and Event driven systems to drive efficient integration and improve operational efficiency minimizing manual error resolution by 20%.
• Accelerated team development using lean tactics, expanding from 3 to 15 engineers to develop the first user-friendly, mobile-responsive application using Zebra scanners for last-mile Pick process, improving efficiency by 42% by reducing time from 45 mins to 26 mins per route.
• Advanced IoT mission/tech vision by identifying vendors in the warehouse space, collaborating with them to understand capabilities and needs, and developing Proofs of Concept.
• Introduced team health surveys to understand team’s morale and motivated a low morale team to become the most desired team to work with. Health survey results have moved from the low 3 to a high 8 on a scale of 10.

Jan 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• ▪ Build and manage a team of strong developers with both onsite and contracting resources.
• ▪ Come up with innovative ideas for the product.
• ▪ Socialize the idea and get buying.
• ▪ Architect the solution and Develop POC’s.
• ▪ Leading and co-ordinating the initiative of integrating with Dealer Inspire(Acquired recently).
• ▪ Redesign and migrate the dealer review platform to the cloud.
• ▪ Transform the ads on cars.com with content-driven ads which would serve as an engaging experience for the consumers with built in recommendation engine.
• ▪ Estimation of the resources required and the needed timeframe to deliver the project.
• ▪ Identify problem areas and improve the process.
• ▪ Perform code reviews on the stories that are being developed and ensure it follows standards.
• ▪ Coordinating with business on changing requirements and communicating effectively.
• ▪ Identify roadblocks and solve them on time.
• ▪ Provide feedback, coach, mentor, motivate and keep the team focused on the outcome while they have fun at work.
• ▪ Work on career path, identify training needs and make sure they succeed in their current role.
• ▪ Worked on the discovery process and identified all the requirements along with the technical feasibility.
• ▪ Research new innovative solutions(like OCR) and architecting the system.
• ▪ Coordinate with different teams and vendors and make sure things are ironed for development.
• ▪ Designed, co-ordinated and lead the development effort of Dealer Rater integration with Cars.com.
• ▪ Redesign and modernize the Legacy Review Pipeline and Lead processing system.
• Tools/Technologies: JAVA, REST, APIGEE, Spring, Hibernate, Websphere Application Server, Integration, ETL, Active MQ, AWS Kinesis, AWS SNS, AWS Elastic Search, AWS SES, AWS Lambda, AWS VPC, AWS Route 53, AWS S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Cloud Watch, API Gateway, OCR, Tesseract, JAVA, Spring Boot, Oracle, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, JAVA, Spring Boot, Couchbase, JAVA, Docker.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr

• ▪ Had worked in the discovery process and identified all the requirements along with the technical feasibility.
• ▪ Detailed data mapping and designing the initiative.
• ▪ Estimation of the resources required and the needed timeframe to deliver the project.
• ▪ Perform code reviews on the stories that are being developed and ensure it follows standards.
• ▪ Coordinating with people soft team and working out solutions and communicating the needed information so that they are in sync and on the same page.
• ▪ Coordinating with business on changing requirements and communicating effectively.
• ▪ Work with DEV’s to develop the POC for dynamic enrollment.
• ▪ Coordinate with different teams and 3r d party.
• ▪ Worked with different vendors for CPQ Evaluation.
• ▪ Identify roadblocks and solve them on time.
• ▪ Escalate in case of emergency and make sure everyone is aware of it.
• ▪ Hiring and onboarding new resources and getting them upto speed.
• ▪ Provide feedback on resources.
• Tools/Technologies: JAVA, REST, Spring, Hibernate, Websphere Application Server, SOAP, Apache camel, Salesforce, Apex, Oracle.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs

• ▪ Detailed data mapping and designing the initiative.
• ▪ Prepare design documents.
• ▪ Perform code reviews on the stories that are being developed and ensure it follows standards.
• ▪ Resolve memory limit issue in salesforce by switching to dynamic layout.
• ▪ Develop REST based webservices in JAVA and building the front end on Salesforce.
• ▪ Identify roadblocks and solve them on time.
• ▪ Helped release management team to move salesforce code to subversion/GIT and being able to build and release from this source rather relying on the code on Salesforce. This solved several issue and put an end to several defect for which it was the root cause.
• Tools/Technologies: J2EE, JSF, Ajax, Websphere Portal, Websphere Application Server, SOAP, REST, dozer mapper, JDBC, JSR 268, Spring MVC3, Apache camel, Salesforce, Apex.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

• Designed and created JSF and Dojo based portlets with CRUD operations.
• ▪ Integrated Portal with Process server and ODS (Customer Master DB) using SOAP /REST based services and
• JDBC.
• ▪ Developed POC to establish SSO (Single Sign On) between Websphere portal server and Websphere application
• server and implemented successfully.
• ▪ Developed POC to establish SSO (Single Sign On) between Websphere portal server and spring security and
• implemented successfully.
• ▪ Developed POC on Spring MVC3 framework.
• ▪ Developed Spring MVC based web application, which would interact with Callsource using the Spring REST
• framework.
• ▪ Developed APEX logic in Salesforce
• ▪ Developed Apache camel based webservices and Integrated with several systems.
• Tools/Technologies: J2EE, JSF, Ajax, Websphere Portal, Websphere Application Server, SOAP, dozer mapper, JDBC, JSR 268, Spring MVC3, Apache camel.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 · 4 yrs · Chennai Area, India

• Project Description:
• This project deals with the development of a web application with updated UI technologies like RichFaces and AJAX components. The application will provide the customers to create the payments/templates for payment and perform the payment related activities. This application also provides the user to generate the reports and email the reports.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• ▪ Requirements gathering, design documentation, coding and reviews.
• ▪ The main lead in developing several POC’s for the dynamic development of screens and implementing the same across the application.
• ▪ Implemented the application using open source technologies/frameworks/ libraries like JSF, RichFaces and Weblogic Application Server.
• ▪ Design and development of the User Interface for the application using JSP (RichFaces and AJAX technologies).
• ▪ Mentor and supervise the offshore team.
• Project Description:
• The necessity of this project was to rewrite the application and develop as a new web based application for risk management.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• ▪ Worked as a lead developer.
• ▪ Carried out requirements gathering, design documentation, coding and testing.
• ▪ Design and development of a model-view-controller application framework (JSF) for the product.