Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Building the world's #1 chess learning platform for kids.
• Defining the technology & product vision/roadmap of the company, technical strategy,
• budgeting, robust platform based on microservices architecture, and cutting-edge tech stack.
• Mentored, managed & retained the talent. Built a great tech culture & processes
• Highly efficient in setting-up new processes, bringing breakthrough changes to improve overall team efficiency, productivity and execution.
• Highly skilled in coaching/mentoring/grooming people and building high-performing teams who creates very high impact

Oct 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Led the overall engineering,product,data,devops strategy and execution.
• Experience scaling Licious to a unicorn.
• Re-architected the stack, and brought in new technologies to the stack.
• Build lean teams, mentoring them and collaboratively creating low latency scalable platforms.
• Enhanced user experience across all platforms - leads to more transparency and the best possible booking experience by having a user interface that is crisp, concise, high page performance and intuitive.
• Mentoring engineers/leads, setting their KPIs, conducting
• regular 1:1s/reviews, grooming the tech roadmaps working closely with product/business functions
• Building long-term technology vision, strategy & roadmap for Engineering teams, aligning with the business goals
• Built the high-quality motivated engineering team.

Aug 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• Responsible for the set-up and operation of the Offshore Development Center (ODC) in Bangalore and
• hired for and built multiple high-performing engineering teams of about 100+ engineers in less than a year.
• Led engineering for the consumer tech platform, payments, data engineering, product, Machine Learning, Analytics and DevOps practices.
• Led the ideation and development of the first Data/Click-stream platform, MDM, Diagnostic platform
• Helped build the vision and initial product and technology roadmap for the consumer platform, data engineering and Infrastructure.
• Played a key role in designing the infrastructure for growing micro-services. This includes the
• adoption of API gateway architecture on Kubernetes

Mar 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Re-architected the stack, brought in new technologies in the stack and automated operational work-flows.
• Build lean teams, mentoring them and collaboratively creating low latency scalable platforms.
• Implemented rule-based approaches to identifying fraud detection.
• Designed platforms that are linearly scalable in nature and improved operational efficiency.
• Experience in developing algorithms to solve computationally complex problems.
• Building the team, culture and tools/technologies to scale the business operations(Price Transparency - HJPriceQuote,Track location of the Service Provider while the job is in progress - HJSpoor, Buy a package and predefine calendar for SP visits - HJSubscription.)
• Enhanced user experience across all platforms - leads more transparency and the best possible booking experience by having a user interface that is crisp, concise,high page performance and intuitive.
• On the technology side,initially using a PHP stack with a monolithic core which was difficult to scale and a nightmare to maintain, let alone adding new features. Switched to ReactJS,Node.JS,Yarn,Redux and many more stack in WEB and MWEB platforms

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos

• https://www.totalcloud.io/ - Acquired by Qualys
• https://remedicohealth.com/ - Not active
• https://tryndbuy.com/
• https://www.zypp.app/
• https://www.playtoome.com/
• https://getambee.com/
• https://whatfix.com/newsroom/press-releases/whatfix-acquires-leap-is-to-expand-mobile-capabilities/ - Acquired by Whatfix
• https://www.farmersmandi.in/
• http://www.vigocare.com/
• https://oneassure.in/
• https://ripplr.in/
• http://www.glamyo.in/ - Not active
• https://www.refrens.com/
• https://zealthy.in/ - Not active
• http://hobspace.com/ - Not active
• https://www.eka.care/
• https://tanx.fi/
• https://www.scribbledata.io/
• https://www.lendenclub.com/
• https://www.oyela.in/
• https://www.kofluence.com/
• https://www.evenflowbrands.com
• https://www.precarmart.com/
• https://typoapp.io/
• https://www.neodocs.in/
• https://thegamingproject.co/
• https://wiom.in/
• https://nector.io/
• https://vidyo.ai/
• https://www.myjar.app/
• https://www.descrypt.com/ - Not active
• https://www.glamplus.in/
• https://www.letsaspire.in/
• https://galaxeye.space/
• https://preimage.ai/
• https://fello.in/
• https://www.atomic.work/
• https://www.extraaedge.com/
• https://buupass.com/
• https://lifeguru.app/
• https://www.vegapay.tech/
• https://www.gloroots.com/
• https://tapinvest.in/
• https://turboml.com/
• https://kusho.co/
• https://hypergro.ai/
• https://www.beatoven.ai/
• https://www.multiwoven.com/ - Acquired by AI Squared
• https://www.atomgrid.in/
• https://www.scalekit.com/
• https://www.procuzy.com/
• https://cavaathleisure.com/
• https://www.quicklend.in/
• https://smallest.ai/
• https://www.billionhearts.co/
• https://www.voicing.ai/
• https://www.zenopsys.ai/
• https://www.weaverapp.ai/
• https://multipli.fi/
• https://nexie.co/
• https://bbetter.co/
• https://www.joinelixir.club/
• https://www.nivasafinance.com/
• https://pramaanalabs.ai/

Jul 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Created a high level capability roadmap to enable scale and extensibility
• Worked on microservices based architecture
• Assembeled a common service framework using DropWizard, Guice, JPA, Hystrix
• Developed common infrastrcuture code (mostly glue code) to enable configuration management, metrics / monitoring, db migration, scheduling
• Helped institute strong development practices - pre commit code reviews, automated unit testing, continuous integration / continuous delivery, single click deployment
• Mentored a team of very capable engineers and helped grow the team in sustainable manner
• Was closed involved in implementation of few key capabilities - Chat,Transaction ,LMS,Community, Rule Engine,Recommendation Engine..etc
• Provide technical assistance to the team and ensure that the best practices are employed in creating high performing, scale-able products
• Actively involved in product, marketing, delivery, strategy making and almost everything..
• Experience in streamlined tech operations as required, automating it
• Quickly evaluating ideas with data points and then implementing the same
• Worked on the app's complete design overhaul following Material Design guidelines.

Oct 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Great experience on B2C, B2B and SaaS platforms (redBus, SeatSeller, BOGDS)
• Transaction system which scales from 1 to 100k transaction(s) per day.
• Streamlined a realtime Centralised Inventory System (Tech), integrated with various third party vendors.
• Integration with various PGs and Offline Cash collections vendors (eg. ecom express, suvidhaa, Sugal damani)
• Architected international,inventory system and hotel platforms (with multi language and currency support)
• Automated refunds and cancellation through IVR System, and marginally reduced operational cost.
• Top 10 Java professional in Bangalore, conducted by Silicon India, Bangalore in 2013.
• Deeply involved in building highly scalable and fault tolerance systems.
• First customer to leverage Google big query and AWS in India.
• Distributed SOA, built various centralised platforms, like UMS, CIS, Cache Management Systems.. etc.
• Handled data and security platforms to run systems smoothly.
• Provide technical assistance to the team and ensure that the best practices are employed in creating high performing, scale-able products

Apr 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Lead and principal developer for LIS (Live Integrations System) - the inventory system at redBus.in
• Played a critical role in the scaling of the inventory systems at redBus.
• Built first SaaS based application for bus operators.
• Architected and led redBus.in’s cloud strategy and migration.
• Implemented data center migration across geographies.
• Inter language application migration - C# to Java , Java to Nodejs.
• Database migration across technologies , MSSQL-->MySQL-->RDS.
• Implemented disaster recovery,monitoring ,alerting systems.
• Founded the platform team at redBus to enable platformizing of common components used across teams and products.
• Driven first time adoption of new technologies in the company , cloud,nosql,nodejs,mysql,location and geo based services,big query,github,memcache.

Jun 2007 – Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Jun 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr

May 2005 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore