May 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Lead the Contest (Revenue) team building and scaling Dream11’s core contest systems for 220M+ users. Deliver high-impact product enhancements, architect scalable join flows handling 60M RPM, and drive cross-functional execution across product, design, and payments. Own team hiring, performance management, and technical mentorship. Spearhead platform initiatives for new business verticals and accelerate GTM for flagship products.
• Technologies: Java, Vert.x, Akka, VoltDb, MySQL, Postgres, Kafka, DynamoDB, AWS

Dec 2022 – May 2023 · 5 mos

• Payment Provider Integrations:
• Worked on integrating multiple payment providers for the Gopay ecosystem. Worked on integrating Direct Debit & VAs of multiple banks (BCA, CIMB, etc) & wallets (linkaja, paylah) in Indonesia & Singapore.

Aug 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Consumer Growth:
• Worked on developing consumer-facing and core platform services that had to be highly scalable and reliable in nature. Lead the team which was handling low latency, highly scalable, and reliable communications platform (~14k rpm) & user management (~150 million users) for Gopay.
• Worked closely with the stakeholders to identify the requirements, plan the delivery with proper estimates & detail out workable stories for a sprint.
• Contributed to the architecture decisions with detailed writeups and help the team with solutions, mentor juniors, and also work on the ground to keep my hands dirty.
• Lead from the front in times of incidents and work on improving situations with proper monitoring & alerting to increase visibility and reduce the recurrence of incidents.
• Technologies Used: Java, Clojure, Golang, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS, GCP

Mar 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Jul 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

• N26 is mobile-first, branch less, challenger bank in the EU, also expanding into the UK and USA.
• Working on developing a secure, scalable and maintainable microservices.
• Design and develop a secure way to confirm user sensitive actions
• Design and develop core platform to handle common tasks like notifications and translations
• Building distributed systems for ever-increasing user base and features
• Contributed heavily towards automated testing and load testing systems
• Skills :
• Kotlin, Spring
• RDS (Postgres), AWS ELB (Load balancing)
• Consul (Service discovery), Envoy (Sidecar)
• Jenkins (CI), Maven (Build), Docker (Container)

Dec 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune Area, India

• Worked on developing scalable backend for Viu - one of the biggest OTT platforms in Asia.
• Design scalable restful web apis for backend which serves multiple clients and around 600 request per minute at peak
• Design rule engine for offers system and flexible system for various carrier billing options integrations
• Design user journey configuration system to tweak user experience at micro level and allow A/B testing
• Refactor, Clean up existing legacy code and increase the test coverage
• Make apis restful, re-structure database schema, carve modules into micro-services where ever appropriate
• Automate infra tasks and day-to-day reporting and support tasks
• Skills :
• Java8 with Javaslang, Spring
• AWS services - DynamoDB, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Route 53
• CI - Jenkins

Oct 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune Area, India

• Worked on amalgamation of distributed systems and cloud platforms for banking client.
• Done POCs on
• In-memory data grids
• AWS Redshift : Petabyte-scale data warehouse service in cloud
• Skills :
• Distributed Systems, Spark, Hadoop, In-memory data grids,
• AWS services - S3, Redshift, RDS, EC2
• Python

Jun 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune Area, India

• Responsibilities:
• Web dashboard for simplifying build & release team tasks.
• Fully automate end-to-end applications interacting with Git, Gerrit and Jenkins.
• Turn-time reduced from ~3 working days to ~8-12 hours (to 10 mins on web app).
• Skills:
• Python, Git, Gerrit, extJS, Javascript, Make, Jenkins