Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 · 0 mo

• Search Infra/Data Platform.
• I work on search indexing as part of Stripe's Infra org.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 · 0 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• First engg hire on a new team.
• Did some prototyping, planning, spent time speaking with potential customers, tried out a bunch of experimental stuff.

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Summer intern with the Alexa AI-Secure AI Foundations team.
• Designed and developed a highly customizable and granular customer feedback management tool and report generation engine for a multi-tenant platform - enabling capturing of actionable feedback at a micro-level and generating useful periodic insights.
• Wrote REST APIs for managing the feedback lifyecycle and AWS Lambda functions
• for asynchronous insights compilation and report generation.
• Used DynamoDB and AWS S3 as primary data stores and AWS SQS as a message
• queue for communication between REST APIs and processing lambdas.
• Worked with Java (Spring Boot) and AWS (Lambda,DynamoDB,S3,SQS,SES).

Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 · 4 yrs · Remote

• Software engineer on the Payments platform, working on identity, risk, fraud, compliance, and authentication problems.
• 2023 – 2025
• Built an end-to-end risk profiling system for 20 million+ users, integrating ML models (Dynamic Risk Models), Airflow data pipelines, Kafka-based alerting, and real-time enforcement actions, performing 1 billion+ monthly risk computations.
• Contributed to revamping Airbnb’s KYC, Risk, and Sanctions infra - defining new data models, storage architectures and building large-scale data processing pipelines with Apache Spark, Flink, Airflow etc
• Contributed to one of the company’s most complex projects to date - an effort to solve critical data fragmentation across multiple systems and flows into a single consolidated and authoritative user data store. Helped build systems that handle over 10k QPS of traffic as part of the multi-year Long Term Architecture initiative.
• 2021 - 2022
• Built a solution to conditionally enable IVR-based OTP for users, reducing customer drop-off while minimising fraud and abuse.
• Integrated in-session machine learning models to provide risk-based remediation paths for users stuck at various authentication steps. This initiative affected 1 million+ users and reduced customer support tickets by 10 thousand+/month.
• Built a solution to conditionally enable IVR-based OTP for users - reducing customer drop-off while minimising fraud and abuse.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 · 0 mo

• Joined as the first-ever SWE intern - Working directly with a group of founding engineers to plan and build the product.
• Owned and built several mission-critical features for launching the beta product to our initial set of customers.
• Increased development velocity by migrating significant portions of the codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript and enforcing and documenting best practices and design patterns.
• Rewrote the service layers to reduce cyclomatic complexity and improve scalability.
• Reduced page load times by a factor of 2.5 times by rewriting logic on the frontend to enable independent loading of various charts and data
• Reduced load times for rendering large batches of data from > 3 secs to 50ms with the help of cursor-based pagination and windowing.
• Tech stack: React, JavaScript and TypeScript, GraphQL

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 · 0 mo

• Wrote React Modules to help develop a dashboard that supported the firm's content team.
• Wrote AWS Lambdas to automate the process of uploading video content and transcribing them.
• Wrote parsers to extract math-based questions from textbooks.
• Wrote AWS Lambdas for calculation of performance metrics based on test and homework scores.
• Worked with React, NodeJS, AWS Lambda, and GraphQL (Hasura).

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 · 0 mo

• Taught Introductory programming courses to high schoolers.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 · 0 mo

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Redwood City, California, United States

• Working with a team of Facebook, Amazon and Salesforce engineers to build a unique ed-tech product
• Used React and Typescript to help develop the flagship web application
• Contributed towards conceptualizing, developing and refactoring REST APIs
• Migrated the existing API to a newer, more robust validation library
• Wrote and debugged Cloud Function code for serverless computing
• Designed and maintained documentation for the team and wrote best practices guides

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos

• Part of the FunctionIQ team as a frontend developer ( Reactjs )
• Used React and Redux to develop the dashboard/SPA and the website for the team's flagship product,
• ONE ( app.onet.io & onet.io ) .
• Developed a SPA portal for a Banking application using React and Redux.
• Worked on developing two Chrome Extensions for Gmail and Linkedin Sales Navigator respectively.