Dec 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Head of Engineering for Grab payments gateway and merchant acquiring business.
• Built products offering payments solutions for online and offline merchants across south east Asia.

Dec 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs

• Led, coached and managed a team of 60 + engineers across 3 teams. Managed multiple engineering managers. principal engineers, mobile engineers and data scientists.
• Led Payments Risk, compliance teams - which includes critical regulatory functions like KYC and KYB processes that supported e-wallet;
• Also led a Digital Marketplace team which serves millions of customers in SE Asia making Grab a super app with use cases like bill payments and mobile recharges.

Sep 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Built products which drove automation using machine learning techniques to reduce tedious manual work. Headcount savings of hundreds of people.
• Transactions Match Recommendation System- Built a system to reduce manual reconciliation effort by proposing matches for millions of transactions to the Operations team using TF-IDF scores and Random forest Classification.
• Built Attribute Extraction Product - For images and digital PDFs using OpenCV, OCR to automate manual reading of documents.

Sep 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr · Noida Area, India

• Built Movies and Events platform at Paytm, making it no. 2 platform in India and delivering GMV of $200 million/year, having innovative features like movie ticket insurance.
• Hired, led and coached a team of more than 25 engineers including UI, Testing and Backend engineers. Peak traffic of 60K requests/min, 6M tickets sold/month.
• My team built a Point of Sale product for selling movie tickets in offline/online mode, successfully running at multiple cinemas.

May 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Built Mobile Push Notifications and Home page personalization services.
• Personalization of Push Notifications platform - Based on User Activity and Serving notifications to 10M customers
• Personalization of Customer Home Page - Collaborative Filtering ML technique

Apr 2013 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs

• Built Derivatives Trade Matching Application - For Interest Rates Swaps, Swaptions, Credit Default Swaps, FRA, Overnight Index Swaps, and IRS – Basis

Aug 2010 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Cyprus

• Senior engineer building CRM software products used by Telecom companies like AT&T and Bell labs.

Aug 2008 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs · Pune Area, India