Mar 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• After Paymentus acquired Paxcom in 2018, I joined as Engineering Manager to lead multiple key initiatives. My primary responsibility was to hire and build a high-performing team to support the Paymentus platform. During my tenure, I tackled several complex challenges, including ingesting over 1TB of data every weekend into the platform, creating a robust data integration pipeline, and developing a framework to onboard billers not yet in the Paymentus network. These initiatives were critical in expanding the platform's capabilities and improving operational efficiency
• Tech Stack: NodeJS, Mongodb, Kubernetes, Terraform, DroneCI, Kafka, Prometheus, Influx/Telegraf

Aug 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I co-founded Paxcom with the mission of addressing the challenges faced by brands selling on marketplaces by providing them with a 360-degree view of their business through actionable insights. Our SaaS product, used by leading brands across India and APAC, monitors nearly 1M+ products daily to generate insights and optimize ad placement strategies on marketplaces.
• As the Co-Founder and CTO, I led the product roadmap, built and scaled the engineering team, and defined the technical architecture. I also established DevOps practices and cultivated a high-performance culture to drive the company’s growth and innovation
• Tech Stack - AWS, Python, NodeJS, AngularJS, Docker, Spark, Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, PostgresSQL, Redis, EMR, ELK, Fluentd

Dec 2014 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I led and built the R&D division of the company, managing a team of over 30 top-tier engineers focused on researching and developing proprietary technologies in DevOps and the US capital markets. My role included overseeing the P&L for the division, ensuring the group’s initiatives were aligned with business objectives.
• The intellectual property (IP) created by our team played a critical role in securing multiple contracts with leading US-based firms across the financial and media industries, solidifying the company’s position as a key player in these sectors.

Jan 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I led the development of two key frameworks:
• StocInn (www.stocinn.com): A real-time capital market analytics platform delivered via a web app using WebSockets.
• Boxupp (www.boxupp.com): An automation tool built on top of Vagrant to streamline deployment processes.
• I conceptualized the ideas for both frameworks, defined the prototypes, and served as the Technical Architect throughout their development. These solutions not only provided significant value to our existing clients but also played a key role in securing substantial new contracts for the company.

Mar 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I led the development of Chaikin Analytics, a tool designed for the US capital markets that predicts stock behavior based on backtested algorithms from the last 10 years. The tool was the brainchild of Marc Chaikin, a prominent figure on Wall Street, and I played a key role in transforming his vision from concept to a production-ready application, which is now used by numerous investors.
• Additionally, I developed a high-performance DLL in C++ for Scottrade, enabling them to process and deliver compressed time-series data from the US stock exchange. This DLL was designed to be extremely efficient, capable of rendering over 100 records per second on the user interface.
• I also took responsibility for building and mentoring a team of engineers, ensuring they were equipped with the necessary skills to tackle complex projects and contribute effectively to our product’s success.

Mar 2007 – Mar 2011 · 4 yrs · Gurgaon, India

• Worked as module lead for data compression research project in C/C++ as part of ATG ( Advanced Technology group) of Smith Micro.
• Conceptualised the algorithm for Kyocera to decompress the part of files on the fly in memory by enhancing the LZW algorithm. Algorithm was intended to be used on Qualcomm file format which Kyocera was using for storing the OS related string to be used in various screens
• Also worked on IJG library for working on lossless compression of JPEG files which was helping us to reduce 30% size without any loss of quality

Oct 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Implement algorithms in C/C++ for data compression specifically for Microsoft based OLE file format, where my role was first to reverse engineer the file format and then parse the file to get the raw data like text, images and then compressing the text and images and putting them back into the file.
• Pretty challenging since formats specifications was not pretty open, and we have to update all the pointers in the file with new memory locations