Apr 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Darwinbox, a unicorn and leader in HCM space in Asia, is a “hiring to retiring” full HR lifecycle management software. As Head of Engineering at Darwinbox, I am working on engineering transformation to prepare the company for the next phase of growth. Darwinbox started as India focused and my role is to scale the product & processes for global readiness.
• It has been exciting, and challenging ride - from doubling the team by hiring almost 100 engineers across levels to building functionalities for the South-East & the Middle East markets to upping the game in terms of stability & scalability. Have leveraged my experience in running high performing large teams to setup various SDLC, Quality & Release processes and get to predictable plan and quality. Brought in innovation with Generative AI & Chatbot related features. Also, am responsible for managing client CTOs/CIOs and partnerships with Microsoft.

Feb 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Was responsible for growing Edge browser share world-wide on new Windows device and improve user productivity such that they can get more from web! Owned engineering for user personalisation services in Edge like getting started experience, nurturing, form fill, password, shopping and travel. The team was responsible for migration of 1.2 billion Windows devices from old Edge to new Edge – carrying all the browser data forward with more than six sigma reliability. Worked across client and server stack on technologies ranging from C++, C# to Azure & ML. Despite joining the team just at the onset of pandemic, was able to grow the team charter by 100%.
• Was part of Extended Leadership Team at Microsoft IDC which was responsible for all the common initiatives across the 11K+ employees. As part of this, led initiatives around learning and development, which has always been my passion.

Feb 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Part time angel investor with Eagle10 Ventures. Focused on evaluating technologies for the startups that look interesting to the group.

Oct 2015 – Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• As Head of Engineering of Kony Quatum (or AppPlatform - https://www.kony.com/quantum/), I have engineering ownership for three products –
• Kony Fabric – a highly scalable SaaS backend with services like Identity, Integration, Analytics
• Kony Visualizer – a RAD tool to design & develop omni-channel (iOS, Android, Windows & Web) apps
• Kony App Factory – a Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery pipeline for Kony apps
• With a formidable team of 250 engineers, I am leading the innovation and growth at Kony, incubating new products like Kony Fabric & AppFactory and features like IQ, intelligent assistant (chatbot) for Kony developers. As a key member of product leadership, I envisage & build a digital platform that help customers build powerful apps easily. Revolutionizing not just mobile but web app development too with rapid application development tool for Responsive Web and Progressive Web along with support for features like Offline Data and Microservices. This IP resulted in recent acquisition of Kony by Temenos.
• Additionally, I am the Executive In-charge for all Technical Training and Top Talent programs across Kony, along with other site administrative responsibilities for the Hyderabad center.

Dec 2013 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• I was engineering owner for Kony MobileFabric and Kony Cloud.
• Kony MobileFabric is a cloud-first mobile backend as a service, with various enterprise grade services like Identity, Integration, Analytics and features including browser based development tool.
• Kony Cloud is cloud hosted service for Kony MobileFabric and other Kony products offered by Kony to its enterprise customer.
• Kony was primarily an on-premise company till ’13 and my responsibility was to take Kony software to Cloud. In less than a year, I built a team of 40 people and came up with Kony Cloud, a SaaS offering for the only Kony service. In two years, we expanded to multi-discipline team of 120 engineers from developers to operations, spanning geographies - India, US, Croatia & Australia, building multiple enterprise grade cloud services like Identity, Offline Objects, Enterprise App Store.

Apr 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Microsoft Application Insight is a cross over between Splunk, New Relic and Google Analytics with an intention of giving app developer complete insight into their application. I led the engineering team for India, and working with counterparts in Redmon, took the product from inception to Beta.

Mar 2010 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

• In 2005, Microsoft decided to expand Visual Studio, its flagship development tool, into full SDLC solution and started Team Foundation Server, a suite with tools ranging from source control, work item tracking, agile testing and CI/CD. I was core member of TFS from inception, leading the testing tools effort for all Microsoft customers with a team of 25 odd engineers. The toolset included UI Testing tool & Exploratory Testing tool along with server components for test case management, reporting and analytics.

Sep 2006 – Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked on Team Foundation Service, Team Foundation Build, TFS Integration Platform

Nov 1999 – Sep 2006 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked on Visual J# and Visual C# in various capacity.

Jun 1998 – Nov 1999 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Worked on SQL Engine, ODBC & JDBC drivers.