Feb 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led the backend engineering charter for MPL’s Leaderboard and Gameview platforms, serving millions of concurrent global players across 20+ competitive games.
• Architected and scaled real-time Leaderboard service to achieve sub-second updates and maintain 99.99% uptime during high-traffic tournaments.
• Designed and optimized the Gameview service, enabling seamless tournament discovery, lobby management, and player matchmaking at scale.
• Partnered with Product, DevOps, and Data teams to ensure smooth end-to-end release readiness, load handling, and reliability under peak user volumes.

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos · On-site

• Transitioned from Staff Engineer to Engineering Manager, leading the backend engineering charter for the metrics ingestion and data processing platform powering AppDynamics observability solutions.
• Directed a team of engineers to design, scale, and operate ingestion pipelines handling millions of metrics per second with stringent SLAs on latency, reliability, and data availability.
• Architected and evolved the platform using Kafka, Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes, improving scalability, fault tolerance, and deployment efficiency across distributed systems.
• Collaborated with Product, SRE, and Platform teams to optimize ingestion performance, improve observability, and drive cost-efficient scaling across hybrid cloud environments.
• Championed engineering best practices, including code reviews, observability enhancements, and automation-driven reliability improvements.

Jul 2018 – Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo · On-site

• Architected and implemented ingestion and aggregation services using Kafka, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes, optimizing throughput, fault tolerance, and data durability.
• Led the development of a highly distributed, microservices-based data ingestion platform that powers real-time observability for enterprise customers across thousands of monitored applications.
• Scaled ingestion pipelines to process billions of metrics per day with strict SLAs on latency, accuracy, and availability, ensuring seamless telemetry flow across global environments.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (Product, SRE, and Platform Engineering) to drive reliability, scalability, and cost optimization initiatives across the observability stack.
• Mentored peer engineers and contributed to architecture reviews, design documentation, and code quality standards to drive engineering excellence and consistency.

Oct 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Marketplace:
• Akamai Marketplace provides extensive access to all new Akamai self-configurable products and enables any existing customers to try/buy, configure Akamai products in just seconds.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• Directing a team of 5; developing. Accountable for 100% automation delivery for owned applications
• Developed REST-based automation framework from scratch.
• Data-driven framework development with 100% API and Web automation coverage.
• Worked with Product, Engineering and DevOps, setup QA processes and definition of done.
• Provided release sign off's

Apr 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Drove test efficiency by improving automation coverage and enhancing the overall release confidence for critical customer-facing modules.
• Acted as a senior member of the QA team, responsible for requirement analysis, risk assessment, and defining testing deliverables and timelines for new and existing features.
• Performed both manual and automation testing using Java and Selenium, ensuring high-quality releases across complex workflows.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to validate integrations with Contract Management Systems, CRM (Salesforce), and Content Management Systems (CMS).
• Contributed to Akamai Marketplace, enabling seamless customer onboarding and product sign-ups across multiple integrated systems

Dec 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Performed REST API testing, database validation, UI testing, and basic security testing to ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Ensured data accuracy and reliability for a highly critical billing application, validating seamless flow across interconnected modules.
• Owned end-to-end testing of a complex application integrated with multiple upstream and downstream systems.

Nov 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore, India · On-site

• Core testing team member for all the regression testing performed on all AIX versions.
• Automation of AIX RBAC module.
• Audit manager
• C based automation framework development

Sep 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore · On-site

• Linux patch testing on QA and production systems.
• ITIL