Nov 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Joined during the transition from Wizely Wallet app into initial plans of a Neo Bank, in partnership with ICICI Bank.
• Been working on setting the roadmap, feature implementations, branding, and been using my tech skills to manage web related assets.

Apr 2019 – Nov 2019 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Zactar.com was a solo attempt at creating an intelligent assistant that is always aware about expenses and incomes of a user in real time, helping the user spend wisely keeping in mind their set financial goals.
• Due to policy restrictions by Google for Gmail reads, this didn't look like a product that will be use-able by the masses. Last version worked using a 'hack-ish' way of setting filters in Gmail to forward relevant emails to Zactar.

Apr 2019 – Aug 2019 · 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• As a part-time and remote consultant, worked on ETL processes along with setting up Spark for parallelizing processes and doing optimizations for Business Intelligence team.

Jan 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Helping customers get their meds delivered ASAP with efficiency!
• Re-wrote the entire micro-service for assignment of deliveries single-handedly, keeping it highly flexible to handle various settings for all modes (immediate, express, priority, next day delivery) of deliveries and all warehouses. The cost of delivery was reduced by 50%.
• Wrote and took full responsibility for a new micro-service for all inbound inventories from our distributors into the system and how they get racked in each of the warehouses.
• Involved with making other processes more efficient by adding new features or improving current flows in call center, deliveries, inventory management, audits, etc.
• Was first runner up at internal hackathon called "Hack-una Matata".

Jul 2017 – Jan 2018 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading the technological work on products and architecting solutions with scalability.
• Tech: Nodejs, MongoDB, Python (Flask), Postgresql, Redis, AWS

Mar 2017 – Jul 2017 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Full-time Software Engineer as a consultant for Choice.ai, during its pre-launch development phase. Worked on solutions requiring high scalability.
• Majorly worked on:
• Data collection frameworks and plugins
• Development of Service layer APIs
• Backend API Architecture for scalability, and implementing the same
• Tech used: Nodejs, MongoDB, Python, PHP (Magento, OpenCart), Redis, Nginx, Kafka

Jul 2016 – Dec 2016 · 5 mos

• Mpower.chat is a pivot by the Explorate.in team. Mpower.chat aims to be a chat based solution across existing messaging platforms for businesses to automate processes and interact with their customers via chatbots.
• Being the only developer at that junction, I played a crucial role along with the team to get it set
• up.
• In brief:
• Developed FB chatbot for conducting pilot project in collaboration with a restaurant using its FB page
• Simplified the restaurant chatbot for FB to be automatically set up by just logging in via FB. The owner can then add the restaurant menu and make the bot live. Hence, rolled out “Mpower for Restaurants” as SAAS based model for integrating chatbot on FB pages.
• Integrated Wit.ai into the chatbot to use its NLP to interpret intent from the text received from user, and responding accordingly.
• Stayed tightly involved in brainstorming, business model development, hiring, and giving FB chatbot demos to clients in other service industries such as banking and police services.

Jul 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Developed and maintained everything that required tech, from end-to-end, along with being constantly involved with day-to-day startup activities.
• Apart from the constant feature additions and improvements, major challenges were saving and
• categorising products being saved by users, having a backend to monitor the products while allowing every product to get automatically tagged for better search results instantly, showing users the products according to their own taste (Personalisation), categorising users into categories based upon their interactions with the website.
• In brief, worked on the following:
• Implemented personalisation of products for a logged-in user to adapt to the user's taste of products, and show products according to that.
• Optimized the loading time of website from 10-13s to 2-4s.
• Crawling 100+ E-Commerce websites to fetch latest prices of products saved to our website by users. Constant crawling of saved products to check for any updates.
• Once crawled, products get automatically tagged with various categories(e.g. for Summer, Winter, for parties, etc.), type of product(e.g. Accessory, Clothing, Shoes etc.) using basically the crawled title and description of the product.
• This auto tagging was the base of tag-based search queries. This could be managed in a backend interface for the team.
• Developed Chrome Extension to make it easier for users to save products from any e-commerce website.
• For non-chrome users, made a script, executable as a bookmark to do the same.
• Developed a Price Alert feature to help users stay alert about changes in the prices of products saved by them.
• Worked on UI redesigns, while keeping an eye on Google Analytics

Jul 2014 – Oct 2014 · 3 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Worked on redesigning, optimizing and day-to-day maintenance of two backends panels, used by the in-house operations team

Jun 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai, India

• Startoholics is an Indian platform for Entrepreneurship, startups and the inspirational stories behind startups and their journeys.
• Our main USP was publishing stories of startup founders, as our aim was not to just publish success stories, but struggle stories too.

Sep 2012 – Jun 2013 · 9 mos · Online

• DreamingKnights was a web development business.
• Developed and hosted websites for a few clients.

Jul 2012 – Nov 2012 · 4 mos · Patiala, Punjab, India

• Developed www.fire2012.in for an event being organized by us to raise funds for a Deaf and Blind school in Patiala.
• Developed the website alone while working continuously for 16 hours.
• Also, it was one of the best experiences of my life when I walked blind students to food court of a mall on 3rd floor from ground, while holding their hands.