Nov 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Entrusted with the task of building the platform team in India from scratch. Took care of hiring, tech mentoring of senior members, conceptualization of features with product management team and high level architecture designs. Being a startup eco-system, this role demands end to end responsibility right from feature conceptualization, planning, design, quality, delivery, post-production support etc. Responsible for people as well as technology management of Rafay's platform team and successfully grew the team through Series A and Series B funding rounds of the company.

May 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

• The Rafay Systems Multi-Cluster Management Platform is a turnkey offering that automates Kubernetes cluster management, application deployment and operations at scale. The platform enables development, operations and site reliability engineering teams to govern, manage and monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters and distros, and operating applications in Kubernetes environments running on-premise, in the cloud or at the Edge. Works as Principal Architect to the platform, integration and middleware teams; part of founding team of Rafay and helps with design and decision/executing road-map items for the platform side of product.

Nov 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Architected the micro services architecture for CMS sub-systems that is part of MobileIron Access. Instrumental in providing appropriate guidance towards usage of relevant AWS services for creating high performance and scalable architectures for configuration management, analytics, secure key-stores etc. Designed and delivered multi-region DR (disaster recovery) capability for the production cluster.

Mar 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• This is a startup eco-system and we are trying to conceptualize ideas in gaming/gamification domain. As part of this we create mobile/web apps and their server counter-parts. Working as a hands-on guy doing everything from RA, design, implementation, testing and deployment.

May 2006 – Nov 2013 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Lead a team of architects helping in guiding and mentoring 150+ developers, design high performance, scalable gaming back-end applications for BwinParty. Takes the centre stage for very critical business & RnD lab initiatives so as to closely guide the team in exceeding business expectations. Proactively analyse and solve technical pain-points and provide guidance on high level system architecture and data model so as to align towards the business & IT strategy.
• Part of the 4 member architecture team in designing and developing the next generation gaming back-end for supporting 200K+ concurrent users, further capable of linearly scalable on business requirements.

Feb 2005 – May 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

• Worked as part of the technical team maintaining and developing ColdFusion Application Server (v7.0, v7.1, v8.0). ColdFusion is an application server technology from Macromedia/Adobe with which developers can easily build scalable applications.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 · 5 yrs · Kochi, Kerala, India

• Worked as a team member in the development of pure java driver for MS SQL Server. Also had the opportunity to work as a lead person in the optimization of JDBC driver and also participated in the implementation of JDBC 2.0 and JDBC 3.0 standards. Worked as part of research team for the building up of a new product, which facilitates data integration from different sources. This is to be made possible through the usage of a unique blend of XML technologies like XML Schema, XPath and XQuery.