Jun 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Implemented a freemium experience, seamlessly onboarding 100% of new students into a freemium course, resulting in a 30% increase in user engagement and a more immersive introduction to our platform.
• Spearheaded the design and implementation of an in-house schedule management solution facilitating scheduling, listing, and clash checks for over 10,000 weekly classes.
• Designed and implemented a localized identity provider supporting multiple persona types, currently serving 100,000+ Monthly Active Users (MAU).

Apr 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Shipment Batching V2: Designed and developed a highly extensible shipment batching solution for Ula leveraging an in-house rule engine, resulting in a 90% reduction in manual efforts by Operations.
• Routing Platform: Architected and developed an in-house routing and route optimization solution for Ula using open-source software like VROOM (routing engine) and OSRM (optimization engine).
• Leveraged knowledge of stateful web services to implement a robust and efficient CICD pipeline for OSRM, utilizing AWS EFS Volume in ECS Task Container. The pipeline significantly reduced the service spin-up time from 2 hours to just 15 minutes.
• Enhanced optimization engine performance by enabling asynchronous communication with the VROOM library through a custom wrapper and utilizing Golang's multithreading capability, resulting in a four-fold increase in request capacity.
• Achieved a significant reduction in delivery planning time by 75% (from 2 hours to 30 mins) and eliminated third-party routing cost entirely (25000$ per month) by implementing the in-house routing solution.
• Mid-Mile Delivery: Developed a capability for Ula to deliver Mid-Mile consignments from warehouses to pick-up points, resulting in a 60% increase in on-time deliveries and improving the company's logistics capabilities.

Jun 2021 – Apr 2022 · 10 mos

• Identified and resolved bottlenecks with the aid of New Relic through load testing of multiple P0 and P1 APIs, resulting in a ~200% decrease in response time achieved by implementing client-side caching, read-write separation, and refactoring.
• Engineered and implemented Delivery Failure Management & Re-delivery capability for failed deliveries, streamlining the Operations team's manual effort by approximately 1.5 hours per day.
• Achieved a 50% reduction in response time and decoupled the delivery payment flow by refactoring, caching, and making changes to the database design, resulting in more efficient and robust APIs.
• Conducted over 30 Problem-Solving interviews for various backend roles, contributing to Ula's hiring process. Additionally, I mentored and onboarded an intern from day one, successfully guiding her journey to become a Full Stack Developer.

Jul 2020 – Jun 2021 · 11 mos

• Designed and developed new features and enhancements for API and event-based microservices using technologies such as Spring Webflux, Apache Kafka, and Java 8, resulting in increased functionality and improved user experience.
• Collaborated with 100+ team members distributed across multiple centers and timezones on all stages of the system's development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to production releases, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality standards.
• Integrated the Saga pattern into various microservices to achieve fault tolerance and resilience, improving system reliability and minimizing downtime.
• Created detailed technical documentation and workflows in a private wiki, providing easy access and education for new team members.
• Refactored existing microservices and wrote comprehensive test cases using JUnit and Mockito, covering more than 95% of the code and ensuring system stability and performance.

Jan 2020 – Jun 2020 · 5 mos

• Worked on an e-learning platform for “The World’s Learning Company”.
• Scaled up on frontend technologies like React.js, Gatsby, etc.
• Performed integration of microservices across the system.

Jul 2019 – Dec 2019 · 5 mos

• Worked on various Proof of Concepts on Spring Framework, Reactive Programming, Java 8, HIbernate, and NoSQL databases.
• Went through rigorous training sessions on industrial software development practices such as Agile, Kanban, and Scrum.