Jun 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Startup Leadership & Agile Execution
• Increased feature velocity by 65% with startup-style delivery and lightweight governance.
• Drove agile transformation, shifting to lean, hypothesis-driven development.
• Established engineering best practices for scalability while preserving agility.
• Made critical technical decisions under constraints, optimizing business value.
• Multi-Team & Cross-Functional Leadership
• Led Platform, Data, and DevOps teams, aligning diverse workstreams.
• Developed team leads, improving execution and removing bottlenecks.
• Used data-driven insights to prioritize initiatives and align with business goals.
• Strategic Impact & Decision-Making
• Halted a high-profile project due to architectural risks, realigning stakeholders.
• Championed the Saga pattern for distributed transactions, proving its value with a POC.
• Restructured teams into cross-functional pods, improving delivery speed by 40%.
• Managed technical debt strategically, prioritizing business-critical components.
• Technical Contributions & Engineering
• Designed a distributed transaction framework using the Saga pattern.
• Built high-scale data pipelines with Apache Airflow, processing millions daily.
• Developed real-time order processing with Kafka and Redis.
• Created reusable Apache Flink libraries for data masking & pattern detection.
• Actively contribute to critical code and mentor engineers.
• People Management & Growth
• Led performance reviews, resulting in promotions and structured improvements.
• Scaled engineering teams by 30% with strategic hiring.
• Improved retention by 25% through mentorship programs.
• Technical Leadership & Innovation
• Guide DevOps teams on cloud optimization and cost savings.
• Built a POC for real-time inventory sync and distributed transactions

May 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote · Remote

• Engineering Leadership & Multi-Team Management
• Led five engineering teams (frontend, backend, infrastructure) with distinct timelines.
• Mentored team leads, improving execution and delegation.
• Streamlined dependencies, ensuring alignment across teams.
• Standardized project management, enhancing visibility and reducing overhead.
• High-Velocity Delivery & Agile Execution
• Increased release frequency from monthly to weekly.
• Enabled continuous delivery with feature flags & canary deployments.
• Shifted focus from project completion to business impact.
• Launched innovation sprints, delivering three high-impact features.
• Strategic Decision-Making & Business Impact
• Decentralized architecture governance, cutting delivery times by 35%.
• Challenged an executive-driven tech adoption, securing a better alternative.
• Halted a risky feature launch, negotiating a secure timeline.
• Advocated for specialized engineer compensation, securing HR approval.
• Successfully pivoted a struggling project and realigned stakeholders.
• Technical Contributions & Hands-On Engineering
• Optimized micro-frontends, reducing load times by 45%.
• Built a GraphQL abstraction layer, improving API performance.
• Developed A/B testing infrastructure for experimentation.
• Created a Web Vitals monitoring library, adopted company-wide.
• Designed and implemented Akamai caching strategies.
• Engaged in pair programming to solve complex issues.
• People Management & Growth
• Led performance cycles, promoting four engineers to senior roles.
• Improved hiring quality and reduced onboarding time by 40%.
• Balanced budgets while ensuring competitive compensation.
• Transitioned underperforming employees into better roles.
• Technical Leadership & Innovation
• Led architectural design for scalable, high-performance solutions.
• Improved cloud architecture, reducing feature churn by 30%.

Oct 2021 – May 2022 · 7 mos · Mississauga, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Strategic Business & Team Leadership
• Opted for a hybrid Redis/Kafka solution, saving $200K in migration costs while fixing 80% of performance issues.
• Defended a high-potential underperformer, creating a coaching plan that led to their promotion.
• Challenged standard AWS architecture, designing a custom solution that cut cloud costs by 35%.
• Negotiated remote work for key talent before company policy allowed, retaining critical team members.
• Took accountability for rolling back a high-visibility release, creating a proactive recovery plan.
• Deep Technical Contributions & IC Experience
• Designed microservices architecture, reducing development time by 25% with optimized service interfaces.
• Built a Redis-based message queue system to replace Kafka for internal service communication.
• Led the migration from monolithic apps to microservices, refactoring critical components in Java Spring Boot.
• Developed secure access control systems using OAuth, SAML, and OpenID Connect.
• Optimized React.js performance, improving rendering speeds by 60%.
• Architected MongoDB scaling solutions, implementing custom sharding and connection pooling.
• People Management & Growth
• Led quarterly and annual performance reviews for six direct reports, driving tailored development plans.
• Secured promotions for two high-performing engineers.
• Managed compensation discussions, ensuring fairness and market competitiveness.
• Implemented performance improvement plans with a 50% success rate in turnaround.
• Established clear career advancement pathways, boosting key talent retention.
• Technical Leadership & Innovation
• Leads design implementation and refines development processes, including TDD and SDLC improvements.

Apr 2021 – Oct 2021 · 6 mos · Ontario, Canada

Sep 2020 – Apr 2021 · 7 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Worked on Client project for Telecom Domain. Building Web application and working on new enhancements.

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Leadership & Architecture Impact
• Led application development and support for a healthcare technology platform.
• Designed enterprise-grade healthcare applications as Lead Architect.
• Reduced technical debt by 40% through coding standards and architectural reviews.
• Integrated third-party services into the e-commerce platform for seamless interoperability.
• Made strategic architecture decisions balancing rapid growth with healthcare compliance.
• People Management & Team Growth
• Managed onsite/offshore teams in a distributed work environment.
• Mentored engineers via technical reviews and pair programming, improving sprint velocity.
• Led hiring efforts, attracting top talent in a competitive healthcare tech market.
• Implemented a performance framework with accountability metrics and engagement strategies.
• Created technical growth paths, boosting skill development and retention.
• Hands-On Technical Work
• Authentication Systems: Designed a scalable system handling 50K+ concurrent users.
• Cloud Architecture: Built an AWS Lambda/Fargate/S3 solution optimizing cost and scalability.
• Security Implementation: Developed OAuth-based SSO meeting healthcare security standards.
• Full-Stack Development: Built Node.js microservices and Angular.js frontend components.
• Database Engineering: Optimized MongoDB for efficient healthcare data storage.
• Integration Architecture: Developed email services and SSO integrations across platform components.
• Scaling & Performance Optimization
• Architected systems supporting rapid user growth from launch to 50K+ concurrent users.
• Implemented memory optimizations improving client-side application performance.
• Established CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments while maintaining quality.
• Created a microservices architecture to handle growing transaction volumes.
• Led cross-team security, compliance, and operational safety initiatives.
• Designed cost-efficient, high-performance cloud infrastructure for healthcare.

Oct 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Leadership & Architectural Impact
• Designed a real-time IoT platform processing 10M+ monthly data points from industrial machinery.
• Led architecture transformation to serverless AWS (Lambda, Fargate), cutting costs by 40%.
• Spearheaded GraphQL adoption, creating the first GraphQL BaaS platform in Node.js.
• Established microservices best practices through technical deep-dive sessions.
• Reduced system response time by 65% via caching and database optimization.
• People Management & Team Growth
• Scaled engineering team through strategic hiring and structured onboarding.
• Mentored junior developers in real-time data processing and cloud architecture.
• Created technical growth frameworks with clear advancement paths.
• Established a peer code review culture, enhancing quality and knowledge sharing.
• Implemented agile methodologies tailored for data-intensive startup applications.
• Hands-On Technical Contributions
• Data Pipelines: Built Kafka-based real-time streaming from PostgreSQL to API layer.
• GraphQL Innovation: Developed Apollo Launchpad demo platform & Reindex BaaS.
• Frontend Development: Built Angular (v2-6) dashboards & React/Redux data visualizations.
• Security: Engineered OAuth token-based authentication with SSO capabilities.
• Search Optimization: Implemented Elasticsearch fuzzy search for IoT signal detection.
• Real-Time Communication: Created WebSocket & server-sent events for live dashboards.
• Scaling & Performance Optimization
• Migrated monolithic architecture to horizontally scalable microservices, supporting 10x growth.
• Designed a multi-database solution (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j) optimized for access patterns.
• Built a comprehensive testing framework with Unit.js, Jasmine, Karma, Protractor, & Mocha.
• Optimized React rendering using Virtual DOM algorithms for data-heavy visualizations.
• Designed cloud infrastructure balancing cost efficiency with performance for early funding stages.

Nov 2015 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Leadership & Architectural Impact
• Led a globally distributed engineering team across multiple time zones, enabling 24/7 development operations.
• Championed modern frontend architecture with Angular, Redux, and Express for financial applications.
• Introduced microservices, increasing deployment flexibility and cutting release cycles by 40%.
• Balanced regulatory compliance with technical innovation through a cross-functional development methodology.
• Led architecture transformation from monolith to distributed systems for scalability and maintainability.
• People Management & Team Growth
• Managed 10 engineers across global locations, implementing effective remote collaboration frameworks.
• Led scrum ceremonies that ensured team alignment despite geographic challenges.
• Developed a technical skill program accelerating junior engineers’ expertise in distributed systems.
• Established performance standards aligned with financial industry regulations.
• Created knowledge-sharing mechanisms improving cross-region collaboration and reducing redundant work.
• Hands-On Technical Contributions
• Frontend Architecture: Designed modular Angular/Redux systems for complex financial data management.
• Microservices Development: Built Node.js REST APIs with HTTP batching & streaming for high-throughput processing.
• Responsive Design: Developed isomorphic React.js applications for seamless desktop & mobile experiences.
• Testing Infrastructure: Implemented Jasmine/Karma frameworks for end-to-end validation.
• Progressive Web Apps: Created multi-threaded PWAs with service workers for low-latency financial data.
• Backend Optimization: Enhanced Django REST services for high-performance financial reporting.

Apr 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Working .net technologies, MVC 5, entity framework, Html 5, jquery, XML,XSLT,wcf,Web api, asp.net,responsive pages using bootstrap.
• Working on Uncancel project of Makemytrip

May 2013 – Apr 2014 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Jan 2011 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Team Size: 25
• Description: AT&T Services Inc. is one of the world's largest telecommunications holding companies and is the largest in the United States. Operating globally under the AT&T brand, AT&T companies are recognized as the leading worldwide providers of IP-based communications services to business and as leading U.S. providers of high-speed DSL Internet, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services..
• WFM is a core part of AT&T project. This product is designed for fetch order by email or getting by third party which are running under AT&T domain and creates packages inside IPM Process builder. .
• The product is created on VB 6.0. It is migrating into C# and VB.NET as well. There are different team which are handling this project like Developement, Production Support and Database management team.; Study the requirements of the clients and the specific needs of the business projects
• Design, develop based on windows GUI applications using(VB.net,c#,VB6)
• Customize the developed applications as per the client specifications
• Debug the web applications to rectify the errors that surface during the operations
• Adhere to the .NET protocols and standards set for developing the applications
• Draft a logical series of instructions as program codes to determine the software's communication.
• Involved in coding and Enhancement in existing business logic.
• Migrating modules from vb6 into C# and VB.NET,VB6.
• Involving with Client Interaction and providing technical supports.
• Application Support and Maintenance.
• Involved in creation of AD(application design) for new enhancement PMT.
• Working on Ad-hoc requests.
• Writing Vb script for action module used in IPM.
• Environment: .NET 3.0, C#, Oracle ,SQL 2008,VB.net,Vb6,IPM Process Builder, IBM websphere

May 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs

• Project Name – Exact; [USA]
• Team Size: 3
• Description: EXACT Agent is an application that assists you in creating service orders for requests coming into the FLSC (Facilities Local Service Center) via an ASR (Access Service Request) in EXACT for certain types of trunks and facilities. The input for Exact Agent is coming by scraping multiple screens of EXACT and CESAR mainframe screens and the system send the final output to the SORD mainframe screen. Getting the ASR and submitting the ASR are the two major activities while processing the ASR to create the SORD orders. EXACT Agent helps you by automatically creating most of the service orders, minimizing redundant data entry, which, in turn, helps reduce typographical errors.
• .Role & Responsibilities:
• Study the requirements of the clients and the specific needs of the business projects
• Design, develop based on windows GUI applications using(VB.net,VB6)
• Migration of whole application from VB6 to VB.net.
• Debug the web applications to rectify the errors that surface during the operations
• Adhere to the .NET protocols and standards set for developing the applications
• Draft a logical series of instructions as program codes to determine the software's communication.
• Involved in coding and Enhancement in existing business logic..
• Involving with Client Interaction and providing technical supports.
• Application Support and Maintenance.
• Environment: .NET 3.0 , VB.net, SQL 2008,VB.net,Vb6,Exexcutstar,MSAccess.
• ExecuStar (Access to SORD, CESAR, EXACT (West))
• EXACT Agent
• MS SQL 2008 Client tools
• MS Visual Basic 6

May 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Project Name – MTS
• Team Size: 4
• Description: The web based application is created to maintain MTS (shyam sistema telecom) business, and also working for MTS intranet site .The various operations like store user information, validation of user data, billing and dispatch of orders. Solving User query , creating User and generating some reports through database query. Creation of new WebPages for different area of MTS (states).; Involved in coding and Enhancement in existing business logic.
• Involved with Client Interaction.
• Provided Application Support and Maintenance.
• Involved in database activites
• Helping in creation Of new Module .
• Solving User issues related to Intranet site and web pages.
• Creating customised web pages for Specific department .
• Creating HR , Payroll and appraisal modules online for intranet site
• Environment: .NET 3.0, C#, SQL 2005 .asp.net, JavaScript.
• Document the architectural, designing and code specifications accurately
• Provide assistance in team activities by handling secondary responsibilities
• Act as; and verify the contents of the user guides and manuals
• Modify or repair the applications and improve its functionality and security
• Major Achievement :
• Apprieciated by AT&T client to deliver assigment on time by best quality.
• Actively participing in Cultural programme and seminars in TechMahindra.
• Provided solution to some of big LD in our System delivery and at time of .Net migration from vb to vb.net.

May 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

• worked on MTS site at client site on .net,sql,c# for 3months