Aug 2019 – Apr 2025 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Led and scaled multiple engineering teams across Maps, Driver Onboarding, and Automation, delivering high-impact, global initiatives.
• Built and expanded charters like Driver Onboarding and Error-Log Platform, transitioning teams across regions while aligning with business priorities.
• Led One Places Data Platform, reducing dependencies and unlocking new revenue opportunities, increasing trip independence by 31% in Brazil and 72% in the U.S.
• Drove engineering excellence by automating deployments (8x/week), reducing error logs by 67%, and enhancing platform stability, delivering scalable, reliable systems globally.
• Mentored and developed high-performing teams, fostering technical excellence and enabling cross-functional collaboration across geographies.

Feb 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I focus on enhancing the catalog of Amazon by building systems that process millions of URLs a day. Our world class team is made of engineers, scientists who work on developing world class algorithms that can build a prioritized view of the WWW.

Oct 2013 – Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• As the Engineering Manager for eBay's Billing system, I manage a team of high potential engineers in managing and designing the billing system for eBay's Global Marketplace business.
• The billing system is a complex, high throughput system built to handle the millions of transactions that the marketplace business processes every minute. The system is built to handle all of these transactions at scale with utmost financial integrity.

Jan 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

• Post IBM joining OpenJDK(www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/ibm-joins-openjdk), I'm one of the chosen few from within IBM who have been allowed to contribute to the OpenJDK project.
• As an approved contributor in the OpenJDK project with an emphasis in bringing up uniformity between the IBM and Oracle implementations of JDK.
• I'm currently leading a internal project to bring synergy between the development practices adopted by OpenJDK and the Java Technologies team. Beyond this, I also contribute code changes to the PowerPC porting project (openjdk.java.net/projects/ppc-aix-port)

Jun 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Technical Manager for the Java Class Library Development team.
• Apart from managing a team of 15 people, I work on defining the content, implementation strategy and software development methodologies to be employed in the development of the JDK8 release.
• This include migrating the existing development process from subversion to Mercurial, improving the over all build/test efficiency of the Class Library Component and laying the foundation for the future direction of the IBM JDK.
• I also serve on the Requirements Review Board for Java that is responsible for evaluating customer requirements.

Jan 2008 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• As the technical lead of the team, I'm responsible for architecting, designing and validating the critical line-items that get into the IBM SDK. I help out with the design, code reviews and the eventual committing of the code.
• As JDK forms the under-pinning of the entire IBM middleware, and Class Libraries form the bulk of it, I'm responsible for the technical evaluation of all the line items that get into the product. I also serve on the Requirements Review Board that screens customer requirements and evaluates them for their suitability and relevance.

Jun 2001 – Jan 2008 · 6 yrs 7 mos

• I've donned many roles within the Java Technologies team post joining IBM in 2011. Starting in reverse chronological order,
• Core Class Team Lead – June 2006- Jan 2012
• Focused exclusively on the formation and development of the Core Classes team within JTC (team strength – 7). Led the Knowledge Transfer and the education sessions on the transfer of responsibility from Hursley, UK to Bangalore.
• Traveled to Hursley to understand process and acted as the focal point in Bangalore to co-ordinate the transfer effectively.
• Packaging Component Lead – Dec 2004-June 2006
• Owned the packaging and hybrid components in the JDK. Reduced the workload by 25% and defects by 30% while owning these.
• Development Team member – Jan 2003 – Dec 2004
• As part of the development team worked on various enhancements to the Print and JNDI components of the JDK.
• Java Build Team Member – June 2001 – Dec 2003
• Provided daily builds to the Development, Support and Test teams. Involved generating clean builds everyday on more than 12 platforms.
• Complete automation of the entire download process with real-time information status available on intranet site. Followed a Modular Programming model or downloads which facilitates easier addition/removal of any downloads and allows external interfaces to be easily plugged in.
• Headed the JTC Infrastructure Group (JIG) and effectively handled the hardware and software purchases of e-bIT by presenting strong business justification for allocation of more resources for the team

Mar 2001 – Jun 2001 · 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Projects:
• Cycle Time Metric System (CTMS):
• CTMS is a perl application for managing employee time sheets. The application runs on fast-cgi that allows the process to remain in memory thus improving the speed. The application has features like adding a particular task to an employee, assigning a department for a particular period and monitoring project progress.

Sep 1999 – Feb 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Projects:
• Unified Instant Messenger (UIM):
• Developed a Unified Instant Messaging system that allows cross messenger (Yahoo, AOL, MSN) chatting. This project was an extension of an open source project called Jabber. A through understanding of XML protocols and the existing Jabber protocols were essential.
• Web Crawler:
• Developed an Automated Web Crawler, which periodically crawls the web and updates the Search Engine of http://www.appuonline.com. It uses a “Recursive Crawler Algorithm” by which it continuously keeps propagating through web pages using links provided in them. Further, it checks for stale and dead links in the existing URL database.
• Automated Web Page Ranking:
• This was a pilot project aimed at replicating Google’s Page Rank Algorithm. It used the services of the “Web Crawler” to get the pages and an algorithm which ranks a web page based on its relevancy and its popularity. It involved creating a mapping between all the web pages indexed, relative links from each of these pages to every other page and computing the “Weightage” to be given to every web page.
• Natural Language Search:
• Developed a Prototype of “Natural Language Search” for http://www.askappu.com , an answering service aimed at providing information on anything related to India. The prototype allows users to post their question as “English sentences” rather than as “keywords”. This involved considerable understanding of normal English Sentences and development of a computational model, which determines “relative importance” of keywords within a sentence.