May 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru

• Built an AI-driven discovery-to-decisioning platform for Gen Z users seeking new and unique experiences, guiding the startup from conception to iterative improvement based on consumer research
• Designed and launched an AI agent with tools - web search (Serper, Tavily), itinerary planning (custom built) and domain-specific tools (Google Places, Trip Advisor). Handling infrastructure, backend, frontend, and AI workloads cost-effectively, while leading a team of SDE interns and rapidly iterating on features
• Built integrations with WhatsApp and Instagram messaging enabled users to share multimodal data (links, images, videos) and Flibbr extract (used Vision models & Video indexers) and create actionable destination boards. Added RAG-based Entity search to Flibbr, powering personalisation and recommendations
• Skills: Generative AI, RAG, LLMs, AI Agent, Agentic Frameworks (Llamaindex, Langchain, CrewAI) FastAPI, Microservices, PMF Exploration

Jun 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

• Engineering owner of the flagship product "slice account," responsible for its end-to-end technical strategy, delivery, and scaling. Led engineering teams focused on building robust payment products, scaling user growth, fostering a growth mindset in the team.
• Led a group of 50+ engineers (BE, FE, QA) building slice account product and quickly scaling it to 2.5 million users & 5 million monthly transactions. Owned the architecture for core payment features - low latency UPI/Card transactions, balance management, rewards and settlements.
• Worked with leadership and stakeholders in defining the roadmap for the charter. Closely collaborate with over 10 teams across various departments to ensure smooth project execution & achieve operational excellence.
• Skills: Engineering Leadership, People Management, Org Scaling, Performance Management & Career Development, Building High-Ownership Teams, Stakeholder Management, Scalable Systems Architecture, Distributed Systems, Partner/Stakeholder Engagement

Dec 2018 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos · On-site

• As part of Security & Compliance, my team built and launched Microsoft Purview – Communication Compliance, joined as the first engineer in the IDC team and drove the product from 0 to 1. Built key features instrumental in launching Communication Compliance at Microsoft Ignite 2019 and General Availability in 2020. Led initiatives to scale the product from 1 to 10, improving latency, optimizing storage capacity, and re-architecting for 10x scale with an event-driven architecture. Enabled the product to handle the scale of Microsoft Outlook + Teams, processing ~15 billion events per day.
• Took on a lead role collaborating with leadership on product roadmap, and driving execution across stakeholders and partner teams. Mentored junior engineers, guiding them in their growth within the team and contributing to a strong engineering culture.

Jan 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · On-site

• Software Engineer as part of BingAds Org.
• Design and build Spark-based near real-time data pipeline to enable BingAds model training on third-party data and power personalization in Ad serving
• Processed events at a scale of 50K per second to generate user-specific feature sets, leveraging cross-batch storage to enable session-based algorithms for enriched feature generation

Feb 2016 – Dec 2016 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Lead and built consumer search stack at Grofers (now Blinkit)
• Developed an indexing pipeline to integrate multiple data sources and schemas into Elasticsearch
• Designed and implemented low-latent search service to support consumer and internal workloads around Elasticsearch
• Enhanced search experience with recommendations and relevance tuning
• Mentored junior team members, providing technical and career growth guidance

Aug 2015 – Feb 2016 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Joined the Founding team as first engineer. Designed and build end-to-end application features optimizing for best user experience.

Jan 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore, India · On-site

• Lead and built batch and streaming pipelines using Apache Spark for real-time analytics - Anomaly detection on server logs & Real-time supply chain analytics platform