Mar 2023 – Dec 2023 · 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

• 🚀 Cyble is an AI-first cybersecurity company, operating large-scale threat intelligence platforms including Cyble Vision, Cyble Hawk, and Odin, processing 50+ TB of threat data daily and evolving through multiple generations of AI (introduced Agentic AI in 2025).
• As the head of Product and Technology, led AI-first cybersecurity product and technology strategy across three SaaS platforms processing 50+ TB of threat data daily.
• Raised $34M Series B, scaled ARR to $12M, built a 72-person org, delivered ~30% efficiency gains, and introduced GenAI/LLM-powered threat intelligence and Agentic AI (2025).

Sep 2020 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos · On-site

• 🚀 Head of Technology for Global Discovery and Ticketing Platform for Movies and Events | OTT Platform
• As CTO of BookMyShow, India’s leading ticketing and entertainment platform with 200M+ monthly active users, I led a 375+ member Product and Engineering organization through a significant phase of transformation to profitability, innovation, and global scale.
• Key contributions included:
• Modernized a legacy 15-year-old on-prem platform, migrating it to AWS Cloud within record time, achieving 70–80% operational efficiency and reducing infrastructure and engineering overhead by 60%.
• Led the global platform unification initiative, delivering a consistent, high-performance customer experience across Mobile (primary channel), Web, and Smart TV platforms.
• Launched STREAM, India’s first TVOD OTT platform, bringing premium video-on-demand content to a massive user base. I drove STREAM’s end-to-end technology delivery and worked cross-functionally with product, marketing, GTM, finance, and vendor teams to ensure a successful rollout and scale-up.
• I championed AI-led personalization, leveraging recommendation systems and behavioral analytics to optimize content discovery, ticket booking, and upsell flows—enhancing both customer engagement and revenue conversion.
• Revamped core monetization and transaction infrastructure, including the AdTech and Payments platforms, ensuring reliability, security, and seamless user experience while processing 25–30M ticket transactions monthly, with 5B+ annual page views across 5 countries.

Apr 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, United States · On-site

• 🚀 Location Intelligence Data Insight SaaS Platform | Led Engineering, AI Platform Strategy & Cloud Modernization | Powered GTM for Flagship Products
• At Azira (formerly Near)—a global leader in AI-powered location intelligence and real-world behavior data, backed by Sequoia Capital, JP Morgan, Cisco Investments, and Telstra Ventures—I served as Head of Technology, playing a key role in scaling the platform and preparing the company for its public offering in 2022.
• Platform Evolution & Cloud Transformation: Modernized a legacy IBM stack into a cloud-native AI platform processing 5–10B events/day across 4PB+ data.
• Delivered 30–40% infrastructure efficiency gains and enabled IPO readiness.
• Scaled flagship AI product Allspark and launched Engage globally to support GTM expansion.

Feb 2018 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr · On-site

• 🚀 As the site lead and head of engineering, I led multiple critical functions including DevOps/Infrastructure, User Management, Subscriptions, Payments, Automation Testing, and Performance Engineering. I played a pivotal role in expanding the development center, defining engineering excellence standards, hiring frameworks, and instilling strong cultural values across the organization.
• Key highlights:
• Revamped the subscription and payment platforms to support 2.5K+ concurrent payment sessions during the 2018 IPL, enabling seamless integration with payment gateways in the US and India.
• Engineered and scaled infrastructure to deliver a world-record 10M+ concurrent live streaming experience during the 2018 IPL finals.
• Partnered with product and design teams to launch India’s first social collaboration and gamification experience during live cricket streaming.
• Spearheaded the definition and communication of the long-term product and technology roadmap, driving performance and scalability at every layer of the platform.

Oct 2013 – Feb 2018 · 4 yrs 4 mos · United States · On-site

• 🚀 As a Senior Engineering Manager and hands-on technical architect of the Software Development team, led and managed the Engineering Development Platform Architecture (MicroService Architecture + BigData Platform), Development Methodologies and Processes required to come up with efficient tools and dashboards which will allow to streamline the Operations Business Processes.
• As an engineering leader, I was responsible for designing and developing “The Insight” manufacturing data analytics platform (revamping of 20+yrs old legacy analytics platform) handling 4PB of data and taking it live across manufacturing locations in China by working with various operations teams. The system was built with microservices orchestrated via Apache Mesos and react frontend framework to integrate with the various data marts (Mongo, HBase, Druid, MySql etc) created on top of the HDFS-based data lake.
• During the earlier part of my Apple career, I was responsible as a senior technology leader and architect, for revamping the 20+yrs old employee system and building the new CURO platform from scratch to build various HR employee systems on top of that.
• Some of the Engineering Management key responsibilities other than day to day Personnel Management responsibilities included :
• Identify new opportunities for improvements in tools/dashboard efficiency and performance
• Interact cross-functionally with other groups to understand their needs and constraints
• Balance conflicting needs and constraints to make the best system-wide trade-offs
• Promote and drive new opportunities and techniques within the team and other teams
• People Management

May 2010 – Oct 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Charlotte, North Carolina · On-site

• 🚀 Managed the development team to ensure timely delivery of the middleware integration projects.
• Part of the applied architecture function for middleware and payments processing to improve the quality of technical designs and alignment of individual efforts to the transaction banking IT strategy.
• Responsible for design and implementation of the largest monetary transaction movement middleware platform with IBM SOA ESB ($3T/year) in the world, including majority of the banks electronic payments, around the globe. As a senior architect, I was also responsible for various build vs buy decisions including Fraud Detection solutions.
• Led the architecture and development team to design and architect Integrated Desktop Framework Application to build highly scalable and transactional core Online Banking and Contact Center functionalities.
• Part of the enterprise architecture governance team responsible to promote SOA based service/API reusability and also evangelize BPM (Business Process Management) via SOA across Bank of America compared to the traditional EAI based integration.

Dec 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · Orange County, California, United States · On-site

• 🚀 Served as lead architect on a $120M statewide judicial modernization program, delivering a configurable platform across 57 California counties.
• Directed a 20–30 member engineering team to build reusable frameworks (MVC, SOA, security, async messaging, caching) used by 200+ developers.
• Influenced enterprise technology decisions, roadmap evolution, and engineering standards across high-scale public sector systems.
• Championed code quality, performance optimization, and best practices through rigorous reviews and tooling improvements.
• Focus Areas: Platform Architecture, Public Sector Modernization, Scalable Framework Design

Sep 2007 – Jan 2008 · 4 mos

• Worked as a Teaching Assistant for David Malan, lecturer of XML with Java Course.

Feb 2006 – Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Santa Ana, California, United States

• 🚀 Defined and implemented enterprise-wide SOA governance as part of the Office of Enterprise Architecture.
• Led architecture and delivery of global account reconciliation systems (PIMCO B2B), ensuring compliance, scalability, and data integrity.
• Conducted code reviews and enforced development standards across distributed teams, improving code quality and delivery velocity.
• Focus Areas: SOA Governance, B2B Integration, Enterprise Architecture

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• 🚀 Led the design and architecture of the highly scalable and transactional California Case Management System V3 Platform and Development.
• Influenced and contributed to the roadmap creation of system architecture and product release
• Guided development teams to utilize proper coding standards and best practices

Feb 2000 – Sep 2002 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · On-site

• 🚀 As a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Architect, designed and developed the Starwood Hotels Reservation Systems with mainframe DB2 as the backend and custom built MVC Framework as the Controller and Service Layer to integrate with CICS and DB2 backend. Also worked on other web projects like FedEx, Delta Airlines, BestBuy etc.