Apr 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Payments at scale. Architect for the Flipkart Payments team. Also built a few things myself.
• Adaptive Ratelimit
• Designed and executed the ability to adjust the throttling of traffic that Flipkart sends to banking partners based on how good they are performing. This is now the go-to standard for all Big Billion Day Sale Events (since 2020)
• ML Routing
• Ideated and experimented with a ML pipeline to do transaction routing (choosing a payment gateway for a given transaction). Was able to demonstrate an improvement in Success Rates of upto 20%.
• Canary Framework
• Implemented and evangelised an automated canary pipeline that brought deployment quality related outages to 0.

May 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

• City Parking Dashboard
• Built a Deep Neural Net powered predictive dashboard for Dutch cities. The dashboard allows cities to visualize the behaviour of their onstreet and offstreet parking assets. It also lets them simulate the impact of policy changes (price/capacity) and predicts the impact of these changes on the occupancy patterns of the asset as well as nearby assets.
• Customers include the cities of DenBosch, Tilburg and Venlo.
• Street View Crawler and City Parking Detector
• Built a crawler that can crawl an entire city (or any bounded geography) over street view images. Employed computer vision (CNN-based) to then identify parking lots, cars and vacant spots in these images.
• Parking Data API
• Built a parking data API that was piloted by multiple Dutch companies in the smart mobility/parking space.

Nov 2017 – May 2018 · 6 mos

• The all things tech guy at a two person AI startup.

Aug 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
• SCOM is the Monitoring Layer for Microsoft’s Enterprise Private Cloud Suite; SYSTEM CENTER
• Redesigned the Type Cache Architecture in the product for over 50% improvement in creation of all Management Pack Objects
• Designed and implemented the complete back-end to give SCOM users the ability to Schedule Maintenance Mode for a future time. This was one of the top requested features in SCOM in the field for a very long time and was very well received by the community.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Programmer; Storage Security.
• Designed a transparent, vendor neutral block-level storage security solution that works out of a router. The solution works over iSCSI and provides the facility of quick re-key.
• As part of the IPSec team, I also contributed to the maintenance and upgrade of the IPSec infrastructure which powers the entire range of products in the Cisco VPN portfolio.

Jan 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Linux/Android Kernel customization for Samsung Chorus 4 family of SOCs.
• Built a custom memory profiling tool over dmalloc; designed to detect memory leaks in non-terminating server type applications.

Jul 2009 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida Area, India

• RDBMS (Teradata); Creating and Optimizing and Debugging large complex SQL queries.
• Application Development (C/C++) primarily for dealing with large data files.
• Shell Scripting (bash/ksh); worked extensively with shell utilities like sed and awk.