Apr 2021 – Sep 2021 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Led the Digital Factory at HDFC Bank to build automated lending platforms, reducing turnaround time (TAT) from several days to just 30 minutes through the integration of multiple homegrown services and workflow systems. Directed a large-scale program executed across multiple internal teams, external stakeholders, and outsourced partners, ensuring seamless coordination, timely delivery, and alignment with business and regulatory requirements.

Jul 2020 – Jan 2021 · 6 mos

• Ola is India’s largest mobility platform and one of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies. Led engineering for Ola Financial Services, managing a 25+ member team responsible for building scalable lending and payments platforms. Designed and launched multiple financial products including credit cards, insurance, wallet, post-paid, and personal loan offerings. Scaled backend systems for loan management, disbursements, settlements, and KYC compliance, ensuring performance, reliability, and regulatory alignment. Played a key role in launching the OlaMoney Everyday Card, contributing to ₹10L GMV/day in the early weeks and improving NPS through seamless WhatsApp integration. Owned technology strategy, architecture, team development, and cross-functional collaboration with product and business stakeholders to drive major initiatives and ensure compliance across the fintech ecosystem.

Nov 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

Jun 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Goomo is an India-based omni-channel travel tech company offering travel and mobility solutions across B2C, B2B, and Corporate segments. Led the design and development of multi-tenant, distributed, high-transaction, and scalable microservices architecture supporting critical travel and payment flows. Built PCI DSS–compliant payment services covering loyalty, closed and semi-closed wallets, gift vouchers, net banking, and card payments, along with a secure Card Vault for debit and credit card storage. Designed and delivered centralized user profile services and an identity & access management platform for Single Sign-On using Keycloak. Developed open APIs and integrations for major meta partners including SkyScanner, Wego, and Ixigo. Built and led the engineering team for the common services vertical across all omni-channel business lines. Developed a flexible rule engine supporting business rules for offers, discounts, and pricing. Responsible for system design and architecture, development, performance tuning, planning, and strategic roadmap execution. Collaborated closely with business, marketing, operations, finance, and product teams to drive alignment and deliver seamless, scalable solutions across the organization.

Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Founding team member at HouseJoy and Head of Engineering (AVP Technology), responsible for building and leading a 30+ member engineering team from scratch. Architected and delivered scalable product solutions powering the end-to-end technology platform for a hyperlocal home-services marketplace. Built personalized service provider apps and platforms supporting onboarding, order management, dynamic category workflows, navigation maps, deep-linked push notifications, feedback systems, SOS features, referral programs, localisation, and mPOS payment integrations. Delivered consumer-facing platforms across Desktop, MWeb, and native Android/iOS apps. Developed growth engines including SEO/SEM systems, offers, instrumentation, profiling, referrals, loyalty, subscriptions, packages, A/B testing, and affiliate programs. Designed a multi-tenant, high-transaction, service-oriented architecture with modules for locations, catalog, pricing, communications, merchandising, job scheduling, order management, and payments. Built an internal ERP system to manage end-to-end SOPs, workflows, and operational controls. Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to deliver world-class products with superior customer experience, while designing and managing the complete AWS-based technology infrastructure.

Dec 2011 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Built and enhanced a SOLR-based search platform indexing over 13 million books and 34 million authors, enabling fast and accurate discovery at scale. Designed and implemented the merchandising layer for landing pages to improve user engagement and conversion. Integrated multiple payment gateways and wallet services, and developed a comprehensive catalog management system for educational books, stationery, and digital content. Led growth-focused initiatives including the Campus Ambassador Program, deals, packages, and promotional offers. Delivered a multi-store Windows 8 application supporting BookAdda, KoolSkool, and AcadZone. Hired and mentored a lean engineering team to deliver high-impact products aligned with company milestones, while designing and maintaining the AWS-based technology infrastructure.

Oct 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Defined and implemented agile processes while leading a 10+ member engineering team across Development and QA. Established strong engineering metrics covering resource planning, velocity, team performance, individual growth, technical training, and continuous skill-grooming sessions. Built the THIAS installer product from scratch, contributing ~$11M in annual revenue. Revamped the core platform architecture and optimized the installation workflow using delta updates, resulting in a 400% performance improvement. Additionally presented mobile technology case studies across CSC India and enabled global teams to adopt key architectural principles for BlackBerry and iOS platforms.

Oct 2006 – Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad, india

• Worked on multiple global client projects including MakeMyTrip, mFuse, Audi, Snapfish, UTC T-Mobile, Ladbrokes, Bet365, William Hill, Stan James, Centre Bet, and others. Delivered scalable and reusable components for the online betting domain, enabling the platform to be extended to multiple international clients with minimal changes and contributing to annual revenue of $22M. Led a high-performing team of Java developers to build MakeMyTrip’s online e-ticketing platform for flights, hotels, and combined travel packages, implementing advanced features such as smart filters, flexi search, and grid-sorting algorithms to optimize search results by price, time, trip type, stops, and airline preferences. Additionally developed backend systems for T-Mobile to support quiz-based promotional campaigns using a distributed queue system and multithreaded execution environment.

Aug 2005 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Built the complete online e-ticket booking platform for Arzoo.com covering flights, hotels, flight+hotel packages, and holiday itineraries, ensuring scalability, high availability, and seamless user experience. Additionally developed a robust platform for mobile IVR systems used by leading telecom clients, enabling automated customer interactions and streamlined service workflows.

Nov 2004 – Aug 2005 · 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Built public sector information services and internal portals.

Oct 2003 – Oct 2004 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed modules for internal ERP and designed PLC-based landing gear simulation for SARAS aircraft. Built a electrical payload system for Blimp project specially designed for military surveillance.