May 2025 – Jul 2025 · 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra

• Sometimes in life, it becomes important to pause and prioritize health, personal well-being, and family. I chose to take this break to focus on those areas, while also taking the time to reflect on my professional journey so far.
• This period allowed me to recharge, gain perspective, and realign my goals in order to return back with a refreshed mindset, renewed energy, and greater clarity to contribute meaningfully in my next professional chapter.

Jun 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• In a leadership capacity at Searce Inc, I oversee a diverse team of multiple products, which fosters a collaborative and high-performing
• environment while optimizing resource utilization across cross-functional teams.
• ● Managed a diverse team of 35+, including software engineers, engineering managers, and software architects, fostering a
• collaborative environment for high performance.
• ● Actively participating in tech brainstorming, problem-solving, system design activity, solutioning, performance upgrades,
• ● Developed multiple PRD’s to define project scope, milestones, and deliverables and executed the same, ensuring client
• expectations were met.
• ● Acquired new clients through strategic pre-sale activities for SAAS products and product accelerators, leading to increased
• revenue generation. Handled overseas client relationships, ensuring alignment with project objectives and exceptional service
• standards.
• ● Drive cost optimisation initiatives and manage budgeting for engineering projects, achieving financial objectives.

Sep 2020 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ☛Accountable for driving and executing direction, coordination, quality performance and output of a Software Engineering team of 20 + engineers (Leads, SDE I /II, Contractors) to achieve the engineering
• roadmap of the organization.
• ☛ Spearheading as Product owner; facilitating and supporting Agile (SAFe) Scrum processes. Managed stakeholder feedback, engineering roadmaps, tech debts, engineering backlog, and feature development
• as per product requirements.
• ☛ Facilitate standup, iteration planning meetings and retrospectives.
• ☛ Facilitate grooming sessions with stakeholders (Product, Support, etc.) to build a product backlog.
• ☛Significantly reduced development lifecycle and duplication efforts across the board through systematic process improvements.
• ☛Formed squads for feature development and conducted SOS to track progress, reducing dependencies on multiple cross-functional teams.
• ☛ Motivated and groomed team through training on tech stack, technical workshops, periodic performance feedback on projects and defining intelligent goals.
• ☛Tech stack improvements; Moved Verizon client team to the latest tech stack from backbone to React MobX Jest; improved lighthouse scores from the '40s to 70 +, code coverage from 0 % to 75 % using
• jest.
• ☛Standard UI UX sharing model for resilience and cost-reduce helped reduce the 6-week development cycle to 4 weeks across multiple projects.
• ☛Reduced non-employee onboarding time from 4 weeks to 2 weeks by adopting/incorporating the appropriate process

Aug 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Reporting to the CTO, was hired to lead, mentor, and expand the development team in Bangalore. Provide technical guidance for all product development within the company. Lead, manage, and mentor a team of 10+ engineers. Serve as a key member of the management team that sets the company’s strategic direction.
• ☛ Ensure the optimal application of technology and engineering resources to meet product development
• and/or customer requirements as per the product and/or marketing requirements document.
• ☛ Own the technical architecture, drive engineering design and shoulder critical decisions
• ☛ Continuously improve the productivity of the team by identifying investments in technology, process,
• continuous delivery and own the quality of the entire product

Sep 2015 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Act as technical resource for an agile scrum team and actively participate in the project planning, sprint planning, daily scrum, and sprint review.
• ☛ Collaborate with team manager to lead and drive strategy for the product including product strategy, roadmap, UX/UI, feature definition and integration with 3rd parties/partners.
• ☛ Coordinate with end users to define engagement along with project development and resource estimates.
• Lead a team of 8 Senior Software Engineers, QA engineers, HTML Developers, and Designers.
• Key Project and Accomplishments:
• ☛Migration of shaadi.com site from PHP (zend Framework) to react.js and nodeJs: Led a team of 6 members in development and functional enhancements for online match making site.
• ☛ Build Chat functionality in Shaadi.com site using strophe.js and BOSH: Led design and development.
• ☛ Migration of search listing from traditional search to elastic search: Led design and development.

May 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Responsible for designing and implementing cutting edge Mobile ad networks aimed at showing appropriate ads to users on mobile for various clients. Reviewed functional requirements and analyzed their impact on schedule and software design.
• ☛ Participated in an agile development process including sprints, planning and estimation sessions, user stories, retros, product releases, etc.
• ☛ Led a team to write high-quality code that contributed to the development and launch of software features.
• Key Project and Accomplishments:
• ☛ VMAX - Platform for Application Developers: Involved in Delivery Module Maintenance, Enhancements and Optimization. Wrote scripts to deliver appropriate ads to target audience.

Oct 2013 – May 2014 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• ☛Maintained and augmented software applications and services for the ad Exchange domain including Next-Gen Media & Monetization Solutions across proprietary Pay-Per-Click & Display Networks.
• ☛ Collaborated closely with peers and mentors to develop new features in the existing products.
• ☛ Interacted with the team members for the mutual benefits in the project while interacting with the customers/clients on their projects for better feedback.
• Key Project and Accomplishments:
• ☛ Independantly developed publisher interface and admin interface modules.

Dec 2011 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Participated and led in the design, development, integration, and testing of e-Procurement product.
• ☛Worked with other members of the team to generate creative and innovative solutions and develop features of the Product integrating various technologies.
• ☛ Utilized object-oriented / structured programming techniques and other software engineering practices to ensure that the product is high quality and the architecture is maintainable, modular, encapsulated, and expandable.
• Key Project and Accomplishments:
• ☛Involved in development of Budget and requisition, Workflow, invoice and master data module of e-Procurement Product.