Jul 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Lead a high-performing "two-pizza team" of software engineers, fostering a dynamic and agile work environment
• Managed a diverse group of engineers with varying levels of experience, from junior developers to seasoned professionals
• Developed and executed long-term roadmaps that aligned team objectives with broader organizational goals
• Lead Monthly Business Review meetings with senior leadership to align on projects and goals
• Part of critical EBS feature launches

Dec 2022 – Jul 2023 · 7 mos

• Worked on key EBS level initiatives like IO2 and GP3 representing control plan
• Identified bottlenecks and implemented optimizations that resulted in 40% reduction in average response times for EBS APIs
• Authored technical proposals for caching improvements, potentially reducing API traffic by 30%

Jan 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Working in the Elastic Block Store(EBS) team of Amazon Web Services.

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 2 mos · San Jose, California

• Worked with Know Your Customer (KYC) team of the Risk & Payments org. Developed in-house models for verification of user’s ID documents like driver's licence and passport using computer vision and deep learning techniques.
• Deployed the application on Flask server and Integrated with Elasticsearch for storing the results and Kibana for visualization.

Nov 2018 – May 2019 · 6 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Currently working in an open source Apache project called Pegasus, a system for executing scientific workflows over a wide range of computational infrastructures
• Introduced YAML based catalogue files for mapping execution workflow to resources
• Analyzed software integrity of Pegasus to ensure workflows are not accidentally or maliciously altered during execution

Jun 2014 – Jun 2018 · 4 yrs · Estancia IT Park, Chennai

• Zoho Mail is a Cloud SaaS product of Zoho.
• Worked as a part of the Zoho Mail framework (infrastructure) team where I gained excellent understanding in management and maintenance of back-end components. I have a strong knowledge in core Java and MVC. Have a deep expertise in HBase, Hadoop, Zookeeper and Redis.
• Developed a fault tolerant distributed locking system using the concept of ephemeral nodes in ZooKeeper
• Introduced a dynamic configuration management system with the help of ZooKeeper.
• Implemented a messaging queue based on the publisher-subscriber paradigm using HBase as storage.
• Introduced a framework using HBase for varied data models with well-defined access patterns. This framework improved the storage efficiency and processing capabilities of Zoho Mail.
• Actively engaged in remodeling the hadoop storage policies to reduce the space involved involved in storing huge volume of data.
• Developed a custom jar class loading technique to resolve issues of using different versions of the same jar by extending the default class loader in java.

Jun 2013 – Jul 2013 · 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

• Worked in a face detection project associated with Maximally Stable External Regions(MSER), which is a kind of feature detector in image processing applications.
• Involved in optimizing the features to improve the efficacy of the face detection systems.
• This project was developed in Computer Vision Lab of IIT, Madras under the guidance of Anurag Mittal.
• It was implemented using OpenCV.