Aug 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Spearheaded the growth and success of Continuous Deployment (CD), a pivotal product within Harness, and played a pivotal role in driving a 3-fold growth in ARR in the span of 30 months.
• Scaled up the team of A players 20 Engineers to 40 Engineers, distributed across the various locations including India, US, Serbia and Moldova.
• Led the new Product - Internal Developer Portal (IDP), GA’ed it from Beta to Public preview in the span of 5 months with successful acquisition of 4 paying customers.
• Product Innovation - Built brand new integrations with Serverless workloads and Google Functions, AWS SAM, Terraform Enterprise and AWS CDK with an extensible Plugin architecture.
• Product Stability & Scalability : Consistently achieved production SLAs of 99.8 and above. Scaled deployments by 3x (from 30 concurrent deployments to 90).
• Quality & Supportability: Reduced the Non-Production cloud cost of CD by 50% in the span of 6 months. Reduction in Prod regressions by 75%. Decreased the release sign-off time by 60%. Achieved a 30% reduction in support tickets despite a 2x increase in the customer base.

Jan 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Led a cross-functional team in the design and development of a highly successful, fully revamped Next Gen CD within an ambitious 18-month timeline. This effort led to opening up enormous business opportunities, and an impressive 30% increase in operational efficiency, benefiting our end users.
• Over a span of 18 months, successfully delivered more than 150+ features, removing obstacles, and facilitating enhanced product adoption. This effort significantly contributed to revenue acquisition and retention.

Aug 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Working on Building SaaS based payment and Identity management solutions.
• Some of the Key Accomplishments:
• Founded the Bangalore team and scaled it up to 20 members specialized in micro services and in payment domain, with in the span of 9 months.
• Worked with the Product and Engineering management and envisioned Payment platform openness which contributed directly to top line business growth.
• Lead the efforts in architecting and building the DCB FaaS solution aimed at enhancing on boarding velocity of partners on to Huawei’s payment platform, which resulted in velocity improvement by > 75% and also, significant savings in production costs. Productized the whole solution in less than 3 months.
• Improved payment platform key measures - system success rate from 99% to 99.96%, scaled the system to handle peak loads of 1200 TPS and improved the p99 latency by 2x by continuously analyzing and optimizing the systems by applying various cloud design (Resiliency and scalability) patterns.
• Built the web UI automation solution which aimed at improving the automation development velocity and to minimize the test suite maintenance effort as user interface changes are inevitable.
• Enhanced the user identity management - registration and login page loading time by 40%.
• Responsibilities:
• Planning for resources, budget, business and delivery roadmap.
• Delivery and support various projects from inception to maturity.
• Designing and delivering technical solutions while ensuring the quality and meeting the timelines.
• Hiring, Mentoring and managing careers of team members.
• Directing the efforts of Architects, Project Managers, technical leads, developers, QA and UAT teams to deliver the projects.
• Interacting with various stakeholders.

Jan 2019 – Jul 2019 · 6 mos

• Some of the Key Accomplishments:
• Lead the team in building streaming telemetry solution which enabled the network automation at scale while resulting savings in operational costs.

Dec 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs

• Some of the Key Accomplishments:
• Steer the efforts in architecting, building and migrating the traditional monolith (has a code base of 0.4 million+ lines) to cloud ready micro services architecture and finished the whole architecture migration in less than 6 months.
• Spearhead the team in building a data analytics platform, Ingesting millions of data records daily, generating network insights by using analytics models, assisting telecom operators in identifying the bottlenecks, fault demarcation and in taking informative decisions during network expansion.
• Responsibilities:
• Project planning, prioritization and delivery.
• Designing and delivering technical solutions while ensuring the quality and meeting the timelines.
• Mentoring and managing careers of team members.
• Directing the efforts of Architects, technical leads, developers, QA and UAT teams to deliver the projects.
• Interacting with various stakeholders.

Aug 2012 – Nov 2016 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Some of the Key Accomplishments:
• Designed and built scalable and Independently deployable network performance monitoring solution for enterprise customers which resulted in significant cost savings.
• Improved the network monitoring application performance for FTTx scenario from 3.2 M to 6.4 M port statistics collections per hour without additional hardware required.
• Driven the uTraffic maintenance team and made outstanding contributions towards continuous evolution of the uTraffic solution and improved the operational efficiencies by providing technical solutions while supporting numerous global deployments and aligned the customer priorities.

Jan 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jul 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

• I was part of the development team working on the unified network management system to manage IP, Access, Transmission and Optical network elements.
• Some of the Key Accomplishments:
• Contributed towards the design and development of domain agnostic monitoring job management solution with the ability to manage up to 0.3 million jobs while delivering the best user experience.
• Took the technical ownership at the times when the early version of the product was deployed widely and handled numerous issues, provided the technical solutions, driven the improvements, supported 50+ POCs and contributed to the product success.
• Programmed and took the code rights of Data Analysis solution and actively contributed towards improving performance and scalability by optimizing the code and DB operations.
• Responsibilities:
• Designing and delivering technical solutions while ensuring the quality and meeting the timelines.
• Leading the software developers.
• Mentoring and guiding junior team members.
• Helping PM in project planning.

Jan 2008 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Some of the Key Accomplishments:
• Designed and developed the model based auto monitoring feature, which enabled, ops team to get rid of mundane jobs while resulting in 30% effort saving.

Jul 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• I was part of the development team working on the network management system to manage access and core network equipment.
• Some of the Key Accomplishments:
• Worked on report generation module and reduced the generation time by more than 400%.
• Designed and Developed the feature to automatically create/sync up the monitoring jobs on/from network elements.
• Developed configuration based data backup and restore feature.
• Responsibilities:
• Developing software components
• Code reviews
• Testing