Jul 2023 – Mar 2024 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Creating a SaaS product for Interactive Advertising (Immersive Ads).
• "The future of online advertising relies on smart, engaging and non-intrusive formats, targeted in a way that fully respects the user's privacy and is measured with the right metrics"
• Web platform for creating 3D scenes and adding interactions. ✅
• Custom cloud solution to optimize photorealistic 3D for cost efficient streaming. ✅
• Custom Webassembly based engine which streams 3D graphics and lets users interact with it. ❌
• Halted development due to web graphics limitations (difficulty in efficiently utilizing a device's graphics processing unit (GPU) through webpages) causing a sub-par experience. Will resume later when tech matures and XR becomes ubiquitous.

Jun 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr · India

• Culinary tour across India.
• Practised Zen at Bodhi Zendo for a month.

Mar 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Product management + engineering for Core Buyer Experience (Search to Transaction) in Udaan's flagship B2B app.
• Facilitated coordination and planning for a 10 member tech team with other stakeholders (business, design, data science) across all categories in Udaan.
• Developed end-to-end Gamification framework to render probability based game experience (Spin the wheel, Slot Machine etc.)
• Helped develop personalized product discovery to aid buyer conversion.
• Created multi-intent detection system in Solr, leveraging SolrTextTagger (Improved search conversion by ~20% )
• 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀

Oct 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Architected and developed the complete tech infrastructure of a P2P car subscription startup. Including but not limited to
• Web application made with React (tylt.co.in)
• Partner app for lessors, made using Flutter.
• (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tiltshift.tiltpartner)
• Car inspection app for internal use, made with React Native.
• (expo.io/@navaltharun/dashAgent)
• Cloud infrastructure hosted on GCP with Firebase.

Oct 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Architected and developed a contextual collaboration platform for supply chain management by modularising and extending the features provided by Mattermost open source project. (mattermost.com)
• Involved in the continuous development of Luminate Control Tower (Flagship SaaS solution that provides real-time visibility, orchestration, collaboration and prescriptive resolutions across the entire supply chain)
• 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆

Jul 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• UI/UX development for the Account Management Module of Target.com ,
• Created the complete Post Order Returns UI for Target.com using React and Redux.
• Revamped the Giftcards and Wallet pages in target.com from BackboneJS to ReactJS.
• Created a POC for a Virtual Store Assistant which provides support to Target store visitors. It maintains basic conversation and conveys information on item location and availability in the store.
• Created a POC for conversational shopping which places orders on Target website from Google Home.
• Explored ReactJS and Redux with dynamic module loading over HTTP2. Side-effects managed by Redux-saga.
• Strengthened the ELK stack of the Web performance monitoring tool by fixing its defects.
• Also involved with continuous improvement of the existing website written using BackboneJS.
• Engineering work for the Search team of Target.com,
• Developed price detection in search queries using semantic analysis for Target's query intent team.
• Developed size detection in search queries related to clothing for query intent team.
• Extracted BI metrics by performing statistical analysis on web performance and error logs. This helped in producing an improvement to the search experience.
• 𝗔𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗨𝗦 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀

Jul 2015 – Feb 2016 · 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Product development with primary focus on Android app development and creation of data warehousing, data analytics and chat system infrastructures.
• Programmed backend system in Google App Engine (using python webapp2) and used Google datastore as the NoSQL database for the initial version.
• Created a chat system using Socket.io in Node.js, hosted on GCE and used Redis for cache and HAproxy for load balancing.
• Developed backend APIs in Flask using MongoDB for storage.
• Created a CMS using AngularJS for in house operations management.

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• Worked on Information Extraction from unstructured legal data.
• Created Natural Language Processing systems using Apache UIMA and Stanford CoreNLP.
• Used Word2vec for learning word embeddings from legal text and visualized them using t-SNE.

Jan 2015 – May 2015 · 4 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Created an AngularJS based web product for an educational startup. The job involved UI/UX ideation and development.
• Finalists & Rated Top 5 Youth Entrepreneurs, Eureka 2015 (Asia's largest E-Summit) among 6000 startups.

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Worked as Software Developer for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle of IIT Madras.
• Developed Image Processing systems for underwater image feeds using OpenCV.
• Researched and analyzed parallel computing architecture (using OpenMP and Boost libraries) for enhancing Mission Controller systems of the AUV.

Aug 2014 – Nov 2014 · 3 mos · Chennai

• Developed the Website using HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery. Also handled integration with the backend (PHP based).