Aug 2024 – Mar 2025 · 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Sep 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad · Hybrid

• Led a 50+ member Payments engineering org, managing 4 EMs, Senior Staff, and Staff Engineers, and improving
• team seniority (15% → 30%) and diversity (4% → 25%).
• Drove architecture modernization of Uber’s global Payments Platform powering $100B+ transactions across 1,400+ cities, including redesign of payout and alternate payment systems—raising SLA from 99.9% → 99.99%.
• Strengthened operational excellence through resilience and observability upgrades, cutting alert noise by 50% and freeing 20% on-call effort.
• Collaborated with teams across India, EU, and US to modernize APIs and data infrastructure, accelerating integrations and improving platform stability.
• Owned roadmap planning, prioritization, and annual funding, securing 40 engineering months for re-architecture
• work and contributing to Payments org vision and OKRs.

Sep 2021 – Aug 2022 · 11 mos · Remote

• Multiple Startups: Provided strategic technology consulting services to various startups, including Jupiter, Nimbbl, and Enkash.
• Technology Roadmap: Developed and oversaw technology roadmaps for investment verticals, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Technical Leadership: Made key technical decisions on design and architecture for building Jupiter's mutual fund product from scratch.
• CTO Advisory: Acted as consulting CTO, offering technical guidance and mentorship on complex technology problems at Nimbbl.
• Talent Management: Managed entire technology talent needs, collaborating with internal and external sourcing teams for Enkash.
• Strategic Guidance: Advised founders on long-term strategic technology investments, vetting ideas for technological complexity and ballpark estimates.

Nov 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Technical Leadership: Headed engineering teams across QA, Dev, DevOps, Mobile, Data Science, and ML, reporting directly to founders.
• Team Management: Led a team of 50+ members, with direct reportees including 5 Engineering Managers, 2 Architects, and 2 Principals.
• Hands-on Contribution: Contributed to 15% of source code in initial MVP days, expediting time-to-market and setting technical quality standards.
• Coaching & Mentoring: Guided teams on building scalable and robust microservices, promoting good engineering principles.
• Technical Strategy: Developed and led technical strategy, investments, and cloud infrastructure cost optimization initiatives.
• Product Ownership: Co-owned product funnel, collaborating with business teams to improve metrics and drive growth.

Aug 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

• Technical Leadership: Led a team of 60+ members, with direct reportees including 4 Engineering Managers, 2 Architects, and 2 Principals.
• Technology Upgrades: Spearheaded the upgrade of current technology platforms to cutting-edge microservices, enhancing scalability and efficiency.
• CRM System Stabilization: Successfully stabilized the critical internal CRM system, used by 1000+ contact center employees across various geographies, ensuring seamless operations.
• Product Delivery Ownership: Owned the delivery of technology solutions across term, motor, and health insurance pods, driving business growth.
• Strategic Collaboration: Worked closely with the founder CTO and business heads to develop and align current and futuristic roadmaps, ensuring technology alignment with business objectives.

May 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• Rapid Career Advancement: Joined as an Architect and promoted to Director of Engineering within the first year, based on exceptional performance.
• Technical Leadership: Led a team of 100+ members, with direct reportees including 6 Engineering Managers, 4 Architects, and 3 Principals.
• Architectural Revamp: Successfully revamped technical architecture from monolithic to microservices, training and mentoring teams to build complex, scalable applications using cutting-edge technologies.
• Technology Roadmap Ownership: Owned and developed the technology roadmap, encompassing 10-15 products and scrum teams, driving technical vision and strategy.
• Technical Expertise: Served as the go-to expert for technical opinions, leading critical discussions during the company's acquisition due diligence, demonstrating deep technical knowledge and leadership.

Oct 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• Multi-faceted Role: Served as Senior Developer, Production Support, Team Mentor, and Scrum Master, driving significant product changes.
• Technical Optimization: Successfully optimized long polling architecture to server push, enhancing real-time dashboard updates.
• Complex Problem-solving: Resolved intricate bugs related to cross-currency trading, delivering customer delight showcasing technical expertise.

Dec 2010 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India · On-site

• Multi-faceted Role: Served as Senior Developer, Team Mentor, Scrum Master, and Release Planners.
• Technical Expertise: Worked on geo location based points of interest consumer mobile application.
• Component Development: Built numerous reusable components, enhancing project efficiency and modularity.

Nov 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore India · On-site

• Domain Expertise: Successfully navigated a new and complex enterprise security domain, quickly gaining in-depth knowledge.
• Awards & Recognition: Received the second-highest level IC Contribution Award for leading the successful transition of a desktop application to a web-based product, demonstrating exceptional technical leadership and innovation.

Feb 2008 – Nov 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore India · On-site

• Technical Leadership: Served as a Senior Developer and individual contributor, responsible for building the majority of modules.
• High-Performing Team: Collaborated with a team of exceptional talent, comprising industry experts from Trilogy, Adobe, and Yahoo, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

Feb 2007 – Feb 2008 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

• Founding Team Member: Joined as one of the initial hires, served as a Senior Developer contributing to the organization's early growth.

Jun 2006 – Feb 2007 · 8 mos · Bangalore India · On-site

• Campus Hire: Joined as a fresh graduate from IIT Roorkee, marking the beginning of a successful career in software development.