Jul 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Seized an incredible opportunity to lead through Byju's most intense period, marked by frequent re-orgs, strategy shifts, and team transformations. My focus on Growth Marketing and Cart, Catalog, Orders delivered impactful results:
• Transformed legacy systems, driving operational efficiency and substantial cost savings for high-impact teams.
• Championed a program focusing on SLAs and onCall, aligning the team with the company's highest standards over one year.
• Steered teams through transitions and layoffs, providing stability and clear direction during challenging times.
• As a team builder, I cultivated a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture and actively engaged in university hiring events and hackathons across the country.
• Under my leadership, engineers, believing in our vision and mission, showcased deeper engagement. We prioritized hiring individuals committed to continuous experimentation, adhering to Lean Startup principles. Contributed significantly to strategic technical architecture decisions and shared insights on best practices in building and scaling API platforms and end-user experiences.
• Achievements **
• Project:
• Greenfield - Landing page builder; Contextualised onboarding and help tool; Unified communications platform ( Bot ); Catalog-Seller platform ( All these platforms were architected with a low-code moving towards no-code philosophy)
• Brownfield - Marketing leads data pipeline; AWS Cost optimisation effort; Observability and Monitoring tools - Migration and Fine tuning
• Planning
• OKR Based planning;
• Sprint planning, grooming, retros;
• Growth projects for engineers on growth path
• Collaboration
• Stakeholders across functions - Product; Design; QA; Business; Sales; TPMs
• Partnered with my peers to define clear processes to streamline collaboration challenges such as regular cadence to intake requirements and PRD templates.
• Tech Stack:
• Java, NodeJs, Kafka, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, AWS

May 2021 – Jan 2022 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Oct 2017 – May 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• First engineer, built and launched initial product ( Social Gaming Platform monetised via Ad Revenue) in < 11 weeks
• Were bootstrapped always and from 0 to 5 Mn customers in < 1 year; 30 Mn registered users (peak)
• Hands-on recruiting the initial Engineering team ( Linkedin, own network, staffing agencies)
• Collaborated with stakeholders and provided a buffer for the Engineering team, managing daily fluctuations and challenges.
• Implemented Agile/Scrum, JIRA metrics to measure the health and efficiency of the team
• Promoted practices via daily code reviews, active in tech architecture, continuous integration
• Made all Buy vs. Build decisions, analysed ROI, worked with external technology vendors
• Created ENG culture based on recognition, stake in the product, learning from failures, no ego no politics, embracing change and encouraging learning and experimentation, coached and mentored
• Increased code quality 5x by promoting Test Driven Development & Test Automation
• Projects Delivered
• Game Management portal
• User Network Tree
• Configurable player segregation
• Real time game rewards
• Leaderboard - During game play and earning based
• Payouts - real money to users.
• User wallet - 4 types ( Locked/Actual/ Withdrawal Based/ Shopping credits based )
• Integration of Catalog and Inventory of other orgs.
• Stakeholders
• Internal - Product; Business; Marketing; Design; QA
• External - Payment Gateway ( RazorPay, CashFree, Atom); Messaging ( TextLocal, MTalkz); GameVendors ( Indie game development orgs ); Specialist consultants ( DevOps, Agile, Security )
• Manager of Managers
• Operational expertise
• Vision & roadmap planning
• Building teams, and mentoring, performance management
• Agile & Test Driven development models
• Tech Stack:
• Java, NodeJs, Kafka, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, AWS

Jun 2012 – Oct 2017 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Noida Area, India

• Ported and Enhanced the HomeScreen launcher of the Flagship models of Samsung Note series.
• Part of the team that handled the Integration of Trip advisor to a widget.
• Spearheaded the entire UI/UX of the flagship model of India specifc model.
• During the Onsite stint,~6 months in HQ, South korea on the assignment of Travel Planner and Cashbook( Expense Manager).
• Instrumental in bagging the Joyn project- built on RCS suite- application from Samsung Noida division, from HQ.
• Lead team of 4 members to deliver the upgrade of this project for Europe market ( AT&T, Vodafone).
• Led the framework team of 6 members,worked on Scrapbook application and S-Finder application. Code deployed to 100+ models.