Sep 2018 – Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Senior Software Engineer – Slack (Acquired by Salesforce)
• Slack Calendar Integration – Architecting for Scale & Impact
• Designed and built Slack’s Calendar Integrations for Outlook and Google from scratch, delivering seamless scheduling and productivity enhancements.
• Developed key features including real-time status syncing, cross-org & cross-provider scheduling, suggested availability, timely reminders, and daily summaries—enhancing workflow efficiency across millions of users.
• Scaled the service to 2M+ weekly active users, solving critical challenges in reliability and performance.
• Owned and operated the integration service for 3+ years, ensuring high availability (SLOs), mentoring engineers, and shaping the product roadmap in collaboration with product and management teams.
• Tech stack: Java (primary backend), AWS (SQS for background sync processing & scheduled tasks).
• App Home – Enhancing Slack's Platform Capabilities
• Built Slack’s App Home feature, enabling bots to have a persistent, interactive Slack Kit surface for displaying non-message-based information.
• Enabled integrations like Google Calendar to offer a richer UX, providing users with daily agendas, RSVP actions, and real-time updates.
• Leadership in Key Calendar Integration Projects
• Led the implementation of Slack's Org-Wide Install, simplifying deployment and adoption for enterprise customers.
• Drove technical execution for Google & Outlook domain-wide authentication, improving security and user management.
• Led Outlook Calendar GCC High integration for GovSlack, expanding Slack's adoption in high-security government environments.

Mar 2018 – Sep 2018 · 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Astro brings AI to workplace communications. We launched intelligent email apps for iOS, Android, Mac, Slack, and Alexa.
• Slack acquires Astro!

Jul 2013 – Mar 2018 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• Clovy DBaaS
• ScaleArc started with new product line which offers DataBase as a Service.
• Responsible for designing and implementing DBaaS platform from scratch.
• Designed DBaaS solution on “API first” model which can dynamically scale up/down as per load requirements.
• The project involves R&D and getting hands-on with technologies like Docker, DC/OS, Kubernetes, OpenShift.
• Performed PoC with storage solutions like PortWorx, CEPH, GlusterFS, networking solutions like
• Calico, Weave Net, and also OpViz stack – ELK stack, TIG stack, FileBeat, etc.
• Worked with the team, provided training to new people on the project, guided them on architecting various components.
• ScaleArc
• Worked on ScaleArc's master product - database proxy.
• Designed and implemented various features for MySQL product line. Worked on
• components like protocol implementation, caching, connection pool management, health monitoring,
• and failover.
• Led projects like AWS RDS Aurora support, MySQLv5.7 support, Galera support, lazy authentication,
• active connection migration, R/W split for prepare-execute and R/W split for transaction traffic, etc.
• Led and managed multiple releases of software following agile philosophy.

Mar 2010 – Jul 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Pune Area, India

• Worked with the Veritas Cluster Server (now Veritas Infoscale) team. My responsibilities include design and development for networking and virtualization agents on Solaris and HP-UX platforms. Worked closely on Solaris virtualization technologies like Zones and Ldoms.
• Filed US patent for work done on support for Solaris Exclusive IP Zones (USPTO 13/082,230).

Jan 2008 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Contributed to different modules of Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA).
• Worked/owned failover, load-balancing cluster, remote/site-to-site VPN modules (release v8.2). Also engaged in customer escalations.
• Worked in firewall team with ownership of design and development of Network Address Translation module. Work responsibilities included revamping NAT architecture, static/ dynamic NAT restructuring and usability related design changes (release v8.3)

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Designing and developing features for “Director” products. Director is authoring tool for creating powerful games, simulations and multimedia applications. (release Director11)