Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Flipkart Commerce Cloud (FCC) | Flipkart in a Box Initiative
• FCC Overview: A SaaS startup within Flipkart, externalizing software solutions to empower external vendors. FCC offers a diverse suite of SaaS products, including Pricing Management, Ads Management, and Flipkart in a Box solutions.
• Current Focus: Leading the Flipkart in a Box initiative within FCC, enabling external vendors to swiftly enter the market with minimal adjustments by externalizing the entire Flipkart ecosystem.
• Key Contributions and Responsibilities:
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered closely with product, business, engineering, architects, and design counterparts to gather requirements, strategize, and execute projects.
• Team Leadership: Managed a dynamic team of 15 developers across different levels, ensuring project execution and fostering their professional growth.
• Web and App Management: Oversaw web and app teams, actively hiring additional developers to meet project demands.
• Knowledge Transfer: Collaborated with Flipkart counterparts to comprehend and replicate services effectively.
• Agile Execution: Orchestrated day-to-day team activities, sprint planning, and progress reporting to stakeholders.
• Architectural Vision: Crafted high-level architecture views through solution design and High-Level Design (HLD) creation.
• Stakeholder Relations: Skillfully managed stakeholder expectations and facilitated planning and scope discussions for multiple releases.
• Application Excellence: Ensured scalability, security, and performance of applications.
• Architectural Alignment: Collaborated with architects to devise strategies for externalizing select services.
• Infrastructure Management: Orchestrated app deployment to Google Cloud Services (GCS), resolved CDN challenges, and addressed various technical requirements.

Jan 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Flipkart Seller Portal | Engineering Leadership
• Overview
• Flipkart Seller Portal (available at seller.flipkart.com) is the web application empowering sellers to manage their accounts efficiently. The portal offers comprehensive capabilities for onboarding, account management, listing management, order handling, returns, payments, and advertisements.
• Key Contributions and Projects
• Team Leadership: Successfully managed a diverse team of 10 developers, including UI, backend, and app specialists.
• Developer Growth: Created and maintained growth paths for developers, ensuring their progress through regular mentorship.
• Strategic Collaboration: Collaborated closely with product, business, and engineering counterparts to strategize and implement new capabilities across app and web platforms. These initiatives aimed to accelerate adoption metrics for various applications.
• Mobile App Adoption: Orchestrated projects resulting in a 2.5X increase in mobile app adoption.
• Notable Projects
• Gamification Enhancement:
• Designed gamification features to boost seller adoption and engagement on the platform.
• Homepage Revamp:
• Revitalized the homepage to enhance SEO metrics, driving greater adoption of web applications and reducing ad costs.
• Post-Login Homepage Optimization:
• Tailored post-login homepages to provide sellers with actionable insights based on their metrics.
• Cleartrip B2B Integration:
• Seamlessly integrated Cleartrip for business travel ticket bookings, elevating baseline numbers and simplifying GST claims for sellers.
• Mobile App Stability:
• Reduced crash rates in seller mobile applications, ensuring 99.9% crash-free sessions and improved app ratings.
• Mobile Webview Adoption:
• Collaborated with vertical teams to expedite mobile development through increased mobile webview adoption.
• Rate Limit Guardrails:
• Implemented rate-limiting safeguards at various levels to protect against DOS attacks and aggregator scraping.

Sep 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Engineering Leader | Center of Excellence (COE) | Web Application Innovator
• Flipkart Seller Portal | Empowering Sellers for Success
• As an accomplished Engineering Leader within the Center of Excellence (COE) team at Flipkart, I drive impactful solutions for the Seller Portal—a critical web application enabling sellers to manage their accounts seamlessly.
• Key Contributions and Notable Projects
• Team Leadership: Guiding a dynamic team of 4 developers, I orchestrate planning, prioritize requirements, and design solutions. Our mission? To enhance the Seller Portal’s functionality and performance.
• Strategic Roadmap: I craft forward-looking roadmaps, aligning with impact metrics and business objectives. Our COE team ensures the portal’s hygiene and functional excellence.
• Collaboration and Reusability:
• Partnering with design teams, I create reusable components that empower UI engineers across vertical pods.
• I mentor team members, ensuring their growth and project execution.
• Driving Adoption and Efficiency:
• AB setup enhancements for app optimization.
• Instrumentation improvements.
• Web app performance optimization.
• New group components for accelerated page development.
• Seamless CICD migration.
• Migration of ReactJS to the latest tech stack.
• Transition from monolithic codebase to a submodule approach, reducing dependencies and testing efforts.
• Backend Transformation:
• Successfully migrated the frontend backend from LoopBack 1.0 to Node.js, addressing thousands of files and ensuring zero regression issues in production.

Sep 2017 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Engineering Leader | Fulfillment Innovator | Web Application Strategist
• Flipkart Seller Portal | Driving Excellence in Seller Management
• As a seasoned Engineering Leader at Flipkart, I spearhead impactful solutions within the Seller Portal—a critical web application empowering sellers to manage their accounts effectively.
• Key Contributions and Notable Projects
• Smart Fulfillment Model:
• Collaborated with Business, Product, Engineering, and Design teams to develop the innovative Smart Fulfillment model.
• Accurately estimated project requirements and ensured successful execution, resulting in improved Net Promoter Score (NPS) for the seller ecosystem and baseline enhancements for Flipkart.
• Warehouse Onboarding Revamp:
• Streamlined the Flipkart Warehouse onboarding process, simplifying seller integration into our warehouse ecosystem.
• Seller Dashboard Automation:
• Led the creation of a new automation framework for the Seller Dashboard, leveraging open-source tools like Cucumber and Nightwatch.
• Automated seller dashboard user flows, reducing time-to-market by eliminating manual testing.
• Integrated the automation suite into the build and deploy process, ensuring application sanity before production deployment.
• Tech Debt Reduction:
• Strategically executed tech debt items, significantly reducing the application’s technical complexity.
• Scalability and Performance:
• Conducted Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) assessments to support business needs during critical sales events (e.g., BBD and May sales).
• Mentoring and Growth:
• Guided junior developers, facilitating their successful onboarding and growth within the dynamic Flipkart environment.

Sep 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Flipkart Seller Portal (https://seller.flipkart.com), a vital web application empowering sellers to efficiently manage their accounts. The platform equips sellers with streamlined functionalities for onboarding, account management, listing, order processing, returns, payments, and advertising.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Led the Fulfilled by Flipkart (FBF) initiative, collaborating closely with Design, Product, Backend, and Business teams to enhance user experiences seamlessly.
• Partnered with the design team to modernize legacy FBF features such as Inventory Management, Consignments, Recall, and Reporting capabilities, leveraging contemporary technology stacks for improved user interactions.
• Ensured round-the-clock operational excellence to deliver a seamless user experience.
• Oversaw application scalability, conducting regular Non-Functional Requirements assessments to align with evolving business demands.
• Orchestrated the migration of frontend backend to Node.js from Loopback implementation for FBF modules, enhancing performance and agility.
• Collaborated with UI Engineers to develop reusable components and integrate third-party libraries, prioritizing web application performance.
• Implemented Google Analytics to monitor and derive insights on FBF module usage patterns.