Feb 2020 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• Bootstrapped Kafka connect org and charter in India and scaled it from 3 to 40 engineers.
• Was instrumental in hiring early senior talent, product delivery and building trust and rapport with HQ in US for charter expansion.
• Oversaw scaling and exponential growth of Kafka connect in multi-tenant cloud.
• https://www.confluent.io/product/confluent-connectors/

Nov 2016 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Part of CRM dynamics engineering leadership group within Microsoft, India.
• Built and led teams of talented engineers in following initiatives.
• Led next generation architecture efforts within Dynamics 365 for better scale and reliability.
• Sharepoint and PowerBI embed feature development efforts for microsoft cross sell opportunities for Dynamics 365.
• Full stack and backend modernization efforts across all layers.
• Evangelized adoption by working with leaders across Microsoft.

Apr 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Charmboard / Tagos: In-video discovery platform, where users can shop, engage within from video. (In nutshell - it is pinterest for videos)
• Responsible for entire engineering and technology aspects of the company and reporting to CEO.
• Managed multiple teams / engineers working in diverse areas like computer vision, full-stack development, high traffic B2C/ media website plugins, adtech campaign management, analytics and mobile sdk.
• Architected a backend, which handled 4 million events per day.
• Significant hands on contribution in python, tornado, elastic search, mongo and MySQL.
• Experience in dealing with tight deadlines, can handle conflicts, multiple priorities. Have hired people with limited budget in a pre series A startup and built teams from scratch.
• Presented to company board, investors regarding technology vision and roadmaps.
• Mentored team members, set up processes of code review, software development practices, scrum and agile methodologies.

Oct 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for managing team of software developers and owner for data ingestion component which records user interactions from e-commerce websites/apps; Downloads catalog data of products.
• Responsible for supporting requirements of campaign management components for 400+ campaigns, which are in different geos like India, Brazil, China, JAPAN and MEA.
• Led architecture and development of platform to support Facebook custom audience feature.
• My primary responsibilities included technical direction and managing teams on building and
• supporting these functionalities in ad-serving ecosystem, working with various lines of product managers and product owners on requirement/design/integration of software components and addressing customer issues/escalations.

Jun 2004 – Sep 2013 · 9 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Learnt craft of software development in distributed systems and computer networking in enterprise environment in diverse teams
• Hands-on roles in C/C++, Python, Java, PHP stacks in backend,middle layer,full stack, web services built base for my career forward.
• Worked in small and large teams in technologies in layers ranging from Low level Linux/ FreeBSD to middle layer dealing with web backend.
• Have challenged myself in learning new skills dealing with variety of projects working with diverse people and getting to know big picture.
• Worked on solution delivering mobile SaaS web citrix applications securely over internet/cloud.
• Involved in development of server side,backend of mobile, SaaS, web application serving, policy management,high availability, clustering.
• Led server Initiated connection project which opened up VoIP and messaging market for Citrix
• Led a project to develop XenApp/XenDesktop support into Application controller which opened up potentially # of new customers for POC sales.