May 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Led the global engineering organization (260+ engineers) across Singapore, Bengaluru, and Colombo, reporting to the CTO. Owned end-to-end technology strategy, platform architecture, delivery, quality, and scalability for Circles’ telecom platforms (CXOS) serving multiple global operators.

Aug 2023 – Apr 2024 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Taking a break to follow my passion as a builder apart from software domain - fine art, wood & metal working, learn new domains, giving back to the community, volunteering, travel etc.
• This also allows me to give the much needed time to my family, that I couldn't do much during my last 26+ years of career.

Apr 2022 – Dec 2022 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Appointed as Adjunct Faculty at DSU - School of Engineering. Will be conducting special courses for about 2-credits. Accountable to the entire course including concept, design, development and teaching.

Mar 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• I led one of Intuit’s marquee offering, Mint and Personal Finance Management Platform engineering. With over 35+ million registered customers, Mint is the most popular personal finance app in US and Canada.
• Also accountable to transform Mint capabilities into a scalable platform and merge the capabilities into Credit Karma as Prime offerings, eventually reaching 100M+ CK users.

Jul 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led several product lines - Property Management Systems (PMS), Digital, Data & Analytics, Business Travel Systems etc.

Feb 2019 – Dec 2019 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Oleum is a start-up focused on fuel business.
• I advise Oleum Founders about the technology and architecture, technical strategy, technical and non-technical innovation, go-to-market and many other areas.

Jul 2018 – Jan 2019 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As the first member of newly formed New Initiatives team, my role involved wearing multiple hats - leader, engineering, product, UX, market research, competitive analysis and so on.
• Bootstrapped a globally distributed brand new team working on cutting edge technologies.
• (Other details are confidential)

Dec 2015 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Ondot Systems is a fintech growth stage start-up focusing in the area of card security, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.
• My role at Ondot had several components.
• 1. Lead the entire Core Engineering team consisting of Mobile, On-premise and Cloud products, located both in India and US (and remote in Korea).
• 2. Lead all the product releases. Accountability for scope, schedule, quality, staffing, field issues and ensuring enablement for all other teams (across multiple geographies) to address customer needs.
• 3. Grow and lead the India Development Center as Center Head - accountable for IT, HR, Payroll, Recruitment, Facilities & Admin.

Jan 2015 – Dec 2015 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• At Reliance Jio, we're creating a digital revolution that's going to change the way India behaves when it comes to cyberspace. With license for pan-India 4G spectrum, we're not only connecting urban areas, but more than 215000 villages by fiber optic network.
• Reliance Jio Media is a key differentiator in this direction. We've created a platform and envisioning an ecosystem of media delivery that'd elevate the content consumption experience for the masses.
• My team works on cutting edge technologies on mobile, web, backend, advertisement, analytics, operations, CDN, distributed systems, machine learning, content analysis and many more.
• We're a start-up with a young team of committed engineering professionals with the agility and determination to change the way India would experience entertainment and media. Have you got it in you? If so, we would love to hear from you. Come join us! We've some really challenging roles for great engineers.

Apr 2014 – Dec 2014 · 8 mos

• Ariba's Cloud is the largest commerce cloud in the world, facilitating more than USD$600 billion worth of world's commerce. Such a world class cloud needs a world class and very agile backbone. This backbone is Ariba Cloud Platform. The Platform is mission critical. It's built on a strong foundation of sophisticated algorithms, technologies and quality.
• I lead the Platform team at IDC, Bengaluru. As an integral part of Ariba's cloud strategy, we work on cutting edge technologies and address plenty of rewarding challenges. We take pride in the fact that each day, the solutions we write, facilitate a minimum of USD$1Billion of commerce and it's our responsibility to make that happen seamlessly.
• Interested in joining such a world class team? Please contact me with your profile. We're looking for some great engineers to join us, take this a notch further and make a greater positive impact to the world's commerce.

Jul 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

• OnDemand Cloud Platform is the backbone of Ariba's cloud infrastructure. I lead the OnDemand Platform group in IDC, Bengaluru. The team works on the most cutting edge cloud technologies, with mostly in-house built stack.
• We've very exciting opportunities for senior Java technocrats. Please contact me in case you're looking for very rewarding and extremely challenging opportunities in the industry.

Apr 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Sep 2010 – Mar 2011 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Jul 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Vancouver, Canada Area

Jul 2005 – Jun 2008 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Vancouver, Canada Area

• Crystal Decisions was acquired by Business Objects

Jun 2003 – Jun 2005 · 2 yrs · Vancouver, Canada Area

• Acquired by Business Objects

Jul 2001 – Jul 2003 · 2 yrs · Vancouver, Canada Area

• formerly Seagate Software IMG)

Sep 2000 – Jun 2001 · 9 mos · Vancouver, Canada Area

• Later renamed as Crystal Decisions

May 1999 – Aug 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos · Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• VeriFone was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company

Jun 1996 – Jun 1997 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• My first tech job. Worked on industry's first ever ANN based OCR software to convert physical documents to electronic form.

Jan 1996 – May 1996 · 4 mos · Davanagere, Karnataka

• Taught Principles of Compiler Construction and Operating Systems for about 4-5 months, on a part-time basis.

Dec 1995 – May 1996 · 5 mos · Davanagere, Karnataka

• I started working here, the very next day my last exam for B.E. final semester, was over. Taught programming in general and C & C++, in particular.