Oct 2021 – Aug 2022 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Scaled GrowthEngineering@Coinbase.
• Launched Growth loops for Coinbase India launch
• Created the charter for i18n platform and led engineering (Encompassed Machine & Human translations)
• Being a part of India leadership team, really enjoyed shaping up a world class tech center

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021 · 5 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Careem is the Super App of the MENA region (acquired by Uber for 3.1B$) with presence in ride-hailing, food, groceries, deliveries, payments and home services. We operate in 100+ cities across 14 countries and serve +33M users.
• Led experience engineering across businesses (Ride hailing, Food, Groceries..), which includes all the Mobile Apps and Web experiences

May 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Dubai

• Loved being a part of this exciting mission in a unicorn startup anchored on amazing culture !
• 1. Led dual missions of scaling engineering and booking platforms
• Platforms - Customer Growth & Engagement, Geo-spatial, Experimentation
• Booking experience engineering - Booking experiences for High Density Locations(Airports, Events..), Corporate
• Particularly enjoyed leveraging ML to solve Location Intelligence and Booking experience problems
• 2. Was a proud playing coach for a globally distributed team of product engineers
• 3. Champion of Software Craftsmanship program

Dec 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Moving from an enterprise to startup world offered some amazing learnings. Very enriching experience with this unicorn !
• 1. Scaled engineering systems and teams to grow lending, insurance and credit card businesses
• 2. Increased effectiveness and speed of credit decisioning by :
• Building a data pipeline
• Launching in-house ML model for Underwriting, Income Estimation, Repayment prediction
• 3. Led migration of engineering systems from AWS to Azure, thereby saving 40% infra cost
• 4. Stabilized wallet business by strengthening Integrity and Fraud platforms
• 5. Drove value stream mapping to improve efficiency of product development lifecycle

Oct 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Wanted to try out a different kind of a role in my career this time around..
• My role had 3 interesting dimensions :
• 1. Shaping up tech blueprints for future ( Public/private Cloud adoption, Microservices, Developer experiences) through key contributions in tech committees
• 2. Driving transformation - Engineering consulting with globally distributed teams to help adopt blue prints through exemplar and fast follower programs
• 3. Shaping up developer ecosystem - Shaping up a highly impactful developer ecosystem within engineering by driving Innersourcing and communities of practices

Jul 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• It's always very fulfilling to set up things from scratch, and see it grow !
• Enjoyed heading engineering for Authorize.Net Payment Management Platform
• 1. Set up a high performance team
• 2. Closely partnered with Product team in creating an industry leading 3rd party Developer program, Partner portal & mPOS mobile offering
• 3. Very proud about seeding an innovation DNA in the team which resulted in several patents
• 4. Jointly built a product recommendation system by leveraging NLP ( Approved as a Trade secret)
• 5. Created a vibrant tech ecosystem for the entire hub, by leading a Tech Talk series - Synapse
• 6. Evangelist for Lean-startup and Design thinking approaches

Oct 2014 – Jul 2015 · 9 mos · Bangalore

• A stint which broadened my horizons as an Engineering Leader
• o Set up world-class engineering teams for 2 business critical platforms, shaped up the modernisation journey
• o Evangelized software engineering best practices & led developer-centric events to create a vibrant ecosystem
• o Led Software Apprenticeship Program - Loved nurturing future talent !
• o Strategic contributions towards shaping up a world class engineering center

May 2011 – Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• A journey in which we created history on several fronts...
• o Jointly envisioned and launched a large-scale collaboration platform
• o Shaped up next-gen architecture as a member of Architecture Review Board
• o Closely collaborated with UX design team, to create lovable multi-channel experiences
• o Gamified the software development process, Championed adoption of engineering best practices across multiple teams
• o Led a distributed engineering team
• o Shaped up the AWS migration roadmap for a large application portfolio & trained teams

Jan 2005 – Apr 2011 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Chennai, Boston, Dallas

• Was truly enriching to get a deep product development, R & D experience by way of building products which re-wrote Verizon's history . Being a part of SWAT team helped widen my problem solving horizons.
• Built an IOT-based Connected Home Product
• Built FIOS Voice ( Verizon’s first VoIP telephony service )
• Built a chatbot for customer support agents
• Enjoyed being "Creativity" trainer in leadership programs

Dec 2002 – Jun 2005 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• o Exciting journey building a core banking product from scratch, and enabling the migration journey of early customers

Jun 2002 – Dec 2002 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Exciting start to my career with a stint in a start up....
• o Built Mobile apps using J2ME
• o Built an automated stress test tool