Dec 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

• Built the engineering organization, architecture, and execution culture from zero, delivering a high-performance blockchain product while driving cross-functional alignment across product, design, marketing, and operations.
• Played a pivotal role in a zero-to-multi-million dollar journey, contributing to both the technical foundation and the investor narrative that led to successful fundraising rounds.

Sep 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led architecture and engineering execution for two of Swiggy’s most complex platforms, including the design of the Flexible Commissioning Platform, which became the financial backbone of Swiggy’s entire order ecosystem.
• Delivered real-time commission infrastructure processing 1.5M+ daily transactions with financial precision, while driving the end-to-end technical buildout of Swiggy Dineout from zero to a fully integrated, large-scale product.

Feb 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led a 20+ person engineering team building and scaling ACKO's core insurance platform owning everything from system design and hiring to payments infrastructure and cross-functional delivery across product, QA, and development.
• Established the engineering culture, processes, and talent foundation that enabled ACKO to reliably deliver a high-stakes, consumer-facing insurance product at scale contributing directly to one of India's most recognized insurtech brands.

Nov 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru

• Engineered an entire e-commerce ecosystem from scratch, spanning a high-traffic consumer platform, an internal order management system, and a self-serve seller portal designed to onboard and scale vendors with minimal operational overhead.
• Automated seller onboarding, payouts, and inventory operations end-to-end, enabling the business to scale its seller base and order volume while keeping the operations team lean

Nov 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru

• Co-led all non-technical operations including company formation, statutory compliance, financial auditing, and regulatory adherence across jurisdictions.
• Drove talent acquisition and fundraising end-to-end, from building hiring pipelines and onboarding early team members to investor outreach, due diligence, and closing funding rounds.

Jan 2015 – Oct 2015 · 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Led R&D and end-to-end workflow design for an NLP-powered grammar correction engine, applying decision trees, Max-entropy classifiers, and machine learning to automate grammar rule generation from parallel corpora.
• Replaced a manual, linguist-dependent rule creation process with an ML-driven system cutting tool development time and reducing the cost and expertise barrier for grammar rule generation.

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai

• Built the core ML and NLP engine behind Postspringr, designing ensemble classifiers, OCR pipelines, and computer vision systems to analyze Facebook content, predict post engagement, and surface actionable recommendations for content creators.
• Delivered a multi-modal content intelligence tool spanning text, image, and face recognition, giving marketers a data-driven edge in creating content that performs.

Jul 2012 – May 2013 · 10 mos · IIT Bombay

• Secured the 3rd highest JAF openings in the institute for my department, a record for any IDP while building resources and programs that measurably improved student placement readiness.
• Served on the 90-member core placement team coordinating campus recruitment across 450+ companies and 1,600+ students, driving inter-departmental employability initiatives and launching the institute's first-ever placement preparatory blog.