Apr 2024 – Aug 2024 · 4 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• ❧ Engineered and optimised authentication services for Disney's streaming platforms, safeguarding access for 150 million users globally.
• ❧ Drove cross-organisational collaboration during complex identity migrations resulting from Disney's acquisitions, achieving a 99.9% success rate in user data integration across merged platforms.
• ❧ Proactively identified and resolved critical authentication issues, minimising service disruptions and maintaining a 99.99% uptime for authentication services.

Jul 2023 – Mar 2024 · 8 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• ❧ Stewarded and enhanced critical path backend services upstream to several streaming platforms under the Sky umbrella, ensuring reliable service for over 50 million users globally.
• ❧ Orchestrated critical platform migrations, ensuring seamless integration and minimal downtime, which improved system stability and user experience.
• ❧ Overhauled internal libraries and developer experience tooling with crucial improvements, significantly boosting team productivity and code quality.
• ❧ Led initiatives to enhance DevX, resulting in faster onboarding and increased developer satisfaction.

Nov 2022 – Jun 2023 · 7 mos · Pune, Maharashtra

• Had to hit the pause button for a bit to sort out some serious health stuff. Not exactly a holiday, but it gave me a chance to step back and recharge. Kept my brain from going rusty by tinkering with code and trying to keep up with the ever-changing tech world. Now I'm back in action, ready to dive into new projects with fresh energy and maybe a slightly better handle on that whole work-life balance thing.

Aug 2022 – Oct 2022 · 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• ❧ Led the scaling of a home-grown feature experimentation platform, cutting time-to-market for 15+ teams by 40% and boosting engagement by 12% across Disney’s streaming services.

Oct 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Clients: Kaluza, Disney.

Oct 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• I engaged with various clients via Equal Experts as my supplier or intermediary.

Oct 2021 – Aug 2022 · 10 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• ❧ Developed an in-house RBAC (role-based access control) and ABAC (attribute-based access control) authorisation system, enhancing data security for over 5 million customer accounts.
• ❧ Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve GDPR and other regulatory standards compliance within 6 months.
• ❧ Implemented remote-first practices, drawing inspiration from GitLab's "all-remote" guide, to enhance team collaboration and productivity in a distributed environment.

Jun 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• ❧ Led the design and implementation of the value-based care vertical, utilising innovative approaches for modelling ontologies and persistence layers, such as greenspunning temporal + graph semantics atop PostgreSQL.
• ❧ Championed DDD principles, improving system architecture and team communication.
• ❧ Co-led the initiative to achieve FHIR compliance, enhancing interoperability with broader healthcare systems.
• ❧ Implemented DevOps practices to streamline CI/CD pipeline, resulting in faster and reliable deployments.
• ❧ Launched new health monitoring features, increasing engagement by 30% and improving patient adherence by 10%.
• ❧ Revamped CMS integration strategies, reducing content update times by 60%.

Jun 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · London, United Kingdom · On-site

• ❧ Developed scalable backend systems interfacing between customer-facing applications and the AI engine, for a growing startup serving 26 medium-sized business clients.
• ❧ Engineered a sophisticated multilingual search feature using Elasticsearch, accommodating diverse language requirements including CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), Thai, and right-to-left scripts like Arabic.
• ❧ Directed the development of an RPA (robotic process automation) platform, which streamlined customer service tasks for clients, resulting in an average 30% reduction in response times.
• ❧ Instituted incident response protocol / post-mortem culture, improving reliability and reducing critical incidents by 40%.

Feb 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · London, United Kingdom · On-site

• ❧ Architected and implemented an in-house JavaScript library for building product tours, eliminating dependency on an expensive third-party tool and saving the company ~$50K annually.
• ❧ Built an iOS app for medium-sized sellers.
• ❧ Migrated legacy Scala systems away from Akka actors to plain futures, improving system stability and reducing runtime errors by 30%.
• ❧ Conducted agile methodologies workshops, leading to a substantial increase in team velocity.

Feb 2015 – Nov 2015 · 9 mos · Berlin Area, Germany · On-site

• ❧ Developed a rate-limiting solution for the public API; built a “humane registry” for internal systems; contributed to internal libraries used by Scala microservices.

Jan 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune · On-site

• ❧ Built a product marketing and publishing platform for Sony, increasing content publishing efficiency by 60% and enabling real-time updates across multiple platforms.

Jul 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune · Remote

• ❧ Developed several components and services for the product; built an in-house desktop installer framework that excelled in a myriad ways over then-dominant IzPack.