Jul 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Architect of several core frameworks that enable highly scalable, fault tolerant, distributed services addressing following concerns:
• Addressing, messaging and load balancing
• Protocol agnostic message exchange and allied serialization and de-serialization semantics
• Multi-tenancy
• Metrics, Logging and Monitoring
• 20 services supporting more than 7 products offering instant messaging, telephony and VoIP solutions through clients running on mobile phones, tablets, browsers and desktops are built on this platform.
• Played key role in business strategy, product and feature selection and technology road maps. Responsible for hiring and staffing various projects.

Apr 2009 – Oct 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Architected and delivered Windows, Mac, Chrome Apps and browser based clients for multiple messaging services. Built all these apps from a single code base of JS, HTML5 and related technologies.
• Handled several challenges related to responsiveness and stability issues associated with browser based runtimes. Delivered clients for multiple desktops and browsers and in various form factors like full sized client application, a browser extension, a toolbar on various web properties and an embedable widget in mail clients. Built a great team of top class engineers who loved working on client side challenges.
• Played crucial part in building the recruitment strategy for the organization and in making Directi one of the most desired companies at top engineering schools in India.

Dec 2008 – Apr 2009 · 4 mos

• Development of Context Analysis Engine to extract commercially relevant context (phrases and keywords) of emails and web documents.
• Building a large corpus of phrases and indicative value of ads against them
• Building algorithms for deriving the most relevant phrases in a document
• Ranking of phrases by revenue potential for each display of the document
• Used a mix of Hadoop based technologies and traditional RDBMS in data tier and Java for the service layer

May 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Lead development of a data services middle-ware product at Morgan Stanley Advantage Services, Mumbai, India.
• Initiated a product called Talk2Code to bring code related artifacts like documents, flow diagrams and other content and comments on code into the context of the code editing.

Apr 2004 – Apr 2007 · 3 yrs

• Co-founded Bridle while at school (BITS, Pilani) doing Masters in Software Systems. Brought together a team of highly motivated and committed leaders for the company. Raised a seed fund to build a successful and innovative solution for schools and parents (www.schoolmate.in) and to take this to market (across the state of Andhra Pradesh).
• With a range of innovative marketing campaigns and a solid technology foundation, SchoolMATE grew to serve 70,000 parents in Hyderabad and Vizag, India. Bridle grew to a strength of 50, working from 2 offices (one in Hyderabad and other in Vizag) and various client locations.
• Recognized as one of 5 Asia's Best Entrepreneur under 25 by Business Week (2006).

May 2003 – Jan 2004 · 8 mos

Jun 2002 – Jun 2003 · 1 yr

• Developed a highly available HTTP interface for Over The Air provisioning system supporting WML, xHTML and HTML User Agents.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr