Sep 2022 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Apna is a jobs marketplace that connects Employers and Candidates.
• Drove major projects in Employer experience and Job <> Candidate matching domains:
• Job Posting
• Job <> Candidate Matching algorithm: Drive relevancy and retention
• Trust & Safety at Apna (Employer verification)
• Monetization (Payments, Orders, Invoices, Pricing, Contracts)
• Taxonomy (Graph of Skills, Education, Job Titles, Departments, Industry etc.) and many others
• Led a team of 20+ backend, frontend devs & QA to build and improve Employer's experience at Apna.
• My responsibilities are:
• Drive the team towards execution of product requirements while meeting delivery timelines in an Agile environment
• Active role in Hiring, team building, mentoring, conducting regular 1-1s for feedback, motivating team members on improvisation areas
• Focus on establishing clarity and right prioritization. Enabling devs to do their best by reducing distractions, making sure items from business are well refined
• Regular interactions with multiple stakeholders in Product, Business, Strategy, Engg leadership for planning, prioritization and status of engg execution
• Focus on system metrics, observability, functional metrics, errors, customer obsession
• Participating in System design [Microservices Architecture on the cloud], provided a playbook for best practices, deployment workflows
• Actively identifying and resolving Tech debts, while balancing product priorities
• Technologies & tools in use:
• Langs / FWs: Python-Django, Golang-Gin, ReactJS
• Google cloud (GCP), k8s deployment, OpsGenie
• Monitoring: Datadog, Sentry
• Others: Mixpanel (Analytics), Clevertap (Campaigns), Clarity (User behavior), Messaging (Kafka, Celery, RabbitMQ), Redis, JIRA, Git, Jenkins, Feast feature store

Sep 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr

Oct 2020 – Aug 2021 · 10 mos · Ahmedabad (Remote)

• Involved in conceptualizing and creating the product features, use case definition and co-ordination with founders and stakeholders.
• Complete backend development and deployment of Caplist MVP from scratch on AWS.
• What is Caplist?
• Caplist enables conducting General Meeting (GMs) virtually. It automates a lot of tedious work related to conducting GMs, and provides appropriate legal suggestions and best practices to ensure smooth execution and compliance to local regulations.

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr · Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India

• Direct communication with company owners and product stakeholders for prototyping of products, technology implementation and ideation.
• Lead a 7 people dev team of Backend and Frontend engineers, driving 4 products at a time in the 0-1 journey.

Jun 2016 – Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Drove Predictive Maintenance algorithm development at Ecolibrium.
• Lead effort to identify and develop solutions for Predictive Asset failure and maintenance planning using Data science over data acquired from the asset
• Created entire Data analysis pipeline from gathering data, pre-processing, analyzing and shipping out analysis output in a consumable way
• Employed techniques like Regression (Linear, Parametric), Neural Networks, Statistical Methods, Time Series analysis to track pattern changes, Clustering Algorithms (Hierarchical Clustering, DBSCAN). Using Pandas, Scipy, Numpy for Analysis and Matplotlib for Visualization.
• Leveraged domain knowledge to isolate actual issue which empowers our customers by providing them with meaningful and actionable items
• Focused on the assets: a) Transformers b) Motors c) Industry Chillers
• Granted patents for Motor and Transformer product:
• ‘A system for monitoring electrical machines and a method thereof’
• Patent: PCT/IN2017/050387 (Overseas), 201621044152 (India)

Jan 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Full Stack Development (Frontend, Middleware and Backend). Solving big data challenges using NoSQL, Message Queueing and Caching. Built front-end using JavaScript frameworks [AngularJS 1.0]
• Coordinating with the team and external/internal stakeholders on a regular basis
• Ensuring right design and programming practices within the team
• Led the technology implementation for the SmartGrid upgrade project for a utility (CESC Mysore) with monitoring of over 20,000 energy points
• Built Real-time alert pipeline for over 250k points / sec

Mar 2014 – Dec 2014 · 9 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Manage the entire front-end development life-cycle using build and plugin management with Grunt/Bower and development with AngularJS for an upcoming product for interviewing
• Produce working front-end design from static designs in an Agile environment
• Front and back end integration by consuming REST services

Sep 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Development for Audit and Accounts requirements
• Was involved in generating and summarizing customized analytics and metrics to provide valuable E-commerce business insights.
• Payment Reconciliation for various Payment Gateways (PG) and COD using PG reports
• Preparing Vendor payment reports, vendor discount audit and vendor returns
• Inventory reports for tracking inventory health and audit, also tracking pending merchant invoices
• Reporting – Key e-commerce metrics
• Measure key metrics like Procurement, Vendor performance, RMAs, Margins, customer rating from MySQL
• Regularly performing MySQL query optimization to create reports involving large data sets
• Aggregating data on daily basis and feeding it to the Data Warehouse
• Generated email statistics from gmail inbox using Google Apps Script to provide Customer Service activity summary.

Jul 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Independently developed:
• a) Integrated Fulfillment system module to determine warehouse and provide an estimated delivery time for our e-commerce customer
• b) Content module - complete life-cycle management and version control of product content on Futurebazaar

Jul 2007 – Aug 2011 · 4 yrs 1 mo · India

• Graduate - 2011 Batch, IIT Bombay