Nov 2024 – May 2025 · 6 mos · Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Transforming school meal logistics across the UK through smart automation
• As CTO (Tech co founder) at Munchbox Club, I architected and led the development of a fully automated school meal subscription platform, streamlining how schools and parents plan, order, and manage meals. I combined product thinking with deep technical expertise to launch a scalable system that minimized manual intervention and maximized efficiency.
• Tech Stack:
• Python | JavaScript | Google Apps Script | Firebase | PostgreSQL | Google Sheets API | Stripe API | Wix
• Key Highlights:
• Designed a rules-based meal ordering system with support for veg/non-veg filters, large portion upgrades, and weekly constraints (e.g., minimum 2 meals/week)
• Built backend automation using Google Apps Script and JavaScript to dynamically flatten meal form data, color-code meal types, and generate real-time reports
• Integrated Stripe for secure payment collection, automated invoicing, and revenue tracking
• Leveraged Google Sheets as a real-time dashboard for schools and staff, with dynamic updates and visual insights
• Achieved a 70% reduction in operational workload through custom backend workflows and smart data transformation pipelines
• Enabled scaling to 7-week terms with weekly reporting breakdowns (meals per type, extras, revenue per week, etc.)
• I focus on building lean, efficient, and scalable systems that solve real-world problems with minimal overhead—keeping user experience and business impact at the core of every decision.

Apr 2024 – Nov 2024 · 7 mos

• Designed & implemented ‘Auto Debit’ (Python/Django), enabling seamless content renewals. Drove $800K+ in revenue growth by reducing churn and improving retention.
• Enhanced system responsiveness and reduced latency by 23% by optimizing Redis hotkey usage, resolving key bottlenecks, and improving performance to handle 10,000+ requests per second during peak traffic.
• Developed an AI-powered customer support bot, reducing ticket resolution time (TAT) by 28% (from 24 hours to 18 hours) and improving overall customer satisfaction.

Aug 2023 – Apr 2024 · 8 mos

• Led a team of three to develop a listening streak system, increasing daily engagement (22% to 31%) , watch time (+15 mins) , and in-app spending ($2.50 to $2.75 per user).
• Archived 1.1B rows in the rewards table, cutting query time by 50% and increasing peak transaction throughput by 30%.

May 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Innovative Drop-off Notification Solution:
• Independently designed and developed an in-house solution for drop-off notifications, eliminating the need for external services like Moengage.
• Executed end-to-end drop-off push notifications for investment funnels, resulting in a remarkable 43% increase in user engagement.
• Implemented a publisher-subscriber mechanism using Amazon-SQS.
• Achieved a substantial 3.7% increase in Assets Under Management (AUM) within one month.
• Scalable Mutual Funds Analyzer:
• Collaborated with a two-member team to design and develop a scalable mutual funds analyzer.
• Capable of importing holdings from various external platforms into CockroachDB.
• Integrated it with third-party vendors, utilizing RPCs and data feeds to enrich data and provide advanced features.
• Investment Risk Profile:
• Solely designed and developed an investment risk profile feature, enabling users to calculate their risk appetite and make informed investment decisions.
• Cost Optimization with Zinc-Search:
• Reduced infrastructure costs by more than $10,000 by integrating zinc-search, an in-memory fuzzy search system, instead of 3rd party Elastic search.
• Utilized zinc search to provide advanced search capabilities in the mutual fund's catalog.
• Efficient Ticket Resolution System:
• Independently designed and implemented an automatic ticket creation and resolution system for non-terminal mutual fund orders.
• Achieved a significant 64% reduction in Turnaround Time (TAT) for issue resolution.

Jun 2021 – May 2022 · 11 mos

• Implemented data warehousing solutions for databases, and migrated data older than 90 days to Amazon S3 Glacier vaults.
• Designed and implemented the weight discrepancy module/ dashboard on the official website in a team of 3 to manage the difference in seller dimensions vs the courier partner's dimensions of a courier and hence charging accordingly, a 1.8% increase in revenue.
• Divided the MySQL database into dynamic shards for horizontal scaling and reduced the Amazon EC2 instance load by 75% in CPU usage (6 CPUs to 1.5 CPUs) and reduced costs by 40%.
• Revamped the courier delivery zone calculations through the order placement and, handled the wallet deductions accordingly.
• Single-handedly delivered internal operations reporting system that delivers timely first-mile, mid-mile, last-mile and other reports to the operations team for real-time parcel tracking and changes in orders.
• Single-handedly revamped the public tracking page by integrating different couriers for real-time parcel tracking, using Node.js and Fastify web framework.
• Implemented Kafka producer & consumer in NodeJS handling high throughput and minimizing the lag in data population in MongoDB from 11-12 hours to 10 sec for real-time tracking PUSH data from couriers.

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019 · 1 mo