Aug 2018 – Aug 2024 · 6 yrs

• Leading multiple engineering teams comprising managers and individual contributors, with a focus on performance management, architecture strategy, roadmap planning, and engineering leadership.
• Recruited diverse engineering organization at Roku, growing from 6 to 25 members across three engineering teams: Account Growth, Device Runtime, and User Engagement. These teams build services to handle billions of API calls daily from critical systems, including Billing and subscription, Search Services, Streaming and IoT devices, Roku Channel, Web, mobile, and partner apps.
• Orchestrated multiple privacy and compliance initiatives, including GDPR and CCPA, with numerous engineering and product stakeholders.
• Spearheaded the development of a scalable PII platform to address data residency requirements for Germany expansion.

May 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Leading architecture for migrating massive web-scale legacy databases to AWS Aurora and DynamoDB.
• Designed the reference architecture for low-latency Microservices and a data streaming platform using Java, Dagger, Undertow, Debezium, and Kafka that is now deployed across a fleet of hundreds of Microservices and handles more than 10 billion requests daily from hundreds of millions of Roku devices and users.
• Leading architecture for cloud-based massive data pipelines using AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, Kafka, and Kinesis.
• Designing the architecture of extremely high-scale microservices built with a variety of tech stacks: Golang, Kafka, Java 11, Netty, Docker, Terraform, AWS PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Redis.

Oct 2012 – May 2017 · 4 yrs 7 mos · San Jose, CA

• Conceived the strategy and Led the architecture for Ondot’s multi-tenant AWS cloud platform. More than 5,000 financial institutions use the platform’s REST APIs, which are critical for sending customers real-time fraud alerts via email, SMS, and mobile push.
• Responsible for designing and managing multiple JVM-based complex server applications that must be highly available and concurrent.
• Grew engineering team in India and the US to help with the company's expansion.
• Redesigned multiple applications that improved developer productivity, system performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Built transaction control platform following ISO 8583 spec. This flexible platform integrates with financial institutions' transaction stream using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Messaging systems, or raw TCP stream utilizing TLV format. This is the foundation for the location-based controls, which are now part of Fiserv’s CardHub platform.

Jun 2009 – Sep 2012 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Migrated 2.5 million Zashpay (Fiserv personal payment service) users to Popmoney as part of Fiserv's acquisition of CashEdge.
• Developed the Popmoney promotional platform from the ground up, which was used by the product marketing team across more than 1,000 financial institutions for account growth and new customer acquisitions.
• Principal architect for the Popmoney mobile backend application.
• Built PCI-compliant services that integrate with the VISA backend to provide money transfer services by credit cards.