Oct 2019 – May 2025 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

• 2023-2025
• Tech Lead for teams training foundational embedding models, building easy-to-use infrastructure & tools and engaging with clients for various product launches across Alphabet.
• Extensive experience in full life-cycle of LLM development - data pipelines, synthetic data generation, custom model architectures, training & evaluation infrastructure, quality ablations, optimizing models for low latency & high throughput serving, etc.
• #generativeAI #GenAI #llm #nlp #gemini
• 2021-2022
• Led a team building Machine Learning (NLP) & Data Infrastructure for large language models, enabling engineers to use state of the art research in their projects.
• Focus Areas: Making dual encoders accessible and easy to use for search & retrieval use cases, data validations and sanity checks, release and build stability.
• 2019-2021
• Tech Lead for a team focused on:
• Engagement, discovery and retention of Assistant Calendar features
• Revolutionizing the Google Assistant experience using state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) models
• Horizontal instrumentation of the product to gain insights about usage
• Key Achievements:
• Contributed to the overall strategy for a group of teams as part of the core leads group.
• Led the launch of various promotional features increasing feature usage by 115%.
• Kicked off two projects that evolved into team-wide focus areas.
• Launched Proactive Meet experience on smart displays (Nest Hub Max) and helped with Multi-account Calendar experience: https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/our-favorite-10-new-things-coming-smart-displays/

Apr 2019 – Sep 2019 · 5 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Worked on the Jobs (Workflows) service which orchestrates all the workloads scheduled by the customers of Databricks, from the one-off experiment to the massive multi-day query running on hundreds of machines.

Jul 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Some of the highlights of my experience at Booking.com:
• Developed Kubernetes-based platform to support training and serving machine learning models in production.
• Worked on reliability of business critical services including a high-traffic reservation search service. Mainly worked on improving the monitoring/alerting, setting up SLOs for the service and improving data consistency.
• Proactively identified performance bottlenecks for mobile APIs and improved wallclock for several endpoints by upto 20%.
• Identified lack of alerting support for Slack & owned end-to-end slack integration into existing alerting systems.
• Completely owned the internal code-search service used by 2500+ developers and automated the infrastructure for the service to make it scalable as git repositories grow in number & size.
• Kicked off and led the project to set up CI/CD pipeline for automated tests on each commit/release for mobile APIs company-wide.
• Worked extensively on defining and implementing SLI/SLOs for customer facing products by measuring right metrics and having good & effective monitoring/alerting.
• Actively involved in firefighting, mentoring, onboarding, interviews and trainings.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 · 11 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Developed a resilient platform for training and deploying machine learning models using Kubernetes. Optimized the platform for serving low-latency predictions. This platform included training TensorFlow models in Docker containers, automated re-training of models, deployment of models using Kubernetes to serve real-time predictions.
• Worked on Image Service team managing infrastructure for storing, processing, modifying and serving images of various sizes across the variety of Booking.com products.
• Worked extensively on improving the customer experience by exploring the localization opportunities across the funnel.

Sep 2016 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

• Stepped up as a Community Leader in September'16.
• My responsibilities include:
• Building new features along with other senior members of the community
• Fixing bugs in the existing Instant Answers
• Reviewing pullrequests submitted by other contributors
• On Boarding and mentoring new contributors and volunteers

Jun 2016 – Sep 2016 · 3 mos · Remote

• DuckDuckGo is currently focusing on making it best search engine for programmers by providing instant answers and solutions to their queries.
• Instant Answers appear on DuckDuckGo.com above ads and organic links, on millions of searches. Instant Answers are created by an open source community of developers around the world.
• My respsonsibilities included:
• Creating new Instant Answer modules using Perl and JavaScript
• Fixing reported bugs in the existing Instant Answers
• Testing and reporting new bugs in existing Instant Answers
• Code reviewing pull requests for new Instant Answers

Oct 2015 – Oct 2015 · 0 mo · Gurgaon, India

• I was selected as part of the Trial Week at Zomato wherein I developed a web application for "Zomato Room" - the Table Management Tool.
• Used PHP framework SLIM for developing the MVC architecture of the tool
• Developed interactive room setup using Fabric.js (JavaScript Canvas Library)
• Designed algorithm for displaying the chairs around the different types and sizes of the tables

Jun 2015 – May 2016 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• CollegeSpace is a socio-academic portal for the students of NSIT. The initiative was taken by students with the motive of making accessible each and every information to the NSITians about the college.
• CollegeSpace team assures to be working hard for providing with expeditious and unparalleled assistance to the NSITians.
• I was responsible for:
• Helping the team members in maintaining the CollegeSpace Updates website
• Mentoring junior team members and motivating them to learn various web technologies
• Acting as a trouble-shooter for the junior team members and helping them in fixing their bugs and learning new technologies

Jan 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• CollegeSpace is a socio-academic portal for the students of NSIT. The initiative was taken by students with the motive of making accessible each and every information to the NSITians about the college.
• I was responsible for:
• Developing NSIT Chronicle website
• Mentoring junior team members and motivating them to learn various web technologies
• Developing a chrome extension for CollegeSpace that provides all the college related updates/news/notices or even notes/exam-papers with just one click

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I worked at HackerRank, Bangalore as a Software Intern.
• My role involved:
• Making the website more secure, reliable and fast
• Handling the client-side vulnerabilities
• Exploring a new type of questions to be integrated with HackerRank for Work.

Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• My responsibilities included:
• Strategizing Technical Operations and Product Development
• Talent Acquisition - Technology
• Acting as a Communication Bridge between the Sales team and the Technology team
• Helping the Technology team in making the company products scalable

Feb 2014 – Apr 2014 · 2 mos · Osaka, Japan

• Ritetag deals hashtag analysis and social media marketing optimization.
• I got selected as a remote intern via AngelList. I worked under guidance of CTO of the company.
• My role majorly involved:
• Customizing particular views on the website and making changes on the client-side objects.

Oct 2013 – Sep 2014 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Refiral is a B2B company, helping e-commerce businesses to launch automated and customized referral campaigns.
• I joined Refiral when it was in Idea phase. I was a part of 3-member confounding tech team which developed the MVP for the company to acquire a few hundreds of early paying customers. Later on, we worked on scaling the architecture to thousands of businesses and ultimately raised $330k angel funding.
• Developed server-side API in PHP (Slim Framework)
• Managed and automated the Refiral administration dashboard
• Developed and documented the integration extensions for various e-commerce platforms to make it easy for e-commerce businesses to use Refiral services.

Aug 2013 – Jan 2014 · 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• PicsMashup: A platform for organizing online photography competitions.
• PicsMashup Services:
• Organize online photography competition hassle-free
• Free publicity and marketing of your photography competition
• A hub for photography competitions for all photography enthusiasts

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• I joined WebInstitute in summer vacation'13 as a Tech Intern.
• Worked on JavaScript mobile game development
• Learnt WordPress theme & plugin development
• Used Facebook API to add some desired features to the company’s website
• Worked on company’s online learning management system based on Claroline
• Successfully created 2 WordPress plugins according to company’s requirement