Apr 2024 – Jul 2024 · 3 mos · On-site

• Tech Lead (L5) for Model Armor GCP service, designed to secure LLM workloads in cloud environment.
• Led a team of 4+ engineers, driving the product from proof-of-concept (PoC) to private preview launch.
• Authored high-level system design, ensuring high availability, reliability and scalability.
• Designed and implemented RESTful public APIs and a gRPC-based Java backend service.
• Implemented integrations with Responsible AI service at Google to detect Prompt Injection and Jailbreak attacks.
• Tech Lead (L5) for Notebook Security Scanner product
• Led a team of 3+ engineers to deliver Notebook Security Scanner from PoC to private preview launch.
• Implemented a distributed batch processing pipeline using MapReduce to process 10K+ Python Colab Enterprise Notebooks, detecting Python package vulnerabilities at scale.
• Led XFN collaboration initiatives with Security Command Center (SCC) teams to generate vulnerability reports and surface findings to GCP customers.
• Implemented scalable system using FlumeJava, OOPs design principles and used Google Guice
• Dependency Injection (DI) framework.
• One of the early engineers on the GCP Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) India team.
• Built deep expertise in Cloud KMS service architecture.
• Served as a Technical mentor and onboarded 5+ new engineers in the team.
• Bootstrapped multiple projects, acting as a force multiplier.
• Authored the technical design for VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) integration, enabling perimeter-based, granular IAM access control for Cloud KMS resources.
• Improved Cloud KMS reliability by leading Spanner Point-in-Time Restore project, achieving near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

Nov 2020 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos · On-site

• One of the founding engineers for GCP Backup and DR team, worked as part of Systems and Platform Engineering teams.
• Delivered several key projects enabling initial public launch of Backup and DR GCP service.
• Served as Lead Engineer for Cloud Snapshots offering, designed and implemented Java and C++
• programs to orchestrate backup and recovery for Compute Engine VMs and Persistent Disks using GCP Cloud APIs.
• Improved reliability of PD Snapshots workflows by introducing functional testing. Increased test coverage from 0% to 60%, significantly reducing regressions.
• Implemented Public Key Infrastructure to enable mTLS communication between worker VMs in GCP.
• Built automated certificate generation, renewal and storage across Java (Tomcat) and C++ services, backed by PostgreSQL.
• Identified SSL/TLS performance bottlenecks and introduced in-memory certificate caching, reduced TLS connection latency by 80x.
• Implemented job orchestration system to manage software upgrades and certificate renewals across 100+ VMs concurrently, leveraged Java Message Queues and ExecutorService framework.
• Led end-to-end project to improve rollout safety for software upgrades to Backup Appliance.
• Authored technical design to propagate operational and health metrics and built monitoring dashboards.
• Implemented integration with Canary Analysis Service (CAS) and enabled canary rollouts to safely validate changes prior to full deployment.

Jun 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Worked as SDE-1 on Amazon Kindle Conversions team.
• Developed and maintained Java backend service which transformed ePUB books into Amazon's proprietary Enhanced Typesetting (ET) format.
• Collaborated with Kindle Rendering team and implemented support for inline-block structures, unblocking conversions for 20K+ titles across Kindle Store.
• Implemented ePUB normalization to handle negative CSS properties, improving layout and book reading experience.
• Resolved multiple publisher-reported issues, including high priority cases from Penguin Random House (PRH), improving content quality.
• Mentored SDE intern, provided guidance on project execution, design decisions, and code reviews.

Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Java Developer for Enovia PLM.
• Gained experience of Configuration and Change Management UX libraries.
• Delivered features for 3DEXPERIENCE platform releases R2018x, R2019x and R2020x.
• Mentored/Trained fresh graduates & peers on REST API and Web Apps development.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Full Stack Developer for ORMB : Barclays Bank Implementation.
• Functioned as a Lead Software Developer for Financial Data Migration of 1M+ pricing records.
• Programmed object-oriented programs in Java EE 7.
• Extensively wrote complex PL/SQL queries and stored procedures on Oracle Relational DB.
• Accelerated multiple Dynamic UIs improving performance and responsiveness.
• Developed features and worked across technologies : HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Groovy, Hibernate, XML, Java Multithreading and SOAP-based Web-Services.