Sep 2024 – Aug 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru

• I served as chief technology and product officer at Zee Entertainment Enterprises responsible for its technology, engineering operations, AI strategy and adoption, product roadmap and product development across all verticals. Instituted an AI driven rethink of the entire value chain of media tech from media production, content serving, personalised targeting to Ad tech and marketing.
• In addition to the above responsibilities, I was recently entrusted with additional responsibility as Chief Business Officer of Zee5, responsible for its P&L, operations and growth.

Oct 2023 – Aug 2024 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

• As head of Rippling India, led a 250-strong engineering team and 600 strong tech + business team focusing on financial and HR products and tech migrations to drive operational excellence.
• Drove payroll products for US market and launched new HR tech products for PEO and EOR and led infra, front end, and mobile platform orgs.
• Drove early adoption of GenAI and leveraging of AI in development and customer support.
• Uplevelled talent, introduced effective processes, and led impactful tech migrations and product launches.

Oct 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led engineering for the Google Pay India consumer app, built a team that scaled to over a billion transactions a month, 150M+ MAUs and reached over 400B USD in TPV per year.
• Successfully launched a credit card solution and consumer credit products in partnership with Banks and FMCGs contributing to India's fintech revolution.
• Built the world's largest Flutter based app with innovative gamification layer and seamlessly migrated to it from native codebase while handling a fast growing business.

Apr 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru (India) / London (UK) · On-site

• Managed global teams based in UK and India for Search, Recommendations, Shopping cart, transaction management and Pricing tech at Tesco Bengaluru.
• Delivered over 100M GBP revenue impact yearly through innovative solutions for online and omni-channel platforms.
• Drove operational excellence and recruitment excellence initiatives and instilled a high performance work culture.

Oct 2014 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · On-site

• Led ~250 person global technology org across Bangalore, Minneapolis, and Sunnyvale, focusing on engineering and data science capabilities.
• Spearheaded the vision and execution of next-generation Search & Discovery capability for Target, resulting in $800M+ incremental revenue in 2016.
• Transformed Target Digital org's culture to a fast-paced, data-driven environment, fostering problem-solving and idea generation in a hierarchy-agnostic manner.

Oct 2014 – Sep 2015 · 11 mos · On-site

• Led engineering portfolios for Search & Discovery, Price, Promotions, Item, and Catalog at Target.com & mobile channels.
• Conceived and delivered a competitive price and assortment monitoring system in under 6 months for omnichannel use-cases.
• Led the launch of a Solr based custom search index improving CTR and demand by 15%.
• Established eng recruitment, operational excellence and product excellence best practices.

Aug 2010 – Sep 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Seattle / Bangalore · On-site

• Led the launch of Amazon Sponsored Products, which has now grown into a $30B+ global product.
• As Bangalore Site Lead & GM for Amazon Ads (formerly Amazon Clicks), built and led an engineering and business operations team of 125 in Bangalore for Amazon Clicks
• Developed large scale catalog and product Ad policing systems for data extraction.
• Conducted ~500 interviews as a certified Amazon Bar Raiser, ensuring high hiring standards and contributing to growth of Amazon India and Amazon Ad tech org in Seattle.

Sep 2006 – Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater Boston Area · On-site

• Launched multiple new products and platforms at Supermedia, including a Merchant Platform serving hundreds of millions of searches a week.
• Led pioneering implementations for fine-grained conversion tracking, saving over $10 million in licensing costs annually.
• Received CEO/CTO level outstanding performance awards for either individual or team level every year at SuperMedia.

Apr 2004 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Boston Area · On-site

• Led the creation of distributed configuration management system for large fleets at Verizon Labs.
• Improved performance and accuracy of local search services, receiving multiple awards from CEO / CTO for individual and team accomplishments.

Aug 2001 – Apr 2003 · 1 yr 8 mos

Jun 2000 – Jul 2001 · 1 yr 1 mo

Sep 1999 – Jun 2000 · 9 mos