Jul 2025 – Nov 2025 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Strategic Technology Leadership: Driving the technical vision and roadmap for Sharpsell.ai's Sales Playbook Automation Platform, serving industry-leading enterprises across financial services, insurance, and other sectors
• AI-Powered Sales Enablement: Architecting intelligent systems that leverage AI and machine learning to deliver personalized sales content, real-time coaching, and dynamic product illustrations to enhance sales performance
• Platform Scalability & Performance: Ensuring the platform can handle enterprise-scale deployments while maintaining high performance and reliability for mission-critical sales operations
• Innovation & Product Development: Leading cross-functional teams to develop cutting-edge features that transform how sales teams engage with prospects and close deals in the digital age

Mar 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• I led strategic initiatives to elevate engineering efficiency, platform scalability, and business agility:
• 🔹 API Management
• Designed and delivered an in-house API Management Portal using Kong API Gateway, streamlining API governance, onboarding, and lifecycle management at scale.
• 🔹 Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
• Architected a self-service Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to enable CI/CD pipelines, software cataloging, ownership discovery, telemetry, observability, and standardized development practices across engineering teams.
• 🔹 No-Code/Low-Code Workflow Orchestration
• Built a workflow automation platform using Camunda, empowering business teams to design and run workflows with minimal engineering involvement.
• 🔹 Data Platform & Tooling
• Delivered end-to-end data pipelining tools like Segment for reliable data ingestion, transformation, & routing. Developed data visualization and analytics platforms using Apache Superset to improve decision-making across teams.
• 🔹 Engineering Resilience via Chaos Engineering
• Spearheaded the implementation of a Chaos Engineering Toolset, proactively identifying system weaknesses & improving service reliability.
• 🔹 Feature Experimentation at Scale
• Built an in-house feature flagging and experimentation platform, replacing Adobe Target, to enable progressive rollouts & A/B testing.
• 🔹 Gen AI for Developer Productivity
• Built a GenAI RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system using Haystack, Langchain & open-source LLMs. integrated with Confluence, Jira, internal technical documentation, and security policies. The system leverages functional calling to integrate data from telemetry, Snyk for real-time insights and recommendations, improving developer productivity via AI-powered search & conversational tools.
• 🔹 Scalable Frontend Architecture
• Designed a reusable React-based frontend framework to support Microfrontend Architecture, enabling faster development and consistent UI patterns across products.

Jan 2021 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Leading a team of engineers to build an innovative A/B Testing Platform for Lowe’s, designed to enhance experimentation and data-driven decision-making across the company.
• 🔹 High-Performance Platform:
• Leveraging a consistent hashing algorithm and CDN edge workers, our platform executes A/B tests with zero storage, enabling rapid hypothesis testing in real-time.
• 🔹 Cost Efficiency & Scalability:
• Built the platform from scratch to directly compete with leading A/B testing tools, replacing third-party vendors and significantly reducing operational costs.
• 🔹 Real-Time Testing & Seamless Integration:
• The platform supports real-time A/B testing with plug-and-play SDKs for client, server, and mobile applications, empowering teams to scale experiments with minimal friction.

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Entrepreneur First is a global talent investor that supports individuals in building technology companies.
• I joined Entrepreneur First with an idea in the Agritech sector. However, after deeper market research and exploration, I realized that the market size for the solution I envisioned wasn’t as promising as initially anticipated. This experience helped me pivot and refine my approach to identifying high-impact opportunities in technology.

Oct 2017 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• At Halaplay, I led the development and scaling of a cross-platform mobile app using React Native, growing the platform to millions of users. I managed a lean team of 7 engineers, overseeing daily transactions of $150K+ (Rs. 1 Cr. +). With a registered user base of 9M+ and a 4M MAU, I successfully guided the company through its journey from seed funding to Series A, culminating in a successful acquisition within 3 years.
• 🔹 Strategic Leadership & Execution
• Transformed complex technological challenges into clear frameworks and actionable plans, balancing macro-level strategy with micro-level execution to drive impactful outcomes.
• 🔹 Technology & Architecture Oversight
• Developed and implemented long-term technological blueprints, while managing company-wide architecture, platform, and data processes.
• Designed and scaled a Node.js/Fastify-based backend, growing throughput from 4K TPS to 8K+ TPS at peak, and optimized REST APIs using Kubernetes for container orchestration and auto-scaling.
• Leveraged Apache Spark to build massively scalable ETL pipelines for real-time leaderboard computation across millions of users.
• 🔹 Innovation & Emerging Technologies
• Maintained a deep understanding of current and emerging technologies, applying them to enhance platform performance and drive product innovation.
• Integrated AWS Kinesis and Elasticsearch to power real-time user analytics, enabling near-instant insights into user behavior and in-game performance.
• 🔹 Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Collaborated with internal teams across product, design, and operations to ensure seamless integration of technology with business objectives, driving mutually beneficial outcomes.
• 🔹 Enterprise-Level Design & Systems Architecture
• Designed enterprise-level system architectures, ensuring scalability, security, and performance as the platform expanded.

Dec 2014 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As an Engineering Lead at MoEngage, I led a team of 3 engineers to build In-App Native—an in-app popup system for quick, user-segmented marketing campaigns. It enabled marketers to create and launch personalized in-app experiences within minutes, without writing a single line of code.
• 🔹 Scalable Microservices & SDK Development
• Developed Unity and Windows SDKs, Python SDK & built scalable microservices using industry-standard frameworks like Pyramid, Django, and ExpressJS (Node.js). Hands-on experience with Docker-based microservice architectures and their production-grade implementations.
• 🔹 Product Development & Revenue Growth
• Spearheaded the development of Flows, a no-code/low-code tool enabling cross-channel user journey orchestration. The product became a new revenue driver & core offering in MoEngage’s marketing automation suite.
• 🔹 Real-Time Data Processing & ETL
• Designed and implemented a real-time ETL pipeline using Apache Kafka & Apache Samza, capable of handling 40K–60K TPS. This powered the Flows engine, enabling dynamic user journey execution & real-time personalization across channels.
• 🔹 Massive Scalability
• Engineered solutions to handle millions of concurrent hits, scaling to support 30M–35M DAUs, with a strong focus on platform reliability, fault tolerance, & latency optimization.
• 🔹 End-User Support & Service Guidelines
• Led efforts to streamline end-user support operations, introducing well-defined service policies & playbooks for fast & consistent ticket resolution—boosting customer experience & CSAT scores.
• 🔹 Engineering Feasibility & Product Reliability
• Evaluated the technical feasibility of new features & design proposals, ensuring alignment with performance, reliability, and compliance goals. Drove the implementation of proactive strategies to improve system health and fault recovery.
• 🔹 Collaboration & Product Introduction
• Worked cross-functionally with product, QA, & customer success teams to ensure seamless rollout of new features.

Sep 2014 – Nov 2014 · 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• At JungleeRummy, I maintained and optimized the game server written in C# and WCF, ensuring smooth and efficient operation of the platform.
• 🔹 System Maintenance & Optimization
• Installed, configured, and tested software applications, ensuring high functionality and seamless integration within the system. Actively identified and resolved performance bottlenecks, improving overall system performance.
• 🔹 Technology Solution Design
• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that consistently met or exceeded performance expectations, contributing to a high-quality gaming experience.
• 🔹 Software Integration & Enhancements
• Supported software integration efforts and implemented maintenance enhancements to keep the system running smoothly and up-to-date.
• 🔹 Proactive Bug Resolution
• Proactively identified and resolved bugs, implementing adjustments that enhanced system reliability and user experience.

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos

• Application developer for Windows / Windows Phone.
• Deliver demos/walkthroughs on Unity 3D (Game Engine) to students and enthusiasts.

Apr 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Building amazing apps for Windows,giving seminars and talks on Windows App Development.

Feb 2014 – May 2014 · 3 mos · United Arab Emirates

• I was a technical support trainee where I have to handle client's queries related to products ranging from network to data security and directing them to concerned engineer and also used to handle level 1 issues by myself.

Sep 2012 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Was responsible for creating more awareness about ACM among students and also making sure that how they can leverage this largest and most significant professional association in the computing areas to kickstart their career.

Jun 2012 – Aug 2012 · 2 mos