Jul 2021 – May 2022 · 10 mos

• Platform services underpin all Freshworks's award-winning products, providing them capabilities such as Search, Analytics, Billing, custom object support, customer data platform and IPaaS among other capabilities. My team helps operate these and more services at scale, while maintaining world-class SLAs and SLOs, serving billions of requests and dealing with petabytes of data every day.

Jan 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Heading DevOps culture and Cloud Neutrality

Oct 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• As the head of Smartron's tronX technology division, I am responsible for massively scalable, artificial intelligence and machine learning powered back-end cloud technologies. My team builds the unlimited storage that is a feature of Smartron's smartphones, the AI-powered smart Android Launcher that lets users pay bills with a single tap or watch movies or listen to songs and gets more and more personalized day after day, the Deep Indigo Answering Engine with 157 million facts also including live data like cricket scores or currency rates which powers the Maya voice powered personal assistant.
• I am also product owner for AI-powered consumer facing apps, taking them through the journey from minimum viable product to nurturing a product-market fit and driving engagement and growth.

Jun 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• As Director of Engineering at Smartron, I take care of Scalability, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in the Cloud.

Feb 2014 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• MobiZippy is a platform that lets ecommerce merchants very quickly and affordably create world-class mobile commerce apps targeting the most prominent platforms. At MobiZippy, I oversee marketing, content, product/market fit, lend a hand with back-end architecture and also take care of scalability and high availability.

Mar 2009 – Jan 2014 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• I joined K7 Computing after its acquisition of BinaryKarma, a company I co-founded to head the division that works on Cloud Computing technologies.
• Here are the products I helped design and develop:
• Cyclozzo - A state of the art implementation of a PaaS. Supports multiple APIs. Two of the supported APIs are Google App Engine's Java and Python APIs. Nothing to do with Google, we have a full reimplementation.
• Cyclozzo video:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9PhycsXp_s
• StackIron - A platform that lets hosting providers setup a Cloud VPS/IaaS business in mere hours. Includes support for industry leading, hosting focused billing systems. StackIron is a highly scalable platform with VPS failover, management server high availability, support for multiple hypervisor technologies, etc.
• A 5 minute StackIron demo:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyT9DkHpnA4
• EggPlug - A personal cloud appliance/hardware that lets you access your data no matter where you are and also let you share and monitor your shares. What's best: It looks like a real egg! Personal cloud storage that let you keep you data with you and you don't have to spend more to store more.
• EggPlug Video:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4O_AgsM2c

Jun 2007 – Mar 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

• As co-founder and Virtualization Architect at Binary Karma, I head a small and committed team of talented engineers who work on Linux based Virtualization technologies. I am also involved hands-on in the design and coding process.

Jul 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Novatium is part of the TENET group of companies incubated at IIT Madras. Aimed to create the world's first $100 PC "appliance" that just works with users able to subscribe to various productivity application on a monthly basis, billed via their telecom provider. Novatium created some of the world's leading thin-client technology with a combined hardware-software experience that just worked. Also, a pioneering product company during days when few actually existed in India.
• As software lead, I was responsible for the on-device Linux-based platform, optimizing it for good performance on very constrained hardware, all the while working very closely with the hardware team.

May 2004 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo

• I joined in the Embedded systems team, but I later moved on to the Technology Solutions Group, where I provided solutions to customers based on Open Source Technologies, mailny.

Jul 2001 – Apr 2004 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• At Winways Systems and previously at APR Bristol Software under the same management, I pretty much kick started my career. While at APR Bristol and Winways, I worked on several interesting projects and products ranging from client based systems to web based systems in the domains of ERP, Accounting and Online Printing. Over a period of time, Winways became an exclusively open source based solutions provider with all the company switching over to Linux and other open source technologies.