Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

Jan 2021 – Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Empowering Meta developers with cutting-edge developer products, platforms, infrastructure, and AI-driven innovations to enhance productivity.
• Recent focus areas include monitoring, observability, product quality, and software release platforms.
• Led impactful advancements in debugging, troubleshooting, incident recovery, and software release through generative AI solutions.

Jun 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• 1. Led the Alexa Personality Experiences team, driving both product and engineering for some of Alexa’s most popular features, including:
• Entertainment experiences (jokes, stories, songs, riddles)
• Greetings and pleasantries
• Answering questions about Alexa’s capabilities and features.
• 2. Designed voice and visual experiences for a wide range of Alexa-powered devices, building low-latency, highly available, and scalable engineering systems.
• 3. Previously led engineering and product for discovery features in the Amazon mobile shopping app, generating a multi-million-dollar downstream impact.
• 4. Spearheaded the development and launch of Amazon Spark on Android in just four months—a social platform designed to connect users with shared interests and enhance product discovery.

Nov 2016 – Jun 2017 · 7 mos · Seattle, Washington

• Led the development of new features and enhanced scalability, availability, and performance for Amazon’s internal deployment and security patching services.

May 2013 – Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Product lead for multiple Microsoft Outlook features, including:
• Email security (Microsoft Exchange security policies, S/MIME encryption, and digital signatures)
• Addressing and contacts management
• Storage and attachments
• Public calendars and meeting location picker
• Product usage and feedback analysis
• Global release readiness
• Accessibility enhancements
• Responsibilities spanned end-to-end feature development— strategy, planning, and execution—while collaborating with engineers, designers, marketers, user researchers, and enterprise customers to drive product improvements based on usage insights and feedback.

Jan 2012 – May 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

• 1. Designed and led strategic programs to drive innovation, collaboration, and user experience expertise within Microsoft IT India, a 1,000+ employee organization.
• 2. Conducted competitive research on mobile development platforms, earning recognition from Microsoft’s CIO and senior leadership.
• 3. Envisioned and managed the creation of a collaboration workspace at the Microsoft Hyderabad campus.

Jul 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

• 1. Designed and developed new features across multiple releases of Microsoft's Channel Incentives Program, enhancing the effectiveness of channel incentive investments.
• 2. Delivered proof-of-concepts for extending the platform to cloud and mobile environments.

Dec 2009 – Jun 2010 · 6 mos

• 1. Automated the server patching process, making it 20x faster and saving 20+ man-hours per month.
• 2. Designed system architecture and led development of a software platform for managing complex IT application environments, enabling monitoring, configuration management, software updates, and on-demand virtual machine creation.

Jul 2009 – Jun 2010 · 11 mos

• Led the migration of 30 software projects to Visual Studio for improved source control management and work item tracking.

Mar 2009 – Nov 2016 · 7 yrs 8 mos

• Garage is a Microsoft wide community for grassroots innovators working on innovative side projects.
• Founded the first regional Garage chapter in India, growing it into a 300-member community within a year.
• Played a key role in planning and organizing Microsoft's company-wide hackathon, which engaged 10,000 employees.

Nov 2006 – Nov 2009 · 3 yrs

• 1. Saved $50K in annual infrastructure costs through server virtualization.
• 2. Automated the application deployment process, making it 5x faster and saving 100+ person-hours per month.
• 3. Led a team responsible for environment setup, configuration, management, and software deployment.

Jul 2006 – Oct 2006 · 3 mos · Tamil Nadu, India

• Database engineer for employee payroll processing system.

Jun 2005 – May 2006 · 11 mos

• Freelance web designer and developer, delivering PHP, MySQL, HTML, ASP, and Flash projects. Notable work includes enhancing the official website for the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi, India.