Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 5 mos

Jun 2013 – Present · 13 yrs

• Part of the initial team in 2013, been building it with other members since then.
• Experiences below are through nilenso.

Mar 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Worked on OKRs with leadership, improving their structure for measurability. Worked with senior epidemiologists in ICMR to make hypertension data easy to analyse, worked on refining and architecting the reporting schema for India's scale. Worked with people in the field to build patient de-duplication, online-lookup, and drug stock features.

Feb 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Principal Engineer in Marketplace/matchmaking org of Gojek. Created the base abstraction of a Trip that could represent orders across multiple products at Gojek, and worked closely with the CTO, and Heads of Engineering to do this. Led the product and engineering initiatives for Food Pooling, delivering orders to nearby customers from same restaurant.
• Was the go-to person in Marketplace for creating practices around building and running teams, architecture decisions, functional programming, etc.
• Clojure, Postgres, Rabbitmq, Redis, Distributed Transactions, ADRs

Dec 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Led the Go-Food OMS and Reliability Team, scaling from 500k to 2M orders a day. Led merchant acceptance initiative from ideation to market, closely in deep collaboration with product leadership. Evolved API design with mobile app to be simple, composable, and backend-driven. Built the architecture around the OMS, making it event driven and modular, keeping the core state machine minimal. Influenced architecture in CMS, and Search teams too. Brought Clojure and Postgres expertise to the teams, ran workshops and training sessions for multiple batches. Inspired deep thinking in the team, propagated software engineering principles through documentation and mentorship. Built strong rapport across Gojek teams.
• Golang, Clojure, PostgreSQL, Platform Infrastructure

May 2018 – Dec 2018 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Initial design and launch of the simple app to the first 10 facilities in Punjab. Led the backend team, drove the offline-first sync-API design, participated in designing the Simple-ID, created an experiments app for quick validation of product with nurses in the field.
• Rails | Clojurescript React Native | Postgres | Metabase

Sep 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Built generative testing framework for large, distributed payments platform. Developed orchestration library for communication between actors. Created API simulator for payment systems testing. Built integrations with other payment systems, admin portal, and mobile apps.

Nov 2013 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid

• Built large-scale machine learning runtimes and analytics platforms supporting low latency (< 10ms at P99.9) SLAs. Developed Experimentation Platform (EP) for A/B testing with experiment-level scheduling. Built monitoring system for Sparx ecosystem. Created ETL pipelines, data pipelines, catalog systems, and web crawlers. Built and maintained high availability PostgreSQL cluster with over 2 billion records, supporting < 5 second failovers. Attended PostgreSQL Day Asia conference and applied learnings to production problems.
• Clojure, Datomic, JVM, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redshift

Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 · 11 mos · Bangalore, India

• Wrote a survey web service for the non-profit sector employing a RESTful API. Built both a rich, backbone.js-based web frontend and mobile app for Android
• Worked on a large e-commerce product, heavy on analytics and services integrations, wrote web scrapers, designed parts of the website.

May 2011 – Aug 2011 · 3 mos · Google Summer of Code 2011

• Developed an Eclipse Plugin as a Google Summer of Code 2011 participant. The project proposal was accepted by The Eclipse Foundation, IBM. Successfully developed the plugin for Assignment Management in the Eclipse IDE for Education. The plugin featured fresh UI for creating, importing and managing Java Assignments. It also Included a chat functionality to chat with the teacher assistant through XMPP or IRC, within eclipse itself.