Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Jan 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Reported to the CEO and partnered closely with the SVP of Engineering to lead Harness’s flagship Continuous Delivery (CD) business from product-market fit through scale — growing ARR from $30M to $90M and unlocking $50M+ in expansion revenue through next-gen platform transformation.
• 🚀 End-to-end ownership of Product & Engineering — roadmap, architecture, execution, adoption, and customer outcomes
• 🧠 Founding exec-level influence: Helped design the Next-Gen platform with CEO, enabling Harness’s expansion from 1 to 15+ products and positioning the company for $1B+ potential
• 🔁 Drove first-gen to next-gen migration for enterprise CD customers — a complex, multi-year initiative critical to product viability and future expansion
• 🌍 Built and scaled global teams across the US, India, and LATAM — hired and retained top talent with <5% attrition in hypergrowth environment
• 📦 Launched strategic new modules including Artifact Registry (competitive edge vs. JFrog) and DB DevOps (Liquibase alternative)
• 📈 Took ownership of CI and scaled ARR from $8M → $20M; led execution, onboarding, and GTM alignment
• 🤝 Acted as CTO advisor to strategic customers — leading architecture reviews, platform integrations, and adoption plans
• 🤖 Driving AI-native DevOps experiences by integrating LLMs into developer and deployment workflows

Jul 2022 – Jan 2023 · 6 mos

• Promoted to lead both Product strategy and Engineering execution for the CD business unit — bridging technical leadership with go-to-market alignment during the transition from FirstGen to NextGen.
• 🧭 Owned product roadmap, platform strategy, and customer migration plans for the flagship CD product
• ⚙️ Partnered deeply with engineering to accelerate delivery of the NextGen platform and unblock new module launches
• 🧱 Drove feature development, execution velocity, and customer onboarding across legacy and modern platforms
• 🤝 Worked closely with field, support, and sales teams to ensure adoption, migration success, and expansion readiness
• 🌍 Managed cross-functional, globally distributed engineering teams to drive fast, coordinated delivery
• This role set the foundation for full ownership as VP of Product & Engineering, scaling CD from $30M to $90M ARR.

Oct 2021 – Jun 2022 · 8 mos

• Reported to CEO. Personally selected to lead a focused task force formed by the CEO to address top-priority customer issues in the FirstGen platform.
• 🔧 Founded and led SPG to solve architectural, UX, and platform-level issues for enterprise customers
• 🔁 Restored trust and retention through rapid improvements in stability and support workflows
• 🧠 Findings directly informed the architecture and priorities for the NextGen platform

Oct 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Personally handpicked by the CEO as part of the founding core team to architect and deliver Harness’s NextGen Platform — transforming the company from a single-product startup to a multi-product enterprise SaaS platform.
• 🧱 Founding Engineer and technical lead for the NextGen initiative — designed platform primitives to support 15+ products across CI, CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost, Security, and more
• 🧭 Served as the technical liaison between Product Management, UX Design, and Engineering — translating customer needs and GTM goals into scalable architecture and intuitive workflows
• ⚙️ Worked across 10+ engineering teams to unblock execution by providing reusable components, platform services (RBAC, pipelines, config, secrets, onboarding, governance), and guidance
• 🎨 Partnered with UX to define design frameworks and standards that could support consistency across all future modules
• 🧠 Acted as the go-to Subject Matter Expert (SME) for CD and platform capabilities, given experience launching the first-gen product
• 🚀 Delivered the foundational platform that enabled Harness to transition into a modular, extensible product suite with $1B+ revenue potential
• 🌟 Promoted to Distinguished Engineer for technical excellence, cross-functional leadership, and impact on platform scale and product velocity

Mar 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• 🏗️ Technical Leadership and Architecture
• Architected and built the core orchestration engine using Java, MongoDB, and Kubernetes, scaling to 10,000+ concurrent pipeline executions and millions of deployment events monthly
• Developed integrations with major artifact repositories including Docker, Artifactory, and Nexus
• Designed and implemented a flexible trigger framework supporting Webhooks, Git events, and CRON-based triggers
• 🚀 Customer & Product Impact
• Led beta customer success, partnering directly to onboard and retain early customers, shaping product-market fit
• Played a critical role in acquiring the first 5 customers and growing revenue to $10M, translating customer needs into rapid product iterations
• Helped scale the product from zero to adoption by Fortune 500 customers, delivering enterprise-grade CI/CD capabilities
• 👥 Team Building & Leadership
• Built and scaled the India engineering team from the ground up, leading hiring, mentoring, and process establishment
• Drove feature velocity, delivering high-impact features at startup speed while maintaining quality and scalability
• 🤝 Cross-functional Collaboration
• Closely worked with the CTO, CEO, and Sales teams to align product strategy with technical execution, driving product vision, business goals, and scaling decisions at the executive and customer-facing levels
• Technologies & Tools:
• Java, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, Artifactory, Nexus, CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure, Webhooks, Jenkins, Terraform, AWS, GCP, SSH and WinRM, REST/WebSockets