Nov 2024 – Jan 2025 · 2 mos · Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India

Aug 2020 – Nov 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Engineering Leader for Amazon Fresh India Farm to Fork Supply Chain team. We are building India first ground up tech capabilities in the supply chain space.
• Our goal is to enhance in-stock levels, expedite processes, minimize shrinkage, and reduce costs. We aim to achieve this by implementing a "Hands-Off-The-Wheel" supply chain automation system.
• We have developed technological capabilities to grade and package loose produce, facilitate transshipment from hub to spoke, and enable Sales and Operations Planning within Fulfillment Centers. Additionally, we have enhanced Inventory Health Management, Demand Forecasting, and under-the-roof transformation and automation capabilities to optimize buying and strengthen Farmer/Vendor engagement.
• 🚀 Noteworthy Milestones:
• Zero to one: Spearheaded groundbreaking initiatives, including an app benchmarking wholesale market prices and a grading solution enhancing produce quality.
• Achieved remarkable enhancements in operational metrics, improvement in out-of-stock metrics and 100% automation in transshipment processes.
• Revolutionized demand forecasting alongside significant improvements in labor efficiency, cost reduction initiatives and improved next slot availability for customers
• Zero to one: Contributed to Kisan app tech enhancements to help fruits & vegetable farmers increase their income through improved yield and quality.

Jun 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked for Groupon Global Customer Obsession team. Responsible for leading teams and building platform solutions for Customer and Merchant Support Agents, developing customer support capabilities for external customers. Also worked as a horizontal architect for a team of 25 engineers and built a distributed global decision tree platform, which helped in reducing average agent handling time
• Key initiatives include building distributed workflow automation/ decision tree management platform, customized integrations with third party chat providers, enterprise search providers etc. Acted as horizontal architect for various teams, built platform tools and solution blueprints for the organization.
• 🚀 Noteworthy Milestones:
• Zero to one: Pioneered the development of a distributed decision tree platform, amplifying productivity for a vast network of agents and customers.

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked as Senior staff engineer for Payment and Fraud management platform - Cybersource

Sep 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• TrueVUE by Tyco Retail Solutions is designed to provide an enterprise-wide view of real-time inventory availability, unit sales, loss prevention activity, and shopper traffic patterns.
• Worked on scaling TrueVue store intelligence platform from 600 to 4000 stores. Worked on tricky platform level sharding to scale the enterprise stack.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring. Served as the Champion for solutions to business problems. Prototyped and made decisions on technologies, frameworks, and libraries.
• Architected and built an integration solution between the warehouse and retail stores in MicroServices using Spring Boot.

Dec 2010 – Aug 2016 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Worked as part of the CollabNet TeamForge core architecture team. Responsible for building non-functional aspects for the product.
• 🚀 Noteworthy Milestones:
• Zero to one: Led the seamless migration and scaling of pivotal products, exemplified by the transition of CollabNet TeamForge to Federated Auth.
• Contributed to scaling and unifying authentication in TeamForge.
• Completely owned transformation of CollabNet enterprise ALM stack to run in the latest and greatest version of the JBoss (Wildfly) application server.
• Played a major role in re-architecting event notification system that connects TeamForge with other mashups. This is more about scaling event notifications at the enterprise level.
• Worked on multiple releases to ensure product stability, and proof of concepts for new technology initiatives addressing scalability.
• Responsible for the evaluation of different enterprise caches. Distributed caching capabilities with inbuilt distributed locking are integrated into the core product as a proof of concept.
• Worked in the architecture team to revamp a 10-year-old product. Responsible for several design deliverables as part of re-architecture.
• Designed and developed pagination, filtering, and sorting using JPA. This is to avoid all
• pages being loaded into memory eagerly. This got 3x improvements in overall performance while loading pages.
• Fixed critical serialization/concurrency/transaction issues in the product
• As a scrum master responsible for the delivery of several modules in CollabNet TeamForge and provided technical guidance and leadership.
• Worked on various design changes in the Integrated Applications Framework (IAF) that seamlessly connects CollabNet ALM stack with several open-source vendor tools. Completely owned design to push event notification to CollabNet Orchestrate that acts as association Mashups.

Sep 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed distributed enterprise messaging in the product using Apache Active MQ. This gave a 200% increase in performance compared to in-memory concurrent linked queue.
• Provided support for two-phase commit across services using distributed transactions.
• Design and development of form service that acts as core platform service and notification service to send out external emails.
• Fixed concurrency related issues in the application when the passenger platform moved into a cluster.
• Designed and developed code to share media/content to Facebook/Twitter.

Jun 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked on FlexNet Operations, an entitlement management solution for managing software licenses.

Jan 2007 – Jun 2007 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked for web 2.0 travel startup www.vayama.com
• Involved in developing search engine optimization to get the best hit rates when crawling from Google search.
• Developed city maps in the application using Microsoft Virtual Earth.
• Developed airport maps for all the cities using AJAX.
• Integrated content from Travelpod, a blogging engine.

Aug 2004 – Dec 2006 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Singapore

• Technology solution provider for Citifinancial, Union Bank of Switzerland (Singapore), Deutsche Bank(Singapore)
• Designed and developed the messaging framework from Weblogic to MQSeries for strategic banking clients.
• Engineered code using Struts, JSP, Servlets for non-instrument screens like charges, depot.
• Done proof of concept for cipher encryption and decryption logic for handling public and private keys.

Dec 2003 – Aug 2004 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on Linux Hardening for GE Global Research through California Digital (Bangalore)
• Wrote core security shell scripts for hardening Linux servers