Jul 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As an EM took end to end responsibility of Growth and Payments team of Unacademy responsible to manage payment system of 500-600 Cr annually
• Led multiple refactoring and optimization projects to reduce cost while keeping 100% uptime of the services
• Worked with Sales and Business team to set up processes for seamless co-ordination in order to improve throughput and productively of the team
• I also worked as an IC during the critical times of the company where I
• Owned engineering efforts for the revenue vertical
• Responsible for architecture, implementation and delivery for various 0-1 products
• Conceptualise, Designed, Architected, Implemented & successfully launched the in-house CRM for a sales team of over 5000+ business executives to optimise revenue generation via sales/leads conversion
• Built and managed a team from scratch within Unacademy for handling Sales Technology initiatives, responsible for managing realtime event tracking across the platform, data engineering pipelines, sales incentive calculation, dialler/outbound-calling systems

Feb 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked on building multiple 0-1 products as Lead
• Not just led the team but played as an IC and code 80% of the time
• Built in house tool called Atlas for educator management, KPMG auditing features, Contract management, Learner Management, Unacademy Centres quality dashboard for Leadership and verious other metrics tracking.
• Built a web-app and ETL pipeline to extract data from Analytics DB and do queries to show vertical, group, category, goal level revenue single handedly.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater New York City Area

• Authored the book "Building Chatbots with Python - using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning" published by Apress, New York. Later translated in Portuguese and Korean.
• Book: https://amzn.to/2SmOnmB
• Blog Post - Conversing with Bots: https://www.apress.com/us/blog/all-blog-posts/conversing-with-bots/16172596
• Blog Post - Deploying Chatbots On Facebook: https://www.apress.com/us/blog/all-blog-posts/deploying-chatbots-on-facebook/16172662
• Book Review by a popular Python blogger: https://coolpythoncodes.com/chatbots-python-book-review/
• #chatbots #conversationalAI #NLP #AI #ML #spaCy #NLTK #conversationalAgents #DialogFlow #Rasa

May 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Design & Architecture of a system handling 20,000+ RPS & TBs of data cleaning & crunching
• Serverless APIs, millions of logging every second using techs like Lambda, Kinesis Data Stream/Delivery Stream, S3, Redshift, API Gateway.
• Hired and built the youngest team in terms of experience who helped build a system handling millions of requests/day
• Solved Core Engineering problems with less cost and high reliability.
• Location Intelligence & deriving user insights to help businesses understand their customer better
• Part-time Product Management, Adding up new features, enhancements for better product usability & reliability. (Ideation => Design => Code => Delivery)
• Optimizing the process of building good software and make it market-fit.
• Learnt reviewing DPAs, Contract Terms, Software Licensing Agreements, Pricing Strategy for clients.
• POC for any technical discussions, support for feature development, pilot for major clients.

Jan 2018 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Online

• Mentored 20 Postgraduate students for the diploma course on Data Analytics from IIIT-Bangalore for their 1.5 month capstone project.
• 300+ calls for
• ML Mock Interview
• Resume Review
• Career Counselling
• Data Science & Data Analytics Special Request Mock Interview
• Capstone Project Mentorship
• Project Viva Call
• I had the opportunity to guide people from almost 80+ unique companies where mentees are working or have worked with.
• Below are a few to name:
• American Express • Tata Consultancy Services • Accenture • HP
• Microsoft • VMware • Amazon • Wipro • Limited • Infosys • Samsung Electronics
• PHILIP MORRIS • Resolvo Systems • HungerBox • Target
• Powerweave • Honeywell • Cognizant • Reactore • SAP Labs India
• IBM • Huawei • Royal Bank of Scotland Business • Credit Suisse
• Huntington National Bank • Cardinal Health • J.P. Morgan • Mphasis
• Research Councils UK RCUK • Nokia • NTT DATA Services • Dell
• Mindtree • GT Nexus • Silicon Labs • Verifone • Citibank India
• Motorola Solutions • Concentrix • Honeywell • Tech Mahindra • Meditab

Aug 2016 – Aug 2016 · 0 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Invited to give a talk on Natural Language Processing with Python. It was a 3 hour session organized at IISc, Bangalore in Golden Jublee Seminar Hall.
• Topics Covered:
• POS Tagging
• Parsing
• Stemming
• Lemmatization
• Generating sentences from context-free grammars
• Logical Semantics
• Building Chatbots in a day
• Gender Classification using NLTK
• Building a spam filter app using NLTK
• http://sumitraj.in/blog/talk-on-natural-language-processing-at-indian-institute-of-science-bangalore/

Feb 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore/San Francisco

• A startup trying to crack Revenue Management with help of Machine Learning where I was leading the entire Backend Platform Development. (Web Application Architecture | Scalability | Performance & Cost Optimization [Helped reduce $$$$ with end-to-end automation by de-sparking the stack and using AWS & Open Source tools] )
• Revenue Analytics + Data Mining + Data Science + Machine Learning + Python/Django + REST APIs + REDIS + RabbitMQ + Celery + MongoDB + AWS Spot Instances + Dockers
• Hospitality Technology | Revenue Analytics | Pricing Recommendations | HotelTech

Jan 2016 – Feb 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Online

• It’s like calling 911 for your code. When you need help, you push a button, and your request goes out to the HackHands’ community, a group of knowledgeable, vetted professionals. Within minutes, you’re connected with a mentor through video chat and screen share. Together, you can work through problems, edit code, review architecture, or talk through questions. You can get unstuck. Immediately.
• As a hack.hands() expert, I get paid to help others in need, build relationships and reputation. Additionally, their platform allows me to help others at my convenience with no commitments, and takes care of reputation management and payments.

Oct 2015 – Feb 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Online

• Mentored and Pair Programmed with students/developers from all around the globe to teach them in sessions and resolve their doubts to fix any issue they are facing to develop something.
• Featured in Top 10 Python Experts on codementor's website.
• Mentoring | Code Help | Consulting | Rapid Prototyping | Quick Apps Development | Training | Python/Django Training | Python Workshop | Corporate Trainer

Sep 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

• Helping this awesome bootstrapped startup in the domain of Stock Market Research. Helped them with lots of problem solving using Python, Serverless setup for the trading bot to release their MVP for their paid customers.
• https://marketscanner.in/about/

Jul 2015 – Feb 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• At CommonFloor, I was working with CFx Team to build awesome products from ideation to production. Worked on Alexa Voice Service and Alexa Skill Kit to develop AIRA (Artificial Intelligent Real-Estate Assistant)
• Built an AI chat bot to answer Home seekers query.
• Real Estate | Startups | Ideas to Traction | Product Design & Architecture | Chatbots | NLP | AI & ML

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore, India

• My responsibilities included doing Change Requests, feature enhancement and fixing Functional, Security, Performance and UI issues in the product which directly impacts 50 million customers and 700 clients all across the globe.
• I was responsible to give support at the time of Maintenance & Release of the product before the product is rolled out in the production.
• I also worked as a core team member for the Hackathons organized by Yodlee.
• Finance | FinTech | Personal Finance Management | Financial Applications | Hackathons | Ideation | Scalability

Aug 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• My role was to write web crawlers for different websites as per requirement by the client.
• Since it was a start-up , I was responsible for the complete life cycle for the development of the crawler from requirements to design and then development and testing.

Jun 2011 – Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Patna Area, India

• Web Portal Development using HTML, PHP, MySQL