Sep 2015 – Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Pune Area, India

• We built Mezi.com - AI Travel Assistant - Got acquired by American Express
• Building and leading engineering team at Pune.
• At Mezi (now Amex) we are blending AI with commerce. Mezi is a truly human interface: a trusted partner you can depend on. Powered by artificial intelligence and assisted by human experts, Mezi gets smarter and faster with every customer interaction.
• We are hiring. Academically super strong (preferably Tier-1 college only) and passion to build a product, amazing craftsmanship skills to write beautiful code and experienced hands-on platform (Python) engineers who strive for performance and scale.

Mar 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune Area, India

• At Cobalt (www.Sincrodigital.com), we are redefining the online car-shopping experience.
• As the digital marketing partner of choice for renowned car brands like General Motors, Lexus, Volkswagen, and many more, we provide the powerful engine that makes their online presence hum. Our elegant platform provides the power behind 10,000+ websites.
• In an average day:
• Our Software Developers supercharge the platform behind 10,000 dealer websites
• Our Data Scientists leverage the largest data vault in the industry to find out what really sells cars
• Our Advertising Specialists secure dealers standout ad placements on our Premium Content Network

Jul 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• Acquired by Rdio. India operation closed.
• Dhingana.com was a music service providing all Indian and foreign content to Indian as well as abroad users. Primary focus was acquiring Indian users and generate revenue using subscription service via carrier billing (like IDEA, Airtel etc.).

Nov 2011 – Jul 2012 · 8 mos · Bangalore

• Managing Server Performance and Utilization team.

Nov 2006 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• CA Clarity is a PPM (Project and Portfolio Management) based solution. (Technologies: Core Java, GWT / Ajax based UI, Servlets, XML, SOAP, Oracle / MS SQL)
• Responsibilities:
• “Global” Sustaining Manager; managing team from US, China and India directly keeping CSR (Customer Satisfaction Rate) increasing every month.
• Managing New Development efforts too from India.
• End to end project Planning and Design Discussions
• Hiring top talents from the industry
• Work closely and maintain great relations with Cross Functions PM, PMO, QA, Presales, CM and Program Executive
• Started Team from Scratch (Sustaining Team @ CA) with 4 Developers in hand.
• Team Size 30 as budget provided (in three years) including Sustaining as well as New Development Efforts
• ZERO loss of top talents during 3 years of leadership. Total loss less than 20%.
• Exponential increase in productivity of new hires within 3 months using leadership thoughts
• Out of Box interview Strategy

Jan 2004 – May 2006 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Capital Harness System
• Technologies: Core Java, CORBA, Swing, Oracle

Mar 2003 – Jan 2004 · 10 mos

• Eclipse Plug-in for HP Product Development
• Technologies: Core Java, SWT, Eclipse Plug-in Development

Apr 2000 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Aloha (Enterprise Storage Switch) –
• Technologies: Core Java, Swing, C/C++, VxWorks, MS SQL DB
• Responsibilities:
• Storage based company and we were developing our own Enterprise Storage Switch (h/w) that manages storage of giant organization virtually and seamlessly. I worked solely on Management Console that could help system administrator(s) to manage multiple virtual servers / virtual shares very efficiently. The UI was being built also to manage repository of resources (servers, disk arrays etc.), auto discovery of resources and easy seamless data management.