Jan 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Led a tribe of 36+ engineers across backend, platform, and product teams.
• Implemented DORA metrics, achieving 20+ deployments per day with sustained 99.999% uptime.
• Introduced SRE practices and RED metrics, coaching teams on microservice reliability at scale.
• Re-structured engineering org into domain-aligned, cross-functional teams and introduced platform teams to scale core business capabilities.
• Introduced Architecture Unit Tests (ArchUnit) across 50+ microservices, enforcing clean architecture and SRP.
• Mentored Engineering Managers and senior engineers.
• Co-created a Tech Advisory Committee to guide architecture decisions aligned with long-term business needs.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 · 11 mos

• Led 20+ engineers, improving delivery efficiency and operational maturity.
• Standardized hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
• Elevated the team's proficiency in Clean Code, Good Documentation, Operational Excellence, and maintaining 99.99% SLAs.
• Co-created Engineering Growth Framework, RFCs, ADRs, and API standards.

Mar 2021 – Dec 2021 · 9 mos

• Built and scaled microservices using Java and Spring Boot on AWS.
• Migrated workloads from Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes (EKS), achieving 30% cost savings and improved reliability.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reducing environment setup time by 40% and ensuring consistency.

Jan 2017 – Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Modernized large-scale backend systems serving millions of users by refactoring legacy code, introducing clean code practices and unit testing, increasing development speed by 20% and reducing post-release bugs by 50%.
• Optimized high-throughput APIs (1000+ RPS) using RabbitMQ-based queuing, achieving 99.99% success rates with ~150 ms latency and improved system reliability.
• Established strong engineering quality standards across microservices through TDD, unit testing, and design documentation, significantly improving developer confidence in production releases.
• Led platform-wide GDPR compliance, ensuring 100% regulatory adherence and mitigating legal and operational risk.
• Standardized analytics instrumentation (Mixpanel, Google Analytics Ecommerce) across multiple applications, enabling accurate attribution across channels and reducing analytics costs by 20%.
• Drove end-to-end customer lifecycle optimization using the AARRR framework, improving onboarding, reducing churn by 1%, and increasing affiliate revenue by 70%.
• Containerized local and staging environments using Docker, improving developer experience, accelerating testing, and reducing production bugs by 12%.

Jan 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Led a major backend modernization, migrating from a monolithic architecture to microservices, significantly improving scalability, system manageability, and increasing deployment frequency by 50%.
• Played a key role in scaling engineering teams, recruiting and onboarding 50+ engineers while maintaining a strong, positive candidate experience.
• Owned and managed the backend infrastructure on AWS, ensuring reliability, performance, and smooth production operations.
• Enabled data-driven growth by integrating marketing and analytics platforms (Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Mailchimp, Intercom), contributing to a 2% MoM improvement in customer retention.
• Led critical platform and performance initiatives, including zero-downtime CRM upgrades, high-performance multi-platform APIs (99.99% success rate, <250 ms latency), SEO-driven page speed optimizations, and large-scale VPN service testing, improving service quality and reducing connectivity issues by 10%.

Apr 2014 – Dec 2014 · 8 mos

• Led a large-scale data migration from MySQL (OLTP) to Elasticsearch using a robust ETL pipeline, enabling analytics use cases with eventual consistency within a 15-minute SLA.
• Designed and built an internal BI Analytics & Administration portal for VPN infrastructure management, enabling data-driven decisions and supporting product scale-out from 30 to 50+ countries.

Jan 2014 – Apr 2014 · 3 mos

• Quickly ramped up on Ruby on Rails and delivered production-quality customer solutions, meeting functional and performance requirements.
• Customized and extended Spree Commerce (open-source Ruby e-commerce platform) to support client-specific business workflows and features.
• Built a pure JavaScript image-to-slideshow application, converting multiple images into smooth animated presentations without external libraries.

Dec 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr

• Implemented Swagger/OpenAPI documentation in an enterprise-scale PHP application, significantly improving API clarity, onboarding speed, and cross-team collaboration.
• Introduced Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using Behat, improving test coverage, software quality, and developer confidence in production releases.
• Delivered Git version control training to 50+ engineers, standardizing workflows and improving collaboration, code safety, and release reliability.

Feb 2012 – Nov 2012 · 9 mos

• * Built large-scale social web applications using PHP (Yii) and MongoDB.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr

• Worked as a full-stack engineer, contributing to both backend and frontend development of PHP-based web applications.