Mar 2024 – Oct 2024 · 7 mos

Apr 2023 – Feb 2024 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Seasoned Engineering Manager with a deep-rooted passion for innovating and streamlining operations in supply chain management, finance, and compliance. Known for driving significant cost savings, implementing robust compliance processes, and enhancing operational efficiencies through technology-driven solutions. Adept at leading cross-functional teams to achieve excellence in project execution and operational management.
• Technical Expertise: Conducted in-depth code and design reviews across various modules, ensuring high-quality software development and alignment with project goals.

Jul 2022 – Apr 2023 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Apr 2022 – Jul 2022 · 3 mos

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022 · 3 mos

• Spearheading the effort on the Mitra Leader app involving leading and mentoring 7 team members.
• Performing design, architecture and code reviews.
• Managing multiple stakeholder expectations.
• Launched 4 experiments and 5 features directly affecting customer efficiency, NPS scores and the company's bottom line

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos

• Built an cohort generation tool that generates complex queries based on user's configuration
• Built a Payout tool that supports multiple complex incentive structures that aides in quick experimentation and reduces the TAT for payouts from one week to one day
• Improved the TAT for certain client integrations from a couple of hours to seconds

Nov 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Responsible for backend engineering, devops and mentoring of team members.
• Highlights:
• Improved database read time by 2.5x on a very large table by using table inheritance and table partitioning
• Implemented a easily scalable system for websockets increasing throughput by 2x
• Made the internal jobs system more robust by using Apache Airflow reducing failure rate from 20% to 2%.
• Dockerized all products and improved the process of deployment with automated tests.
• Implemented HA on all products to achieve an uptime of 99.5%
• Architected and implemented the backend for the Mitra product
• Performed database and query optimizations to reduce query time by orders of magnitude

Feb 2019 – Sep 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Highlights:
• Built a highly scalable visual search system, so given an image it finds similar images from a product catalog
• Built the data pipeline to enable analytics for different stakeholders.
• Built multiple crawlers to gather pricing information from competitor website for optimal pricing

May 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led the Data Science effort. Responsible for the entire data science pipeline, including system architecture and mentoring team members.
• Implemented a distributed crawling infrastructure capable of crawling and indexing 100+ pages/minute per bot (using scrapy, frontera, Elasticsearch, Kafka and HBase).
• Designed and developed a real-time news search system with sentiment analysis, named entity extraction and clustering of news stories.
• Improved the precision of a date extractor library by 20%.
• Built multiple classification models to tag news articles with metadata.
• Invented a new pre-clustering algorithm based on Canopy clustering algorithm that also optimizes on the density of the clusters.
• Built a Lead Generation system using machine learning(kNN) and graph mining(Pagerank) techniques with a potential to improve conversion rates by 2-7x
• Built an interactive visualization framework for text such as Adverse News articles similar to quid.com(sigma.js, Elasticsearch)
• Bootstrapped a dashboard framework for analytics team (crontab / python / elasticsearch / HTML / Altair/ Vega)

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Verona, Wisconsin

• Design, develop and maintain modules related to documenting oncology information in the EMR. Instrumental in adding support to interface with external third-party radiation oncology systems.

Sep 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Columbus, Ohio Area

• Masters in Computer Science and Engineering.

Jan 2011 – Sep 2011 · 8 mos

• Founded jamMm.in, an online music collaboration application.

Sep 2008 – Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Windows System Software Developer [2008 - 2011]
• Responsible for design, development and maintenance of user profile and application virtualization components in the Atlantis ILIO product stack.
• Components developed:
• vm-agent: A service used for various remote administrative tasks over TCP/IP.
• atlantis-fd: Added support to a filter driver to hook into Windows Registry events.
• application-recorder: A suite of applications used to interface with the filter driver to record registry and filesystem changes that occur during Software installation.
• lnkhead: A utility used to map iSCSI targets and load the user’s profile and applications based on his subscriptions during login time.
• All the components were written in C/C++
• User Experience Developer [2011]
• Part of a team of 2 that designed and developed the web interface for Atlantis Dedup.
• Maintained a library (written upon ExtJS and prototype.js) which extends the current ExtJS components. Was instrumental in making this library the standard web UI toolkit for all the company’s products.