Jul 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Leading the end-to-end delivery of critical product and technology features for Visa Installments
• and Unified Payments API teams

Jul 2020 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Goodera helps companies enable their employees to volunteer with thousands of nonprofits in
• 100+ countries.
• Technologies: Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka Connect, Microservices (Orchestration-based SAGA & 2PC), Docker, Kubernetes.
• Contributed heavily as an owner and IC for third-party integrations (e.g. Yourcause by Blackbaud) by mapping volunteering SKUs and leading the overall direction of the integrations, which were riddled with multiple ambiguities. These integrations now power 50+ event bookings daily & serve as a prominent source of volunteering revenue for Goodera.
• Conceived, designed & led the implementation of a pre-processing data pipeline & refresh
• strategy (granular caching) for creating materialized views powering Goodera’s CSR & Sustainability dashboards. This led to a reduction of more than 95% in dashboard loading time. Also, led the migration strategy of existing dashboards to the new architecture.
• Led code, architecture, and technology choice reviews for transitioning from a monolith to a microservices-based backend. Ensured zero downtime during the transition and slashed AWS bill by ~20% using:
• a. Spot Instances (spot.io)
• b. Serverless functions aka AWS Lambada
• Drove improvements in the release process, cadence & best practices, dockerization of
• services & high availability of all production microservices using HPA, PDB & podAntiAffinity
• techniques.
• Core member of the hiring team which is responsible for attracting key talent encompassing
• entry level to senior engineering positions.

Mar 2017 – Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Lendingkart is a NBFC that uses analytics and online data to determine whether it
• wants to lend to businesses or not.
• Technologies: Java, Springboot, Kafka, Grafana, Kubernetes, GraphQL.
• As a founding engineer of the new business initiatives (NBI) co-lending team, I owned the efforts for planning upcoming features with product and operations teams, translating them into viable technical requirements, and getting them to production in a time-bound manner. And I also got to code.
• Previously, I lead the development of big data pipelines to process user SMS at scale. This was part of a company-wide initiative to reduce user friction in uploading bank statements after finding that ~80% of the users dropped at this stage of the loan application. Post this, only 35% of users needed to submit bank statements over email or via net banking (Perfios).
• Before this, I also lead API development and monitoring for mobile app and migration of most backend APIs to GraphQL.

Dec 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India · On-site

• Technologies: C#, Entity Framework, Azure, IIS, Powershell, CosmosDB.
• Bing STCI (July 2015-December 2016)
• Explored structured/semi-structured data sources (aka wikidata/freebase) as potential
• sources for enriching data on Bing’s knowledge graph.
• Built a backend for powering the entertainment awards experience on Bing using Rovi APIs.
• Systematically drove improvements in entity coverage for non en-US markets by designing
• and implementing improvements like entity navigational URLs and dynamic data-driven ranking
• for Bing taskpane.
• MSN Money and MSN Sports Experiences (December 2014-June 2015)
• Designed and implemented from scratch related stocks feature on MSN Money and NFL
• Drafts on MSN Sports.
• Involved in the design and architecture of a common ingestion pipeline for all MSN verticals.

Apr 2014 – Nov 2014 · 7 mos

• ► Development in clustered Data ONTAP SAN stack to achieve disaster recovery and high-availability features for mission-critical applications (Metrocluster for C-Mode)
• More info - http://www.netapp.com/in/products/protection-software/metrocluster.aspx
• ►Developed a counter infrastructure to measure DR operational latencies (Switchover/Switchback) across the SAN stack and make these latencies available via various in house presentation techniques.

Jul 2010 – Dec 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• ► sanlun development- sanlun is a tool to retrieve details for a SCSI disk mapped to a host via SAN. I worked on designing and implementing several enhancements for this tool and handled customer requests.
• ► Finding and doing whatever it takes to interoperate between NetApp's SAN storage and hosts running HP-UX, VMWare ESX, ESXi and Windows Server across SAN protocols (FC, iSCSI and FCoE).
• ► Filed a New Invention Report Titled- "P01-8506 - Energy saving scheme for persistent data in ONTAP."

Jul 2009 – Jun 2010 · 11 mos

• Team Size: 2
• ► Developed heuristics for predicting hard disk failure by mining disk failure data in NetApp controllers.
• ► Improved the scalability and availability of storage management systems.
• Results:
• ► Achieved an accuracy of 99.5% in predicting disk failures with a very low false alarm rate (FAR).
• ► Developed and submitted a proof of concept (POC) for back-end database redesign and demonstrated the advantages of bringing compute closer to the storage nodes. As a side-effect, this also improved the performance of multi attribute range queries on storage performance data manifold.
• ► New Invention Reports (NIRs) Filed-
• P01-5093 - Custom-Ordered Test Suite for Faster Failure Detection.
• P01-5094 - Method and System for adding predictive preprocessing capabilities to a classification engine.
• P01-8498 - Methods for scalable multi attribute range queries in storage management software.

Sep 2013 – Mar 2014 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Switch-Hit was designed to combine social/messaging capabilities with fantasy sports data to build a social platform for fantasy sports. We brought together a team with backgrounds from IIT, BITS, Georgia Tech, SAP, BlackRock, NetApp and Flipkart.
• ► Lead backend engineering to roll out the overall product and co-ordinated with front end to develop and deploy new features and APIs for web and mobile devices.
• ► Built from scratch overall mail infrastructure over Amazon SES and scheduler daemons.
• ► Did SEO for the site, bringing it within top 4 search results on google for the keywords - 'switch-hit', 'play fantasy cricket with friends' and 'social fantasy cricket'.
• Technologies - Django, Python, Facebook Graph APIs, OAuth 2.0, AWS, Amazon SES, MySQL, Cassandra, SEO.
• More info here: https://angel.co/switch-hit

Aug 2008 – May 2009 · 9 mos · Jhunjhunun Area, India

• Responsibilities include planning and maintenance of various facilities for hostel inmates.

Aug 2008 – Dec 2008 · 4 mos · Jhunjhunun Area, India

• Setting of question papers, evaluation scheme, doubt clarification and evaluation for off-campus students of Data Mining course at BITS-Pilani.

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos · Lucknow Area, India

• Analysis and Rectification Of Frame Bend Methodology under Mr. Sunil Kumar Dhoundiyal, Manager, Planning and Sustenance Department, TATA Motors.