Jul 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Founding member crafting exceptional tech by spearheading team of DoE, EM, TL, backend, mobile, data, architects, ML & devOps engineers from the front.
• Backed by Venture Highway (now General Catalyst), 3One4 Capital, Ram Shriram, Naveen Kukreja, Kalyan Krishnamurthy & other stellar angels, CheQ is a fintech startup helping millions of Indians understand, manage & leverage credit better & in that process earn meaningful rewards operating at ~$20M ARR.
• Roles & Responsibilities:
• ✦ Managing large-scale hybrid distributed system with unwavering commitment to strong consistency principles processing over 40M transactions and $5B+ top-line.
• ✦ Built CheQ Wisor: India's 1st Credit Card Assistant powered via GenAI - Trained SLMs for Intent classification, NER and Text2SQL to build deterministic flows to power insights.
• ✦ Spearheading core engineering: Orchestrating the development of critical products like CCBP, Personal Loans, Loan against mutual funds, Utility Payments etc.
• ✦ Anchoring data-sciences charter: Pioneered the creation of the CC discovery module "Stark" by leveraging cutting-edge OCR, document processing, and ML enabling efficient identification of products & bills processing over ~20M events a day.
• ✦ Leading security charter: Championed a comprehensive cyber-security strategy with a "defence in depth" approach and Implemented CIA principles to fortify organisational security.
• ✦ Lead certifications like PCI/DSS, ISO, CICRA, SISA & CASA, showcasing industry-leading standards.
• ✦ Hire, structure, grown and mentor a strong team of over 60 engineers.

Jan 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru

• Global health-tech unicorn raised $300M Series E from ICONIQ, Sequoia, Temasek, Corner Ventures, Sofina, Perceptive Advisors, LTS Investments & Helena, Twin is helping people reverse chronic diseases with our precision health platform powered by AI & IoT.
• Headquartered in California and founded by solid serial entrepreneurs (sold last company Jasper to Cisco for ~$1.4B).
• Roles & Responsibilities:
• ✦ Part of the engineering leadership team enabling the cutting edge Whole Body Digital Twin technology to the world!
• ✦ Built the APAC team from scratch, hands-on setup the underlaying tech & now responsible for scaling the business working closely with product and growth leads.
• ✦ Setup best practices for the product engineering team: OKR's, micro-service architecture, git pipelines, code reviews, CL/CI, blue green, observability setup and canary deployment strategies.
• ✦ Lead end-to-end k8s deployment pipeline at large scale on AWS to test and train ML models powering Twin's core tech on both ETL & probabilistic rails to cater to customers globally.
• ✦ Lead data-science team to run streaming & batch jobs at massive scales consuming millions of records to give real-time suggestions on food and activity.
• ✦ Integrated IOT capabilities with Garmin watches, CGM patches and the Twin app to consume 3000+ data points to power the Digital Twin experience.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• TradeIndia is one of the largest B2B classified platforms with over 20 Million registered SME’s next to IndiaMart. TI is a profitable entity founded by Bikky Khosla (brother of Vinod Khosla) which has been market leader for over 30 yrs now.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• + Headed the product engineering for eB2B wing of TradeIndia - building B2B wholesale commerce for the retailer ecosystem and empowering distributors through productivity apps.
• + Built full-stack payments platform for B2B retailers and distributors for instant money transfer.
• + Built classification pipeline using machine learning for RFQ's at scale over 1 Million a day.
• + Built hyper-local buying experience for retailers on a large scale hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• + Built logistics and seller-selection micro services - plug and play solution for any B2B needs.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Wooplr is a social commerce platform with over 10 Million users and millions of monthly orders (India’s first social commerce play). Wooplr is a global company, HQ in Bangalore with operations in Hangzhou, China, and 6 other India cities, with over 150+ employees driving a ~$50Mn Annualised GMV run rate.
• Shutdown in 2019. Had to layoff 100+ employees.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• + Part of leadership team help built social commerce that scaled to over 10 Million users.
• + Headed product engineering team of 50 folks ensuring deliverables on time.
• + Optimised, streamlined operations and increased efficiency by over 28%.
• + Multilingual implementation increasing social commerce by over 30%.
• + Built Recommendation Engine using AWS Personalise (HRNN machine learning algorithm).
• + Built Facebook ads performance monitor using the Upper confidence bound algorithm.
• + Built social commerce architecture, backend and platform implementation ground up holistically in NodeJs, MongoDb, Kafka, Redis on large scale hybrid google cloud platform.
• + Built BI/Analytics pipeline using MetaBase and Panoply processing millions of events per day.
• + Setup IVR, NDR, EDD, support ticketing flow and efficient practices for scaling operations.
• + Implemented SCRUM and agile development to reduce features release cycle.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · India

• Askmonk was what AstroTalk is now, a decade early and first astro-tech startup helping people seek astrology in a simple conversational format that is both natural to how people seek astrology offline, yet up-close & personal. Over 1 lakh premium clients, scaled organically. (Exited in 2017)
• Location: Gurgaon & Ahmedabad.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• + Conceptualisation, technical development, design, management, product ownership, and fundraising.
• + Market research, competitive analysis & product strategies using first principles.
• + Lead viral campaigns on digital & social media driving over 50% MoM organic growth of both consumers and transactions - Viral Video Campaigns with over 200K views and Viral Kundli Campaigns covered in all leading media houses across India.
• + Responsible for heading the team and overall architecture & backend implementation.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon

• Goibibo is one of the top 3 online travel aggregators in India. Goibibo's core value differentiator is the delivery of the fastest and trusted user experience. (Merged NASDAQ: MMYT)
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• + Orchestrated core product development for community platform (the team behind Reviews & Ratings) that gives a voice of opinion to various sets of the users and that helped Goibibo scale to a million reviews in less than a year.
• + Extensive work on Loopback Framework with technologies: NodeJS, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka, and Angular at scale serving 20k RPM with 20MS response time.
• + Used Python for reporting, background performance checks, and data / analytical level transactions.
• + Established monitoring using New Relic and production release (CI) using Jenkins.
• + Responsible for DevOps via AWS (EC2, Redis, S3, Lambda & Route53).