Nov 2021 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Development** - Designed and implemented critical modules to enhance product functionality and user experience:
• Technologies Used: Java Spring Boot (Backend), Postgres (Database), Kafka (Event Streaming)
• Onboarding and KYC: Developed user onboarding and KYC processes, ensuring compliance and smooth integration.
• KYC Dashboard: Managed the creation of an RBAC dashboard for stakeholder KYC operations.
• Fraud and Limit Management: Built a Kafka-integrated microservice to detect and prevent fraud, applying limits at card, wallet, and user levels.
• Financial Products: Developed a configurable stack for credit, debit, and shared financial products.
• Cards and Wallets: Enabled support for multiple cards per wallet and users per card with varied authentication.
• Fund Loading and Encashment: Integrated payment gateways for fund loading and withdrawals, ensuring secure transactions and branch-level cash loading.
• Rewards System: Created a rewards mechanism featuring inter-convertible currencies, cashback, vouchers, and gamified rewards based on complex event rules.
• Payment lifecycle: Optimized payment flows, reducing transaction times and increasing reliability.
• Product and Team Management:**
• Hired and onboarded multiple employees, guiding their career development to align personal goals with company objectives.
• Prioritized and planned features, coordinating across design, backend, and client teams to ensure timely delivery.
• Delivered project outcomes and continuously monitored performance.
• Stakeholder Management:**
• Facilitated collaboration between regulators (NPCI) and instrument providers (Transcorp) to establish in-person KYC for foreign nationals under new RBI guidelines.
• Led training for agents and auditors at 22 partner branches on onboarding and cash loading protocols.
• Negotiated commercial terms and managed integration with payment gateways for international card-based fund loading.

Sep 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Gacha Reward Module - Ludo Team**
• Designed and developed backend for the chest module using Node.js and MongoDB.
• Oversaw client-side development for end-to-end timely delivery and maintenance.
• Introduced Ludo's first gacha system, dispensing variable rewards as in-game currencies and collectibles.
• Managed high traffic: 1 million daily active users, 5 million games played, 58 chests dispensed per second.
• Objective: Improve engagement. Result: Doubled daily app opens, improved 1-day, 7-day, and 14-day active user metrics.
• Collectibles Module - Ludo Team**
• Designed and developed backend for the collectibles module, ensuring timely delivery and maintenance.
• Enabled users to collect fragments (e.g., custom dice, game boards) through chests and unlock in-game store items.
• Objective: Create a currency sink and increase user gratification. Result: 40% increase in currency spending among targeted users.
• TeenPatti Team**
• Headed the core platform pod, overseeing migration to Firebase Analytics.
• Led initiative to reduce crash/ANR rates from 97.8% to 99.9%, with optimizations on client and backend.

Nov 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Data Pipelines for Price Data**
• Designed, implemented, and maintained data pipelines for procurement, transformation, aggregation, and storage of price data.
• Handled processing of 500k products per second for various online/offline commerce platforms.
• Created a product metric and failure alert system, enhancing monitoring and response times.
• Technologies Used: Python (language), Django (framework), MongoDB (database), Apache Spark (data processing).

May 2018 – Nov 2018 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Benefits Module (HSA and FSA)**
• Implemented backend modules for Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) benefits.
• Designed and developed customer and admin flows, including onboarding, benefits dashboard, and update information flows.
• Integrated the benefits app with external benefit providers, adding alerts and streamlining user actions.
• Technologies Used: Python (language), Django (framework), MongoDB (database), React (webapp).

Jul 2017 – May 2018 · 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Video Subsystem Power Management and Testing**
• Implemented Power Collapse sequence (suspend and resume) for Video Subsystem, Encoder, and Decoder bandwidth voting based on resolution and frame rate.
• Managed clock frequency scaling for Video HW, incorporating load-based scaling and Dynamic Clock and Voltage Scaling.
• Developed a Unit Test App for the video encoder/decoder driver on SDM850.
• Technologies Used: C++ (language).

Feb 2016 – Aug 2016 · 6 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Designed and implemented a RESTful full text search service for Customer Management Portal using Amazon DynamoDB and Elasticsearch.
• Developed a Contract Generation Service with a focus on pdf generation and data storage analysis.
• Created a Pincode to District mapper app for Windows in Hyderabad, India.

Jan 2014 – Jun 2014 · 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Led field research in Raghurajpur, Odisha to determine requirements for Digital Object Generator.
• Designed and implemented Digital Object Generator supporting textual, audio, and visual tags.
• Contributed to Socionity project funded by Ministry of Communication for digital empowerment in rural India.