Jul 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Software Tech lead in migration of on-prem IAMs to Google. Business Insights Data Platform
• Technologies: Java, Services, Guice, Guava, BigQuery, Spanner, Queues, Design

Oct 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading a team of Engineers & Analysts developing BI & A products using Big Data stack.

May 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As Co-Founder, CTO, and Chief Data Scientist at Fratics (acquired by Circles.Life - https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/265638-25 ), I set the company’s vision and mission, leading its technical and data strategy from inception to acquisition. I architected AI-driven platforms delivering actionable insights in fraud detection, customer churn, order forecasting, and marketing analytics for retail and e-pharma clients.

Aug 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

• I work as a Senior Technical Architect for Analytics, Data Mining & Data Platforms(Big Data) in the Customer Satisfaction, Engagement, Retention and Services.
• I articulate problems and formulate solutions. Doing POC and evaluating techniques for best impact of desired metrics is a big part of my job. I take Data Science to the end product and make data actionable or provide insights.
• Recent Statistical Techniques used in identifying risky cohorts
• Address, Email, phone number Similarity based clustering using a modified Jaccard Similarity
• Poisson to detect spikes in order arrival rate
• Binomial Distribution (Bernoulli Trials) for identifying repeat offenders misusing Cash On Delivery
• Markov Model to find gibberish name and addresses so as to catch and sanitise orders coming into Snapdeal
• Address feature extraction to identify badly written and incomplete addresses including basic address parsing for review by verification team.
• Naive Bayes Classifier for Out of Delivery Area classification
• Using Frequent Item Sets based partial classification to identify order riskiness. [ https://www.aaai.org/Papers/KDD/1997/KDD97-018.pdf ]
• Scoring of reviews to find those product reviews that are most relevant.
• I WRITE CODE!!!

Jan 2015 – Jul 2015 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Everything from Transaction Processing, Flow of Booking, Security, Data Collection, Data Science, Analytics, Metric definition & computation, throttling of transactions, system monitoring & profiling, development tools, Python & MySQL.
• Just a systematic problem solver & issue identifier.
• Position & Titles are meaningless in start ups.

Aug 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• I work for User Data Analytics group at Yahoo! Bangalore. I am working on the next generation of Yahoo!'s reporting and analytics for Ad platforms.

Nov 2009 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

• I worked on development and some design of Yahoo! Mail BE Storage teams latest offering on refactoring a 10 year code base to make it more extensible and manageable.
• Contributions include, legacy code integration in C++, development of web services using Java tomcat, creating stats client and stats and implementation of the Yahoo! Mail's Group Store for storage.

Apr 2009 – Nov 2009 · 7 mos

• In the past six months at Bluehornet, I worked on quite a few exciting projects including Restful-API, DB Design and conscious performance implications on data inserts and retrievals, Advanced Reporting for Email-Campaign tracking, Data Export, backend processing, some UI maintenance and some AJAX using Javascript.
• Technologies used include Oracle 10 and PHP 5.3

Apr 2008 – Oct 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

• At St. Bernard software, I am employed as a Senior Software Engineer. I am responsble for and actively involved with functions and runtime performance of three key components
• 1. AV Scanning
• 2. Protocol segregation and detection Module
• 3. Authentication
• Most development involves C and some C++ on Free BSD 5.3 .
• Major challenges in the coming months would be
• 1. Migration to FreeBSD 7.x
• 2. Migration to Threading architecture
• 3. Failover redesign
• 4. Detection of resource depletion
• 5. Recovery from traffic overload
• 6. To create runtime flexibility so that Tech Support can solve most issues without involving development.

Nov 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Kyocera Wireless in San Diego was the last Openwave [www.purplelas.com] customer that I worked with.

Feb 2006 – Dec 2006 · 10 mos

• This was a subtitle that I had as an Openwave [www.purplrlabs.com] employee.

Feb 2005 – Dec 2005 · 10 mos

• This is a sub title I had while working for Openwave Systems Inc.

Sep 2004 – Apr 2008 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Role: Point of “Technical Contact” for OEMs integrating Openwave’s Framework, Browser & Mobile Applications on mobile devices.
• Key day to day work include :
• C++ development, device integration and educating customers about the product.
• Co-ordinate development efforts with a worldwide engineering team
• Customizing framework, Messaging App and Browser to accomplish requirements from OEM and Carriers
• Monitoring Openwave Professional Services deliverables,
• guiding the OEM’s QA and testing efforts of integration, debugging targets
• getting compliance to OMA specifications
• Helping OEMs get Carrier Acceptance with Vodafone, Hutchinson, Cricket, Virgin Mobile, Tracfone, Alltel & many more.
• Commended for:
• Timely delivery
• Good understanding of Protocols like HTTP and OMA specs.
• articulating issues appropriately
• Good technial skills with visual studio tools, ARM compiler toolchains, debugging skills & understanding architectures

Oct 2003 – Sep 2004 · 11 mos

• As a software contractor to eTrade Financials, I was reponsible for developing, maintaining and migrating Business Logic and Brokerage Back Office Applications for E*Trade Financials.
• Was contracted to be part of major migration project from ADP to Beta for backend processing. Highlights include the customer service module, massive data uploads, database redesign & middleware services.
• Software tools/languages actively used include Sybase 10.0, ESQL, C, C++, XML, Perl, LAMP, software testing frameworks, shell scripting & BEA Tuxedo Middleware.

Apr 2003 – Sep 2003 · 5 mos

• At Prediwave corp {A startup in the twilight of the tech bbble} I worked as a senio engineer in the backend processing for cable TV billing as well as the embedded group.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

Jul 1997 – Aug 1998 · 1 yr 1 mo

• At Misha Consulting group, I worked with various customers like Vitech Inc, Warner Bros & Mcgraw-Hill Construction Infomation Systems.
• Most of the work that I did was using Power Builder 5.0 Front end and Oracle or Sybase back end.

Jun 1995 – Jun 1997 · 2 yrs

• Leading Edge Systems(LES) was a software application and consulting firm specializing in financial, human resources and manufacturing applications.
• At LES, I started my career as a Software Engineer and worked on three major projects including
• 1. Money Market Mutual Fund Manager - A software solution to manage UTI (Axis Bank)'s first Money Market Mutual Fund that was to be launched in 1997. The software product was developed ground up on Windows 95 PCs using Power Builder 4.0 with Oracle backend.
• 2. Debt Market Manager - A software solution to ICICI securities for managing debt scrips. This product was developed and succesfully deployed in a very short time. PowerBuilder 4.0, Sybase backend and perl were used. Massive reporting data was generated on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.
• 3. HR and Payroll Application developed for inhouse use. This was the first succesful deployment of an HR and Payroll system at LES in 1996. This was developed using WatcomSQL and PowerBuilder 4.0.