Nov 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ● Created a strategy and roadmap for tech transformation and modernisation and have started implementing the same without impacting BAU activities.
• ● Created the platform vision for cloud agnostic, cloud native gaming platform.
• ● Created an SRE team to strengthen the product which scaled from 60 million users to 100
• million users in 8 months.
• ● Played a key role in choosing a SaaS based vendor for GRC needs.
• ● Provided thought leadership in simplifying the technology and database sprawl in architecture.
• ● Created a crack team for all the ad hoc tasks that was plaguing the scrum teams. This enabled
• the scrum teams achieving roadmap commitments.
• ● Restructured the tech teams to be organized to reflect business closely and investing in growth
• of key members in the team by creating an environment for high performance.
• ● Helped drive cloud cost optimisation initiatives across the board.
• ● Did a deep dive into some of the production issues to resolve them, leading by example.
• ● Institutionalized the agile SDLC practices in engineering.
• ● Evangelized developer productivity tooling and key operational metrics like MTTR and CFR.
• ● Created career progression plan for multiple streams in engineering for both IC and
• managerial paths and streamlined the levels and titles to mirror industry standards.
• ● Mentored the direct reportees on achieving inspired performance from the teams, grooming the managers to go to the next level through skip level meetings.
• ● Conflict resolution between product and engineering teams in terms of choosing the right proportion of features and non functional requirements or tech debts.
• ● Streamlined performance management for engineering teams, fast tracked career progression for promising resources, created an internal parity and benchmarking for compensation.
• ● Helped TA team to standardize tech hiring by streamlining the hiring process, JD creation, assembling the right interview panel after identifying the skill gaps in tech teams.

Jul 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Platform level:
• built a new cloud native, cloud agnostic, containerised micro services based event driven platform
• Have zeroed in on the building blocks for the platform which includes a graph database, a document database, an eventstore database, an object store & a horizontally scalable rdbms.
• Have shaped the database as a service layer which any application team can use. I have personally coded the Dbaas layer for the graph database to show the way to the team.
• The observability framework for logs, metrics and traces has been built ground up using an open source tech stack.
• Org level:
• Was instrumental in creating the hiring process across technology starting with creation of JDs, levels for IC roles & Manager roles in tech, coding & design tests and interview processes.
• Have represented pre placement talks in IITs and NITs for Tata CLiQ last year, where we hired a batch of 60 freshers in all.
• Am leading the cloud infra cost optimization exercise. Over 2 months we have been able to bring down the costs by 30% per month.
• Evangelized ‘Async stands’ in the org. I created a chatbot in a weeks time, to record the check- ins of every team member at the end of the day.
• Application level:
• Have been leading the IT side of supply chain components at Cliq comprising 6 teams of a total 75 engineers.
• Was instrumental in creating SWAT teams to bridge functional and technical gaps in the above components. On a weekly basis the open issue count dropped by over 70% while the new issue count dropped over 40% in the first 5 months of operating these teams.
• Was involved with devops engineers in bringing deployment times from over 4 hours to 40 minutes, for instance. Initiated moving away from jboss to tomcat, deploying applications on VMs with graviton processors, etc
• Ideated and led the implementation of a real time tracking dashboard for supply chain ops team which solved many of their day to day problems.

Mar 2021 – Jun 2021 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sep 2020 – Mar 2021 · 6 mos

Jan 2017 – Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Contributed in the design and implementation of HA arhitecture in AWS for optimax & geomax.
• Implemented Root cause analyzer utility based on micro-services architecture using docker, ELK, filebeat and Golang. Was awarded the Impact Award for the same.
• Implemented authentication & authorization for optimax services with api key.
• Created test automation framework for optimax and integrated the same into CI.
• Worked on resolving OWASP security vulnerabilities across optimax.
• Completed Performance testing benchmark strategy and implementation for optimax.
• Fixing performance and memory issues in one of the components used in optimax.
• Did performance improvements on salesforce for dispatch console product.
• Devops
• Conceived and implemented CI-CD for optimax involving jenkins, sonar and git integration.
• Setup ELK and New Relic for logging and monitoring needs of optimax.
• Contributed in Infrastructure as a code initiative using ansible and terraform.
• Started containerization and container orchestration using docker and kubernetes.
• Evangelized devops for salesforce using SFDX for all development on salesforce.

Nov 2011 – Dec 2016 · 5 yrs 1 mo

• I led the product as a product lead. I scope and prioritize the requirements for a release along with business analyst, identifying and mitigating technical challenges along the way.
• I help expand the requirements into user stories and provide high level solutions on stories that the team is working on. I guide the team technically.
• I am mainly responsible for revamping the architecture of the product.
• I provide technical solution and design to the team when the user stories are medium to complex in nature.
• I implement some user stories which are complex & also do code reviews.
• I interact with the testing, documentation, build, user experience, customization and sales team for this product.
• I evangelized ideas like mashups, web based process authoring, bpel process generation, etc and implememted the same with help of interns to get the buy-in.
• I make right feature trade-offs without compromising customer experience and business goals.
• I identify, conceptualize and drive development of components that can ease the product usage and add value, while at the same time interacting with other teams to know of any reusable components they have and best practices that can be incorporated.
• I am mainly responsible for building the team and inspiring the team to perform by instilling a high degree of ownership in what they develop. I am involved in freshers’ talent search.

Jul 2007 – Nov 2011 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• My role involved delivering releases of the projects on time.
• I was involved in coordinating with the customer for all query resolutions, requirement workshops and interfacing with the development team. I received a customer feedback rating of 5/5 for the Global supplier portal project.
• I was involved in planning of the development work and trouble shooting of technical challenges faced by the team. Also I was involved in hiring process for the team.
• I was involved in architecture of the solution along with the client. In the initial days I was mainly involved in coding and testing.
• Worked for 3 months at customer site in Copenhagen, Denmark for a composite application.

Feb 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore

• My role involved design of database model, data migration strategy and implementation.
• I led the team of 5 members and we received the team of the year award in 2007.
• I was involved in design, development and unit testing. I received ‘A’ rating and my team got team of the year award.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 · 3 yrs

• I was also involved in design, coding and unit testing. I lead a team of 3 to 5 members for over 1 year. I lead a group of 3 designers including me for design of couple of use cases.
• Worked in client’s place in Minneapolis, USA, for a cumulative period of 6 months.
• I was overlooking an enhancement team of 6 members, including one tester for a period of 6 months.