Feb 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• * Bootstrapped IoT startup using AI, machine learning and computer vision, scaled the team, software stack and built multiple prototypes

Dec 2017 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Gurugram, London, Shanghai, Porto and Lisbon

• Bootstrapped Farfetch India GCC from scratch, (worlds largest luxury e-commerce marketplace with over 2 billion dollars in revenue), hiring engineering, data and HR teams
• Lead a multi-geographical team across Porto, Lisbon, London, India and Shanghai to scale Farfetch on Microsoft Azure in a multi-datacenter, geo-distributed environment spanning Europe and China. At the time, being the largest Azure customer in Europe, including scaling, audits, vendor management and 3rd party integrations.
• Evangelism & Stakeholder management across the CTO, Product, Engineering, Security, Architecture and Business teams
• Lead effort to migrate the entire software stack from .NET to cross platform .NET Core
• Drove the automation to enable scaling, cost reduction, networking, data security, firewalling, testing, geo-distribution, insights, quality and CI/CD to migrate to Kubernetes
• Directed automated data pipelines and ETL to and from production, staging and developer environments. Managed data governance, PII data, PCI-DSS and GDPR

Apr 2017 – Oct 2017 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Lead backend, database and cloud teams
• Managed the data teams and data pipelines using SQL (mySQL) and No SQL (Mongo & Cassandra) , databases, kafka and Spark for analytics
• Scaled the backend, over 500+ java based low latency microservices
• At its peak Snapdeal had over 35 million product catalog, 300,000 sellers and close to half a million daily transactions. Scaled the team and platform to enable the hyper growth of the company

Jan 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Designed and deployed “Snapdeal Cirrus,” an industry-leading (100k cores) hybrid openstack cloud platform, integrating automation and infrastructure as code to improve scalability and cost efficiency. At the time being one of the top 10 largest on-prem clouds in the world.
• Built multiple platforms-as-a-service, including big data platforms, database-as-a-service, and centralized messaging services.
• Migrated 500+ microservices from AWS to on-premise infrastructure within one year, with a DR site in AWS, achieving 99% uptime and multi-million-dollar annual cost savings.
• Developer productivity toolchaining to seamlessly go from development to production on saltstack

Nov 2013 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mountain View, California

• * Created the cloud framework and APIs for the Enterprise SAAS B2B nested virtualization product in AWS. The product was a combination of orchestration, system call observability and io tracing across all applications deployed in the cloud

Sep 2006 – Nov 2013 · 7 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, CA

Sep 2004 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos · Foster City, CA

Dec 2002 – May 2004 · 1 yr 5 mos · Binghamton, NY

• The Digital Data Embedding Laboratory provides research facilities to its members to perform specialized research in steganography and steganalysis of digital images, digital image watermarking, watermarking for authentication and tamper detection, forensic analysis of digital images (detection of forgeries), and advanced image processing and encryption techniques focused mostly on military projects supported by the US Air Force.