Aug 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Employee #3 (India) | Engineer #9 (Globally) | Employee #25 (Globally)
• Building the core backend infrastructure for AI-driven candidate/lead sourcing and people search.
• Built and launched AI-powered products: Led development of Tango (AI SDR platform) and Talent Rediscovery (feature on our AI recruiting platform), helping acquire additional $600K ARR and converting >10 enterprise customers instantly post their trials.
• Automated AI workflows: Developed inbox placement testing, sender swapping infra, NLP-based sourcing, and resume parsing optimizations via LLMs reducing errors to <5%, and improving overall recruiting and sales products' efficiency.
• Optimized lead generation & outreach: Built a product for generating leads list via a NL ICP using LangGraph & agentic workflows, integrated Smartlead & HeyReach to our AI SDR for multi channel outreach, unlocking 5 customers in a week. Evaluated datasets and negotiated deals (worth $150K annually) for purchases from third-party vendors like MixRank, CoreSignal, CrustData etc.
• Scaled infrastructure & performance: Managed and optimized our distributed systems on Flask, Vue.js, Airflow, MongoDB, AWS S3, Celery. Improved API latency via concurrent programming, enhanced system efficiency, and introduced automated retries. Built RBAC on our AI SDR platform.
• Leadership & cross-functional collaboration: Partnered with CEO, CTO, and Head of Design to ideate and build products/features from scratch. Hired 2 engineers, 1 business analyst, implemented on-call alerting using PagerDuty, and resolved live customer issues with the Head of Operations.
• Fundraising & GTM strategy: Assisted CEO in fundraising, POC development, setting targets, and refining sales & marketing strategies.
• Full-stack contributions: Contributed across backend, frontend, ML, and data infra. Managed AI SDR frontend development, coordinated with Vietnam-based engineer, and built a Unibox messaging experience for streamlined lead communication.

Jul 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Mentored a batch of 15 students every month over dedicated sessions around career development, latest tech, overall well being etc.
• Led a team of 5 mentees to build a Public Grievance Redressal System which got recognized as the best project in the cohort.
• Interviewed 30+ candidates over multiple rounds on Mathematics, Career Goals and Aspirations as part of annual intake processes.

Jun 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Developed the Copilot experience across Admin Centers spanning Teams, Office 365, Outlook and SharePoint. Built the fundamental pieces of intent/entity detection, ODSL (Office Domain Specific Language), Retrieval Augmented Generation, disambiguation, transpilation etc., all powered by Generative AI.
• Built Copilot scenarios for documentation QnA, call & policy troubleshooting from scratch leveraging backend data and Microsoft's LLM based Copilot infrastructure. Shipped them to first 100 AI customers as part of the private preview. Helped build commanding (multi‑step) and intelligent search (multi‑source) along with partner teams.
• Worked with Bing and Office AI teams on intent‑entity detection, prompt engineering, disambiguation, DSL generation and transpilation.
• Improved query execution and LLM response latency on our distributed backend infrastructure via concurrent programming and pre-computing/caching common results.
• Worked closely with the Product and Design teams on the overall experience of the Copilot and got it shipped under strict timelines.

May 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Worked on the Teams Analytics, Monitoring & Alerting Platform, a big data team inside Microsoft Teams with the distributed systems processing over 1 million events per day
• Reduced noisy alerts by adding subnet/user scope selection in call quality alerts enhancing its adoption from 3 to 1250+ tenants
• Integrated OEM license checks to the event processing pipeline as part of monetizing the device state alerts for its 26K+ tenants
• Implemented auto‑rotation for 208 certs in 14 test, 26 prod regions reducing recurring annual rotation effort from 8 weeks to 0
• Migrated .NET SDK from 3.1 to 6.0, added metrics which brought average PR size down from M to S and increased tests by 15%
• Got promoted from level 59 to 60 in Jun ’23 with a direct impact on 26K+ tenants using Teams Analytics & Alerting features
• Followed Agile SDLC, ensured proper testing, monitoring and deployments, resolved customer issues as an on‑call engineer
• Worked with distributed cloud development technologies like Azure cloud on Event Hub (Kafka), Synapse (Spark), Cassandra, Service Fabric (Kubernetes), Blob Storage (S3) etc. Improved API and overall system processing of events and batch jobs via concurrent programming.
• Managed E2E project ownership with EMs, PMs and multiple stakeholders in a small, diverse, fast paced and growing team

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021 · 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Ideated, designed and developed a web & app based infrastructure for Knowledge Management & Training of large teams having 50+ members
• Developed LTI GetReady portal on SharePoint with PowerApps having a 3 tier user base hosted on LTI cloud environment
• Created information modules, training courses, evaluations, discussion forum, repositories and a blog space on the platform
• Configured the app to offer timed & customized evaluations besides auto score card generation facilities to moderators
• Time spent on KYC of clients & onboarding of new members reduced by up to 2 weeks besides enhanced collaboration

Dec 2020 – Apr 2021 · 4 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Worked in the Director’s Office with Head Strategy on multiple business problems and projects spanning a variety of domains from product, strategy and analytics to technology
• Analyzed the effect of COVID‑19 & marketing initiatives on cohorts over a 24 month span using cohort data analysis on the sales data of our products under the Green Cure Wellness brand (now TruHabit)
• Estimated market opportunity & size for potential herbal products in the pharmaceutical & health industry across regions & segments
• Analyzed user behaviour & interaction towards products & website using Hotjar, identifying better ways to list out products online
• Implemented better methods of organizing & exploring data from Google Analytics, Excel & other sources on Google Studio dashboards

Mar 2020 – Jul 2020 · 4 mos · Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Mentored by Prof. Pranamesh Chakraborty from IIT Kanpur specializing in application of Big Data Analytics, Deep Learning & Sensor Fusion techniques in transportation engineering
• Designed and developed a Sensor Fusion based Incident Detection System utilizing big data analytics & machine learning techniques
• Analyzed Wavetronix & Inrix based traffic data of Iowa, US using Tableau & Python to extract trends across space & time
• Developed a classifier utilizing thresholds & probabilities generated by Dempster Shafer algorithm from the training data
• Optimized the system by incorporating Grey Relations and crowd‑sourced incident data from Waze to enhance efficiency
• The classifier reported an accuracy above 50% for all incidents and above 95% for congested incidents

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kanpur and sponsored by Nutanix & UPSIDC
• Developed a web service providing automated irrigation, online market, soil based crop suggestions & other facilities to farmers
• Developed a web app TechAtFarm using Django framework, SQLite3 database integrated with IoT and hosted on AWS
• Login accounts linked with IoT devices were developed to monitor farms and their soil on a dashboard in 100+ languages
• Created modules suggesting crops based on soil type & weather and for listing crop produce online to get orders directly
• Won the 1st Prize for best project in idea, implementation, overall design, cost effectiveness and prospects

May 2019 – Mar 2020 · 10 mos · Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Worked in a 3 tier team with Head Show Management, Head Web & App Development and 100+ Junior Executives from 35+ cities
• Developed and maintained the websites of Techkriti‑2020 in Angular 6 framework and other web technologies with team
• Added 50+ institutions, 800+ students to the database, prepared questions, helped organize the exam for 12000+ students across India