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

• "Ensuring www.linkedin.com remains reliable and delivers the best possible user experience every time you visit."
• As part of Edge Engineering, I worked on the traffic and internet-facing layer of LinkedIn’s infrastructure, ensuring www.linkedin.com remained reliable, secure, and performant for billions of users worldwide.
• Engineered and optimized LinkedIn’s global traffic stack, including multi-CDN strategy, API Gateway, and north-south/east-west service communication, to deliver low-latency, highly available experiences at internet scale.
• Developed RUM-based traffic steering systems to dynamically route user traffic for optimal latency, reliability, and geo-based availability.
• Collaborated with Microsoft Azure engineering teams to improve core Azure services (Front Door, AFDx, Azure DNS, and WAF), directly shaping cloud offerings used by enterprises globally.
• Built Edge Security solutions, integrating CDN, WAF, and DDoS protections into LinkedIn’s edge layer to safeguard user traffic and platform availability.
• Drove adoption of Azure serverless technologies across LinkedIn edge services, improving scalability and operational efficiency.
• Contributed to open-source templates for the Azure ecosystem, including Bicep-based Azure Quickstart modules for Front Door/CDN.
• Microsoft Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/azure/azure-quickstart-templates/modules-microsoft.cdn-azure-frontdoor-cdn-profile-1.0/
• GitHub [Azure Front Door CDN Profile]: https://github.com/azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/modules/microsoft.cdn/azure-frontdoor-cdn-profile/1.0

Mar 2021 – Jul 2021 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• As a Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, I lead the design and implementation of cutting-edge cloud-delivered security solutions, focusing on the Wildfire product, which integrates machine learning into PAN NGFWs to prevent unknown file-based threats in real-time without productivity loss.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Architected and developed cloud-native security services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), delivering scalable, resilient, and high-performance threat detection.
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Terragrunt, with Atlantis integration to streamline pull-request workflows and eliminate manual provisioning.
• Led container orchestration efforts with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), ensuring secure and reliable workloads at scale.
• Drove CI/CD automation for build, test, and release pipelines, accelerating feature delivery and improving release quality.
• Partnered with ML engineering teams to integrate machine-learning–based threat detection into production security systems.

Feb 2018 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs · On-site

• As part of Intuit’s Platform Engineering team, I focused on building large-scale, cloud-native services and frameworks that power Intuit’s global product ecosystem.
• Developed Tier-0 traffic services (API Gateway, DNS Manager, Service Mesh) handling 1M+ requests/sec and 15–20B transactions/day with millisecond latency.
• Designed and built DNS Manager, enabling automated regional failover for thousands of services; supported cross-region sync for sub-60s failover at 1M TPS.
• Engineered a service mesh load-test framework to validate east-west traffic performance at scale.
• Architected active-active, multi-region infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, improving resiliency, performance, and scalability.
• Drove migration of Intuit’s Service Fabric to AWS, enabling 1000+ services to adopt cloud-native deployment.
• Developed automation frameworks for deployment, observability, and self-healing, offloading operational complexity for hundreds of teams.
• Contributed to open source: first Troposphere enhancement for AWS ALB Beta features.
• Impact: First Intuit platform to reach 1 trillion+ transactions in a tax year, setting the benchmark for scale and reliability across the company.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs · On-site

• Focused on application, infrastructure, and cloud platform development to accelerate Intuit’s cloud transformation.
• Developed automation frameworks in Python, Java, and Go for services, infra, and workflows, enhancing scalability and efficiency.
• Led cloud migration initiatives, moving services between AWS and private data centers with focus on performance optimization and cost efficiency.
• Built IaC solutions with Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes; contributed enhancements to Troposphere.
• Designed CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling with Jenkins, ArgoCD, Rundeck, Chef, and AWS CodePipeline.
• Engineered observability frameworks with AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, Wavefront, and CloudWatch, improving visibility across thousands of services.
• Developed system performance tooling using Linux (vmstat, iostat, tcpdump), driving optimizations in app and system performance.
• Built and managed distributed systems including Couchbase, Cassandra, Karaf, Tomcat, Nginx, and HTTPD.

Aug 2015 – Jan 2016 · 5 mos

• At Snapdeal, I played a key role in designing, building, and scaling the FreeCharge Payment Wallet (KlickPay) and strengthening the Snapdeal.com platform to handle extreme seasonal traffic. My focus was on platform engineering, developer productivity, and secure, fault-tolerant systems that powered millions of customers and billions of transactions.
• FreeCharge:
• Architected a hybrid cloud platform (AWS + private cloud) to host KlickPay, enabling secure, elastic scaling of payment services.
• Built CI/CD frameworks to automate deployment of 100+ microservices, cutting release cycles from days to hours.
• Implemented IaC with Chef and Ansible, codifying provisioning and ensuring consistency.
• Developed automated fault-tolerance and recovery, reducing MTTR and maintaining 99.99%+ uptime, peaking at 99.999% during festival sales.
• Designed a custom WAF with ModSecurity and HAProxy, including ACL-driven rules for DDoS and app-layer security.
• Delivered PCI DSS and SISA-compliant infrastructure, embedding compliance into workflows.
• Engineered identity and security services, including centralized auth (FreeIPA), MFA/2FA, and intrusion detection (OSSEC).
• Scaled systems to handle billions of requests during flash sales, ensuring seamless experience under surges.
• Snapdeal.com Platform Engineering:
• Built Snapdeal’s first observability and log management platform with the EFK stack, giving developers real-time visibility into application health.
• Developed a distributed DNS service with FreeIPA for faster resolution and better infra management.
• Engineered PKI services to manage certificates and encryption at scale.
• Optimized caching and database layers (Cassandra, Aerospike, Memcached, ScaleArc) for high performance and availability.
• Mentored engineers and contributed to hiring, helping establish the Bangalore team.

Jan 2015 – Jul 2015 · 6 mos

• Designed and developed Snapdeal’s technical platforms, including cloud services, log management systems, application lifecycle tools, and automation frameworks, enabling scalable, reliable, and secure operations.

Jun 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Software Engineer | BT Cloud Services
• Designed and developed cloud service components on CloudStack and VMware, enabling elastic provisioning, high availability, and seamless scalability for enterprise workloads.
• Built automation frameworks and developer tools (Python, Shell, Ansible) that accelerated infrastructure provisioning, environment setup, and lifecycle management, reducing manual steps for engineers.
• Developed security and compliance modules that automatically applied patches, configuration baselines, and vulnerability fixes, ensuring a secure cloud platform.
• Collaborated with Citrix engineering teams to co-develop cloud orchestration features and optimize large-scale production deployments for reliability and performance.
• Engineered self-service automation scripts and SDK-style tools that empowered internal teams to manage deployments and changes with minimal operational overhead.
• Contributed to the design and rollout of BT’s enterprise cloud offerings, focusing on developer enablement, platform resiliency, and performance optimization.

Mar 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Designed and developed automation frameworks using IPautomata, Python, and Perl to streamline application deployments, system administration, and routine operational workflows.
• Built enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions, including automated installation and upgrades for WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, and JBoss, improving deployment efficiency.
• Developed a monitoring platform with Nagios, integrating custom checks (disk usage, JMX MBeans, MQ/MB, log health, web URLs) into a reusable observability framework for developers.
• Automated SSL certificate provisioning and renewals, embedding security controls into application and web server configurations.
• Engineered high-performance web architectures with clustering, proxy configurations, virtual hosts, and Apache redirects, enhancing scalability and performance.
• Optimized application performance by analyzing full request flows (URL → backend servers), resolving bottlenecks, and improving response times.
• Developed Linux system performance tuning tools, focusing on CPU, memory, and process optimization to ensure stable, scalable platforms.

Mar 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Developed mission-critical automation scripts in Perl and Python for large-scale disaster recovery, data center failover, and DNS zone management (thousands of hosted zones), significantly reducing recovery time.
• Built monitoring and alerting systems for performance and application health, integrating proactive detection tools to minimize downtime.
• Engineered automation for web infrastructure management, streamlining deployments, applying environment changes, and enabling faster release cycles.
• Optimized large-scale Apache web infrastructure, delivering improvements in load balancing, latency, and service availability.
• Developed DNS automation tools to standardize configurations and ensure reliability across internal and external DNS services.
• Partnered with recovery and development teams to design resilient, automated solutions for mission-critical applications.

Mar 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Software Engineer | Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)
• Engineered custom configurations and automation scripts for WebSphere Application Server (ND) and IHS, enhancing performance, scalability, and compliance.
• Developed deployment automation tools to improve the reliability and efficiency of production releases.
• Automated patching and compliance updates to meet PCI DSS requirements, strengthening application security posture.
• Built monitoring and alerting solutions with custom integrations, providing end-to-end visibility into application performance.
• Developed and optimized MQ/MB messaging solutions, ensuring reliable and scalable service communication.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design new environments, implementing infrastructure-as-code practices to accelerate provisioning and deployment.

Aug 2011 – Dec 2011 · 4 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Software Engineer | BFSI Domain
• Designed and developed full-stack enterprise applications for the insurance sector, with a focus on Motor Insurance and General Insurance modules.
• Implemented core features across the insurance lifecycle, including policy issuance, underwriting, claims management, and financial ledger integration.
• Built scalable, high-performance services using Java, Web Services, SQL, and MySQL, ensuring efficient data processing and compliance with business rules.
• Developed responsive front-end components with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to improve usability and client engagement.
• Integrated third-party APIs and automated workflows to streamline operations, reduce manual intervention, and improve turnaround time.
• Optimised database queries and indexing strategies, cutting transaction processing times and improving application performance.
• Applied best practices in software engineering, including secure coding, modular design, and maintainable deployment practices.