Sep 2018 – May 2019 · 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

Jan 2018 – Sep 2018 · 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Roles and Responsibilities
• Manage the technology team of 8
• Lead architecture definition and make design decisions taking long term view of the the product
• Define platform provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance strategies
• Help define product processes (agile) and development automation
• Recruitment, training, and professional growth of the technology team
• Key Achievements
• Doubled the technology team from 4 to 8 in first 2 months of taking up the role
• Trained several team members on writing maintainable code and building architectures that stand the test of time.
• Started team bonding and knowledge exchange activities within the technology team
• Started monthly meetings for tech, product, and design teams to interact
• Raised Net Promoter Score in the tech team from 0 to 100 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter)

May 2017 – Dec 2017 · 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Roles and Responsibilities
• Part of the two member senior tech team that makes all architecture, processes, and other technology decisions.
• Lead the billing squad through requirements analysis, feature ideation, design and development
• Lead the improvement of architecture design
• Lead recruitment and training of new team members
• Key Achievements
• Part of two member team that migrated the infrastructure from Rancher to Kubernetes
• Built two microservices from scratch introducing new design patterns to the architecture
• Helped build the continuous delivery pipeline for microservices
• Technologies used
• Django, Django Rest Framework, Flask
• Kubernetes, Docker, Zipkin, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS, Fabric, Jenkins
• Postgres, S3, Redis
• Angular JS 1.x, HTML, CSS

Jan 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Roles and Responsibilities
• Responsible for the complete technology stack and infrastructure
• Manage technology team to deliver mobile app and web app
• Define product development processes
• Liaison with the other teams on feature UI/UX ideation and scoping
• Key Achievements
• Single handedly built www.encyclokidia.com. Built tools and processes to deploy multiple times a week.
• Grew the technology team to 5 people and data team to 4 people
• Ran the entire company for 2 months
• Built search engine to enable complex searching and filtering
• Optimised search api to reduce response time by 80%
• Technologies Used
• Django, Tastypie, Celery, RabbitMQ
• Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL
• AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3
• Fabric, Gulp

Oct 2011 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Roles and responsibilities:
• Manage a team of 8 people (3 Tech Support, 5 Developers including me)
• Design and development of Mobile Vaani (a voice based social network)
• Co-design social development projects in coordination with charities
• Key Achievements:
• Architected statistics, advertisement, and billing infrastructure of Mobile Vaani
• Defined processes for code review, source control, server upgrades, and team communication
• Analyzed user behaviour to understand content preferences for building a recommender system
• Languages and Technologies:
• Python-Django, Tastypie, South, Celery
• AngularJS, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3
• MySQL, RabbitMQ, Git, Gerrit
• Asterisk, Freeswitch
• Java, C++
• Nagios, Asana

Feb 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• As lead developer, I worked on design and development of GRINS automation system for community radio. I was a part of a 3 member team that conducted requirements analysis, did system and UI design, and deveoped and piloted GRINS. I also conducted engineering research to optimize GRINS operation on single board computers. Languages and technologies that I worked on include Java, Perl, Asterisk, MySQL, and Lucene.

Jun 2004 – Dec 2004 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India

• I worked primarily on development of a website using client and server side Javascript.