Experience

Mailmodo

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Engineering

  • Apr 2023 - 9 months

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India



ChefKart

• India
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Engineering

  • Apr 2022 - Mar 2023

  Gurugram, Haryana, India Leading team of over 20 Engineers across technology verticals like Backend, Frontend, Dev-ops and testing and further dividing these among different business verticals. Set up technology vision and roadmap in alignment with business roadmaps and metrics like hiring and consulting, setting Team KPIs and KRA, managing Major project epics at the org level, etc. Discover & host new technologies that yield competitive advantage like n8n, Strapi, Tooljet, etc Communicate… Show more Leading team of over 20 Engineers across technology verticals like Backend, Frontend, Dev-ops and testing and further dividing these among different business verticals. Set up technology vision and roadmap in alignment with business roadmaps and metrics like hiring and consulting, setting Team KPIs and KRA, managing Major project epics at the org level, etc. Discover & host new technologies that yield competitive advantage like n8n, Strapi, Tooljet, etc Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors Contribute to managing budgets and resource allocation for the engineering department. Set up Initial codebase and coding/Unit testing guidelines for the entire team to follow. Introduced CI/CD pipeline processes and environments in line with Git branching strategies. Setup, hosted and trained the entire department with many available no-code tools to run experiment without tech dependencies. Collaborate with other departments, including product, design, and marketing, to understand complex business needs and translate those into technical requirements. Team was handling over 8000 DAU and over 1lac MAU across multiple products (App, Website, PWAs) handling Daily GMV of over X lacs with tech infra cost of just $500 Various compliance audits as needed by partners like Source Code Review (SAST and DAST), Android/IOS Application mobile security testing using MobSF, and other data safety and audit including the implementation of Aadhar Vault. The backend was structured around Nodejs, BullMq, and Redis(cache + queue) hosted on Elastic Container Service. Frontend Web is built on React for Web, Next.js for SSR, React Admin for internal CRM, Strapi as CMS hosted on Firebase hosting for statics, and ECS for SSR. Backend Services integrated with various external services like Authbridge(Police/Aadhar Verification), Exotel(Calls/SMS), PickyAssist/Gupshup(Whatsapp), Niyo(Bank Account onboarding), ZohoDesk(Ticketing and sales), Razorpay (Payments) Show less



DeHaat

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Aug 2020 - Mar 2022

  Gurgaon, Haryana, India • Established 0-1 of Farmer Solution Vertical that powers technology of 7 major business vertical namely Farmer Hyper-local E-commerce, Parametric Crop Insurance, Dehaat Community, Credit Financing, Ex-tension Solution for Field Agents, Pinelabs Point of Sale Solution and CRM/Communication Solutions. • Ensured development and smooth rollout for Pinelabs Point of Sale (PoS) solution across 4 different states and over 1000 terminals. PoS Solution is now capturing transactions and financial… Show more • Established 0-1 of Farmer Solution Vertical that powers technology of 7 major business vertical namely Farmer Hyper-local E-commerce, Parametric Crop Insurance, Dehaat Community, Credit Financing, Ex-tension Solution for Field Agents, Pinelabs Point of Sale Solution and CRM/Communication Solutions. • Ensured development and smooth rollout for Pinelabs Point of Sale (PoS) solution across 4 different states and over 1000 terminals. PoS Solution is now capturing transactions and financial payment over 3cr every day. • Setup MVP for hyperlocal e-commerce handling over more than 40 vendors in 4 different states with various integrations for different stakeholders. • Planned and designed the architecture of API/automation cloud middleware and proactively monitor-ing progress of development for organization wide transition to Freshdesk as CRM tool. • Oversaw the design and development of extensible cloud solution for all outbound communica-tion(IVRs, Emails, SMS, whatsapp, Firebase Cloud Message) providing extensible support for different cloud providers like Exotel, Twilio, Firebase, freshchat, nexmo etc to schedule, send, log and track messages being sent by different departments inside organization. • Built, retained and led a quality team from 2 to 30+ engineers, which includes Android, Web Frontend, Backend and Devops using agile management tools like Jira, dailybot and various scrum practices. • Worked closely with HR team to oversaw and explore new staffing avenues that includes aquihiring, on-site contract staffs and multiple hiring channels to triple the team size in less than 6 months. • Worked extensively with marketing team to design the SEO roadmap and implementing that on Dehaat Kisan website. • Oversaw the setup of the Devops workflow for the different coding environment, reviewed and men-tored transition of CI/CD pipeline to EKS and github pipelines using basic principles of gitflow workflow. Show less



apna

• India
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Software Consultant

  • Mar 2020 - Jul 2020

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 1. Worked on Community feature of Apna app optimizing APIs to handle 12x growth in Daily active users from 5k to 60k handling business expansion from 1 city to over 5 cities. 2. Analyzed Back-end systems to identify scaling bottlenecks, risks, and operational pain points, and influence design decisions both on Back-end and android to address these issues.



Womaniya (Acquired by Trell)

• India
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • May 2018 - Mar 2020

  Mumbai Area, India • Led the hyper-scaling of tech infrastructure from 0 to 300000 users in span of 4 months. • Led the team of over 7 full time employees for development of Backend API servers in Spring(Java), micro services(python), dev-ops (docker), caching (redis), inter-server communication (Kafka), task scheduling(celery) and Android Application (Java/Kotlin/MVVM). • Built infrastructure and pipeline for efficient, fast and secure end to end C2C media streaming. • Created architecture of massive… Show more • Led the hyper-scaling of tech infrastructure from 0 to 300000 users in span of 4 months. • Led the team of over 7 full time employees for development of Backend API servers in Spring(Java), micro services(python), dev-ops (docker), caching (redis), inter-server communication (Kafka), task scheduling(celery) and Android Application (Java/Kotlin/MVVM). • Built infrastructure and pipeline for efficient, fast and secure end to end C2C media streaming. • Created architecture of massive distributed systems to process incoming data to build recommendation and notification using brokers and micro-services. • Detected and solved complex performance issues and bottlenecks in algorithms and architecture to improve time complexity of APIs and micro-services by 70%. • Directed development and implementation of Cloud strategy & approach using AWS. • Detected expensive components in pipeline & brought down the cost of overall infrastructure by 40%. Show less



Edbox Technology

• Co-Founder

  • Jul 2017 - Apr 2018

  New Delhi Area, India 1. Create learning opportunities within the development team through training, conferences, hands-on training and mentorship in projects 2. Knowledge of RESTful Web-Services, JSON, networking protocols and best practices for promoting leading application performance 3. Provide thought leadership to the team around new approaches and workflows and technologies 4. Apply strong business and client facing abilities to support business development opportunities and build long term… Show more 1. Create learning opportunities within the development team through training, conferences, hands-on training and mentorship in projects 2. Knowledge of RESTful Web-Services, JSON, networking protocols and best practices for promoting leading application performance 3. Provide thought leadership to the team around new approaches and workflows and technologies 4. Apply strong business and client facing abilities to support business development opportunities and build long term relationships in addition to manage project delivery 5. Drive development to planned timeline, ensuring early and regular communication through all stages of development 6. Manage work intake through Scrum agile development process, including sprint planning, effort estimation and change management, improving processes to maximize team performance 7. Oversee and participate in design, architecture, documentation, development, debugging, and deployment efforts while addressing cross browser and cross platform concepts and concerns Show less



Sony

• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2015 - Jul 2017

  Tokyo, Japan Research and Development(R&D) for Free Viewpoint Video. Worked on the generation of Spatial Metadata from the texture images and using the Metadata information for the Virtual Camera Control to generate NavMesh dynamically. Development of prototype for Camera Control Model in Free Viewpoint Video to improve the interaction of the camera with users in Free View Point of Video,



Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

• India
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student

  • Jul 2011 - Aug 2015

  Mumbai Area, India



Jio

• India
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Internship

  • May 2014 - Jul 2014

  Mumbai Area, India Worked as a part of Reliance Jio Health team developing cloud applications for healthcare domain Designed and built android app connecting health data images (ECG, x-ray, urine report) from remotely located clinic to client and doctors via this app Integrated Bluetooth printer to Biosense Ucheck (portable diagnostic system) application to allow the hospital to print the results on the fly Developed a java client for server (Spring Framework) to push the Image coming from… Show more Worked as a part of Reliance Jio Health team developing cloud applications for healthcare domain Designed and built android app connecting health data images (ECG, x-ray, urine report) from remotely located clinic to client and doctors via this app Integrated Bluetooth printer to Biosense Ucheck (portable diagnostic system) application to allow the hospital to print the results on the fly Developed a java client for server (Spring Framework) to push the Image coming from client to other server Show less



E-Cell, IIT Bombay

• India
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Web Manager

  • Apr 2013 - Feb 2014

  Part of the core team leading 300 volunteers to organize 3 international, 1 national and 17 institute level initiatives; managing a budget of 10 million INR Headed a ten member team of web designers to design and maintain 5 different websites, blogs and portals under personal leadership and co-ordination of activities Designed an online portal for E-Cell, IIT Bombay to manage Excel sheets, Documents and databases to aid them in maintaining a complete record of various events and… Show more Part of the core team leading 300 volunteers to organize 3 international, 1 national and 17 institute level initiatives; managing a budget of 10 million INR Headed a ten member team of web designers to design and maintain 5 different websites, blogs and portals under personal leadership and co-ordination of activities Designed an online portal for E-Cell, IIT Bombay to manage Excel sheets, Documents and databases to aid them in maintaining a complete record of various events and activities held over years Developed an innovative online judging interface for Eureka! - Asia’s largest business plan competition, to allow collaborative judging by 200 judges, of more than 3300 Business Plans Designed and implemented online social media publicity campaigns for various initiatives Show less



lazy 8 games

• Winter Internship

  • Dec 2012 - Dec 2012

  Mumbai Area, India Gained experience in Professional game development for Android phone and PCs using Unity-3D game engine. Worked on ongoing project and developed 2 levels of the game. Got training of Game Development, Web Designing, Ethical Hacking and Android Development. 10 days experience of providing training to students of Shri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Coimbatore on Web Designing.