Experience

Hyperspec AI

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Engineering

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  ► Launched RoadMentor a SaaS platform that enables developers working on robotics and computer vision to train, deploy and test robust ML models in a single location at a click of a button. ► Developed a unified product experience to handle intelligent data collection, auto labeling, MLOps and verification / validation testing of ML models. ► Defined company level standard templates/practices for software development, versioning, api documentation, code quality and security validations… Show more ► Launched RoadMentor a SaaS platform that enables developers working on robotics and computer vision to train, deploy and test robust ML models in a single location at a click of a button. ► Developed a unified product experience to handle intelligent data collection, auto labeling, MLOps and verification / validation testing of ML models. ► Defined company level standard templates/practices for software development, versioning, api documentation, code quality and security validations. Enforced them in the CI/CD Pipelines. Jenkins, Git, Git Hooks, Swagger, Lint, Mocha. ► Setup job servers for running the compute intensive long running map reduce jobs using Airflow ► Setup Distributed File System using SeaweedFS.

• Director Of Engineering

  • Feb 2022 - Mar 2023

  India



Civil Maps

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Engineering

  • Nov 2016 - Feb 2022

  Hyderabad Area, India Can we replicate the cognitive abilities of human drivers for autonomous cars? Yes, at Civil Maps we are applying the same patterns (Eyes + Cognition + Decisions + Actuation = Driving) that humans use for driving cars to the autonomous vehicles. Build and manage high-performing teams focused on developing several aspects of Civil Maps’ Cognition Engine. Performed a hands on role that includes ✔Building a team of high-performing engineers across the stack. Mentored the team in the… Show more Can we replicate the cognitive abilities of human drivers for autonomous cars? Yes, at Civil Maps we are applying the same patterns (Eyes + Cognition + Decisions + Actuation = Driving) that humans use for driving cars to the autonomous vehicles. Build and manage high-performing teams focused on developing several aspects of Civil Maps’ Cognition Engine. Performed a hands on role that includes ✔Building a team of high-performing engineers across the stack. Mentored the team in the areas of engineering standards/practices, agile practices, career growth and company culture. ✔Lead the setup and management of company infrastructure which includes inhouse data center, cloud services, local storage, local cache, job server and networking. ✔Defined company level standard templates/practices for software development, versioning, api documentation, code quality and security validations. Enforced them in the CI/CD Pipelines. ✔Contributed in the areas of design and development of web services, map reduce jobs, POC’s, stress testing, and engineering documentation. ✔Helped the company in the areas of roadmap discussions, growth analysis and projections, estimation of operational expenses, represented the company in client discussions and trade shows. ✔Tools and Technologies : MAAS, ARM, X86, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, AWS, Azure, NAS, S3, MiniIO, Ceph, OpenIO, Redis, Airflow, Iron.io, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Cobertura, Jira, Git Hooks, Swagger, Lint, Mocha, REST, node.js, Javascript, Python, Dockers, MongoDB, Shell scripting. Show less



ProCardz

• Consumer Services

• Co Founder - ProCardz

  • Mar 2015 - Oct 2016

  Hyderabad Area, India ► How can a speech therapist (or any solo service professional for that matter) who can barely pay the office rent and meet daily expenses build his/her identity, get more leads and get key insights from the daily activity? They can work for SomeClap or SomeJoy or SomeOye. No!! the SomeJoy and other companies are building their own identity rather than service professionals. The service professionals are entrepreneurs at heart and they give the best output when they follow their own guide lines… Show more ► How can a speech therapist (or any solo service professional for that matter) who can barely pay the office rent and meet daily expenses build his/her identity, get more leads and get key insights from the daily activity? They can work for SomeClap or SomeJoy or SomeOye. No!! the SomeJoy and other companies are building their own identity rather than service professionals. The service professionals are entrepreneurs at heart and they give the best output when they follow their own guide lines not SomeOye's guidelines. They need a platform, an online market place, online tools to convert leads to business, tools to build and share identity. "A market place need to ensure that the interests of the service professionals are aligned with the success of market place". ► ProCardz, tries to address this problem. ✔ Services market place for the consumers to discover and connect with various service professionals using their business cards ✔ Not just a digital directory, our custom algorithm suggests service professionals based on a combination of factors such as proximity, profile strength, genuine score etc.. ✔ We build the identity of service providers by using digital business cards that can be shared across various channels ✔ We provide sub domain based SEO enabled website with the service professional profile that can be looked up even outside of our app ✔ Tools to manage and convert leads to business ✔ Tools to edit and share business card ✔ Suggestions to the service professional improve the customer experience and the business. ► My role at ProCardz is an all rounder role. ✔ Work with the cross functional team members (UX, UI, Server, Testing, Content and marketing) and coordinate between them. ✔ Translate the business requirements to technical requirements ✔ Help the team with server and mobile architecture with hands on development ✔ Review the the overall test strategy and test cases for the mobile apps ► Playstore —> https://goo.gl/nZjvEm Show less



Kore.ai

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Platform Architect

  • Mar 2014 - Mar 2015

  Hyderabad Area, India How can we transfer small packets of critical data (messages) between devices in an enterprise in a secure manner and these packets trigger other systems/devices at the same time get key insights from these packets for the enterprise? This is THE IOT as Raj says and the Kore product addresses this problem. Kore is a messaging and integrations platform. Kore messaging platform brings the entire organization together with a single, streamlined messaging interface. Users can directly… Show more How can we transfer small packets of critical data (messages) between devices in an enterprise in a secure manner and these packets trigger other systems/devices at the same time get key insights from these packets for the enterprise? This is THE IOT as Raj says and the Kore product addresses this problem. Kore is a messaging and integrations platform. Kore messaging platform brings the entire organization together with a single, streamlined messaging interface. Users can directly message one another, collaborate in group chats, and interact with third-party systems, all without changing accounts or switching apps. Kore integration platform also called as Bots, let users message one-on-one with the apps and systems they use to do their jobs. Bots deliver alerts, execute actions in third-party systems, and generate reports. My role as an architect was to build the platform to support Kore's messaging, bots and enterprise products. The key requirements of the platform are high scalability, highly performing and high availability, fututrsitc with no single point of failures. Tools and Technologies used include Node.js, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Rabbit MQ and Amazon ec2. We used Elastic search extensively to solve problems various ranging from keyword search for Inbox/attachments, eDiscovery, enterprise reporting needs and getting keys insights for the enterprise from huge messaging related data. Show less



Apollo Education Group

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Software Engineer / Technical Manager

  • Feb 2010 - Feb 2014

  San Francisco Bay Area My job at Apollo Group deals with ✔ Communicating with the business/product teams to identify the problems/gaps that need to be addressed. ✔ Communicating the problem statement to my team (includes onshore and offshore) effectively. ✔ Collaborating with the team in design, development and delivery and make sure each stage of SDLC is covered. ✔ Catering to the needs of the team. Problems solved range from building new platform to support of the legacy systems… Show more My job at Apollo Group deals with ✔ Communicating with the business/product teams to identify the problems/gaps that need to be addressed. ✔ Communicating the problem statement to my team (includes onshore and offshore) effectively. ✔ Collaborating with the team in design, development and delivery and make sure each stage of SDLC is covered. ✔ Catering to the needs of the team. Problems solved range from building new platform to support of the legacy systems using various technologies as mentioned below. ► How does an education institution know that students are acquiring the knowledge and skills they need? ✔ Built a data driven platform, to capture the business activity data at click stream level and the service level to get insights into the user interactions. AVRO, Hadoop/Hive ✔ Built the identity management service to give fine grain access to the data. Spring Security, SSO, CAS, OAuth and XACML. ✔ Built the assessments platform to identify the users familiarity with the skills/concepts. Formative/NonFormative/Diagnostic/Adaptive Assessments, QTI standard, BLTI ✔ Defined relationships between different data entities to give recommendations and remediations. Ontologies, Web Semantics, RDF, SPARQL, Jena/Sesame and AllegroGraph ✔ Provided capabilities to build dashboards on the instrumented data to get more insights. HBase, REST ► How do we make sure the platform scales for the huge load? ✔ Built stateless services/components which can scale horizontally by adding extra nodes. Glassfish/OSGi, Jersey ✔ Used Auto scaling/deployment of components on demand using AWS and VCE ✔ Used NoSql based data stores and RDS for scaling horizontally. Riak, Hive/HBase, MySQL ✔ Built Messaging using SNS and SQS. ✔ Built Distributed caching using the Riak. ✔ Store/Attach files using S3. Show less



Hightail

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior IT Consultant

  • Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  San Francisco Bay Area The main focus was to scale the system from less than a million users to more than 10 million users using the SOA based standards and asynchronous services. Built a new platform with a capacity based architecture which can handle spikes in the usage, no single point of failures, scalable, high performance, transactional and futuristic. o Designed and developed the request engine which gives tokens to identify a request uniquely, so that some of the requests can be processed in an… Show more The main focus was to scale the system from less than a million users to more than 10 million users using the SOA based standards and asynchronous services. Built a new platform with a capacity based architecture which can handle spikes in the usage, no single point of failures, scalable, high performance, transactional and futuristic. o Designed and developed the request engine which gives tokens to identify a request uniquely, so that some of the requests can be processed in an asynchronous manner. Java, JMS/SonicMQ, Tomcat and JAXWS o Designed and developed Templating service which can choose templates for the messages (Email, twitter etc.) and generate content at runtime, based on event, rules, channel and time. XML, XSLT, XSD and XPATH, ORM/Hibernate and MySQL. o Designed/developed Notification Gateway, which can send notification to the users in, various channels (SMTP, Twitter etc.) based on the preferences. SMTP, SMS and Spring Framework Show less



Charles Schwab

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Consultant

  • Oct 2007 - Dec 2008

  San Francisco Bay Area o Developed caching solution for caching the customer to account relationships in a centralized cache for increased performance and share the data across the various service provider environments (Java and .Net service providers). Gigaspaces o Developed the service registry/directory for routing the service across different environment using the SOAP protocol. DataPower, SOAP, Spring, SQL, RAD, WebSphere, .Net, Mainframes



Visa

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Consultant

  • Jan 2005 - Sep 2007

  Foster City, CA o Developed a product for acquiring and processing payment transactions originated in GPRS or GSM wireless terminals using an Internet gateway for security and connectivity. Lipman (Nurit 8000) POS, GPRS, XML, C, J2ME and EMV standards. o Developed a payment and risk information management solution using the SMS protocol. CSC (Common Short Code), SMPP (MBlox), Topups and XML. o Developed a solution for distributing the software releases/upgrades/patches to the EA (Extended Access)… Show more o Developed a product for acquiring and processing payment transactions originated in GPRS or GSM wireless terminals using an Internet gateway for security and connectivity. Lipman (Nurit 8000) POS, GPRS, XML, C, J2ME and EMV standards. o Developed a payment and risk information management solution using the SMS protocol. CSC (Common Short Code), SMPP (MBlox), Topups and XML. o Developed a solution for distributing the software releases/upgrades/patches to the EA (Extended Access) servers present in all regions. RPC, Swing, GWT and XML. o Developed a system for centralized user id management for all the EA (extended access) servers connected to Visa Network. LDAP, XMLC, XML and Jetty. Show less



RAIT Inc

• Senior Program Analyst

  • Jun 2004 - Dec 2004

  Schaumburg, IL



RAIT Inc

• Programer Analyst

  • May 2001 - Jul 2002

  Schaumburg, IL