Headline

Agoda, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Oracle, AI, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Distributed Systems

About

Seasoned software engineer with 16+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance product systems. I’ve designed and delivered distributed architectures across domains, with deep hands-on expertise in Java, C#, Node.js, Spring Boot, MongoDB, SQL Server, Redis, and cloud-native systems. Recently, I’ve been strengthening my machine learning foundations through advanced coursework at IISc, covering supervised learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. I’m particularly interested in roles at the intersection of production-grade engineering and applied AI, where strong system design meets real-world ML deployment.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

ChatGPT

Glean

Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at Agoda, May 2026 - Present · 4 mo, Bangkok City, Thailand

Professional development at Career Break, Jan 2025 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Key Academic Milestones: Post-Graduate Specialization (IISc): Completed an advanced program in AI and Autonomous Systems at the Indian Institute of Science, graduating with a final grade of A+. Advanced Coursework: Deep-dived into Reinforcement Learning and Deep Learning Core Research & Projects: Safe Reinforcement Learning: Developed a Safe-DQN agent for hazard-constrained navigation. Implemented Lagrangian constraint optimization, achieving a 33% reduction in safety violations while maintaining high task success rates. Deepfake Detection System: Architected and developed a cross-browser extension for deepfake image detection. Built a React/Node.js stack for media extraction. Integrated ONNX models for private, in-browser ML inference. Engineered scalable data scraping workflows using Puppeteer and MongoDB.

Senior Software Engineer at Docusign, Apr 2024 - Oct 2024 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Responsible for High Level Design, Low Level Design of critical features in a Business Process Management Product including implementation, testing and deployment Designed and developing highly scalable and distributed Microservices using Node JS and Cosmos DB Gained hands on knowledge in GRPC Microservices Gained hands on knowledge in Node JS, REST APIs, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Docker, Azure Kubernetes, Helm Charts Gained hands on-experience in using Git, JIRA, Postman

Software Engineering Lead at Niqo Robotics, Jan 2020 - Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Reporting to the CEO; responsible for software engineering presentations during pitches to potential investors Leading a team of 4 overseeing design, development, testing and deployment of software tools and products Executed complex technical projects involving cross disciplinary teams within timelines using scoping & budgeting Designed and developing highly scalable and distributed Microservices using Core Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JSON, Apache Kafka, Eureka Server, API gateways MongoDB, and MySQL and REDIS Designed and developed highly scalable distributed Microservices using Flask, Python, Celery, RabbitMQ, MySQL to display BI analytics data for robot operations Gained hands on knowledge in Java, Python, Spring Boot, Flask Server, REST APIs, Apache Kafka, Celery, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, Nginx, Selenium Gained proficiency on developing CI/CD pipeline and hands-on on AWS and MS Azure Gained hands on-experience in using Git, JIRA, Swagger, Postman

Software Engineer-IV at SigTuple, Jul 2019 - Nov 2019 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Worked as a backend engineer to develop highly scalable microservices Gained proficiency Java, MySQL, Spring Boot, Python, MongoDB, REST, Elasticsearch, JSON, Apache JMeter testing Gained hands-on knowledge on Google Cloud Platform.

Software Development Engineer 2 at Microsoft, May 2016 - Oct 2018 · 2 y 5 mo, Redmond

Principal member technical staff at Oracle, Apr 2013 - May 2016 · 3 y 1 mo, Redwood Shores

Senior Member of technical staff at Oracle, Jun 2008 - Jun 2011 · 3 y, Redwood Shores

Assistant System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Service, Oct 2005 - May 2007 · 1 y 7 mo, Kolkata

Programmer Analyst at Syntel, Jun 2004 - Oct 2005 · 1 y 4 mo, Mumbai

Education

PG Level Advanced Certification Programme in Artificial Intelligence and Autonmous Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Master's degree, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign