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Product & Engineering Leader

About

An engineering leader with 10+ years of experience in building distributed & scalable systems across multiple domains like Retail, smart devices and developer based products! I have been part of the core teams who are responsible for building systems from scratch and ensuring they are able to meet our customers needs 5 years down the line supporting millions of requests! I am passionate about building high performance teams by hiring the best talent and mentoring them in their career through right set of mentors, projects and learning opportunities! Always be #empathetic!

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Sr. Engineering Manager at Postman, Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Leading engineering across Fabric Gateway, Workspaces, and API Foundations pillars! Fabric Gateway (build from 0 → production) - Architected and shipped Postman's AI-native API gateway from the ground up — designed as the connectivity layer for agents and applications in the AI era - Built a split Control Plane / Data Plane architecture — CP manages routing topology, policy, and configuration; DP runs in the customer's environment handling policy execution, auth brokering, and tool invocation at runtime. - Designed zero-trust credential brokering at the edge — every agent-initiated request authenticated, authorized, classified, and logged before reaching any upstream service with a plugin based extensible architecture. Workspaces & Collaboration - Grew internal workspace WAU from 136K → 171K (+26%) through platform improvements and collaboration feature launches - Scaled Partner Workspaces from $0 → $150K ARR — took the surface from zero monetization to a new revenue stream - Delivered major features such as Org Mode, Restrict Team Workspace Creation, Personal Workspace Data Governance, Collection Viewer, RFA for team workspaces, Secret Scanner for public workspaces, Multi-threaded Comments, and Unified Collaboration for Sharing & Comments—all with zero post-launch issues. - Achieved 4 9s availability across all critical collaboration flows while improving app performance from 5s → 1.8s on app launch. - Reduced AWS DocumentDB costs by 50% ($6K → $3K/month) through system-level optimizations and custom monitoring (New Relic route-level alerts). - Revamped workspace visibility experience (internal, partner, public), improving conversion rate from 8% → ~24% via targeted UX enhancements. Scaled the engineering org from ~6 → ~30 engineers, 2 EMs across three pillars, building out hiring pipelines, onboarding, and operational cadences from the ground up. Drove growth paths for 4–5 Software Engineer to Sr. Engineer promotions by driving org wide impact.

Engineering Manager, Workspaces & Collaboration at Postman, Oct 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Owning the entire charter for Postman workspaces product and leading a team of 10 talented engineers across multiple levels. Closely involved in strategic roadmap planning across engineering & product to take' postman closer to its vision of having 100M connected developers and aligning them to engineers' growth plan/career aspirations. - Actively mentoring the team to build things for scale, provide ongoing feedback and doing their performance reviews by identifying development goals to drive maximum impact. - Delivered key collaborative features like inviting into workspace, sharing of collections/APIs/environments etc, partner workspaces, guest roles and continued to improve engineering & UX debt incrementally while delivering key product capabilities. - Collaborated with tech leads in the team to design a new activity feed system aka Chronicle which reduced response time by 99% (21.1 ms -> 0.04 ms) and can scale to future postman needs ~4-5 years down the line.

Software Development Manager at Amazon, Apr 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Leading & Managing software engineering team owning Buy Now with Exchange feature on Amazon.in to increase adoption, drive competitiveness with other internet competitors, reduce exchange defects and enable exchange to more categories. - Working closely with product team for strategic initiatives, coming up with roadmap aligning with team’s career aspirations and mentoring/coaching individuals through regular 1:1s to set them up for success. - Delivered features like convert exchange to regular, doorstep diagnostics for Android & iOS, proof of delivery & secure returns, flexibility of displaying sweeteners on exchange accordion, blocking sweetener refunds during returns to reduce abuses. - Proven leadership in driving team’s culture, emphasizing on engineering & operational excellence, customer obsession and hiring for the team by having right set of process to optimize on productivity.

Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, Sep 2019 - Apr 2020 · 8 mos, Bangalore, India, - Designed and developed convert exchange order to regular order feature end-to-end spanning changes across multiple sub-systems within exchange. - Owned the operational & engineering excellence charter of the team by reducing incoming TT count ~5-10% YoY, overSLA TTs by 50% and improving legacy code coverage by 15%.

Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Lab126, Oct 2017 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs, Sunnyvale, California, - Working in Alexa domain to make customers life easier to use alarms provided by Alexa. - Launched Music Alarms (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/12/11/16762442/amazon-alexa-echo-music-alarms-new-feature-update) - Launched SetVolume/Adjust Volume directive & events which will allow 3P developers to change their alarm volume through Alexa Companion App. (https://developer.amazon.com/docs/alexa-voice-service/alerts.html#setvolume-directive) - Implemented CRUD API’s which were exposed over the internet that would allow customers to create, read, update & delete alarms using RESTful API’s. The entire pipeline was automated to be full CI/CD. - Launched "Alexa, snooze for x seconds/minutes/hours" for Alexa customers world-wide.

Software Engineer III at Walmart eCommerce, Oct 2015 - Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo, San Francisco Bay Area, Payment Orchestration Engine: -Carved out the initial design and laid out the foundation of generic data access layer which can be leveraged across multiple modules. -Designed and implemented generic rules engine integration touchpoint, authorization, capture orchestration layer for order management system. Tech Stack: - Java, Spring, Maven - Kafka, MySql Orders Search: -Re-architected existing Order Services application by moving to open source apache Cassandra & SolrCloud. -Benchmarked 5x improvement in scalability & 2x reduction in response time than the existing system. -Removed existing Cache component by supporting similar capabilities using underlying datastore as a single source of truth. Overall infrastructure cost was reduced by 4x. Tech Stack: - Java, Spring, Maven - Apache Cassandra, SolrCloud, Kafka

Software Engineer II at Walmart eCommerce, Jul 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, -Part of Order Services team that exposes RESTFUL WebServices to multiple clients, allowing them to search for order related information based on different kinds of search criteria. -Designed & Implemented services that orchestrates order related metadata & thereby providing scalable lookups from Solr/Cassandra. -Developed Admin Monitoring tool that provides tracing of order feed information from source to destination and statistical information about our application. -Developed a Log Tracer Monitoring tool that will allow searching of application's real-time transaction logs by consuming logs from centralized Kafka Cluster and storing them in SolrCloud cluster. Tech Stack: -Spring, Maven, Java -DSE Cassandra, Apache Solr

Software Engineering Intern at Massively Parallel Technologies (MPT), May 2013 - Aug 2013 · 4 mos, Scottsdale, Arizona, - Implemented profiling feature for a code that determines its time complexity and achievable speedup using Parallel scaling model for Automated Parallelization. - Used Messaging & RPC services provided by BlazeDS and Java Messaging Service (JMS) for exchange of data between Flex and Java. - Implemented generation of Blue Cheetah Native Code using the design components of Blue Cheetah project.

Advanced Java Programmer at Massively Parallel Technologies (MPT), Jan 2013 - May 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos, Scottsdale, Arizona, - Developed a user availability feature which determines the availability of a Blue Cheetah user during his given schedule of work. - Developed role & access based user interfaces screens for test procedures in Blue Cheetah.

Education

Master's Degree, Computer Science, Arizona State University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, St. Francis Institute Of Technology