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Builder, Tech Leader | Ex-Google, Myntra, Snapdeal

About

Technology executive, product leader, and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building and scaling AI-powered products, distributed platforms, and high-performing engineering organizations across startups and global technology companies. Proven track record of taking products from 0→1, scaling internet-scale systems, and translating emerging technologies into business impact. Expertise spans Generative AI, multi-agent systems, search and personalization, recommendation engines, Trust & Safety, distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud-native architectures. Combines deep technical leadership with strong product thinking, organizational scaling, and execution across the full product lifecycle. Led engineering, platform organizations at Google, Myntra, Shuttl, Snapdeal, and high-growth startups, delivering mission-critical platforms serving millions of users. Most recently co-founded and built an AI-native commerce platform featuring agentic AI, hybrid search, multilingual conversational commerce, real-time personalization, and autonomous customer engagement, taking the platform from concept to market validation and investor backing.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

cursor

gemini

langchain

langgraph

openai

ChatGPT

Work experience

Personal goal pursuit at Career Break, Jan 2026 - Present · 11 mos, Building, Reading, Investing

Co-Founder, CTO at Katalyse AI, Jun 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led the strategy, architecture, and execution of a next-generation AI-native e-commerce platform for D2C brands. Built a multi-agent architecture powered by brand and domain intelligence, capable of hyper personalization, multimodal search, and proactive AI shopping assistance. Key Achievements: • 7 D2C brands as clients, hundreds in funnel, delivering early signals of higher CTR, AOV, and deeper engagement. • On Demand Demo Platform - powering 25+ brands personalized AI storefronts. • Raised angel funding from HNIs and operators believing in the AI-first thesis. • Designed and implemented a Smart Orchestration Layer combining GenAI, search, personalization, and domain intelligence—creating a compounding effect across the storefront. • Built an end-to-end AI product stack: hybrid search (semantic + keyword + image), unparalleled experience with chat based filters, contextual agents, personalization engines, and novel user interfaces. • Drove the full product lifecycle: vision → strategy → architecture → hands-on development → GTM → brand partnerships.

Senior Engineering Leader, Head of Trust Platform, Maps at Google, Oct 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led the UGC Trust Platform for Google Maps—ensuring the authenticity, safety, and quality of billions of user contributions across content types. Impact Highlights: • Unified abuse detection, integrity checks, and trust signals into a reusable global platform. • Enabled new product experiences by ensuring high-quality UGC at global scale. • Led cross-functional teams across ML, infra, and product to power trust for Maps and other Google products. • Bootstrapped global protection systems to safeguard billions of user interactions. • GDPR compliance

Engineering Leader at Google, Nov 2018 - Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Setup platform center for trust & safety, led and built content moderation platform for Google Maps.

AVP - Engineering at Myntra, Jun 2016 - Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore, Owned Storefront Services, powering browse, search, catalog, wishlist, cart, payments, fashion feed and overall user engagement. Later founded the Platforms Org to accelerate reusability and resilience across Myntra & Jabong. Impact Highlights: • Led 60-member org responsible for all the storefront services. • Introduced innovative constructs such as Myntra Shopping Groups, Personalized Ads, and Targeting Platforms. • Built foundational platforms like: Messaging Middleware, Identity & Access, A/B Testing & Rollouts, Location Platform, Ontology Platform, Event-based Orchestrator • Championed multi-DC active-active architecture for business continuity.

Head Of Engineering at Shuttl, Oct 2015 - Jun 2016 · 9 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Owned end-to-end engineering and scaled the product that transformed daily commute for thousands. Key Outcomes: • Grew platform to 20,000+ daily rides, which led to $20M funding from Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Times Internet. • Built org of ~30 engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, Data analytics, and QA. • Built systems for vehicle allocation, routing, ETA accuracy, and reliability. • Platform crossed 1M+ successful transactions within months.

Director of Engineering at Snapdeal, Jun 2012 - Sep 2015 · 3 y 3 mo, Delhi

Senior Tech Lead at VeriSign Inc., Dec 2009 - Jun 2012 · 2 y 6 mo, Bangalore

Senior Member Technical Staff at Oracle, May 2006 - Dec 2009 · 3 y 7 mo, Bangalore

Subject matter expert at Amdocs, Jul 2005 - Apr 2006 · 9 mo, Pune

Education

MTech, Software Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

B.E., Computer Science & Engineering, CCS (Chaudhary Charan Singh)University