About
Staff Backend Engineer specializing in distributed, real-time systems; re-architected monoliths to microservices and built high-throughput, low-latency platforms (Node.js, Python, CRDTs, WebSockets, WebRTC), led teams, and delivered 0→1 products across video, collaboration, and ad-tech with a focus on scalability and CI/CD. With 10+ years of experience in software engineering, I specialize in designing scalable systems, microservices architecture, and high-throughput data pipelines. Currently, as a Staff Engineer at VideoVerse, I am dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver innovative video automation solutions. Passionate about empowering teams to excel, I am driven to contribute to creating seamless, efficient, and impactful video content platforms that align with VideoVerse's mission of enhancing digital storytelling. At VideoVerse, I led the modernization of a monolithic architecture, implementing scalable microservices and standardized CI/CD pipelines with Terraform. My contributions include designing automated video processing pipelines with SAM2 and FFmpeg, enabling real-time highlight generation from live-streamed content. Collaborating closely with a team of engineers, I focus on system architecture, code quality, and efficient delivery of robust solutions for distributed workflows.
Work experience
Staff Engineer at VideoVerse, Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Re-architected a legacy monolith into a scalable microservices architecture, improving system modularity and deployment velocity; implemented standardized CI/CD pipelines using Terraform for infrastructure-as-code. - Led and mentored a team of 6-8 engineers, worked on architectural decisions, database design, design system, code quality, and delivery timelines across multiple services. - Designed and implemented an automated replay detection pipeline using SAM2 and FFmpeg, enabling real-time highlight generation from live-streamed video content. - Built high-throughput data ingestion pipelines to process large-scale data feeds, enabling automated video clip cutting, merging, and transformation workflows. - Leveraged state-of-the-art LLMs to generate structured metadata for live video clips, enabling semantic search, improved retrieval accuracy, and enhanced user experience.
Lead Engineer at VideoVerse, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr
Founding Engineer at Let’s Dive, Sep 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Served as a founding engineer, building multiple zero-to-one products to achieve product-market fit (PMF) in a fast-paced startup environment. - Designed and developed a real-time video conferencing platform like Google Meet from scratch, supporting scalable, low-latency communication. - Architected and implemented a CRDT-based collaborative editing system, ensuring conflict-free, low-latency synchronization across clients and enabling a Notion-like real-time user experience. - Implemented real-time activity frameworks within a conferencing platform to support interactive workflows, shipped 20+ collaborative multiplayer games leveraging shared state and low-latency sync in 4 months. - Developed recording and transcription pipelines integrated with Zoom and Google Meet, enabling automated meeting capture, processing, and searchable transcripts.
Software Developer 2 at ShareChat, Oct 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Managed and scaled ShareChat's Progressive Web App (PWA), supporting 500K-1M daily active users with high availability and performance. - Built a React Native module integrated with an Android app via fragments to enable gifting functionality and analytics tracking. - Built internal dashboards for business teams to onboard and manage celebrity creators, streamlining content acquisition workflows. - Developed high-throughput content moderation and review tools, enabling efficient processing of ~50K posts per day. - Engineered backend systems for ad ingestion and delivery, optimizing CPM and CPC performance through self-serve ad tooling and targeting pipelines. - Designed and launched a fantasy cricket platform, Jeet11 (like Dream11), delivering end-to-end functionality within a rapid 3-week development cycle.
Frontend Developer at Media.net, Jul 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, Mumbai, •Engineered a unified email marketing system integrating Amazon SES, SendGrid, and VR Classic, enabling reliable multi-provider delivery, campaign orchestration, and improved deliverability through backend services in Laravel and Node.js with a React frontend.
Software Developer at PSTakecare, Aug 2016 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, •Developed a real-time chat platform connecting doctors and patients, using Elixir and Ruby for backend services and Angular/React for frontend applications. •Built an embeddable React-based chat widget, enabling seamless integration of patient communication workflows across third-party websites. •Designed and implemented an agent dashboard for support teams, enabling real-time patient interaction, query triaging, and broadcast routing to specialized doctors.
