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Co-Founder & CTO | Tech Advisor | Ex JobTwine | Piramal Finance | Walmart | Amazon

About

I build engineering organisations and platforms that scale — from the first hire to hundreds of people, from zero to systems that move millions of transactions a day. 16 years across Amazon, Walmart, Piramal Finance, and AI-native startups. I've led large-scale e-commerce and last-mile delivery infrastructure at Walmart, built Piramal's in-house engineering org from 0 to 200+ people supporting a ₹70,000 Cr retail lending business, and most recently architected AI pipelines — RAG, voice AI, agentic systems — in production at scale. — 📌 200+ engineers built from scratch at Piramal, reporting directly to the CTO 📌 Built and led the team for Walmart's last-mile system for online grocery delivery 📌 Coded the sourcing platform for Walmart.com from scratch — What I care about most: hard engineering problems at the intersection of AI and product, and the organisational work that makes exceptional engineering possible — hiring, culture, structure, and the conditions where great teams do their best work. I'm a BITS Pilani alumnus and a winner of Piramal's ASCEND Leadership Programme, evaluated by Ajay Piramal and Nandini Piramal.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

Work experience

Co-Founder & CTO at @Ziro, Aug 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Chief Technology Officer at JobTwine, Nov 2025 - May 2026 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sr. Director - Engineering at Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited, May 2022 - Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Director - Engineering at Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited, May 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Manager I at Walmart Labs India, Jan 2019 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Created a team in Bengaluru that builds home-grown last-mile delivery system from scratch for Walmart Online Grocery's home delivery. Lead the team to build various components for last-mile delivery system - Driver management system; ecosystem for crowdsourced driver. Starting from onboarding drivers, maintaining records, triggering payouts to driver and maintaining the availability of drivers for deliveries. - Live order tracking system for customer tracking purpose - Driver matching platform that lets business to configure the various model to search driver for a given time duration. It was further enhanced to pick the right kind of driver matching template based on time to deliver. - Focused on reducing cost per delivery by implementing batching of multiple orders in single trip. - Expanded the System to various markets like GM delivery for Walmart and Grocery for Wamlart Mexico

Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Labs India, Nov 2016 - Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Online Grocery last mile delivery Smart Sourcing team

Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Labs India, Jan 2015 - Oct 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Mentor and lead the team to deliver various projects - Made the sourcing engine multi tenant that can be easily deployed on multiple countries. - Replaced the legacy-sourcing engine of US Walmart by homegrown solution that is faster, scalable and adaptable to Walmart business scenario. - Worked on multiple performance enhancements such as Cassandra tuning, application profiling, reducing garbage collection pause time, etc to make the product scalable.

Software Developer Engineer at Amazon, Feb 2012 - Jan 2013 · 1 yr, Greater Bengaluru Area, Retail Business Services: Integrate ticketing operational workflow with different external system e.g. pricing, purchase order, catalog, etc. reducing context switches for Amazon catalog associates leading to increase in productivity. • Designed the solution as Data Access Object pattern which provided abstract interfaces for all external system • Implemented the entire project of integrating external systems with ticketing system of Amazon. Vendor Central (Vendor Item Setup): Auto approval of New Item Setup Problem Statement: Removed all manual touch points in New Item Setup process of Amazon • Analyzed and classified all kinds of manual touch points done by Amazon associates that can be automated. This included tasks like integrating with different external system to fetch the value automatically, providing handy features e.g. string replacement, mathematical operations to compute all derived values from input data and style format checks including spell checks. • Built a new bucket of errors called ‘warning’ to highlight cases where machine is unable to take a decision. • Integrated with amazon’s multi lingual dictionary and enhanced it based on our requirements such as whitelist, removal of specific attributes like brand/ Model from dictionary check • Implemented vendor data error classification automation that helped Amazon to identify most frequent mistake and take necessary step to minimize error. This drastically reduced the vendor data errors.

Programmer Analyst at Amazon, Jul 2010 - Jan 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Retail Business Services: Built a reporting framework for Amazon Retail Business Services to serve the entire reporting requirement needed to make effective business designs for Amazon Retail. • Built a java based platform that interacts with various data sources such as MySQL, Oracle, S3, WSDL services to fetch data and process them and eventually provide reports. It also included a web page to select filters for report, download reports, upload business data manually and also view graphs based on selected metrics. • Built more than 30 different kinds of report across different business with Amazon providing data through email, S3 downloads, windows share. Tools supported xls and csv file fomat. • Built generic parser to parse any excel file and convert that into Java object which is used by various metrics based on business logic for that metrics. Retail Business Services: Enable all backend data provision to enable Oracle Business Intelligence tool. • Integrated various data sources in amazon with Retail Oracle database with proper frequency and reliability enabling building Oracle Business Intelligence tool on the same database • Migrated the database of required application from MySQL to Oracle.

Intern-Software Developer Engineer at Amazon, Jul 2009 - Jun 2010 · 1 yr, Greater Bengaluru Area, RBS Timesheet: Build a New Item Timesheet webpage for Retail Business Service of Amazon to get progress metrics for every user across all Countries. • Built a webpage based on tomcat server with UI in JSP to capture data entered by RBS Associates Amazon Flexible Payment System: Migrated the code base of Flexible Payment System from Mason/Subversion to Amazon build system and Perforce. • Kick started and laid the project plan for migrations of entire code base of Flexible Payment System from Maven build System and subversion code repository to Amazon internal build system and perforce code repository. This expedited the code support and development cycle for the project.

Education

B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science and M.Sc. (Hons), Computer Science, Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

DAV Public School, Rourkela