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About

Ex Techpreneur with several start ups over the last decade, sold one. Bootstrapped Phone Warrior Inc. from ground zero with significant traction. Phone Warrior is a mobile platform aimed at creating just in time utility services for smartphone users, through the power of crowd sourcing, machine learning and cloud computing. Launched Toost as one of a kind innovation, which let's users find trusted local businesses their friends have used. Phone Warrior Inc, closed seed investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners in Nov 13. and saw a scale of 6.5 million installs prior to exiting to Snapdeal in Nov 2015. Some notable achievements at PW: - We achieved 6.5 million installs worldwide since Global launch on Android in January 2013. - We ranked amongst Top 100 apps in Communications category in 7 different countries on Google Play - Recognised by Google Play as one of the best apps made in India in 2015 Other ventures: Co-Founder at Rambhai.com, ranked in top 500 websites in India (2008) with millions of hits daily. Specialties: Startups, All aspects related to Consumer internet and mobile apps. Product oriented engineering, Designing and Developing high performance software, ability to thrive in both process oriented and chaotic environments. Exposure to diverse domains and technologies, I have contributed to design, development and maintenance of: Mobile apps, Telecom message routing software in critical message delivery path, Telecom VAS, Thick client Retail banking applications, Banking middleware, LAMP based Social democratic media portal

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

deepmind

gemini

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Work experience

Engineering Manager at Google, Feb 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, May 2024 - Start of a Super exciting journey with the Gemini - Android - Pixel team Last 18 months have been with the Enterprise Data Protection team, building products to keep Google's crown jewels safe and ensuring every Googler has access to the right level of information no more no less.

Senior Engineering Manager (Flights) at Expedia Group, Jul 2018 - Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Gurgaon, India

VP Engineering at Wydr, Apr 2017 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurgaon, India, The first 3 months at WYDR were very exciting, just like any other early stage startup there was tremendous improvement opportunity. Some key achievements: - Migrated entire Infra to Cloud and revamped architecture to help reduce latencies by an order of magnitude e.g. Homepage load speed improved by 10X leading to an immediate positive impact on conversions. - Introduced microservices architecture & serverless computing. Launched personalization engine which helped increase conversion significantly for repeating users. - Built the Data Warehouse as a central repository of data & metrics, helping org move towards metrics driven approach to product. - Rebuilt the team with smart engineers & revamped the hiring process. Trained fresh, young smart engineers to build world class software.

Sr Director at Snapdeal, Oct 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos, Gurgaon, India, Grateful to Snapdeal for seeing the potential of Phone Warrior and its team. It was a great learning experience around mechanics of cross functional initiatives at scale and building fast moving large organisations.

Founder & CEO at Phone Warrior Inc., Dec 2013 - Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos, 91springboard.com (Mohun Estate Industrial Area), Building Phone Warrior from ground up has been the most memorable phase of my career. We were acquired by Snapdeal in Feb 2016 - Bootstrapped a high tech business from ground zero in the Mobile domain. We raised seed from Lightspeed Venture Partners in Nov 2013. - Global organic traction of 20k downloads a day, seem well positioned to make a big dent in the universe. - Having a lot of fun building a pure technology platform play which leverages modern advances in computing like Machine learning, Cloud computing and Graph databases. - Got good learning of non technical aspects of building a high tech business : Product Management, UX thinking, Business planning, Strategic thinking, Business development and other necessary ingredients. - Sold Phone Warrior to Snapdeal for Technology assets, know how and the fantastic team we built.

Education

PGPX, Business Administration and Management, General, UCLA Anderson School of Management

M..C.A., Computer applications, VJTI - University of Mumbai