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SSE @Headout | Ex-Zomato, Dream11 | IIT Indore | Former Placement Manager

About

I’m a graduate from IIT Indore who enjoys building backend systems that scale and products that feel well thought through. I started my journey at Zomato as a Software Engineering Intern in 2022, joined full-time after receiving a PPO, and learned how real-world systems are built under pressure. I later worked at Dream11 on backend systems running at scale, and have recently started a new stint at Headout, where I continue to work close to product and impact. During college, I was part of the Programming and Robotics Club and served as a Placement Manager, working closely with both students and recruiters and learning a lot about ownership and responsibility. I believe that when you do honest work with genuine intent, good things tend to follow. That belief shapes how I work, learn, and grow. Always open to conversations with people who care about building meaningful things through tech and product.

Location

Chandigarh

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

github copilot

notion

openai

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Headout, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Backend @Experience

SDE II at Dream11, Jul 2025 - Oct 2025 · 4 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Turning trials into triumphs -Working with a lean, fast-moving engineering and product team to drive Dream11’s business pivot and enable rapid innovation. -Focused on building resilient systems and enabling rapid business iteration. -Partnering with product and design teams to experiment with 0→1 product ideas and accelerate the search for product-market fit. -Learnt that leadership isn’t just business thinking, it’s human thinking. Put your team first, never forget that people matter most, and everything else will follow.

SDE l at Dream11, Aug 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Backend @UserGrowth - Owned the Refer & Earn backend service; re-architected it into an event-driven system with milestone-based reward disbursals and a configurable admin panel for setting cohort-specific campaigns. - Migrated event-based components from EC2 to AWS Lambda, reducing infrastructure costs by 68%. - Led development of the Fair Play Violation (FPV) system to detect fraud users and trigger automated actions like wallet blocking, fund recovery, and platform bans. - Conducted load testing and performance tuning of referral and FPV services for IPL-scale traffic. - Worked with high-scale systems using Kafka, Redis, Aerospike, and Caffeine Cache to ensure low latency and reliability.

SDE I at Zomato, Jun 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Backend @Dining - Transformed the dining homepage into a dynamic, configurable entity using a Golang-powered dashboard, enabling real-time UI control without deployments. - Integrated real-time inventory data for table reservations into the dining search and discovery funnel, optimizing performance with Redis pipelines for low latency. - Designed backend pipelines with diverse RPC calls for seamless machine learning model integration, enhancing personalized content delivery and user engagement through an experimentation service. - Improved dining flow homepage rendering time by approximately 23% using concurrent programming with Go routines for efficient data fetching. - Collaborated with iOS/Android teams to implement reusable, platform-agnostic UI components for the dining homepage, ensuring scalability and maintenance. - Created Prometheus queries for Grafana dashboards focused on dining flows and developed FMEA documentation for NYE benchmarking to ensure performance reliability.

SDE Intern at Zomato, May 2022 - Sep 2022 · 5 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Backend Intern @Dining (PPO Offered) – Contributed in making the transactions flow more robust and scalable as well as implemented new features and resolved incoming bugs in it before consumer launch. – Worked on internal dashboards to reduce latency of network calls (by up to 74%) by optimising SQL queries wherever possible. – Implemented tracking of user responsive data in the dining flow which is consumed by the data analytics team to understand consumer’s behaviour. – Implemented the calling and report feature on the internal dashboard for company agents to connect with customers to resolve transactional issues. – Implemented 5 APIs for Zomaland event (India’s largest food carnival) which included implementing logic for Ticket generation, Cart page and Artist scheduling. – Worked with PHP, Laravel, Go, JavaScript and MySQL as well as used monitoring tools like Kibana and New Relic during consumer rollout.

Placement Manager at Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, Jun 2020 - May 2023 · 3 yrs, Madhya Pradesh, India, - Responsible for networking and managing relations with corporate recruitment teams. - Educating fellow students regarding the industry trends and best practices to follow. - Received a certificate of appreciation for my valuable contributions to the Training and Placement Cell at IIT Indore as a Student Placement Manager for the year 2022-23.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore

Matriculate, St. John's High School, Chandigarh