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Founder | BITS-Pilani | 1xDatabricks Spark | 1xAWS | 1xGCP | 1xKubernetes

About

During my first year of college, developed a software code with a user interface for a friend to manage computer disk inventory. My passion for software has started from that day when my friend appreciated me. I have grown from Software engineer to Engineering Director with my hard work and dedication towards what ever I work on. Always wore a hat of developer till date and being part of the project code from day 1, helped me understand and debug any production issues very quickly. I was first point of contact for many large scale projects and existing systems in my previous organization. My recent success include: 1. Improved sending email volume from 5M to 10M per day by applying optimizations without adding new hardware which increased daily paid subscriptions from 800 to 1300 per day. 2. Built a hybrid cloud strategy and phased approach to move one of the large scale email platforms from on premises to cloud bringing cost saving of around $100k per year. 3. Self motivated and became first person to get cloud and kubernetes certified among technology team size of 50. As a director, I motivated and guided technology teams to help in decision making and think forward with emerging technologies and cloud. Today, I am still doing what I love with a bigger vision. I always had a passion to innovate and do something different. Team’d up with my co-founders to form Snapblocs, a startup, self-service saas, which aims in reducing time and effort in building data platform infrastructure or microservices using k8s in any cloud. Created a technology team for snapblocs, bringing up multiple product ideas, developed front end and backend code for the product and setup all the tools needed to run the technology team. Everything built from scratch. Outside my work, I love spending time with my kids solving a math or being it coloring or teaching them with morals that I have learnt growing. I have passion towards sports and tried to never miss watching my favorite games. I love to connect with people from all walks of life.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Founder at Saki Solutions, Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos, Remote, As Senior Principal consultant at classmates.com, some of my accomplishments include: 1. As a Tech lead for Graphdb initiative, I prototyped various solutions, architected the design optimized for Classmates infrastructure, bringing the first implementation of java lambda functions, building framework parts for each of the applications, establishing a foundation for graph based operations. 2. As a Tech lead for Mercury project initiative, I was overseeing a 15+ team, managing cross-functional collaboration, prototyping new technology through the implementation, architecting enterprise email system – all in less than 3 months duration for first launch. 3. Bootstrapped the company's first GenAI project using serverless architecture in less than 2-month duration. Introduced AWS Bedrock capabilities to the organization through technology presentation and working prototypes, positioning the company to leverage cutting-edge AI capabilities. 4. Delivered many smaller initiatives such as - Build Aws pipeline to move data from snowflake to document db, aws cloud migration for imgsvc application, contributing to enhancements of existing email system, debugging existing bugs/issues. 5. Cost saving of close to 1M$ on existing aws cloud.

Co-Founder & VP, Product Engineering at snapblocs Inc, Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Snabblocs mission is to radically reduce the time it takes to design, build and operate your data platform infrastructure with our "ready to go, click-to-deploy" solutions. We turn months into days. Snapblocs is the first of its kind and most likely only platform with a unique delivery model “Build @ the speed of buy”. Snapblocs embraces no vendor lock-in, loosely coupled architecture and can be deployed multi-cloud. Proud to be part of Netapp Excellarator Program. Building Lakehouse for custom data platform usecase.

Senior Software Development Manager at PeopleConnect, Apr 2017 - Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Greater Seattle Area, * Leading couple of technical teams, working on key initiatives like Email Platform, Data Lake in AWS, Migrating existing data pipelines to Cloud, Search and maintenance of legacy systems. * Email involves generating content for 50 different campaigns in 4 hours, sending 10M emails each day by processing billions of events. * Data Lake involves replicating data from on-prem into RDS, cleansing, deduping, de-normalizing Event data which is used for various downstream systems. * Migrating multiple data pipelines to Cloud which involves around 400 MR jobs. * Hands-on developer and a growing leader.

Director Of Software Development at PeopleConnect, Mar 2020 - Dec 2020 · 10 mos, Seattle, Washington, United States

Software Development Manager at Classmates, Dec 2011 - Apr 2017 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Greater Seattle Area, Responsibilities: * Redesigning legacy email system using big data technologies. * Delivered various projects like School Memberlist page, Profile page, Yearbook Viewer, Search page, I Remember You, Location, Birthday feature, Photos, Invitations etc. Used Internal Apache Tiles framework, Spring 3.X on the front end. Tomcat and Postgres on the backend. * Yearbooks Face Detection extraction – detects faces and photos from yearbook images. Used third-party opencv software for the detections, REST APIs and Mongodb for the backend. * Yearbooks Name Entity Recognition Project Maintenance– Matching classmates users to names in yearbooks images. Used Python scripts, Hadoop & Hive jobs. Maintaining this project that moved from other team. * Yearbooks Ingestion Process – Maintaining complete yearbooks ingestion process from the time yearbooks are scanned to publishing to the site. * Integration with Facebook – fetch facebook user's data from facebook into Classmates system in the background. Extended for other providers (schoolfeed.com, juxta.com). * Developed a tool in PHP that will list/create/delete facebook app's test users for other team. * Developed REST API's for some of the webpages served through Node.js server. * Developed Mobile App Prototype for Yearbooks & Reunions experience. Used Cordova.

Senior Software Engineer at Classmates, Jun 2010 - Dec 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos, Greater Seattle Area, Working in java, j2ee application development.

Programmer Analyst at Itrendz, Inc (Client: AT&T, Florham Park, NJ), 2007 - Apr 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Education

Information Systems, Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani