Headline

AI / ML Leader | Building Real-Time AI Systems | IIT Bombay | Stanford

About

Experienced engineering leader with 14 years of hands-on expertise across the financial, services, and product domains. I specialize in building high-performance, low-latency distributed systems in the cloud, leveraging modern tech stacks including Java, Scala, Python, AWS, Spark, and core principles of LLD, HLD, DSA, AI/ML, and Data Science. 💡 A tech evangelist at heart, I’m passionate about designing systems that are not only technically sound but also user-centric and scalable. I bring a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and engineering best practices—ensuring that speed, reliability, and maintainability are never compromised. 👥 As a leader, I champion empathy-driven leadership and foster cultures rooted in trust, collaboration, and engineering excellence. I take pride in mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams that deliver impactful, habit-forming products at scale. 🚀 I’ve led squads that built end-to-end tech products with world-class customer experiences, giving me unique insight into what works (and doesn’t) at every level of scale. ✅ I’m a strong believer in: • First-principles thinking • Best-in-class DevOps & quality control practices • Time and priority management • Driving long-term impact through high-quality software and great teams Let’s connect if you’re passionate about solving complex problems, building great products, or growing world-class engineering teams.

Location

Mumbai

Work experience

Engineering Manager II at HERE Technologies, May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs, Mumbai, • Leading cross-functional multiple teams of 12 engineers & data scientists to design and deploy highly scalable microservices and distributed data pipelines on AWS, delivering large-scale architecture with system reliability, fault tolerance, and high availability for HERE’s 2D/3D mapping platforms. • Architected and delivered a Source Metering Service with predictive auto-scaling, reducing compute costs by 25% and normalizing latency during peak loads. • Directed the design and development of an Overhead Imagery Service serving 10M+ images daily (10PB scale) to 50K+ global consumers. • Achieved $2M AWS cost savings by building analytics on object storage usage and applying optimized lifecycle policies to 500M+ S3 objects. • Engineered ingestion capabilities for high-quality LiDAR, Imagery, and GPS data, enabling advanced 2D/3D map prod- ucts and driving $500M+ revenue impact. • Re-architected the HERE True Ingestion System, improving performance by 25% and cutting operational costs by $20K/month. • Built and led a new team to seed petabyte-scale map feature data into a next-gen pipeline, creating a generic bulk batch processing framework and reducing latency from 2 days to 4 hours. • AWS, EC2, S3, EMR, Java, Scala, Python, Numpy, Zookeeper, MySQL, Kubernetes, Docker , Akka

Director | Sr. Engineering Manager at Morgan Stanley, Aug 2020 - May 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Led a 4-member engineering team to build large-scale trading platforms, partnering with business stakeholders to define roadmaps and deliver distributed systems design, high-availability architecture, fault tolerance, observability, and site reliability for mission-critical applications. • Architected and implemented an event-driven RFQ system for options trading, boosting performance by 25% with Reactive Java, Scala, and Kafka, ensuring scalable, low-latency processing across global markets. • Re-architected a legacy multi-asset trading platform (options, futures, convertible bonds) by migrating from C++/C to the JVM stack, modernizing infrastructure, improving scalability, and reducing operational risk.

Sr. Analyst Programmer at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Sep 2018 - Aug 2020 · 2 yrs, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Built Scala/Java infrastructure for Delta One trading strategies, directly impacting $250M+ in annual revenue. • Developed asynchronous RESTful services using Play Framework, enabling low-latency processing and enrichment of 2M+ daily trades with commissions and confirmation data. • Delivered an Equity Swaps automation project, enriching terms & conditions for trades and reducing operational pro- cessing time from hours to minutes via STP (Straight-Through Processing) flows.

Associate at MSCI Inc., Mar 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Mumbai Area, India, • Developed and enhanced Index Portfolio applications for MSCI’s unified product, ensuring scalability, reliability, and business continuity. • Built Java/J2EE and Spring-based applications with ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and load high-quality vendor- to-downstream financial data. • Implemented UI-driven quality checks using Ext JS and GWT, improving accuracy and reliability of data workflows. • Applied optimized data structures, algorithms, and rigorous SDLC practices to deliver efficient, maintainable, and high- performance systems.

Education

PG, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Engineering Leadership Program, Stanford University