Principal Software Engineer (IC4) | Building Agentic AI Systems | Petabyte-Scale Data Processing | Distributed Systems & Architecture | Technical Leadership



Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Mumbai Area, India

Greater Chennai Area




Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science
SCAD College of Engineering and Technology
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Software Engineer | Technical Lead with 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering scalable, high-performance systems across enterprise and cloud environments. Demonstrated technical leadership in designing distributed architectures, driving cross-team initiatives, and mentoring engineers. Experienced in building and managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and multiple services to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing applications for large-scale business platforms. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: Excess Datacenter Rack : Developed a system to track excess datacenter racks and reuse to achieve $100MM in savings and 50% reuse in FY25 and reduce new inventory and space consumption ETL pipeline & Datawarehouse : Led the design and development of scalable ETL pipelines in OCI, enabling data sharing across 20+ realms and 20+ regions for 15+ oracle cloud teams. Automated onboarding and deployment, reducing setup time from 2 weeks to 15 minutes—a 99% reduction in effort
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Principal Software Engineer ( IC 4 ) - Agentic AI at Oracle, Oct 2026 - Present · 1 mo
Senior Member of Technical Staff - OCI ( Agentic AI ) at Oracle, Mar 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos, OCI is enabling Cloud and AI infrstructure at scale — building next-generation cloud datacenters and GPU superclusters for building world's smart AI and LLMs to Tesla, OpenAI etc My Key Contributions: • Designing and developing applications and infrastructure for managing the pillars of the cloud - compute / GPU / storage / networking racks, - realms regions buildout - multicloud capabilities with microsoft azure, AWS etc under multi-realm, multi-region active-active architecture • Enabled bi-directional data sync and conflict resolution across Commercial, Government, and ONSR realms to ensure high availability, compliance, and data consistency. • Developed a system to track excess datacenter racks and reuse to achieve $100MM in savings and 50% reuse in FY25 and reduce new inventory and space consumption • Worked on streaming DB changes to Oracle Streaming Service and Kafka, successfully handling 50k of events daily and ~1.5M events monthly • Led the design and development of scalable ETL pipelines enabling data sharing across 20+ realms and 40+ regions for 15+ OCI teams with a small team of IC2 and IC3s.- automated onboarding and deployment of new datasets, reducing setup time from 2 weeks to 15 minutes—a 99% reduction in effort and 64x improvement in deployment speed • Led the design and development of highly scalable media management system for Oracle global consultants to manage the solution set and media assets for Oracle products as per the modern best practices • Currently working on building AI agents and agentic capabilities, exploring how LLM-powered systems can automate workflows, improve engineering productivity, and enable intelligent decision-making.
Software Engineer at Tekion Corp, Sep 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, A cloud-based platform for the automotive industry providing innovative solutions • Architecting and developing a scalable, cloud-native automotive platform in Go (Golang) to support high-performance and resilient services. • Played a key role in the design and development of Tekion’s SaaS products. • Led and mentored a team of 4 engineers (SDE-I and SDE-II)
Engineer at Fynd (Shopsense Retail Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), Jan 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Mumbai Area, India, An omnichannel e-commerce solution enabling seamless customer experiences across web, mobile, and in-store platforms • Led development of scalable microservices for Fynd’s catalog and inventory, enabling real-time processing of millions of events.Managed and mentored a team of 5 SDE-1s. • Built Fynd’s all-in-one seller portal, streamlining catalog, order, inventory, and campaign management for merchants • Developed a rule-based discount engine to run and manage promotional campaigns across the platform
Software Engineer at SellerGro, Apr 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Greater Chennai Area, A platform focused on streamlining operations in e-commerce across marketplaces • Developed backend services in Python to seamlessly sync product, inventory, and order data with major e-commerce marketplaces
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, SCAD College of Engineering and Technology