Headline

Big Data | GenAI | Microservices

About

Over 18 years, I've led engineering organizations across consumer internet, data platforms, and fintech — where infrastructure decisions translate directly into business outcomes. At Flipkart, I lead two of the company's most critical platforms: As Head of Engineering — Video Commerce, I own the platform behind India's largest video-first commerce ecosystem — live streaming, short-form content, and a creator economy grown from few thousands to Millions of creators. Built a phase-gated content flywheel, NRT attribution with influencer payouts, and GenAI-driven content intelligence — driving 7.3x livestream growth and Multi Cr bottom-line impact. Before that, I led Flipkart's Data Platform — PBs infrastructure serving analytics, BI, and GenAI for the entire company: Zero-downtime migration of 50K+ pipelines and 50PB+ data to GCP in 6 months Built Plato.AI — a multi-agent agentic platform on AutoGen/GPT-4.1 cutting RCA from 8 days to 20 minutes xDB enabling Millions of GMV impact across Flipkart group companies Reduced GCP platform costs by 60% across Thousands of nodes At Quikr, scaled an engineering org from 8 to 40+ engineers in under a year while building India's first large-scale e-commerce platform for second-hand goods. At MakeMyTrip, architected the unified payment system and white-label SDK enabling seamless transactions across every company in the MMT group.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

openai

Work experience

Head of Engineering at Flipkart, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, At Flipkart, I lead the engineering org behind India's largest video-first commerce platform — spanning live streaming, short-form video, creator monetization, and AI-driven content intelligence. Video Commerce Flywheel — A phase-gated serving system that seeds impressions to all content, then rapidly scales high-CTR performers and hard-kills underperformers in real time. Scaled from 6 to 220 concurrent livestreams with zero outages. One Attribution — An NRT attribution engine with <5 min SLA connecting on-app and off-app influencer traffic to commerce outcomes, backed by automated influencer payouts and a creator earnings dashboard — driving multi-million dollar savings annually. GenAI Content Intelligence — Auto QC, Auto Tagging, LLM-based title/thumbnail generation, and Gemini Flash 2.5 comment moderation — enabling quality at scale across 3M+ creators and thousands of monthly videos. Platform Growth — 7.3x growth in livestream impressions, 2.8x expansion in short-form video reach, and +8% combined CVR lift across real-time commerce tools.

Senior Software Engineering Manager / EM at Flipkart, Aug 2020 - Aug 2025 · 5 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, For 5 years at Flipkart, I led the Data Platform engineering org — the backbone powering Search, Ads, Logistics, Personalisation, and hundreds of analysts across Flipkart. My org spanned specialised teams across GenAI, Batch and Stream Processing, BI, Reporting, and Data Engineering — here's what we built: Plato & Plato.AI — Self-serve BI platform serving hundreds of thousands of queries monthly across 18 domains. Plato.AI is a multi-agent agentic system democratizing data access for non-technical users. Plato.RCA cut root-cause analysis from 8 days to 20 minutes. GCP Migration — Zero-downtime migration of thousands of pipelines and petabytes of data from on-prem to GCP in 6 months — with 100% data guarantee. Lambert — Real-Time Data Lake — Apache Iceberg-based platform unifying batch and streaming with under 20-minute data availability SLA — driving multi-million dollar annual savings across Ads, Search, and core teams. Flipkart Data Bridge (xDB) — Secure cross-company data sharing platform enabling multi-million dollar GMV impact across the Flipkart group. FinOps at Scale — Multi-million dollar annual savings through cost optimization across thousands of nodes and 40% storage footprint reduction. Platform Reliability — Zero severity incidents across 5 consecutive Big Billion Days — scaling real-time critical pipelines across Sales, Traffic, and Infrastructure.

Engineering Manager at Quikr India Pvt Ltd, Sep 2015 - Aug 2020 · 5 yrs, Scope: Data Analytics Infrastructure & E-Commerce Logistics Platform | Total Team: 18 Engineers

Tech lead/ EM /Architect/ Sr EM at Quikr, Apr 2015 - Aug 2020 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As an Engineering Manager for Goods team i am responsible for Architecture, delivery , quality, timelines, team building , growth of team members and innovation My Team developed below application : Quikr Wallet: To provide promotional money and increase the customer retention. Offer Service: Make An Offer functionality to provide online negotiation between buyer and seller. WMS: Inventory management for different sellers of Quikr. Order Management: Maintaining the orders and their status. Inventory Service: to keep track of available inventory in Quikr plateform. CCM: A utility tool to maintain config in Quikr and dynamically update in all the applications. promotion service: Provide Cashback/instant discount to the buyer/seller Deal System: Running deal to attract customer on Quikr platform and increase the sale.

Technical Lead at MakeMyTrip.com, Apr 2015 - Sep 2015 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lead Android development for Material design. Design payment SDK that interact with common checkout of MMT to provide seamless experience for other companies of MakeMyTrip. Designed and developed GTO (Gateway Traffic optimisation) for dynamically choosing a best PG for transaction.

Senior Lead Engineer at MAKEMYTRIP INDIA PVT LTD, Jul 2012 - Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Scope: Multi-Tenant Payment Platform | Team: 7 Engineers

SDE 1/ Sr. Software Developer 2/Tech Lead at MakeMyTrip.com, Jul 2012 - Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, MakeMyTrip.com, India’s leading online travel company. Responsible for Online Payments at MakeMytrip to enhance customer experience. Rearchitect the legacy payment system to centralised payment system. This leads to faster delivery for payment instrument and payment gateway across all MMT group of companies This above system reduced the significant development efforts and monitoring efforts. Reduced the hops to achieve high success rate in Authentication. Integrated multiple payment instrument and gateways to charge currency in INR/EUR/USD/THB etc. Designed and developed on responsive UI with multiple layout and multi lingual support.

Education

B.E., Information Technology, Institute Of Engineering and Technology,M.I.A, Alwar(Rajasthan University)

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, University of Rajasthan