Headline

Technical Lead | High-scale Backend Engineering

About

Engineer with 10 years of experience, building high-throughput distributed systems at scale. Currently Technical Lead at Bigbasket, owning end-to-end technical delivery across catalog infrastructure and, more recently, cross-functional programs spanning multiple engineering stacks. Recent work: I operate in an Away Team model — leading high-priority projects across teams I don't formally own, from writing technical specs through development, QA, and production rollout. Projects include a consumer-facing delivery agent tip feature (spanning order service, payments OMS, and delivery partner app), a WMS migration for Bigbasket's collection centers covering ~200 sites, and a vendor onboarding rearchitecture enforcing financial compliance platform-wide. Before the Away Team: led Bigbasket's core catalog infrastructure — services handling 15K RPS at peak, a Kafka pipeline processing ~10M updates/hour, and system redesigns that brought P99 latency from ~250ms to ~150ms. I actively use Cursor and Claude Code to accelerate delivery — especially useful when navigating unfamiliar codebases quickly — and have driven AI tool adoption across my team. Strong in: distributed systems, Kafka, Aerospike, Kubernetes, MySQL, Java, Node.js, cross-team technical delivery.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

Work experience

Technical Lead at bigbasket.com, Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Away Team Model (Sep '25 – Present): Leading delivery in a cross-functional away team on high-priority projects across multiple engineering stacks — from charting impact areas and writing specs, through development, QA, and pilot rollout. Code ownership transfers to host teams post-launch. Delivery Agent Tip Feature (Mar '26 – ongoing): Leading end-to-end delivery of a consumer-facing tip feature — customers can tip delivery partners at checkout, during order tracking, and post-delivery. Drove changes across order service, payments (OMS), delivery partner app, and payout systems; in final testing before pilot launch. Collection Center WMS Migration: Owned all code changes across the WMS stack to migrate Bigbasket's ~200 collection centers from a decade-old third-party WMS to the in-house WMS — enabling CC goods receipt flows. Oversaw QA, integration testing, and rollout; currently live. Vendor Onboarding Rearchitecture: Rearchitected vendor onboarding for financial compliance — integrated real-time PAN, GST, bank account, and CIN validation. Vendors failing validation are auto-deactivated and excluded from replenishment crons, enforcing supply chain integrity platform-wide. Catalog Infrastructure: Led core catalog services (SKU, FC Assortment, Visibility) at 15K RPS peak; built Kafka pipeline at ~10M updates/hour; redesigns reduced P99 from ~250ms to ~150ms; migrated 8–10 services to Kubernetes with canary deployments and secrets rotation. Reliability: Mitigated an Aerospike data-loss risk (ghost records post node-failure) using durable deletes; designed backup & restore strategies ensuring 99.5%+ uptime. AI-Assisted Development: Drove Cursor adoption across the team — established guidelines and ran demos. Uses Claude Code for architecture exploration and spec drafting, especially effective across unfamiliar stacks.

Senior Software Engineer at bigbasket.com, Jan 2019 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Migrated Bigbasket's catalog modules from a monolith to microservices — built high-throughput APIs powering product pages, scaled to 5,000+ RPS with P99 ~200ms; owned the services end-to-end since inception. • Designed and built the FC assortment microservice from scratch — translated high-level requirements into detailed specs and owned the service end-to-end across all Bigbasket fulfillment centers.

Software Development Engineer at NestAway Technologies Pvt Ltd, Jun 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Developed backend microservices for NestAway's student housing vertical — converted product requirements into technical designs and implemented core business workflows: property onboarding, bed/room booking, and tenant move-in. • Built backend services for One by NestAway, a premium housing product. Stack: Node.js, Google Cloud Datastore, DynamoDB, Docker, Kubernetes.

Software Engineer at Practo, Jun 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Worked on development of products as a part of Central Engineering team. Technologies worked on : Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, MySQL, Google Cloud Datastore for backend. Javascript, jQuery, HTML for frontend. Deployed applications on Google App Engine. - Worked on development of OKR management tool which enables Organisation heads, BU heads and Managers to collaborate and keep track of their quarterly OKRs. - Fetched and analysed employees' Github and JIRA data for assisting in annual appraisal process, also created APIs to export data. - Worked in CEO's team, responsible for streamlining collection and analysis of product growth metrics used for decision making across the organisation.

Software Engineering Intern at Practo, Jan 2016 - Jun 2016 · 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Started off as a Full-stack development intern, got familiar with technologies like PHP, Javascript, AngularJS. Also, worked with CEO's team working on Data Analysis and automating collection of product metrics from tools like Mixpanel, Google Analytics, etc.

Research Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Jul 2013 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr

Education

Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Data Science, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Ahmedabad.