Headline

Director of Engineering at JioStar | Ex-Flipkart

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

deepseek

gemini

github copilot

Work experience

Director of Engineering at JioHotstar, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I lead the Backend Foundation layer for Viewer Experience, covering Core Platform, Identity & User Insights, and CRM. The charter focuses on building resilient, scalable, and developer-friendly platforms that enable high-velocity product development, personalization, experimentation, and seamless user experiences across surfaces. Passionate about platform simplification, developer experience, and building systems that scale both technology and teams. Previously led engineering for an early-stage, experimental gaming charter, focused on proving feasibility, scalability, and operational readiness under real-time workloads.

Engineering Manager at Flipkart, Mar 2024 - Nov 2024 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Corporation & Compliance Engineering: Here are a few noteworthy contributions: 1. Established and led a 10-12 member Corporation and Compliance Central Engineering team from scratch at Flipkart. 2. Collaborated with policy and legal decision-makers and compliance stakeholders to create strategic and technical roadmap to build simple, centralized, and observable solutions/platforms. 3. Enabled continuously compliant and trustworthy experiences by partnering with different engineering teams within Flipkart and its group companies such as Myntra and Cleartrip. 4. Focused on creating scalable, reliable, and compliant platforms to streamline compliance processes and enhance operational efficiency. 5. Conducted fair, meritocratic, and quality performance appraisals for the past 5 cycles, ensuring objective evaluations and fostering a culture of excellence and accountability.

Tech Lead at Flipkart, Jul 2015 - Feb 2024 · 8 y 7 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Retail [Oct 2022 - July 2023]: Tech Lead adept at guiding a team of 8, including SDE3/2/1, PSE's and intern. Seamlessly merges technical expertise with people management for successful execution of complex cross cutting projects. Fosters innovation, collaboration, and tangible outcomes. Committed to talent growth, leveraging strengths, and project success. Contributed significantly to technical and domain-heavy areas like retailing and procurement. Led initiatives uniting technology and industry knowledge. Passionate about continuous learning, leading teams in robust coding and domain comprehension. Dedicated to motivating, fostering camaraderie, achieving results. Here are a few noteworthy contributions: 1. Contributed in terms of requirement, design and review for a versatile Data Ingestion Service capable of seamlessly onboarding any microservice for data synchronization. 2. Contributed in terms of requirement, design and review for a configurable Generic Auditing Service for effortless onboarding of any microservice 3. Introduced Schedule Lines, facilitating optimal inventory slot booking for retailers and vendors. This innovation positively impacts various metrics like resource utilization, NPS scores, working capital optimization, and overall planning and visibility. 4. Played a vital role in scaling up TaaS (Technology-as-a-Service) platform, employing microservices architecture. This platform enhances scalability, reliability, onboarding efficiency, and speed-to-market for retailing businesses. Contributions encompassed design, architecture, production, post-production support, business scaling, and the integration of new flows and features for the retailing sector., etc. 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝: · Performance Management · Leadership · Strategic Roadmaps · Technology Roadmapping · People Management Corp & Compliance [Aug 2023 Onwards]:

Software Deveploment Engineer Intern at Flipkart.com, Jul 2014 - Apr 2015 · 10 mos, Bangalore, India, 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰: Involved with functional as well as non-functional revamp of the marketplace (non-inventory) shipment flow for solving reliability, scalability and accountability issues with sudden scale. 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥: Involved in implementation of Alternate Delivery Model, a completely new logistics concept for pickup centers which facilitates customers to pick their shipment at their convenience from their nearest center. 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Functional enhancements of the existing marketplace logistics platform to enable the concept of weighing intelligence and automation based on historical data (considering both volumetric as well as actual weight for each shipment) for same FSN’s to eradicate error in weighing and improve productivity, the weight being one of the most deciding factors for logistics cost. 𝐎𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: Involved with functional enhancements in the existing marketplace logistics platform by integrating with Seller Platform for capturing information related to seller holidays to avoid unnecessary pickup attempts for seller shipments. 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬: Java, Ruby, Hibernate, MySql, maven, Ruby on Rails

Student Coordinator at Dept. of Training and Placement at KiiT University, Jun 2014 - May 2015 · 1 yr, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

Co-Founder at Campus Induction, Aug 2013 - Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India, Campus Induction is a joint venture instituted by 4 members. Adducing from its name, it has been established to induce a change in the personality of an individual. The goal is to foster learning opportunities for students, engender professionalism and instill confidence into them in addition to pushing them forward to stretch their potentials.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar

+2, Sunbeam School Lahartara