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Santa Monica, California, Us

I am one of the technical leads on Ring iOS and manage multiple Ring mobile engineering teams.

Seattle, Wa, Us

New projects with Amazon Devices (Alexa) ecosystem

Pixie Bytes is a bootstrapped software design & development studio founded in Philadelphia, PA specializing in native iOS/MacOS/Android & web applications and services. Pixie Bytes consists of industry experts who have over 20 years of hands-on software engineering experience and contributed to products like Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/2008, MS Visual Studio, Mint/Quicken iOS apps, Yahoo Messenger, ParkSnap™, SlowHand and other high tech products. ParkSnap™ is an iOS app and platform developed and owned by Pixie Bytes™.We enjoy building innovative applications and services from scratch and working with creative people on challenging problems and interesting ideas.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Serving as the iOS technical lead developer for Digital Home iOS apps. Responsible for all phases of development, architecture, deployment and analysis of Xfinity Home iOS apps in the app stores.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Managing a team of 35 engineers consisting of technical leads, native iOS/android developers and QA engineers developing Xfinity Home iOS & android apps. Responsible for development of 3 apps – Xfinity Home iOS & android apps, Xfinity Home Hub app (android).

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Keriton is an exciting heath-care startup in Philly working on a technology platform for managing mother's breast milk in NICUs.

Mountain View, California, Us

I am a Sr. iOS Staff Engineer working on the Mint iOS app at Intuit. Responsible for all app store releases since v2.6.3. Mint iOS app is 4.5+ star rated on the iOS app store and is among the top 10 apps on the app store in the Finance category. The app serves about 1.6M daily users. Some of the features/services I have developed with my team are - iOS8 Touch ID for Mint- Credit Report monitoring for Mint iOS- Mint/Quicken mobile Receipt capture, - code coverage for Mint iOS and CI/CD automated system for Mint iOS, - crash analysis integration with Crashlytics - client performance monitoring- Mint navigation and cards UI

Developed Yahoo! Messenger server software. Worked on re-architecture and re-design of REST messenger server infrastructure components serving mobile and web Y! messenger clients. Served as a senior software engineer in the Messenger Server engineering team of about 25 developers. Developed and deployed new REST push notification server modules used by Yahoo Messenger clients on iPhone, Android, Blackberry and other mobile devices serving over 8M unique users per day. Yahoo HubDesigned and developed scalable server side device registration application framework for a new mobile group messaging product (Yahoo! Hub on Android) using TDD, agile and CI processes. Designed and implemented authentication web service apis for Yahoo! Hub. Yahoo Messenger web-service APIsLeading partner integration of mobile clients(Samsung, Nokia, Reuters) with public Y! Messenger REST apis across dev & qa engineering, product and account management. Designed and implemented rate limiting infrastructure for YDN Messenger REST infrastructure. InteroperabilityDeep investigation into Messenger interop issues with IM networks like MSN Messenger, MS LCS and IBM. Investigating and studying messenger abuse and security issues and proposing algorithmic solutions with data analysis to address messenger abuse. Products/Features shipped at Yahoo:• Messenger Server Train 1 – Messenger Server Train 17• iPhone/mFluent/YPNS push notifications• Onboarding mobile REST partners• Address book interface used by several Messenger clients (iPhone, Blueprint Messenger, Rest web service)• Cache Notification Service capacity planning, bug fixes, design planning . CNS supports Messenger in Mail, iPhone, android, Rest partners, Y! Hub and future Messenger products.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

iOS Yahoo Messenger Lead iOS Y! Messenger developer. Released 3 app versions to the app store within 2 months to improve login issues, app crashes and new feature development.-Q3 Y! Hack day award for “Typing Blind with Yahoo Messenger” a feature that makes typing easier for visual impaired messenger users.- Developed Copy-Paste feature in iOS Y! Messenger.- Q2 Hack day finalist for “Locate your friends in Y! Messenger” a feature to locate your Y! friends within a 5 mile radius.- Deep investigation into login issues and client and server fixes to solve messenger login problems.- App crash investigation and bug fixes.- Fixes to ensure app can handle data center migration and failover gracefully.- In-depth knowledge of Flurry analytics integration for iOS apps.Products/features shipped- iOS Y! Messenger v2.2.6, v2.2.7, v2.2.8

Redmond, Washington, Us

Windows Core OS/Windows 7Worked as a software design engineer in the Windows Core OS division on Windows7. I create software tools and systems that are used in the development of Windows OS products. I am part of an engineering team responsible for developing and deploying build tools and systems used by the entire Windows division to maintain and raise the bar on code quality. Prior to moving to Windows, I was part of Microsoft Research working on static analysis tools and technology as a Research Software Design Engineer. I have extensive experience on automated distributed build systems that run code analysis tools. At Microsoft, some of the software projects I worked on areDatabase design, population and OLAP cube based reporting system to capture code quality metrics. Automated code analysis tools that perform source and binary analysis to detect bugs such as buffer overflows, null dereferences, resource leaks etc. 24 X 7 service that runs in a datacenter servicing 100+ daily windows builds (32 bit/64 bit) to provide build quality data.Source Control Service to record source code ownership data based on check-ins. I am responsible for the Crawler module and the job distribution mechanism. I was a technical lead engineer responsible for a windows-wide security related project. My work involved overseeing a team of 13 software engineers working on security related bug fixes for Windows7. The team made over 2000+ bug fixes in a span of 3 months. My responsibilities included team leadership, designing automated tools for bug detection, prioritizing defect resolution, detailed code reviews and bug triage.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of a research & development team called programmer productivity research center developing static analysis technology and tools used by product development teams like windows, office, SQL server, Visual Studio etc. Products shipped at Microsoft Research- PREfix- PREfast- ESP

Hanover, Maryland, Us

I was an embedded software engineer working on the transport application software system of a telecom grade optical networking product. I played a key role in all aspects of development: HW/SW interface, platform level software, network protocols and application software. I worked with the global services team in troubleshooting network issues for customers like Sprint, MCI etc. I was also involved in network build-up and design for Metro Ethernet networks for Sprint, MCI, and WorldCom.

I joined Synopsys to be part of a small research team developing "SystemC" - open source C++ based class libraries for HW/SW co-design. I was responsible for developing SystemC classes and multi-platform porting. I was also responsible for developing co-simulation interfaces for SystemC with Verilog and VHDL.

I; A Masters, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Électrical Engineering

Hsc, Science