- Spearheaded growth strategy through close partnerships with product, analytics, SEO, and marketing teams to drive business expansion- Orchestrated cross-functional collaboration to develop and launch region-specific product experiences for Latin American markets, focusing on domain customization- Partnered with engineering teams to enhance content localization and improve discoverability across multiple markets

- Led the team to build a new Clickstream Data Platform from scratch using Java, Spring boot, Kafka, Protobuf, Databricks delta.- Reduced total cost of ownership by implementing operational efficiency initiatives for data engineering and machine learning infrastructure.- Delivered a new data platform on Databricks Lakehouse, Terraform, AWS

Lead Developer Experience (DevX) team to set golden path for engineering teams by creating tools, frameworks, and practices to accelerate product development while maintaining technical excellence.Engineering Leadership:Drive high-performing teams to enhance developer experience across Chegg. Lead technical initiatives including Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD modernization (GitLab), and event streaming (Kafka). Foster inner source culture promoting shared code, tools, and cross-team contributions.Strategic Direction:Collaborate with engineering leaders to address technical challenges, champion modern development practices, and ensure DevX solutions enable collaboration through inner source principles.Technical Focus Areas:Microservices:Lead backend development with Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL, and JOOQ. Manage deployment/monitoring via ECS and New Relic. Implement event-driven systems using Kafka.Frontend:Develop reusable React components aligned with design system. Manage federated GraphQL service using Apollo gateway.Data Science Infrastructure:Build ML model deployment components, AWS SageMaker and Databricks integrations, and support Python-based workflows on ECS.DevOps:Design GitLab CI/CD templates and establish infrastructure standards through Terraform templates.Core Principles:- Enable new service development without technical debt- Prioritize developer adoption metrics- Build reusable components over end-to-end platforms- Maintain high code quality standards- Promote self-service through documentation and toolsThis role combines technical leadership with hands-on development to create scalable solutions that enhance engineering productivity and quality.

- Leading the team to build Personalization Platform from ground up- Collaborate with different Product teams to identify features to build in Personalization Platform- Work with other teams to use the Platform for building personalized product experience- Work with Product and Engineering Leaders to plan features and build roadmap which aligns with Product and Business goals.What we are building?- Build Knowledge Graph organizing content from all products at Chegg- Integrate with Data Science systems to creating different relationships between content from different products- Build foundational layer to manage student activities and process the data to get insights- Build personalized recommendation system which help students to learn using relevant content- Build reusable UI components for in-product personalized experienceTechnology : Java, Spring Boot, Elastic Cache(Redis), Apache Kafka, AWS ECS, Amazon Neptune, DynamoDB, Cloud Events, AWS Lambda, Athena, RDS (MySQL)

- Built engineering team to build front-end and back-end for Chegg Math from scratch- Work with Product and business to plan and execute on Phased delivery of Math product- Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate Product with Chegg eco-system- Collaborate with teams at Israel and Germany to plan inter dependencies and deliver unified product experience on web and mobile

- Designed and developed Search Federation Platform, which is used to serve all search on chegg.com- Built ability to define new search profiles declaratively- Built reusable components as building blocks to use in Search profiles- Developed Search Profiles to provide custom search experience on different parts of the siteTechnology : Java, Solr, Spring Framework

- Building OSGi compliant internal Platform to host REST based Java micro-services- Work with other backend engineers at Chegg to evangelize features to be built, plan and execute- Help backend engineers at Chegg to onboard to use Platform

- Proficient in C++, .NET and Java.- Worked on developing Enterprise web applications using Java, Oracle, Spring Framework- Worked in Qt based product development on Windows- .NET based imaging product development from scratch- Qt based product development for Windows - Proficient in clearcase, cvs, Vim

Worked on SunONE web server both in Java & C++ on solaris.

Involved in Java based product development from scratch for over a yearInvolved in developing J2ME, Brew platform mobile applicationExtensively worked in XML using Java.