Lead the Identity Verification Engineering group.

Ekata (acquired by Mastercard) is the new standard in global identity verification, providing businesses worldwide the ability to link any digital transaction to the human behind it. Our Ekata Identity Engine, the first and only of its kind, leverages complex machine learning and features from billions of transactions within our proprietary network and data from our graph to deliver industry-leading solutions

It’s not the size of the team that matters, it’s what you do with it that counts!Whitepages Inc. is a global leader in digital identity verification. Our solutions include WhitepagesPremium for consumers and Whitepages Pro for businesses. Whitepages Premium provides consumersaccess to U.S. public records to verify contact details, mobile numbers, bankruptcy history, criminalrecords, and more to facilitate trusting interactions in today’s sharing economy. Whitepages Proprovides businesses with global identity verification solutions via enterprise-scale APIs and web tools tohelp companies identify the legitimate customers from the fraudulent ones.Our foundation is data at massive scale. Our open search web properties serve 55 million visitors permonth and account for more than 90% of free people searches in North America. To support theseusers, Whitepages has developed its own fully-integrated, high-availability Identity Graph databasewhich houses more than 5 billion global identity records. These records have been curated andcorroborated from hundreds of different sources and made available to our users to deliver unparalleledcoverage, accuracy, and performance. Whether you are looking up an old friend, checking out someoneyou’ve met online, or powering a fraud solution for your enterprise, Whitepages can help you verifyidentities worldwide.If you would like to contribute in important ways to a powerful service used by millions of people everymonth, please contact us so we can talk about available opportunities or review our current openings athttp://about.whitepages.com/careers.

ReadyPulse acquired by ExpertVoice!

As the first full time engineer for ReadyPulse, I re-architected the backend platform to support higher and faster content management and discovery, bringing down the search SLA from 5 seconds to <200ms. Designed the analytics system which injects over 100GB of data per day and gives near-real-time reports of user activities using several cutting edge technologies including ElasticSearch, Neo4j, DynamoDB, Redshift, Spark, Memcache, Redis and Cassandra.

Working in Relational Database Services (RDS) as part of the MySQL team• Designed and implemented the “Memcached” as an option to MySQL 5.6 instances. • Designed and implemented Network time sync for all RDS instances.• Significant contribution in bringing down issue count by operational excellence.• Mentoring and brain storming with the team members for several technical problems and new initiatives.Worked with Mobile Sensory team to conceptualize, design and implement innovative features for next generation shopping. I was the part of Amazon App on Android Wear from design, development, and finally delivering it to production under high time pressure. Played role in solving several critical engineering challenges to get Voice Search into production. Continuing to work closely with Product Managers to design and implement the future of wearable-shopping.

Worked with Global Financial Systems (GFS) team responsible for all the payments that go through Amazon• Domain expert and owner of the invoice matching space.• Designed and implemented the EDI Invoice creation and validation platform. • Brought down the daily invoice processing time from 8 hours to 2 hours.• Awarded 3rd Prize in Annual Dev. Conference “Up The River-2012”, Seattle for the design.

Worked with Advertising Platform Group (APG), focusing on text Ad quality and then display Ad quality.• Drove “Continuous Integration” effort, migrated build from ant to maven, Cruise control to Hudson, and all unit tests from jUnit to testNG.• Conceived and built highly scalable malware detection and blacklisting service.• Designed and was part of development for Test Automation framework.

Research project focused on stream data mining for business Intelligence. Resulting algorithm saw a 110% performance improvement over the existing algorithms. Moved ahead with a successful acceptance in IEEE 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010.

Research an algorithm for better bigrams and trigram extraction for personalised recommendation service. Algorithm was successfully implemented, tested and pushed to production.