* Early member of the Reddit growth team during the hyper growth phase, growing the Reddit user base by 3x.* Led the development of the notification platform from scratch to send hundreds of millions of notifications, and emails per day increasing user retention by 60%.* Managed the notification personalization team that used machine learning to optimize notification content to increase engagement and retention by > 50%. * Managed the highly successful Reddit Recap project which launched on web, iOS and Android. This new reddit experience increased engagement and retention on the platform by 15%.* Played a critical role in hiring, and growing the team from 3 engineers to 20+.

Instruct and mentor learners in an independently-paced, ten-month program to become full stacksoftware engineers. • Design lectures and curriculum as learner resources.• Mentored and instructed over 100 junior developers.• Lead teams of learners to ship full stack apps used internally.Technologies used: NodeJS, RethinkDB, PostgreSQL, ReactJS, Redux

Earnest is a data and technology company looking to build the next gen modern bank. Its platform uses hundreds of data points to offer the lowest interest rates for loans.• Leading a team of 4 to build robust reporting tools, to help the Capital Market teams effectively finance loans.• Collaborate with stakeholders from cross functional teams to provide engineering insight on product direction.• Built a framework from scratch to spin up local dependencies of the project using Docker.• Mentor for junior members on the Earnest engineering team.Technologies Used: NodeJS, ReactJS, Redis, Postgres, Docker, GraphQL.

Quintype is a seed funded started looking to disrupt the online media space. Offers an intelligent platform that leverages Big Data to effectively manage the entire newsroom online.* Helped my brother(founder CEO) bootstrap the Engineering team.* Led a team of 3 to build the Quintype analytics platform. It needed tobe fault tolerant, scalable and fast.* Worked on the full stack – all the way from designing andimplementing the architecture to writing the UI in ReactJS.* Wore the product hat and created the roadmap for the platform.Technologies Used: Clojure, Postgres, AWS, ReactJS

SparX was incorporated after the acquisition of Runa Inc. The team leverages cutting edge technologies to build products for Staples.• Led a team of 5 to build Staples’ first in-house Multivariate A/B testing platform that enabled product teams to make data-driven decisions• Built the platform from scratch, with an SLA of sub 10ms for 99.9% of requests, serving 1.5 billion requests per month.• Created scripts to setup and maintain a high availability Postgres cluster to maintain 99.9% uptime.• Assumed the role of Product Lead to define hypothesis, review designs, and outline the product roadmap for the A/B testing platform.Technologies Used: Clojure, Postgres, AWS

Runa is a Saas for online merchants, which makes targeted promotions to shoppers. We do this by leveraging Big Data and Predictive Modelling to make personalized offers to targeted shoppers in real time. This minimizes the total discount offered by the merchant, and thereby maximizes profit.• Worked on the flagship product ‘Perfect Offer’ which analyzed clickstream data, and used machine learning models to generate dynamicoffers in real time.• Ported the legacy application to a micro service based architecture.• Worked on performance optimizing and scaling the application sothat it can handle multiple thousand requests per second.Technologies Used: Clojure, Redis, HBase, RabbitMQ, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Yourkit profiler

Built educational websites, where users could take online tests, take part in forums and analyze their scores to improve performance.Also built a RESTful web service for a popular iPhone app 'HoneyDo', which was App of the week in several countries.Used Ruby on Rails and Test Driven Development to build quality websites quickly.