- Responsible for building strong technical teams across the organization having 150+ engineers with appropriate pyramid & cost structure, and improving engineering quality (uniform processes & key quality metrics, regular audits, identify/roll out best practices in design/development, optimize interviews, etc.).- Own / manage the engineering for our dev partner account with Amazon. Directly work with some key people in Amazon to build some FireOS ecosystem’s next-gen capabilities (e.g. I… Show more - Responsible for building strong technical teams across the organization having 150+ engineers with appropriate pyramid & cost structure, and improving engineering quality (uniform processes & key quality metrics, regular audits, identify/roll out best practices in design/development, optimize interviews, etc.).- Own / manage the engineering for our dev partner account with Amazon. Directly work with some key people in Amazon to build some FireOS ecosystem’s next-gen capabilities (e.g. I designed & delivered an Ad delivery workaround for the new ecosystem based on Google IMA); Collaborate closely with Amazon solution architects to explore opportunities in the global ecosystem.- Manage project delivery for a few other key clients - MediaCorp (Singapore), QuickPlay (Canada) & Network18.- Build reference apps & common component libraries for Android, JS/HTML5, React Native, iOS, etc.- Improve product features & tech capabilities to enable IP sell rather than a services pitch.- Support Sales & Marketing to improve lead generation and closure of deals.- Additionally, I scouted and set up the Pune branch office and am the local signing authority. Show less

I started the company in 2013 along with an amazing team of co-founders with the aim of partnering with Varian Medical Systems (which was later acquired by Siemens Healthineers) to build software products and solutions targeting problems in the oncology world and more. After playing the role of CTO for the first 3 years, I stepped out of that role and handed the day-to-day reins to a suitable candidate so that I could focus on other ventures.

As full-time CTO till Oct 2016, I designed & built Elivotech's flagship product, Docs2EHR, and sold an annual recurring Oncology exclusive license to Varian Medical (part of Siemens group of cos). Worked closely with the Varian product team & SMEs in San Francisco and Arizona to understand gaps in their EHR platform (AriaTM) and built our product around it. Also, procured a multi-year deal to build significant parts of the greenfield mobility product solution for Aria. The mobility team was… Show more As full-time CTO till Oct 2016, I designed & built Elivotech's flagship product, Docs2EHR, and sold an annual recurring Oncology exclusive license to Varian Medical (part of Siemens group of cos). Worked closely with the Varian product team & SMEs in San Francisco and Arizona to understand gaps in their EHR platform (AriaTM) and built our product around it. Also, procured a multi-year deal to build significant parts of the greenfield mobility product solution for Aria. The mobility team was transferred to Varian in Jan 2023 as part of an acquihire deal and the full license of our product was sold to them during the 2nd half of 2024. Show less

A few clients/projects:Skyllr [Aug ‘18 - Nov ‘22]: As CEO and CTO, I built their IT skill & talent software platform. We used React, Node, HTML5/CSS, GraphQL, Postgres for the application & AWS (EC2, ASG, ALB, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS clusters, etc) to deploy it. Headed the team in Pune and worked closely with technical leadership in Boston to architect & design the product.PineappleHR [Jun '15 - Jul '16]: As the CTO and Head of India Ops, I headed the engineering & product teams for… Show more A few clients/projects:Skyllr [Aug ‘18 - Nov ‘22]: As CEO and CTO, I built their IT skill & talent software platform. We used React, Node, HTML5/CSS, GraphQL, Postgres for the application & AWS (EC2, ASG, ALB, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS clusters, etc) to deploy it. Headed the team in Pune and worked closely with technical leadership in Boston to architect & design the product.PineappleHR [Jun '15 - Jul '16]: As the CTO and Head of India Ops, I headed the engineering & product teams for building a US market HR SaaS product. Worked closely with leadership and anchor clients to define the product & the technology roadmap/milestones. Some noteworthy modules designed by me were ACA (commonly known as Obamacare) and PTO (Leave policy) modules. Show less

Conceptualized from scratch an e-commerce biz for an offline automobile spares dealership already generating $25 mil USD (~200cr INR) annually. Worked closely with the promoters, SKU teams from big brands like Maruti Suzuki, Tata, Hero, Honda, etc. & customers like retailers, service stations, mechanic workshops to understand use cases & build appropriate features. Also led & managed the engineering team on a day-to-day basis.

At TreSensa, spearheaded the development for a back-end multiplayer game SDK in JS/HTML5 & built various game studio teams. Also worked closely with senior mgmt. teams in the US to define the roadmaps and attract $1 mil USD seed capital & $8 mil USD in further investor rounds. TreSensa later merged with Vungle which was finally acquired by LiftOff Mobile.Additionally, headed the engineering @ Codewalla - a mobile/gaming studio with approx. 100 engineers - which was TreSensa’s dev partner… Show more At TreSensa, spearheaded the development for a back-end multiplayer game SDK in JS/HTML5 & built various game studio teams. Also worked closely with senior mgmt. teams in the US to define the roadmaps and attract $1 mil USD seed capital & $8 mil USD in further investor rounds. TreSensa later merged with Vungle which was finally acquired by LiftOff Mobile.Additionally, headed the engineering @ Codewalla - a mobile/gaming studio with approx. 100 engineers - which was TreSensa’s dev partner. Fulfilled BOT deals for Triple Point (ION Group) & Persistent Systems.At both orgs, rolled out Agile processes and elaborate infra for CI/CD, SCM practices, etc. Show less

From 2008 to 2011, played an architect role for ThomsonOne enterprise platform while working remotely from Pune. Brokered communication between Bangalore & Boston engineering teams.From 2001 to 2008 at TR Boston, I led the development team for an investment management product line targeting embargoed research reports and was a senior contributor to another product line targeting real-time research reports. Both these product lines generated well over $100 million in annual revenue each… Show more From 2008 to 2011, played an architect role for ThomsonOne enterprise platform while working remotely from Pune. Brokered communication between Bangalore & Boston engineering teams.From 2001 to 2008 at TR Boston, I led the development team for an investment management product line targeting embargoed research reports and was a senior contributor to another product line targeting real-time research reports. Both these product lines generated well over $100 million in annual revenue each and involved interactions with clients such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, etc. I also handled maintenance/patch releases on legacy versions of the above products.In the past in various roles, I also led/contributed to products involving other financial data like company fundamentals, portfolio analytics, etc.Additionally remote-managed an outsourced vendor team at HCL in India. Show less

Worked at Cisco as an on-site consultant. Contributed to the router configuration module of Cisco's e-commerce platform called IPC.

As part of the WordPerfect and the ambitious Office for Java (Office in the web browser) teams, I wrote the very first JDBC driver for the Paradox database that was packaged along with the WordPerfect Suite.

Worked on the product development of some of the kids' internet product line at Ruksun. Also, contributed to some of their other software service projects.

I ran a small business doing desktop publishing and software projects for local clientele. Also taught C and UNIX at the Informatics Institute.