Lead the development of FinTech products - BNPL credit lines, personal loans, insurances, payment services, stocks trading and e-wallet, HealthTech products - online doctor consultation and medicine delivery and E-commerce platform - store and marketplace.

Managed multiple initiatives throughout the life cycle of client projects. Spearheaded the development of the following projects to grow revenue and optimise costs for multibillion-dollar corporate clients.Gojek - machine learning models that predicts issue topics from customer complains in Bahasa language unstructured text data in real time, augmenting customer support teams’ ticket handling effort.Nykaa - e-commerce search, query suggestions, product recommendations, price-inventory management system, user profile service, migration from monolith to micro-services architecture, etc. Monster Jobs - jobs and profiles search at scale, query suggestions, models for parsing resumes, job and profile recommendations, migration from monolith to micro-services architecture, etc.Kore Wireless - dynamic bin packing system that learns SIM’s data usage & carrier plan procurement costs and optimises cost by predicting data overages and effectively swapping SIM-plan allocations. Gludo - in-house comparison shopping mobile application and website to search, compare, track prices and purchase products crawled, parsed, merged and indexed from all India e-commerce websites.

Built and managed high performing technical team of engineers and led the technical architecture, design and implementation of following projects.Big Data Warehouse - built a big data pipeline that processed hundreds of GBs of daily system logs and generates KPI reports for business intelligence. The warehouse also serves as a platform that drives data for some other major components like segmented notifications, search results ranking based on user click feedback, recommendations engine, etc. Technologies - Hive, Amazon EMR, MySQL, PHP, PythonRecommendations Engine & Radio - a system that generates music recommendations based on audio content similarity, lyrics similarity and classic collaborative filtering. This engine also generates data for implementation of radio (continuous play). Technologies - Hive, Amazon EMR, PHP, PythonSearch & Autocomplete - search engine that delivers results at scale. Built fault tolerance and high availability with document sharding and replication. Implemented an adaptive user click feedback model - results having higher clickthrough for a user query are subsequently ranked higher for that query.Additionally, managed the development of content management system, content ingestion pipelines, payment gateway integrations, telecom integrations, etc.

Saavn Android application - responsible for the implementation of initial versions of the Saavn Music application for Android. Technologies - Java, Eclipse.Google Onebox (music search) - partnership project with Google to integrate Saavn as a digital music provider for Google India music search module. Technologies - PHP, Apache, Memcache, MySQL.Ads delivery system - developed a backend configured system to deliver Ads on website and apps based on user location & actions, content consumed, advertiser campaigns, etc. Tech - PHP, JavaScript.

Yahoo! Frontpage - led the team responsible for building server side apps execution framework for Yahoo! Frontpage – the most viewed website on the Internet at that time. Technologies - PHP, Apache. Yahoo! Search Advertising - led the development of a Rules Engine for defining business policies that govern if an Ad qualifies to be delivered on Yahoo! Search. Technologies - PHP, Apache.Yahoo! Updates - led the development of Yahoo! Updates Widget - an open social initiative to aggregate updates from social networks (Facebook, Twitter) into a single widget. The widget was integrated in Yahoo! Frontpage, Mail, Messenger and Yahoo! Profiles.Yahoo! Messenger - member of the team that integrated Facebook and Myspace in Yahoo! Web Messenger to push posts, messages, comments and other vitality information from these social networks as instant messages in Messenger and post replies back to the respective channels in real time.Yahoo! Mail - involved in implementation of a highly scalable application development and execution framework that allows internal and external developers to build rich apps and enhance Mail experience.Apache Zebra (columnar storage for Hadoop) - implemented a workflow that runs Pig scripts on Hadoop cluster using the Zebra storage layer and generates performance reports of Map-Reduce jobs.