As a founding member and Head of Engineering at Keka HR, I have been part of the seed, early-stage, and growth phases, contributing to the company's significant milestones. I played a key role in the recent funding round, India’s largest Series A SaaS funding. My responsibilities include growing the engineering team, driving strategic vision, modernizing the tech stack, architecting applications for a global scale, and establishing a strong engineering culture to enhance overall company performance.- Vision and Strategy: Held direct accountability for the vision, strategy, and execution of new platform and product development, forging partnerships with technology and service providers, and leading a fully cloud-native development and deployment strategy to infuse flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency.- SaaS Platform Development: Championed the development of a market-making SaaS platform by redesigning legacy backend infrastructure and mobile/web applications with 1M active users into a microservice infrastructure and modularizing features to support a flexible subscription model.- R&D Leadership: Directed R&D teams through the ground-up development of new products, including routing and scheduling algorithms, data engineering pipelines, design systems, micro-service architecture and micro-frontends.- Engineering Culture: Established an engineering culture focused on agility and ownership using agile development methodologies and practices such as DevOps, feature flags, and A/B tests.- Expanded Engineering Team: Grew the engineering team to over 200 members, implementing strategic direction, hierarchy planning, and a structure based on Tribes, Leagues, and Squads, resulting in improved team productivity- Architectural Scalability Solutions: Solved complex architecture scalability challenges without platform downtime, ensuring seamless user experience and operational efficiency.

As a founding team member at Technovert Solutions, I worked on offshore product development as part of the services division. My role included developing Cloud-based SaaS applications, managing deployment processes, and ensuring data integrity through robust SQL database management. Additionally, I resolved bugs, conducted quality assurance, and participated in all phases of agile development to deliver high-quality applications- Analyzed and Interpreted business requirements, providing impact analysis of changes.- Led Projects with complete module oversight, continuously evaluating and refactoring code for better maintainability and reliability.- Organized and participated in various meetings to ensure team alignment and project progress.- Introduced Test Automation and optimized development processes, reducing live site incidents.- Implemented Internal Applications to streamline hiring and training processes.- Automated Builds for project stages and production, enhancing deployment efficiency.- Integrated Applications with various packages and implemented numerous plugins, improving functionality.- Designed, Developed, and Maintained SQL database schemas and scripts, ensuring data integrity.- Unit Tested utilizing appropriate architecture and programming paradigms.- Deployed Changes to staging and production environments, working closely with deployment teams.- Authored Technical Documentation for developed modules, providing clear programming problem resolutions.- Enforced Test Driven Development across critical functionalities.

As the Founder of Junior Hub, an e-learning application targeted primarily towards engineering graduates, I successfully developed and launched a SaaS-based platform. The platform enrolled over 10,000 students across 30+ engineering colleges, providing accessible and high-quality educational resources.- Developed and Launched a SaaS-based e-learning platform targeted at engineering graduates.- Enrolled over 10,000 students across 30+ engineering colleges, significantly expanding the user base.- Created high-quality educational content, ensuring relevance and accessibility for engineering students.- Managed platform operations, including user support, content updates, and performance monitoring.- Established partnerships with engineering colleges to promote the platform and increase enrolment.