• Created a product prototype for live video help/training (similar to Google Helpouts) • Developed proof-of-concept prototypes (similar to Google Hangouts) to enable peer-to-peer concurrent voice, video and chat communication using WebRTC • Customer development and initial POC on universal inbox (that streams in email and instant-message communications)

Sonian, an AWS startup finalist is the leading provider of cloud based email archives managing billions of emails and documents.I was tasked with formulating and executing the charter for Sonian Labs - to work on research prototypes that helps with the core products and identify new product opportunities from the core Sonian archival platform.• Evaluated and chose machine-learning, Natural Language Processing approaches and frameworks for analyzing large corpus of email data.• Devised and implemented an ingestion process to prepare emails for analytics (removing spam, unauthored content) and extract intelligence from data (extracting names, places, keywords, organizations and times) • Evaluated, developed prototypes and implemented proof-of-concepts for visualizing people interactions, clusters of email groups and top-trending keywords.• Helped with customer development and developed the roadmap for productizing the prototypes.

As the CTO of OfficeDrop, I was instituting the culture of agile development, continuous deployment, cross-functional teams who handled both development and operations.I started Boston DevOps meetup as a forum for like-minded devops enthusiasts in Boston.More at: http://www.meetup.com/boston-devops/

OfficeDrop (was Pixily) provided a Simple and Secure File Collaboration service on any device including PC, Mac, Smartphones and Tablets. Our biggest differentiator is that we make it super easy to manage both Paper and Digital files in the cloud. Businesses can Scan paper with 100s of different Scanners and MFPs, Sync them with other files to the Cloud from PC or Mac, Search even the content across 25 different document file formats and Share them with partners, colleagues and friends. OfficeDrop has a highly competitive feature set when compared with DropBox, Box, Google Drive and SkyDrive to name a few. OfficeDrop has won a number of awards and has received rave reviews and mentions in over 200 magazines, blogs and media outlets.• Shaped the idea, wrote the initial POC, hired and lead the development and operations team.• POC in 3, Alpha in 6, Version 1.0 in production in 11 months. • Helped raise ~5m$ from VCs.• Led the engineering and operations team that built a web and mobile product which was highly competitive to Box.net, GoogleDrive and DropBox.• Senior-most technologist of the company and the go-to person for all things technical and operations.• Heralded two major pivots – first for the product evolution and next for a platform approach to handle desktop and mobile applications• Finalist in Amazon AWS Startup Challenge. Won Gartner Cool Vendor of 2009 and AlwaysOn Global 250.• Setup the analytics platform for product and business metrics.Conceived, prototyped, oversaw the full scale development and operation of:• Full-text search and back-office document extraction, indexing system that handled 1000s of concurrent document uploads • Web based instant document preview engine• Active backup and sync from desktop and mobile systems• API platform to support the HTML5, Desktop (Windows and Mac), IOS and Android systems

• As first employee of the company, played a critical role in formulating company strategy, branding, and operations.• Developed hiring plan and recruitment policies. Instrumental in hiring the rest of the company.• Jointly managed company’s partnership with IBM, Borland, and UDDI.org.• Mentored and taught junior members of the company, increasing the “knowledge capital” of the organization.As Consultant:• Technical lead of a tremendously successful $12M project to revamp online retirement management application of Fidelity NetBenefits.• One of the lead architects of a $22M initiative to develop the next generation financial planning website for Fidelity Investments.• Designed and wrote several thousand lines of codes creating and maintaining mission-critical applications for Fidelity's retirement management and retirement planning products.• Wrote the certification tests for Sun and IBM's Java, J2EE Developer certification test programs.

• Key architect and developer in the company's fledgling J2EE practice.• Created the first generation of MVC and multi-tier J2EE applications for clients.

• Created one of the first solutions in Java and XML for IBM alphaWorks.• One of the developers in the creation of “datalink”, then a research prototype developed at IBM Research Centers to link file-system objects as database elements, now commonly available in databases