I’m an engineering leader who enjoys building useful products and helping teams do their best work.
I’ve spent my career working across the stack: frontend, backend, and distributed systems, building and operating systems that handle massive scale. I care deeply about creating products that are simple, reliable, and genuinely useful.
What I focus on:
- Building products end-to-end, from idea to production, across both consumer and enterprise use cases
- Designing and scaling systems that handle high traffic and real-world complexity
- Rapid prototyping to validate ideas before investing deeply
- Creating intuitive user experiences, not just functional systems
How I lead:
- Enable teams to do great work by removing friction and providing clarity
- Stay close to users and customers to ensure we’re solving the right problems
- Build reliable, observable systems that are easy to operate and improve
- Continuously refine how teams collaborate and deliver
- Hire thoughtfully and invest in people’s growth
- Foster a culture of ownership, trust, and strong collaboration
Beyond work:
- I run developer communities like TeamShiksha and Impromptu Meetups, helping engineers learn, grow, and connect
- I regularly speak, teach, and mentor engineers at different stages of their careers
- I enjoy building side projects and sharing what I learn along the way
Based in Bengaluru, I’ve worked with global teams and enjoy solving complex problems at scale... especially where product, engineering, and people intersect.
Past 8 years were spent building scalable platforms and systems, hands on at Atlassian on JIRA & Commerce Systems. Eventually leading multiple teams at JioHotstar/Cricinfo - handling realtime scale of 100+ million users and manyfold events across the systems every day.
Leading the Engineering, QA & Product charter for Metaforms - we are one of the only Vertically Integrated AI platform companies innovating from Bengaluru for the world.
Working with a global team, small and large organisations from across the globe.
3 years 2 months
Lead three verticals - Identity, Web & Dazzle(Engagement) charters for the JioCinema App.
Oversaw multiple migrations at scale:
1. Migration from Voot to JioCinema, 2023.
2. Migration of JioCinema to JioHotstar, 2025.
Launched multiple features to bring parity with other OTTs, and crafted some which were industry first.
Managed hundreds of millions of user records alongside working knowledge of scaling up for 50 million concurrent users for live events.
Engagement features involved designing systems that could handle 300 million+ visitors every day and continue to work during backend downtimes gracefully. (exponential backoffs, thundering herd handling, client side caching, CDN offloads)
Worked closely with business and product stakeholders to deliver incremental value while ensuring engineering excellence was maintained with quality, observability and reliability.
Implemented a strong operational process in the team to reduce untoward incidents.
Yet, run a rigorous (blameless) Incident Review process to avoid future ones.
4 years 1 month
EM - September 2020 - April 2023
Working across streams including: KTLO, Cloud Transformation/Migrations and Engineering Health. Engineering owner responsible for development and delivery of 3 services. Role involves managing direct reports & stakeholder communications. Ensuring project delivery, reliability, observability, on-call roster and managing SLO/SLIs.
IC - Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Worked on the core platform as a senior developer. Feature leaded new features for next-gen JIRA Cloud capabilities. Triad responsibilities included collaboration with designer & PM. Architecture for distributed UI engineering. Also helped with hiring and mentoring.
10 months
Worked on cross platform GUI for charting and plotting BI data across multiple domains. Refactored some pieces of the user-facing enterprise dashboards.
1.5 years
Conceptualised & built a UI Widget library from scratch & an analytics SDK - custom-built for the JioPhone.
Apps built using the framework are currently deployed in hundreds of millions of JioPhone devices.
Recognised for work on the framework by the company. Work directly resulted in faster iteration cycles for apps across multiple offices.
Attempted to build a meta search engine platform for best deals across multiple websites. Primarily in the travel ecosystem - flights & hotels. (go.flyoso.com)
1.5 years
Built a B2C social-commerce platform. Focus on high performance in variable latency environments, low bandwidth availability in the field for sellers and fashion curators. Also owned email templates and a Node.js microservice for coupons.
Implemented in-house dashboards to streamline processes and give clear visibility over key metrics for various teams.
Built a configurable in-house CMS, to enable editors and content writers to create, schedule and publish content with ease.
Helped architect & implement the fashion curator queues which allowed processes to scale with growing userbase.
Was not able to find a PMF, shut down.
10 months
Founding developer for the web portal - Hem.com, built from scratch featuring an in-browser 3D-Configurator. Allowed users to easily customise and edit furniture designs with a dynamic price calculation.
Lean architecture - Vanilla JS, jQuery, Bootstrap + customisations.
Helped multiple QA engineers' transition over to Frontend engineering.
Company wound down - PE Exit
Worked on the media asset inventory management product and a plugin built to allow visual and content designers to make use of assets directly within Adobe InDesign software. Proprietary language based off of Javascript.
Early career - learning B2B SaaS
1.5 years
Part of the R&D unit, rewriting the travel platform from scratch. Monolith to micro-service architecture, server side rendered UI to an MVC.
Resulted in a feature rich application which performed faster, increasing the revenue generated for the company. Direct impact on client conversions.
Early career - learning B2B SaaS Platform
Certification Programme on AI, Executive Education, IIM Bengaluru - 2022
Degree in Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunications, D Y Patil College of Engineering, Pune University - 2012