2021 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
Airtable is a connected apps platform that aims to lower the floor of software creation.
Built a critical data redaction pipeline to prevent unauthorized data from being synced to web and mobile clients without which the permissions system would not have been secure.
Built a data leasing mechanism to grant temporary write access to users who accidentally lose access to the data due to erroneous edits which helped reduce user frustration.
Built client and server components for a new user experience that simplified the sharing of visual interfaces to aid in the deployment of data across large company audiences.
Worked on improving internal debug tools, reducing flakiness of critical tests, writing benchmarks for perf intensive workloads.
2017 — 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Quip is a document collaboration tool helping people communicate more effectively and efficiently. Founded by Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs. Backed by Greylock and Benchmark. Accquired by Salesforce. Powering Slack Canvas today.
Technical lead for a team of 5 building an @mention Quip integration for Salesforce Records. Project involved designing a new data storage model and providing cross platform support with real time syncing capabilities
Built document collaboration features like Version History (historical edits in a document) and Live Paste (linked content across multiple documents). Made significant contributions to core editor areas, including copy paste capabilities, undo redo stack, and document saving pipeline
Automated Mac and iOS build systems using Github Actions and ported a Selenium based UI test suite to a distributed test runner environment. Both projects helped improve developer productivity by over 30 mins
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
A collaboration between IDEO, Target and the MIT Media Lab exploring the creation of new ventures to solve issues and challenges in modern food systems.
Participated in conducting 12 in-depth user interviews and went on 3 immersive industrial visits to gain insight into the complex dynamics of modern food systems
Built 6 concepts using rapid prototyping techniques that focused on education consumers about the impact of their food consumption
Collaborated with experts from Target and the MIT Media Lab to synthesize user research on food systems and consumption habits into common actionable patterns
2013 — 2015
Singapore, Singapore
99.co is a real estate rental portal that envisions to innovate a cutthroat industry through a fusion of traditional brokerage, technology, design & human emotion and provide users with an honest, transparent and delightful room rental experience. Team of over 40. Operations in Singapore & Indonesia. Backed by Sequoia Capital.
Developed the first version of the iOS application written in Objective-C, and took a leadership role in mobile engineering efforts working closely with a team 4 engineers
As part of an architectural rewrite to split the monolith codebase, migrated multiple backend functions into microservices using Python/Tornado/MongoDB hosted on AWS
Built and launched product features such as a map based search function with time travel as a filter, powerful listing management tools for property agents & realtime instant messaging capabilities
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Teach For India is a nationwide movement where exceptional graduates and young professional teach in under resourced schools across the country with the goal of eliminating educational inequity.
Built a custom Salesforce module to manage the multi step candidate recruitment and selection process handling a high volume of over 18000+ applicants
Built a ticketing and scheduling application for inspirED, the annual education conference attended by over 500+ people
Built a social network portal to facilitate the discovery of teacher training resources, job opportunities and team connections for over 100+ staff members, 700+ teachers and 1000+ alumni members
Education
2015 — 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master’s Degree
2015 — 2017
2007 — 2011
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Engineering
2007 — 2011
1992 — 2005
Jamnabai Narsee School
1992 — 2005