A highly skilled and experienced Engineer/Architect with 22+ years of expertise in software engineering principles, design patterns, and large-scale system implementation.
Experience
2024 — Now
• Architected and led implementation of content services powering IXR7, IPRv2, and WRN, enabling rapid migration from legacy systems (e.g., Reflect) to modern cloud platforms.
• Designed and delivered scalable APIs and backend systems for custom content, Focus Beta, and Salesforce UI integrations, improving editorial content onboarding and flexibility.
• Championed the custom content migration process by reverse-engineering legacy systems and providing end-to-end architectural flows, reducing migration complexity and risk.
• Mentored cross-functional teams, improving PR review quality, implementing best practices (TDD, ADRs, engineering guidelines), and guiding interns through the Summer Internship Program.
• Implemented OpenAI-based content auto-tagging pipeline, enabling consistent metadata generation for healthcare content and significantly improving search accuracy and discoverability.
• Designed and deployed a Vector Search–based retrieval system, enhancing content relevance and enabling semantic search for PatientPoint’s healthcare knowledge base.
• Led cross-team initiatives like re-architecting content-sync, defining team/service boundaries for IXR6→IXR7 migration, and proposing reusable patterns for taxonomy delivery and content targeting.
• Built tooling in Retool and other dashboards to provide insights to stakeholders and empower product and business users with data-driven decision-making.
• Recognized as SME for Reflect API and content migration strategies, frequently consulted for architectural decisions and migration troubleshooting.
• Spearheaded adoption of AI-powered developer productivity tools (OpenAI ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI) across engineering teams, reducing average feature delivery time by 20–30%. Applied GitHub Copilot and Cursor AI to generate code scaffolding, optimize queries (Postgres, MongoDB), and enhance unit/integration test coverage, leading to fewer defects in production
2023 — 2024
2020 — Now
2020 — Now
Menlo Park, California, United States
Architected SAAS platform for remotely accessing laboratories and lab automation software for closing the loop from "Idea" to "Data" and accelerating cycle times for faster drug discovery. This system has demonstrated completing the Design, Make, Test and Analyze (DMTA) cycles in a handful of days, greatly outpacing the two to three months or longer timelines required by either conventional outsourcing methods or internal turn-around times.
• With the aid of a single Scrum team, accomplished a remarkable feat of converting the application from a single-service tenant model to a multi-shared tenancy model in a mere three months, all without causing any production disruptions. This transformation required restructuring the application's architecture to enable multiple tenants to use the same instance of the application while preserving data privacy and security.
• Spearheaded the development of a state-of-the-art framework for the life sciences domain, enabling effortless integration with third-party and customer systems. The framework incorporated advanced technical features such as APIs, SDKs, ETL, and data warehousing, ultimately resulting in a centralized hub for a closed-loop discovery platform.
• Conceptualized and developed a novel workflow builder utilizing cutting-edge technology, allowing scientists to define and execute their scientific experiments remotely, with zero-human touchpoints in the lab. This innovative solution has reduced onboarding effort for new experiments/assays by a staggering 300%.
• Exhibited versatility by assuming various roles, including those of product owner and user experience designer, to define and prioritize product features. Additionally created low-fidelity mockups to assist development teams in overcoming any challenges or obstacles they encountered during the product development process.
2017 — 2020
San Ramon, California
Chaired the architecture, design & implementation of SAAS platform for choreographing autonomous inspection workflows, working closely with operations team, product managers, user interaction designers, and software engineers to develop new product offerings and improve existing ones.
• Single handedly architected and implemented configurable, scalable & pluggable auditing component which later integrated into 6 microservices, very critical from the compliance requirements of platform using ElasticSearch, Logstash & Kibana(ELK) technologies, within 2 months.
• Overhauled work order management application by leading a scrum team of 5, to ease operations team job of management of their work and collection of inspection data.
• Crystal clear communication of conceptual ideas and design rationale bolstered the architecture and implementation of service choreography of platform services. This assisted in elimination of manual steps to generate 3D models and parallel processing of multiple image analytics, thereby reducing overall time from 8 hours to 20 mins.
• Provided a comprehensive design & implementation for registration of outcomes/output of different analytics into the platform. The design enabled seamless & quicker integration of persisting and visualization of analytic outcomes with zero to minimal development effort.
• Designed the generic entity model which enabled to represent organizational and asset hierarchies which is unique for each tenant.
• Functioning collaboratively with product management and development team during the conceptualization and implementation of ingestion of image analytic findings into the platform, has helped in the delivery of customer committed critical features.
• Implemented robust test automation strategies to accelerate testing processes, improve test coverage, and enhance code quality. Successfully integrated test automation with CI/CD pipelines, resulting in faster releases and significant cost savings
2014 — 2017
San Ramon, California
Spearheading the design and development of multiple product lines during 4 years. Few of the product lines which are noteworthy are Asset Performance Management (APM), Asset Life-cycle Management (ALM), IOT Product for streaming of timeseries data, Drilling Customer Experience & Artificial Lift products of Oil and Gas businesses.
• Provided guidance & technical leadership to the members of the engineering team in the areas of cloud development, micro-services and data ingestion which had brought down the ingestion time of assets by almost 4 folds, and cloud deployment model of third-party apps and their integration into other mainstream products has received appreciation from higher management and senior architects.
• Conception, design and implementation of multi-tenant application and data access management in every product line during the above tenure has been adopted by other product lines and other businesses.
• Architecting and implementing `fine-grained` access permissions, leveraging the standard application access management policies, has helped to address very critical customer requests.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
M.Tech
Acharya Nagarjuna University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Govt. Polytechnic College - Nizamabad
Diploma
Gandhi Centenary High School