AI Engineer

Tech Lead – WhatsApp Security(2021–Present)

* On Device scam detection for WhatsApp

* Led the development of WhatsApp Business messaging One-Time Password (OTP) API, enhancing security and user verification mechanisms.

* Designed Autofill security codes, improving user experience and authentication reliability & security. Principal author of a pending patent related to this innovation.

Tech Lead – Videos Infrastructure Team (2015–2021)

* Led the development and optimization of media ingestion infrastructure used across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger for products like Reels, Stories, and Newsfeed, supporting billions of videos per day.

* Designed and built the camera effects tech stack enabling advanced media enhancement and creative tools.

* Co-authored a pending patent on Media Editing with Client-side Edits and Server-side Edits, a technology that enables intelligent processing by dynamically distributing video transformation tasks between mobile devices and cloud servers. This ML-driven optimization improves user experience, reduces server load, and ensures scalable ingestion performance.

* Developed iOS games, contributing to titles like:

* Secret Passages – Hidden Objects (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/secret-passages-hidden-objects/id643088844)

* War Dragons (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/war-dragons/id958763157)

* Focused on optimizing graphics (OpenGL) and client-side performance of the in-house mobile isometric game engine.

* Feature additions to Kindle for PC & Mac application.

* Improvements to performance and reliability of e-book ingestion infrastructure that powers Kindle Cloud Reader (read.amazon.com).

* Android Launcher for Amazon Preloaded Phones – Developed key features optimizing launcher performance.

* Part of the core R&D team tasked with reducing the time required to import large-scale telecom billing and order data from legacy systems into Amdocs’ core product suite.

* Re-architected ETL software by introducing multithreading, improving runtime performance by over 90%.

* Built an XPath interpreter for applying expressions to in-memory object graphs, enhancing query efficiency.