Experience
2020 — Now
2020 — Now
Mountain View, CA
Consumer Group
• Leading AI Incubation to build multi-surface (Internal/ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini) agentic experiences and LLM-orchestrated tax workflows for millions of users.
• Launched TurboTax ChatGPT and Claude MCP Apps, successfully bringing native tax experiences to conversational AI platforms.
• Architected Unified Consumer Profiles through real time streaming via Apache Flink, syncing Credit Karma and TurboTax data to drive hyper-personalized growth.
• Engineered "Better Together" synergies between platforms, streamlining user journeys and accelerating cross-vertical business growth.
Identity & Customer360 Platform
• Pioneered a Neo4j Graph Relationship Engine to power AI-native, hyper-personalized customer journeys across the Intuit ecosystem.
• Increased login conversion by 15% by engineering advanced visitor recognition and identity resolution systems.
• Improved Accountant Matching by 15% using AWS Neptune and Elasticsearch to optimize pro-to-customer pairing.
• Modernized Identity Stack from monolith to microservices, leading API designs(REST and GraphQL) , data modeling (NoSQL DynamoDB) and large-scale data migrations.
• Directed Data Governance & Lakehouse Strategy, automating the deletion of millions of inactive accounts and establishing high-fidelity data standards for AI/ML.
2017 — 2020
2017 — 2020
San Jose, California
• Led the Cisco hyperflex core platform team. Cisco Hyperflex is the hyper-converged solution from the Springpath acquisition.
• Led the container storage platform and integration with Hyperflex. Implemented the container storage interface (HX-CSI) to expose hyperflex backed persistent volumes for Kubernetes environment.
• Worked on long term strategy projects involved around growing the Hyperflex solution in edge and hybrid cloud environments.
• Goto guy for customer escalations
2012 — 2017
San Francisco Bay Area
• Member of the founding engineering team.
• Helped design the overall distributed filesystem architecture from ground-up suited for better scale and performance.
• Designed and implemented key parts of the Hyperflex distributed file system around data caching and persistence which involved implementing the distributed write back cache and de-staging the data to the capacity tier.
• Designed and implemented the native clone and snapshot technology.
• Designed and implemented filesystem namespace operations.
• Designed and implemented the core of the disaster recovery and backup solution which involved writing an optimized diff engine in the filesystem for incremental backup and replication clone framework.
• Implemented the VMware vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) NAS plugin
• Worked closely with Cisco solution team to get the validated design which helped with OEM relationship.
• Goto guy for customer escalations.
• Worked on a bunch of misc stuff - Installer, System mgmt. related work , Customized git hooks to streamline the checkin process etc etc
2009 — 2012
2009 — 2012
• Worked for Virtual IO devices team and vSAN (Hyper-converged distributed storage) team.
• Worked on the virtual disk and snapshot library.
• Delivered resumable snapshot consolidation which was one of the key pain-point for users on snapshot deletion.
• Improved virtual disk I/O performance.
• Founding member of the vSAN team. Worked on the distributed layer of vSAN.
• Designed and implemented the object library(objlib) that exposes notion of storage blobs (vSAN/VVOL) to the VMWare stack.
Education
State University of New York at Binghamton
Master of Science - MS
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor's degree
Dr. D Y Patil Polytechnic, New Mumbai