Experienced Senior Software Engineer from Georgia Tech and NIT Surathkal with a deep passion for understanding and solving large-scale problems and high impact products using technology via customer-centric mindset.
San Francisco Bay Area
As a Senior Software Engineer, I was responsible for:
* Designing and Developing an Aggregation Engine: Created a robust engine capable of aggregating over 50 dimensions—including taxes, deductions, and wages—at both the company and employee levels for more than 20,000 companies and 1 million employees. This facilitated seamless tax filing for agencies across the U.S.
* Developing an Audit Framework: Implemented a comprehensive audit system to identify discrepancies across 20 million unique records, ensuring reliable migration from legacy infrastructure to a modernized platform.
* Designing Snapshot Infrastructure: Developed a periodic data snapshot system at both the company and employee levels to streamline filing processes.
* Conducting Interviews for New Hires: Participated in the interview process across various roles to help onboard talented new team members.
* Led and drove a cross org initiative to build managed connectors for SFDC, Jira, greenhouse by developing an in house platform and a CDK to work through the platform. Onboarded 3 different engineers into this initiative
* Submitted three patents - one for aggregation engine, AI based search and audit framework at scale
2023 — 2024
United States
As a Senior Software Engineer,
* Led the design and development of billing export for cluster and job run level which helped customers
reduce server cost by 30 percent
* Developed auto availability zone feature which reduced cluster failure rates by about 40 percent
* Coordinated with the tech lead on roadmap planning, process development for improving code
quality and reducing reliability issues
* Worked on spot instances to reduce compute costs by over 50 percent
* Integrated new APM tools with the microservices which helped to cut down costs by about 50
percent
* Developed JDBC driver from scratch to support jobs on BI tools like Snowflake
* Took interviews and helped to onboard new hires
2021 — 2022
As a Senior Software Engineer in App Experience and Revenue team, my work involved
* Owning high-level design(HLD), Low-Level Design(LLD), development, and code reviews for a team of 8 engineers and for cross-team collaborations.
* Taking interviews across levels, onboarding and mentoring new members. Was the go-to person on my team for any technical discussions.
* Communicate with stakeholders including business heads, UX team, and product managers for ideation, requirement gathering and grooming tickets, and rescoping to ensure the best Minimum Viable Product(MVP)
* Own the user service with a peak load of 1 Million requests per minute
* Led Digital Pod Automation(homepage personalization) design and development based on user behavior project which improved homepage conversions by 30 percent and resulted in 20 percent more orders.
* Led the Grab Defence Integration to improve the security of our clients which involved collaboration with the grab team, design, and development, and helped the risk and compliance team in their strategic goal to counter Fraud.
* Homepage revamp to improve conversions and reduce friction in onboarding and sales which helped to improve the successful registration metrics from 35 percent to 60 percent.
* Chatbot integration with Yellow Messenger as the third party which resulted in a reduction in the customer care load by about 40 percent.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Joined Growth and Experience team(as 7th member in the tech team, which grew to 125+ in two years), designed and developed various capabilities for retailer app and sales app(including horizontal) from scratch, such as
* Payment Microservice(LLD and development) that managed prepaid and postpaid payments and wallets.
* Product district visibility engine to configure buyability and visibility(LLD and development), which helped to configure SKUs at the granular level based on the nature of the material, warehouse availability, and logistic capabilities.
* Planner, Goals, and Achievements tracker for sales app(HLD, LLD, and development)
* Survey tool for sales executives(Ideation, HLD, LLD, and development)
* Scheduling for promotions(campaigns and banners) which reduced time reduction by about 40 percent
* New vertical Digital Goods(HLD, LLD, development, and team coordination), which was instrumental in improving engagement on the app by about 50 percent and bought in organic users to the app.
Designed and developed template syntax support for topic() parameter of Kafka Destination.
Additionally, managed fallback cases to ensure that invalid topic message streams are not lost.
Ensured all the new code was completely covered by unit tests
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's degree
National Institute of Technology Karnataka