summary:Engineering lead with 8+ years of expertise in designing scalable system architecture, leading high performing teams, and delivering AI driven solutions while also maintaining the role of an individual contributor on complex projects
- Led the company from inception to $3M seed funding, demonstrating strategic leadership in building and managing a high-performing team of 7 engineers, establishing engineering best practices, and accelerating product development from concept to launch
- Architected and launched a scalable backend API infrastructure using Django, PostgreSQL, and Redis, deployed on Kubernetes, supporting over 600,000 users with 99.9% uptime and robust performance under high concurrent load
- Designed and deployed a real-time data pipeline with Kafka and ClickHouse, enabling analytics on 1M+ daily events empowering driving data driven product decisions that improved feature adoption by 25%
- Implemented advanced search capabilities with Qdrant (semantic search) and Meilisearch (keyword search), increasing content discovery engagement by 80% and enhancing user retention
- Engineered a real-time AI-powered interview platform using LiveKit and ElevenLabs, integrating custom voices and advanced prompt engineering to deliver a highly personalized candidate experience
- company:e-Yantra, IIT Bombay
company_website:portal.e-yantra.org
job_title:Project Engineer
duration:Apr 2021 - Dec 2023
location:Mumbai
items:
- Developed a modular drone platform integrating Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson AGX, ZED stereo camera, GoPro, GPS, and optical flow sensors using ROS, enabling real-time video streaming, flight data aggregation, cloud-based photogrammetry, and autonomous navigation capabilities
- Designed and implemented a containerized simulation platform, enabling secure, isolated, and reproducible evaluation of robotics and AI workloads
- Engineered a GPU slicing and distribution framework for NVIDIA GPUs, optimizing resource utilization across multiple virtual machines for scalable machine learning training and browser-based remote Linux workstations
- company:BrowserStack
company_website:www.browserstack.com
job_title:Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer
duration:May 2019 - Mar 2021
location:Mumbai
items:
- Reduced AWS costs by 15% on \$1M annual bill through reserved EC2 instances optimization, snapshot management, and S3 lifecycle policies while maintaining 99.9% uptime SLA
- Enhanced security posture by implementing CIS Controls, improving DMARC rating to 99.54%, setting up VPN for data centers, and deploying Cloudflare to reduce page load times by 3x
- Orchestrated critical infrastructure migrations with less than 0.1\% downtime, and executed disaster recovery planning for AWS
- company:Frappe Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
company_website:frappe.io/erpnext
job_title:Software Engineer (Research and Development)
duration:Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
location:Mumbai
items:
- Implemented email tracking pixels in outbound campaigns, enabling email engagement tracking and allowing targeted follow-ups that boosted response rates by 18%
- Developed Bench Manager GUI for real-time monitoring of Frappe-hosted sites, presented at ERPNext Conference, streamlining system administration tasks and live updates through Socket.IO
description:a multi LLM chat application with authentication, web search, resumable streams via a sync engine over websockets, and mobile-friendly interface using Next.js, Postgres
education:
- school:St. Francis Institute of Technology
duration:June 2013 - November 2017
location:Mumbai
degree:Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication
