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
- 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
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*Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer* #h(1fr) *May 2019 - Mar 2021*\
- 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
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*Software Engineer (Research and Development)* #h(1fr) *Jun 2017 - Nov 2018*\
- 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
_#link("https://semaphore.chat/")[#text(fill: section-color)[Semaphore]]_ - 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
*#link("https://www.sfit.ac.in/")[#text(fill: section-color)[St. Francis Institute of Technology]], #link("https://mu.ac.in/")[#text(fill: section-color)[Mumbai University]]* #h(1fr) *June 2013 - November 2017*\
_Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication_ #h(1fr) _Mumbai_
