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Senior Engineering Manager, Narvar
September 2022 – Present

  • Lead the teams for Shopify and Salesforce Returns and Exchanges
  • Spearheaded the initiative for building the uneven exchanges flow for salesforce and shopify retailers
  • Led the effort to build the payment orchestration service
  • Improved the architecture and performance of Carriers platform(8M labels/month, 250K tracking updates/minute, 180K webhook updates/minutes)
  • Hiring and mentoring across multiple teams

Head Engineering, Graphy by Unacademy
June 2020 – August 2022

  • Provide technnical expertise in designing micro-service architeture
  • Impacting the creator economy by building graphy.com
  • Manage a team of 10+ engineers
  • Planned and led successful rollouts of a content aggregation platform, processing 1M records across 3 different sources
  • Architected a multi-platform live streaming service
  • Designed and scaled an access controlled content delivery application

Deal Distribution & Card Linked Offers
July 2018 – June 2020

  • Optimized performance of inventory fetch REST endpoint; reducing response time from 1.2s to∼220ms
  • Designed and built pipeline to allow distribution of Groupon offers through various bank partners, targeting 80million new customers
  • Piloted the on-boarding of three banking partners onto the distribution platform
  • Technologies: Java, Dropwizard, RxJava, Redis, Nginx, PostgreSQL

User Generated Content
Feb 2017 – July 2018

  • Designed a low latency, scalable end-to-end Java service to collect and serve User Generated Content such as reviews, ratings and images via multiple sources including email surveys, push and inbox notifications
  • Led the development of a modular consumer facing application to improve consumer trust and engagement
  • Implemented and A/B tested multiple relevant reviews algorithms for 5% conversion lift
  • Technologies: Node.js, Java, Dropwizard, PostgreSQL, HTML 5, Preact

Merchant Onboarding
Oct 2015 – Feb 2017

  • Redesigned the self-service tool - a tool used by merchants (new businesses) to onboard onto Groupon's ecommerce platform
  • Modularized merchant create and saleforce update components for use across multiple teams
  • Reduced deploy time by 57%; improved logging, metrics and monitoring for merchant facing applications
  • Technologies: Java, Ruby On Rails, Redis, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Backbone

Deal Creation Tools
August 2014 – Oct 2015

  • Designed and developed key features such as commenting, scheduling, and approval for the merchant-facing preview tool
  • Configured and setup additional production servers and master/slave database to address SPOF for merchant application
  • Collaborated on developing and enhancing a backend service that syncs up with Salesforce platform in real time to provide account, opportunity data to other higher order applications
  • Technologies: Ruby On Rails, Java, Apex Salesforce PostgreSQL, Node.js, Backbone

Account Management Tools
July 2013 – August 2014

  • Integrated with the Deal Recommendation Engine for faster and more flexible content retrieval
  • Lead a team of four to design and rollout a new deal creation pipeline
  • Worked on a cross-team project to bring down the deal creation process from a few hours to under 2 minutes
  • Setup an efficient deploy mechanism for 4 applications, while optimizing the deploy time and resource utilization

Re-architecting a Legacy Product focusing on Scalability and Stability
Aug 2012 – Nov 2012

  • Design and Implementation of a new multi-threading model & class hierarchy that addressed the server scaling problem
  • Cross Platform development for Windows and Linux Platforms
  • Technologies: Visual Studio 2005, GNU gcc

Development of a scalable server side Image Recognition Engine
May 2012 – Jun 2012

  • Development and implementation of an algorithm for image classification based on SURF features and using SVM classifier
  • Technologies: EmguCV, C#