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#