My personal belief has always been "Execute, execute, execute". In the modern world with people having rapid & easy access to technology, gathering feedback is easier, and is the most important bit which fuels great innovations. Planning without execution is like eating an English Breakfast without a sunny-side up egg & toast, it'd have no meaning.
The future driven by advancements in technology, manufacturing & AI, making them immensely valuable, scalable, easier and cheaper to access by consumers and businesses, will disrupt the current world.
This is where I come in, being an ideator & keen observer at heart and an avid technologist at mind.
I have been driven by actual problems which people and businesses face in day to day lives, and figuring out world-class solutions to them. This happens with my approach of taking on large & difficult problems by solving them at the unit-scale, executing & gathering feedback and improving on them.
Gojek [GoTo Financial]
Tech Lead
Walmart Global Tech India
Software Engineer-III
Morgan Stanley [Consultant from Wissen Technology]
Associate Software Engineer
Assertion
Software Engineer
Navifly
Interim CTO
Hållbar
Co-Founder & Operations
Cater to design and development of high availability microservices as part of the GoPay consumer app platform team.
Vertical lead for communications services platforms for GoPay.
Built the Server Driven UI provider platform for the GoPay app. It is a configurable and low-code solution for screen creation, element and data aggregation for screens in the app.
Designed and built the Red Badge notification system and governance platform for the GoPay app. It is a real-time notification platform for various teams (product, tech, and marketing) to enable red dot on screen elements to notify users of pending actions.
The Red Badge notification system increased CTR of users from a meager 1.8% for push notifications to 16% for red badges. This system can be enabled for all users, without any pre-requisite app permissions, allowing for greater reach with less barriers to entry for marketing.
Designed and created the bi-directional comms platform for the GoPay app, based on MQTT, for low-network footprint, real-time communications to-and-fro between the app and server. This increased customer retention on various use-cases, and reduced pod spend by ~30% as compared to previous polling based approaches for real-time use cases on the app.
Led the development of NaviFly’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Traffic Management (UTM) platform for real-time, seamless and compliant UAV operations in public/private airspaces.
Built the UTM product & GIS suite for flight planning, realtime situational awareness of an airspace and realtime update of drone position during operation in 6 degress of freedom movement on the product.
Acquired by India’s leading drone company.
Catered to design and development of high availability data pipelines for inbound replenishment and order management for e-commerce.
Leveraged Spark Structured Streaming, bringing down the TAT of items available to order, once setup, from 24 hours to less than 2 hours, allowing for quick and efficient replenishment for e-commerce.
Awarded twice with the Bravo Award for exceptional performance.
Co-founded and bootstrapped Hållbar, a sustainable, zero-waste D2C lifestyle brand for the new-age.
Fit in multiple shoes, handling Shopify setup and payment integrations, website handling on the tech side. Handled corporate relations, corporate orders, brand partnerships on the operational aspect.
Managed the social media accounts, devised and executed the ad strategy, which accrued an average impression rate of 10,000/ad on a stringent budget.
The team grew the ad to sale conversion rate to 5% within a span of 3 months since launching the company.
Partnered with retail outlets and new-age lifestyle gifting partners in Bangalore.
We were able to accrue a brand revenue of ₹1,20,000 within 3 months of launching the brand and with 2 product lines.
This was a successful failure, as it taught me the intricacies of a D2C company, brand engagement and how to find the perfect product market fit. Being a bootstrapped startup, funds were scarce, thus was not able to experiment a lot with the perfect product market fit, which didn’t give us the comfort for seeking venture funds too. Thus, having our lessons and experience under the belt, we let Hallbar rest.
Full time software development consultant on payroll of Wissen Technology.
Responsible as a backend developer, working on Fixed Income (FID) and Institutional Equities (IED) solutions for the Sales and Distribution division under Institutional Securities Tech at Morgan Stanley.
Responsible for design and development of services for the integrated payments system, which consumes data from numerous sources, requiring transformation to fit all of them into a homogeneous data model.
Responsible for development of features for the Invoicing application for the Institutional Equities division.
Responsible for the re-architecture and rewrite of various legacy Fixed Income product delivery applications for seamless usage experience by salespersons.
Responsible for design and development of RESTful services for the commission rate’s analytics application, leveraging Spring Boot. The services expose the power of Elasticsearch’s search capabilities without the need for creating complex queries in its DSL.
The framework has been designed to be so generic that any sort of search or aggregation that can be performed on Elasticsearch could be abstracted out to a simple flattened request structure, simple to be understood by an end user/developer who would want to leverage this framework. The complex response from elasticsearch is also parsed by the framework to flatten out the data and give the end user the exact data he/she intended to extract from the data store.
Responsible for development of multi-threaded, fail-safe cron-jobs for daily data refresh and with high data-availability on Elasticsearch from the primary data store on IBM DB2 and Sybase database engines.
Responsible for enhancements to the existing commission rate application’s microservices, leveraging Spring MVC and ehCache.
Responsible for data modelling for Elasticsearch queries for the analytics tool.
Designed and implemented a scalable data model for UCF controls adding tobusiness intelligence of the firm.
Responsible for prototyping and development of a state-of-the-art pipeline architecture for moving Assertion to the cloud.
Implemented a server-less architecture for Assertion on the cloud.
Developed compliance bots (the first of its kind in the world currently) for compliance automation for various enterprise systems.
As a Backend developer I was responsible for development of application server functionality and the bot’s controls using JAVA and TypeScript.
Developed authentication mechanism for LDAP servers using Apache Shiro for a seamless integration with Assertion.
Developed connectors to various Avaya Collaboration and ATOS Unify systems for secure and automated data collection with read-only logins for automated compliance. In addition, developed REST API calls for connectors in Assertion.
Developed ’from scratch’ a Web Automation and scraping library for the product. Leveraged JSOUP for web scraping.
Designed and implemented an action exchange service for the connectors with the ’Web application data fetcher library’ for communicating interactions on the web page, and successfully fetch data.
Reduced the software testing time by up to 50 % through redesigning the existing architecture and adding support for plug and play compliance checks of enterprise applications using Assertion. Eradicating the need for recompilation of lower support libraries for each connector.