Engineering Leader with extensive experience at Google, specializing in AI integrations and scalable media platforms. Proven expertise in system design and microservices, leading teams to enhance performance and drive growth. Strong collaborator focused on delivering impactful solutions in cloud environments.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
ENGINEERING LEADER - GOOGLE MEET AI INTEGRATIONS
Google
Durham
07.2022 - Current
I drive an Engineering team which helps design and build a planet-scale, asynchronous media platform to capture and process near-real-time media pipelines for Google Meet
I lead a couple of teams that help build media processing and transcription services by integrating with Google Gemini LLMs to enable the biggest AI use cases at Google Meet include Smart Notes, Meeting action items etc integrating with Google Calendar
I own and drive the future state architecture of the Async Media Platform at Google Meet
I own and drive Google Meet public broadcasting services for streaming video on to Youtube from Google Meet
ENGINEERING LEADER - GCP OBSERVABILITY PRODUCTS
Google
Durham
12.2020 - 06.2022
I was responsible for envisioning, building and scaling Databases Observability (DB Insights) & Fleet Manageability suite of products for Google cloud databases
DBInsights was built ground up and is a real-time events and intelligence system to help customers detect, diagnose, and fix database & system bottlenecks. DB Insights supports CloudSQL for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and AlloyDB databases
DBInsights for Postgres was the fastest-growing product in Cloud Databases. I also worked on building a highly scalable architecture to support up to half a million database instances
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
Walmart Labs
07.2018 - 12.2020
I had 2 stints with Walmart, the first one as an Engineering Manager for Walmart eCommerce between 2010 and 2011 and later joined as Director of Engineering in 2018
I was heading omnichannel fulfillment engineering team of ~100+ Software Engineers building platnet scale order processing and delivery systems
I helped build the next-generation architecture of the omni-channel fulfillment system with an order growth rate of approximately 75% year over year. The system had path-breaking capabilities, such as offline transactions, automated seamless disaster recovery with reconciliation, built on Microsoft Azure cloud with microservices architecture
CTO
Omuni (Shiprocket Omuni Pvt. Limited)
11.2016 - 07.2018
Company Overview: Company Overview: http://www.omuni.com
I was the CTO with end to end engineering responsibility for the eCommerce and omni-channel SaaS platform Omuni, completely powered by 40+ microservices
I helped build and manage a 80+ engineering team
I helped conceive, architect & build the SaaS capabilities for the platform from scratch including: Multi-tenancy, horizontal scalability with high tps support
I helped re-architect the system to use the power of container and make the micro-services run on Kubernetes served through AWS Cloud
SR DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
Cleartrip
03.2015 - 11.2016
I was heading the Air & Hotel Mobile Engineering (Android, iOS, Windows Apps & mobile web) and Hotels platform teams at Cleartrip, leading a team of 60 Dev & QA engineers
I helped solve key mobile business and technology problems, including mobile app network data optimization, helped increase mobile crash-free user sessions from 98.6% to 99.5%, and app store ratings from 4.0 to 4.2
I drove several scalability and performance improvements for the Cleartrip hotels platform, which resulted in a 40% improvement in hotel search performance
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
Target
05.2011 - 02.2015
Leader of the 90+ engineering team focused on developing highly scalable systems for Product, Catalog, Price and Promotions products of Targets 5+ billion eCommerce business in 2015
I helped re-engineer Target.com's next-generation digital promotions and pricing intelligence
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Dell
Austin
02.2001 - 09.2010
During my approximately 10 years of tenure, I helped build heterogeneous systems with a variety of tech stacks for Dell.com's catalog management system, order management and orchestration systems, and logistics and transportation systems of Dell.com
I played different roles during my career here, starting as a developer, then a development lead, and finally ending my career at Dell as a development manager in the last three years
Software Developer
3 different startup companies
01.1999 - 01.2001
Worked in 3 different companies (Deccan Systems, 3i Infotech, Infostar Inc) during this time as a software developer in healthcare, distribution and asset management domains developing software in Microsoft technologies