Engineering leader with 12+ years of experience in building highly scalable software products using Java, GO, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, etc.
5+ years of leading multiple products, focusing on backend development, microservices, scalability, and performance of applications.
5+ years of experience in leading scrum teams, and mentoring team members.
Solid understanding of large-scale distributed systems with experience in processing huge volumes of data using Kafka, Snowflake, GraphDB, SQL databases, and NoSQL databases.
Experience in performance benchmarking, developing integration test frameworks, and application observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Staff Software Engineer/Team Lead
Sysdig
01.2023 - Current
Leading Sysdig Secure Graph Data platform team, PoC efforts with Neo4j, and load testing
Co-designed and developed gathering and ingestion services for data platform using GO and Neo4J
Data were in silos and presenting a unified view of resources and risks to customers was not possible. Ingestion service listens to various product lines and ingests them into GraphDB
Coordinating with the product team to deliver Graph-based features to customers
inventory service - one-stop shop to get all details about cloud and non-cloud assets
Attack Paths - Provide the source of risk through graph traversals (EC2 exposure, EC2 to S3 access, Critical severity vulnerability, etc.)
Risk Engine - Periodic querying of the graph to present possible risks like Policy violations, Control violations, High confidence events (live risk), etc
Re-architect ingestion service to scale horizontally and improve throughput.
Eliminate deadlock issues with Neo4j, Optimize transformer services for graph-specific queries, and increase the capacity of processors by 5X
Senior Staff Software Engineer/Team Lead
Lacework
02.2021 - 01.2023
Led a four-member team that successfully delivered the Lacework SaaS platform's alerting and reporting service enhancements and achieved a 10x scale in 3 months
Pioneered the shift left initiatives in the org and migrated services to the 'ship anytime' model
Policies team reduced their time of getting new policies to customers from 2 weeks to 2 hours
Designed and developed a self-serving platform to generate reports of any kind for customers
Besides out-of-box reports provided by Lacework, customers were able to customize policies from different policy types and visualize multi-cloud posture management in a single report
Oversaw the CSPM and KSPM portfolio, drove the cross-functional squad managing their sprints, guiding the team members with a clear roadmap, and successfully delivered the product
Led a team of 4 engineers across different time zones and teams to successfully deliver the product under a tight schedule, and enhanced Lacework’s capabilities in CNAPP
Instrumented many top-tier customer integrations and strategic partnerships (million-dollar deals).
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce (through the acquisition of Coolan Inc)
Mulesoft (Feb 2020 - Feb 2021)
Led the network connectivity features of Mulesoft Cloudhub
Designed and developed APIs for Transit Gateway, VPNs, and VPCs to Mulesoft Cloudhub using JavaEE and AWS
Designed compatibility matrix for AWS Transit Gateway and other cloud providers and developed a detailed test framework to ensure successful product delivery
Coolan (Aug 2015 - Feb 2020)
Delivered APIs in telemetry and analytics platform for Salesforce infrastructure
Designed, and developed hardware health data microservices using Kafka
This improved the turnaround time for Datacenter engineers in replacing parts from 1 month to 1 hour - Predictive analytics helped us populate parts locker
Led the Coolan single sign-on efforts using SAML2 and OAuth2
Designed and implemented the elastic cluster into the product for time-series data analysis
Enhanced the data team’s capabilities in analyzing and understanding patterns
Enabled metrics for the coolan services as well using ELK stack
Led efforts to make Coolan open source, collaborating with different open-source teams in salesforce, auditing the codebase