Executive Summary
Engineering Leader with 8+ years of experience driving technical strategy for high-scale distributed systems. Expert in navigating ambiguity to deliver platform-wide initiatives that reduce technical debt and accelerate business velocity. Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and architect solutions for 1.5B+ daily requests.
Work Experience
Stellarplay Games
Staff Engineer
Bengaluru
Strategic Architecture & Business Alignment: Defined the technical vision for decomposing a legacy monolith into microservices, utilizing the Strangler Fig pattern to ensure zero downtime.
Platform Scalability: Architected mission-critical systems (Identity, Wallet, Payments, Storage, Compliance) which can handle 50K+ QPS with 99.99% availability. Tech stack: Golang, AWS, gRPC.
Data Lakehouse Engineering: Built a petabyte-scale analytics platform end to end (client SDK to Datawarehouse) using Fluent-bit, Kinesis Firehose, AWS Glue (Spark) and Athena. Solved complex schema evolution and deduplication challenges to ensure data integrity. Automated data transfers to BigQuery and Iceberg (53), enabling real-time downstream reporting for business teams.
Infrastructure as Code & Reliability: Introduced Terraform to manage AWS resources, reduced drift and deployment time using blue-green deployment. Engineered comprehensive failure notification pipelines for Instances, DBs, and ETL jobs, ensuring rapid incident response, reducing MTTR by 60%.
Client-Side Integrations: Led the integration of analytics, attribution, server, facebook and Ads Network SDKs on the client side, optimizing ad serving performance and revenue attribution accuracy.
AI & Automation: Integrated n8n for orchestration and established research pipelines to evaluate ML-driven features.
Microsoft
Software Engineer
Bengaluru
Migration Strategy: Part of the initiative to modernize legacy SQL-based commercial licensing workflows, designing a fault-tolerant orchestration framework in Azure Data Factory, Databricks and C#.
Resilience Engineering: Re-architected the ingestion layer to handle transient network failures via idempotency patterns, ensuring 100% data accuracy for financial audits.
Zynga
Software Engineer
Bengaluru
Service Ownership (Guilds): Owned the roadmap for the "Guilds" microservice, which can serve 500K+ concurrent requests during events. Driven adoption across multiple games by simplifying integration contracts.
Performance Engineering: Re-architected profanity filtering using Spring Boot and caching, achieving a 2x throughput increase and significant infrastructure savings.
Blue Yonder
Software Engineer
Bengaluru
Process Automation: Automated inter-system data movement using Apache NiFi, building custom processors that optimized flow performance and reduced data latency by 30%.
Internships
Walmart Labs
Software Intern
Bengaluru
Developed scalable backend components in Java, contributing to logistics algorithms that optimized delivery routes.
IIT Gandhinagar
Research Intern
Gandhinagar
Analyzed collaboration networks of Indian physicists using Python data analysis tools and visualization libraries.
Education
PES Institute Of Technology
B.E. in Information and Computer Science
Bengaluru
Technical Strategy & Skills
Architecture & Leadership: System Design (DDD, CQRS), Technical Strategy, Cross-Functional Leadership, Mentorship
Languages & Backend: Go, Java (Spring), Python, C#, SQL, Microservices, gRPC, Bloom filters, Distributed Systems
Cloud, DevOps & Tools: AWS, Azure, K8s, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Gatling, n8n, Git, Cursor
Data & Storage: PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Iceberg, Kafka, Membase, ADF, Databricks, Parquet, AWS Glue, Kinesis, BigQuery, Athena