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

08/2021 - Present

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.

  • Golang
  • AWS
  • gRPC
  • Apache Iceberg
  • n8n
  • Distributed Systems
04/2020 - 08/2021

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.

  • Azure
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Databricks
  • C#
  • Data Pipelines
  • SQL Server
09/2018 - 04/2020

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.

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • AWS
  • Membase
  • Game Services
06/2017 - 09/2018

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%.

  • Java
  • Apache NiFi
  • TMS/WMS
  • Automation

Internships

01/2017 - 06/2017

Walmart Labs

Software Intern

Bengaluru

Developed scalable backend components in Java, contributing to logistics algorithms that optimized delivery routes.

  • Java
  • Backend
  • Logistics
05/2016 - 07/2016

IIT Gandhinagar

Research Intern

Gandhinagar

Analyzed collaboration networks of Indian physicists using Python data analysis tools and visualization libraries.

  • Research
  • Python
  • Data Analysis

Education

08/2013 - 06/2017

PES Institute Of Technology

B.E. in Information and Computer Science

Bengaluru

Technical Strategy & Skills

Core

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