Head of Tech Operations at Spark Eighteen (2025-03 – Present)
Directed technical operations and AI-driven optimizations for a 40-person engineering organization to ensure on-budget delivery of multiple enterprise products.
- Directed technical operations and AI-driven optimizations for a 40-person engineering organization to ensure on-budget delivery of multiple enterprise products.
- Managed end-to-end delivery of 6–8 concurrent client products by aligning engineering and design teams with stakeholder roadmaps.
- Slashed project proposal and estimation turnaround from 5 days to hours by implementing automated, AI-driven workflows powered by multi-model agents.
- Reduced manual management oversight and mid-sprint conflicts by enforcing standardized delivery checklists that eliminated execution gaps.
- Accelerated resource deployment and guaranteed consistent staffing by establishing a robust engineering supply chain of internal staff and agency partners.
- Reduced end-to-end hiring timelines to under a week by building assessment pipelines leveraging AI tools and automated interviewing platforms.
- Engineered a 360-degree feedback system capturing weekly and monthly performance data, resulting in objective, data-driven annual evaluations.
Senior Engineering Manager at SamagraX (2024-08 – 2025-02)
Led the delivery of high-scale, compliant AI platforms and LLM-driven applications for critical national government initiatives.
- Led the delivery of high-scale, compliant AI platforms and LLM-driven applications for critical national government initiatives.
- Directed the development of a low-code AI workflow orchestrator powering the Kumbh Sah'Ayak chatbot, unveiled by the Prime Minister of India.
- Architected and delivered Krishi SahAlyak, a multilingual AI assistant scaled to 25,000+ users and 1M+ monthly requests.
- Accelerated infrastructure procurement and compliance clearances by 35% through proactive coordination with government stakeholders and auditors.
- Optimized high-volume AI workflows by benchmarking LLMs (GPT, Llama, Gemini) to balance inference costs with output accuracy.
- Defined and executed comprehensive product roadmaps in collaboration with government partners to prioritize mission-critical features.
CTO at Default (2019-10 – 2024-07)
Scaled a 20-person engineering organization to deliver high-performance, resilient applications and enterprise-grade SDKs.
- Scaled a 20-person engineering organization to deliver high-performance, resilient applications and enterprise-grade SDKs.
- Engineered an offline-capable Android POS invoicing app using proprietary payload-minimization, facilitating millions of transactions in low-network environments.
- Slashed project setup times from days to hours by architecting standardized React and React Native starter kits with pre-built modules.
- Architected a highly scalable ticket-booking SDK for a European airline, successfully processing 1M+ daily requests during peak traffic.
- Developed a search and recommendation engine using AWS Personalize and ElasticSearch, enabling personalized curation across 1,000+ SKUs.
- Boosted engineering velocity by 30% by integrating Generative AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) into daily development and unit testing.
- Accelerated time-to-production by 20% through rigorous Git/PR workflows, strict review SLAs, and standardized branching guidelines.
- Designed technology-specific competency matrices, ensuring measurable quarter-over-quarter growth for the engineering team.
Principal Engineer at Bowstring Studio (2013-03 – 2019-09)
Spearheaded technical strategy and mobile delivery while mentoring high-performing cross-functional teams.
- Spearheaded technical strategy and mobile delivery while mentoring high-performing cross-functional teams.
- Launched 50+ mobile applications from scratch by mastering Android, iOS, and Node.JS, driving rapid market entry via optimized deployments.
- Engineered a custom mobile SDK using Bluetooth beacon handshakes to secure passenger tracking, increasing connection reliability to ~90%.
- Directed a 12-member team to launch an offline-first agri-tech MVP with KYC and payment integrations in just 5 months.
- Built the Uber Guru training app for driver onboarding, successfully doubling (2x) the platform's activation capacity.
- Reduced post-integration code changes by 40% by instituting a standardized API handshake process for REST API design and mocking.
