Lead Product Architect March 2019 – April 2026
AirSight Inc (Airguard India Pvt. Ltd.) Pune, India
At AirSight, a leading-edge software company for aerial security and UAV/drone threat detection, my official designation was Director of Engineering while my functional role was Lead Product Architect — with hands-on ownership of system architecture, product development, performance optimisation, and technical roadmap execution.
Product: Airguard (Real-time UAV threat detection platform)
- Owned end-to-end system architecture of the Airguard platform as Lead Product Architect — defining cloud-native, serverless microservices architecture on AWS from first principles, driving technology selection, component design, and architectural evolution from POC through 500+ enterprise site deployments.
- Hands-on designed and developed core platform components in C/C++, Python and Golang — including the real-time telemetry ingestion engine, event-driven processing pipeline, Detection Fusion algorithm, Geo-fencing module, automated image capture subsystem, and intelligent alerting framework — achieving 97%+ UAV threat detection accuracy.
- Architected and implemented real-time, high-throughput, low latency data streaming pipelines for Data path and Control path components using Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, and Lambda — handling concurrent telemetry streams from 500+ sensor-equipped sites with low-latency, fault-tolerant processing and auto-scaling under peak load.
- Designed the full AWS cloud infrastructure — EC2, EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, RDS, S3, Cognito, CloudWatch, SES, Redis, Elastic Load Balancer — with a serverless-first, event-driven architecture optimised for high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Defined and implemented CI/CD pipelines and containerisation architecture (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS) as the primary technical owner, — reducing build-test-deploy cycle time by 35%, introducing automated rollback mechanisms and deployment governance, and enabling 3x release frequency.
- Led hands-on technical delivery from MVP through enterprise scale — driving architecture, code, and system design reviews, establishing coding standards and documentation practices, and accelerating platform evolution across 10+ production release cycles.
- Mentored and provided architecture guidance to 10+ engineers as the technical authority — conducting deep-dive code reviews, defining system design patterns, and establishing engineering best practices adopted team-wide.
- Standardised AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Generative AI tooling) as a hands-on practitioner — improving code review cycle time, debugging efficiency, and overall engineering productivity by 35%+.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Operations to translate business requirements into technical architecture — accelerating deployment timelines by 30% and ensuring architectural decisions were commercially grounded.
Principal Engineer April 2016 – March 2019
Harman Connected Services Pune, India
Global leader in connected technologies for automotive & other industries.
Product: NetVault Backup (Data Backup & Recovery)
- Designed and delivered enhancements across 5+ core modules — Media Manager, File Manager, PostgreSQL backup, and archival interfaces — with hands-on C/C++ development contributing to a more scalable and feature-rich enterprise backup product.
- Owned end-to-end resolution of critical production blockers as the technical escalation point — performing rapid root cause analysis, designing effective workarounds, and implementing permanent fixes that significantly improved system reliability.
- Improved customer satisfaction by 30% through hands-on diagnosis and resolution of 200+ Level-1 and critical production issues — including deep debugging across storage, file system, and database backup stacks.
- Modernised backup infrastructure by re-architecting retention policies, redesigning log capture mechanisms, and enhancing disaster recovery storage appliance interfaces — improving operational efficiency and system reliability for enterprise customers. Improved throughput and reduced latency using RDMA, DPDK
- Provided technical leadership and mentoring to a team of 5 engineers through architecture guidance, hands-on code reviews, and design discussions.
Principal Engineer — Storage Development March 2015 – January 2016
Dell Hyderabad, India
Industry leader in storage appliances, data backup and recovery solutions.
Product: NetVault Backup
- Delivered hands-on enhancements across 4+ features including MS SQL and PostgreSQL database integrations in NetVault Backup — shipped across 2 major product releases, expanding enterprise database backup coverage and improving plugin stability for large-scale deployments.
Senior Engineer November 2008 – December 2014
Indieon Technologies Pune, India
Product engineering firm specialising in Infotainment.
Projects: PushVOD, PVR, Dual Tuner PVR, Advertisement Solution, IPTV Solution, GUI for STB, IoT Integration, NextGen VAS Applications
- Designed, developed, and delivered 8 infotainment projects including PushVOD, PVR, and IPTV Solutions — taking end-to-end technical ownership from architecture through implementation across C/C++ and embedded platforms.
- Architected a secure content distribution platform featuring DRM, subscription management, and embedded IoT integration — delivering a complete head-end to client-device content lifecycle solution.
- Drove technical excellence across a team of 5 engineers through 100+ code reviews, architecture guidance, and hands-on design mentoring
Senior Software Engineer January 2007 – November 2008
Symphony Teleca Pune, India
Software services & solutions provider.
Product: Adaptec's Snap Servers
- Delivered 5 new features enhancing file sharing, device status, and user authentication modules across enterprise NAS systems — with hands-on C development in NFS, CIFS, and file system layers.
- Resolved 15 critical bugs across printer driver, NFS, CIFS, file system, and kernel boot crash modules — improving system stability and reliability across 3 product releases.
Software Engineer December 2004 – January 2007
Versant Corporation Pune, India
Innovator in object storage database solutions for complex data management.
Product: Versant Object Database (VOD)
- Increased VOD product efficiency by 30% implementing 3 major features — ORDER BY Query, FST Parallel Commit, and Read-only Database with Startup script — with hands-on C++ database engine development.
- Improved database stability by resolving 25+ bugs across interface, performance optimisation, and UI stacks.
