ZUZU Hospitality

- C-Suite executive for a Series B SAAS startup competing with Oyo and Reddoorz. 
- Cleared Series A and Series B technical due diligence with flying colors, Softbank being one of the investors.
- Significant domain knowledge about building and deploying products in a multi lingual and multi currency market like Asia
- Efficiently managed a distributed Engineering team across India, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka to deliver on the product vision
- Helped architect and guide the technology team to scale the business by 10x. In the process, migrated the technology stack out of  Rackspace into AWS within 6 months of joining. 
- Crafted a microservices vision and guided the team to migrate the application from a JQuery PHP monolith to a low latency, HA microservices architecture  leveraging ReactJS, PHP and Golang
- Architected and implemented the data engineering/data science strategy to use Apache Spark, Redshift , Airflow and Apache Superset
- Built and deployed a GenAI prototype in early 2023 that leveraged AWS Lambda and ECS to connect to OpenAI apis and provides the team with GPT functionality that can be leveraged through a chat interface like Slack.
- Managed the technology budget including AWS costs and kept it under control while executing on the vision during the Covid era where the hospitality industry was severely impacted

Chief Technology Officer

Greenhouse.Co

Advisor

Laughing Buddha Games

Investor/Advisor

Sentient Technologies

(AI startup which exited as an acquisition by Cognizant and Evolve Technologies)

- Designed and delivered application components in Java and Python  for multiple AI applications in the field of Shopping Recommendations and Multivariate testing
- Designed and developed the infrastructure, data engineering and AI Model building and inference pipelines in AWS using Chef, Mesos and Terraform

Principal

Expedia Group

Delivered business and engineering value in multiple software development and leadership roles at Expedia

- Served as a hands-on architect and leader, in Expedia Worldwide Engineering, helping drive AWS adoption and cloud innovation initiatives by collaborating with other leaders and contributing to the development of the Expedia Reviews and Expedia Ads service writing code in Java and Scala with MongoDB as the backend. 
- Helped drive Expedia's expansion across the Asia Pacific region through the AirAsia Expedia Joint Venture 
- Developed backend components for Airasiago.com in Java and Mongodb, and helped build out the devops stack using Chef. 
- Worked extensively with IIS-based C++ web applications and backend services, integrating third party APIs for enhanced travel shopping features.
- Oversaw P&L for Flights and Cars, managing substantial web traffic and ensuring high-quality feature releases. 
- Led cross-functional teams across US and China, ensuring timely delivery and maintaining high quality standards.
- Established a culture of cloud excellence and cost-efficiency, resulting in 35% AWS cloud cost savings 
- Helped transition a waterfall based software development practice to a continuous scrum model
- Ensured compliance with PCI standards to safeguard customer data
- Assembled a cross functional , cross organization team to solve scaling issues with the Expedia web server on premise infrastructure. Received recognition by the company Gold Award for the same.
- Engaged in the development of the Expedia Corporate Travel SaaS business

Director of Technology

Microsoft Corporation

Engaged in the engineering teams responsible for delivering groundbreaking products such as Windows 2000, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, CRM Mobile, and Dynamics AX.

- Assisted in developing audio and video networking protocols for Windows 2000, ensuring robust and reliable media communication
- Delivered essential features for Pocket IE, adapting Internet Explorer to suit the unique needs of Windows PocketPC and Smartphone devices
- Engineered a high-performance, localized user interface for CRM Mobile, implementing custom controls on the PocketPC platform and securing a patent for this innovative solution
- Contributed to the user experience of Microsoft’s premier ERP product, Axapta 3.0, by developing intuitive and responsive UI controls

Software Development Engineer

North East Parallel Architectures Center

Researched building high performance distributed systems and helped contribute towards technical papers on the same.

Research Assistant

Seasoned technologist with a proven track record of shipping world class software for Fortune 500 companies and early stage startups, from idea to market. 
- Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems expert
- Adept at building full stack scalable e-Commerce products across global marketplaces
- Demonstrated excellence in aligning senior leadership and product teams with strategic visions and high-level architectural solutions

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