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Publicis SapientVP Engineering, EMEA

Sep. 2021Berlin, Germany

MSX InternationalDirector Of Product , Engineering & Innovation

Jun. 2019 - Sep. 2021Berlin Area, GermanyHead of MSXI Innovation Hub and building a future towards distributed and scalable products using AI & Deep Learning for Automotive Industry. Leading & shaping initiatives across data engg, data science, platform development practices and application development practices globally. Building the next generation platform enablement & development framework (M:SCALE) with diverse engineering teams to manage massive scale across multiple use cases in automotive B2B & B2C, using Scala/AKKA Building great set of teams and execute innovations to change how automotive B2B works across the globe. Convince OEM's about radical product changes and provide cost/benefit analysis compared to the status quo. Be involved in M&A activities for identifying potential partners and acquisitions Understand and build quarterly roadmap deliverables and deliver on legacy customer product commitments. Engage C-level execs globally and convince them of the value of MSX platforms.

McKinsey & CompanyDigital Management - Data Engineering & Data Science

Jun. 2016 - Jun. 2020Berlin Area, GermanyLead, Architect , Strategize, Develop & Consult across different verticals in Europe & Asia. Architect and lead projects in pharma for one of the largest pharma companies of Europe using big-data analytics and a scalable distributed systems architecture on-premise. Responsible for leading and building core architecture and components for a large scale Telco IoT project in terms of cloud platform development, embedded SDK development, handling stream data and creating a custom processing pipeline framework around it to scale. Architected end to end scalable industrial IoT platform for the automotive industry in Europe for analyzing vehicle performance and managing fleets. Leading a distributed platform development initiative for Consumer & Industrial IoT, Deep Analytics, Distributed web backend, for use with McKinsey clients at a global level. E2E Support for development & architecture for Linux/Android based security camera and live video stream processing. Architected the Linux Kernel Modules along with hardware manufacturers for the custom Operating System development. Building the multi year technology strategy for the consortium of hardware manufacturers for security applications. Built a proprietary framework for large scale application backends and data processing (currently being used with 5 clients across Germany and the Nordics), in IoT, E-Commerce and Pharma. Benchmarked against the likes of Spark and Spark Streaming. Co-Lead Digital Architecture Center COE Across Germany.

Spotcap GlobalSVP of Engineering

Jan. 2015 - Apr. 2016Berlin Area, GermanyHeading the Engineering effort all across, hands on development across technologies and leading teams towards building a bigger better framework of products for fintech. Strategising and building up on the new product range for SMB loans. Architecting SAAS and SOA based framework of micro services for enabling new range of products across countries. Building up the base framework for a new platform for easy enablement across new countries and making it highly scalable. Leading and Building the entire infrastructure and devops initiatives using Jenkins, CircleCI, DockerHub, Tutum, Amazon Container Services. Architecting and Building an extendable Zookeeper service base in Erlang for external consumption and extreme performance. Enterprise service bus implementation via PubNub and PHP for asynchronous messaging between all disparate platform systems and Salesforce. Technologies currently used - NodeJS, Java, GoLang, Erlang, Redshift , MySQL(RDS), AWS SQS, Beanstalk etc.

Tyroo MediaDirector of Engineering

Jul. 2012 - Jan. 2015GurgaonLead the entire engineering effort across the organization. Building strategy around new product launches, budgeting , scheduling releases and managing stakeholder involvements. Built the lead management system for collecting, segmenting and IVR integration of leads using a web-platform for travel and education domain. (PHP , NodeJS, MySQL) Build the entire backbone and first version of the TyrooCentral platform for ad-serving, management , product feeds. The entire functionalities set for the first product iteration for ad network, setting up the staging and production environments, performance tuning(PHP and Python). Leading and building the infrastructure architecture and devops initiatives for the entire ad-serving platform and backend. Owning the technology stack which includes, PHP, NodeJS(UI using Jade and Handlebars), TokuMX DB (Fractal tree search of Mongo), Galera MySQL Cluster, Memcache, Gearman parallel processing, Weightage based delivery algos developed in C(Fast CGI) for scale and performance. Created scale to handle up-to 80 million requests for serving banners in different formats. Scaled it up to support 600 million requests / day. Develop core components, mentor the other team members and train them in upcoming technologies through group discussions & training sessions. Created the Tyroo Native Targeting platform for mobile apps and mobile web as a Beta and a base scale of handling 40 million requests/day. NodeJS, with Kafka, Storm and Hyperdex DB used across Debain Wheezy servers, SolrCloud for product search. Currently leading and developing a Data Management Platform for collecting and segmenting client data for retargeting across mobile and desktop. Tech Stack - NodeJS, Kinesis, RedShift, Memcache Cluster and DynamoDB on Amazon. Conduct SCRUM meeting for engineering(daily) and product teams(bi-weekly). Present Kanban boards to the business and investment stakeholders every fortnight on progress from design to platform production.

MicrosoftSenior Consultant (Technical)

Feb. 2008 - Jul. 2012Redmond USA & Hyderabad INDIASenior Consultant with Global Delivery for developing enterprise products using MS Stack(C#, SharePoint, Biztalk, Commerce Server, SQL Server). Worked with Sharepoint Product team and Led the team for creating RESTful WCF services for custom version for Honeywell and Nokia. Been deeply involved in consulting Microsoft's Fortune 100 clients and partners, evangelizing various stacks and been a part of pre-sales for numerous engagements. Led the ONETAP strategy for technology adoption and evangelizing Cloud applications using C# application development and Sharepoint on cloud. Developed 6 IP’s for Microsoft Delivery across Sharepoint, Office components and Grid computing. Wrote papers on dynamic grid computing for Thinkweek and developed the working prototype for dynamically expanding grid computing cluster for large scale and heavy processing using handhelds, tabs, laptops, desktops and Windows servers. Tech stack - Visual C++, C#, Windows WMI, ASP.NET. Incubated and created a lighthouse project and team for development and prototyping product for automated code generation and patching existing software products namely Commerce Server, Biztalk and Sharepoint. Automated code generation intelligence done based upon issues logged by enterprise clients or MS helpdesk. Tech stack - Visual C++ (MFC), C#, SQL -Server, Analysis Services, ASP.NET Managed multiple project teams and participate in pre-sales alongside MS Consulting for creating demo POC’s.

AppLabsTechnical Architect

May. 2006 - Mar. 2008Philadelphia USA & Hyderabad INDIAIndividual contributor and Architect Role across teams. Involved in pre-sales and sales support roles while providing consulting services and enterprise architecture to Fortune 500 clients. Developed Grid computing framework using J2EE and C for image processing and scalable vector graphics diagrams. Generalized the framework for heavy data processing. Created the COE for Architects and technology evangelizing. Created architecture teams for building out products for fast paced Windows mobile app development and web analytics. Part of the architecture team for architecting the largest company wide project of Construction vertical ERP. Tech Stack - ASP.NET, C#, SQL-Server, Java port using LifeRay and Oracle 9i.

Alliance ConsultingSoftware Engineer/ Senior Software Engineer

Apr. 2004 - May. 2006Hyderabad INDIA & Houston USAJoined as part of the engineering team for creation of a scalable grid computing product and went on to lead job distribution modules and vector graphic generation modules. Solution created on J2EE, Core Java and .NET 2.0 framework. Worked as a development engineer on Liferay custom development on J2EE for social media platform. Created a BREW SDK (C++) based client for grid computing to view status of jobs and restart jobs depending upon job failure rate. Also checking health status of grid nodes and master node.