I was born and brought up in one of the liveliest cities on this planet - Mumbai.
A self-taught amateur musician, I can play up to five different instruments.
An impulsive backpacker.
My Work :
SmartNews, Tokyo | Software Engineer | November 2022 - Present
News Ranking Team
Java, SpringBoot, AWS, ML
Nomura, Tokyo | Tech Lead & Engineering Manager | June 2021 - October 2022
Helped Nomura adopt Data Culture
Architecting, designing and implementing hybrid cloud architectures (AWS + NCP)
Data Warehousing using Snowflake, Data Virtualization using Denodo / Trino
DataOps / ETL using Streamsets
Python / Java, k8s, docker, AWS, Snowflake
Cogent Labs, Tokyo | Lead Developer | July 2020 - June 2021
Scaled up an AI OCR platform's Identity management system to handle 16x more requests. Also cut down the cloud
costs by 30%.
As an architect & Lead Developer for an AI enterprise search product, I not only developed core features but also defined
technical road-map and liaised with product managers and senior management to define the future of the product.
MetLife, Tokyo | Senior Software Developer | February 2019 - July 2020
Worked on a sales platform used by agents to quote and illustrate various insurance products.
Meta data driven and highly configurable system built using Java/Spring/AngularJs/NodeJs.
Responsible for new feature development, bug fixing and building onsite team in Tokyo.
Rakuten, Tokyo | Senior Software Application Engineer | January 2017 - February 2019
Payment Platform: Responsible for one of the most crucial services in Rakuten processing millions of transactions per day. Developing transaction processing systems by abiding by the PCI DSS compliance.
Event Management Platform (EMP): Onsite technical lead responsible for design, development, code review, bug fixes, feature planning etc. Played a key role in scaling the platform to integrate various other internal Rakuten systems using agile methodologies. Full stack engineer with technologies like AngularJS, Java (SpringBoot), Redis, JBPM, Talend ETL tool etc.
Rakuten Ichiba Billing: Automated parts of this project dealing with data checks and data manipulation, thus reducing human dependency and reducing operational cost and risk
Certified Rakuten scrum master
Nomura Services India Pvt. Ltd. | Developer | July 2014 - December 2016
Enhanced existing legacy Risk v/s Finance reconciliation tool to onboard firms other reconciliation requirements. Architectural changes to overcome legacy issues. Onboard and setup new reconciliations with new auto commenting requirements. Significant improvement in performance and memory utilization of the tool.
Received Nomura quarterly STAR award for providing off the shelf solution to auto code new rules using python's panda framework. Nominated for the Nomura Annual STAR award 2016
Lead a team of 6 interns to create a database deployment automation tool.
Developed and designed a dashboard for the Production Support team that automated tracking and reporting of the issues saving roughly 3 hours of the team every day. Globally used by more than 60 users.
FinalDesk | Co-Founder | January 2014 - August 2016
Co-founded a training-cum-internship program for engineering students to help them with technical trainings, interview preparation, soft skill development and internship opportunities
Developed a placement training program and delivered it across Mumbai University colleges and trained over 1500 students.
Started a blog to share articles on how to prepare for interviews. Led a team of 11 interns for content creation and social media marketing.
Developed mobile apps and a website to enable students to prepare for their interviews.
My Projects :
Adaptive Traffic Control System
Designed a smart traffic control system using OpenCV image processing library. Built a prototype on Raspberry Pi
Presented a paper which won an award in the Institute
