Gurugram, Haryana, India
Engineering leader with 20 years of experience building and scaling large technology platforms across telecom, fintech and AI systems. Previously led engineering organizations of up to 150+ engineers and owned platforms serving 90M+ monthly active Airtel users and 40M+ financial services users across payments, lending and digital onboarding systems. At Airtel, led architecture and delivery across payments, lending, customer acquisition and workforce platforms, combining strong system design with hands-on execution. Built and scaled fintech platforms supporting ₹600 Cr/day lending and launched financial products such as gold loans and fixed deposits for Airtel’s 90M user base. Developed Airtel’s workforce SaaS platform used by 150K users processing 450K operational orders daily, and scaled telecom onboarding infrastructure to 350K customer activations per day. Currently co-founder of a Legal AI platform, building systems for legal knowledge extraction, hybrid retrieval and AI-assisted legal drafting. Known for owning critical platforms, building strong engineering teams and delivering reliable systems at scale.
Leading Payments and Financial Services in Airtel. 1. Building financial products such as Co-branded Credit Cards and Personal Loans for 350M Airtel Customers 2. Restructured core platform so that new lenders can be onboarded in 15 Days 3. Leading Payments stack used for online recharges on Airtel Thanks App 4. Also leading DevOps and TechOps practices for Airtel Digital vertical
Airtel Work is multi-tenant workforce and business process management platform. 1. Built as a SaaS platform with micro-service architecture on public cloud enabling Airtel to sell it to organizations. 2. Highly customizable and extendable to domains beyond telecom 3. Deployed across Airtel B2C, Network and B2B business units.
Led Prepaid/Postpaid/Broadband Acquisitions App and Retail Recharge App. 1. Highly critical applications transacting 400k acquisitions and 4M recharge transactions daily. 2. Restructured monolith to scalable microservice architecture 3. Built features that unlock growth and successfully closed time-bound compliance
Lead multiple projects as client facing lead for Idea and Vodafone India. 1. Built applications using custom backend springboot applications and angular/jquery web frameworks. 2. Build mobil apps using IBM Worklight/PhoneGap for telecom and e-retail clients 3. Built teams for maintenance support and setup agile practices
Responsible for building web-applications for Idea using IBM WebSphere Mobile Portal Accelerator. 1. Responsible for front-end and backend application development with Spring framework. 2. Won global product award for architecting mobile portal accelerator product as a customizable server side rendering engine. 3. Briefly did application development in IBM ISL for Emptoris (sourcing and contracting product)
1. Responsible for extending Tyger application server (tomcat) so that JSR 286 Portlets can be deployed on it. 2. Responsible for application development of product which measure project quality based on inhouse and open software metrics
1. Developer for Mobile Web Portal using WebSphere WEMP technology. 2. Lead for backend Integration Framework with OSS/BSS layers
1. Backend/Frontend Java developer for in-house hours claiming application for LTI Freescale BU 2. Siebel Developer for LTI Freescale CRM project