Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
* Over 15 years of Product Development experience with Java. * Experience in building Large Scale, Distributed and Fault tolerant applications * Experience with Setup &Maintenance of backend infrastructure like Redis, RabbitMQ, Storm Cluster, ReviewBoard Server etc. * Experience in all phases of Software Design viz Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Support * Enthusiastic about building complex Software systems from scratch * Love participating in Online Coding Competitions * Working on an open source, light weight, persistent HTTP Request Scheduler as a Service.
Organic Marketing Track within Booking focuses on generating business through Organic Traffic that reaches Bookings Landing Pages. As a Principal Engineer, I work with all the teams within this track and work as a bridge between the Product, Engineering Management and Developers. Some of my responsibilities are: - Working towards a North Star architecture for the track and building a road map that will take the current components towards this North Star. - Working with the teams within the track on various projects and providing technical guidance in design and development of these projects. - Working closely with the Product to understand and refine requirements. - Providing guidance in the form of code reviews, design reviews, mentoring. - Take up implementation tasks, evaluate technologies or work on building Proof of Concepts if necessary.
Shackle is a startup that is trying to bring about a change in the way people check-in at a Hotel by automating the entire check-in experience. As a Principal Engineer at Shackle, I get to work on a wide variety of projects - from building cool products like Chat, to setting up infra components like Queues and Data Pipelines. • Chat Integration: Leading the development effort with iOS, Android and Front- End developers to integrate Chat functionality into the App. • Data Pipeline: Exploring ways for setting up an end to end data pipeline for the company in a cost effective way. • Engineering Culture: Helping with the setting up of company’s Engineering culture by enforcing Design Reviews, code best practices, mentorship and collaboration. • General Development: Refactoring and re-architecting existing services, integrating with external Property Management Systems, fixing bugs etc. • Infra: Helping with the setup and maintenance of our cloud infra using terraform (currently on GCP, soon migrating to AWS)
Navan (formerly Tripactions) is a revolutionary T&E (Travel & Expense) platform for the enterprise. I am proud to have worked on some of the important customer facing products like Spend Analysis Dashboard and the Carbon Emission reporting project. • Spend Analysis: Build the Admin Spend Analysis Dashboard that allows company admins to slice and dice their Travel Spend. Convinced the team to use ElasticSearch for this product and architected the data pipelines and backend services. • Carbon Emissions: Researched & implemented Carbon Estimation methodologies like DEFRA, ICAO, TREMOD. For ICAO, which estimates carbon consumption for a flight, I was able to improve the accuracy of the estimates significantly by using carrier information available with TripActions bookings database. • Company Office Migration: Helped in migrating the existing structure of Company offices to a more flexible and user friendly structure. This involved designing and implementing the new structure, migration of code from old to new use case, backfilling of data, user migration etc.
The Customer Service Org within Booking has large amount of data about customer issues. I work for a team that is building analytical platform and tools to make this data accessible and actionable for Product Teams • Ingest large volumes of Customer Service data in ElasticSearch and provide analytics dashboards through Kibana • Own and maintain an ElasticSearch cluster • Build custom tools that provide Customer Service Insights to Product teams. • Built a Java based service to remove PII information like email, phone and names from free text.
Flipkart is India's leading e-commerce marketplace with 100 million registered users clocking 10 million visits daily. I work with the Transact Cluster at Flipkart that handles customer experience from Cart to Checkout, Payments, Refunds and Order Management. I have worked with Flash Sales, Wallet, Cart and Refund Services within this cluster. Flash Sales (Reservation) Service: * Designed, implemented and maintained a service built to handle high QPS Flash Sales. * Redis as the data store to achieve high throughput. * Apache Storm to implement all backend and non-user path operations. * Scaled the service and backend infra to 20K+ write requests per second. * Service has been used to power various high visibility flash sales run by Flipkart. * Project showcased in Flipkart SpotLight 2016 event. Refund Service: * Re-designed and migrated Refund Service from Ruby to Java. * Implemented and Tested the complex refund flows. * Ensured smooth transition from old to new service without impacting business. * Service is now responsible for all customer refunds from Flipkart. Wallet/Cart * Bug fixes and enhancements. * Implementation of new features as per business requirements.