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Software engineer and technical leader with 10+ years building and operating production applications, platforms, and infrastructure. Leads Applied AI at Namefi, taking customer workflows from discovery and system design through evaluation, implementation, and support; previously built human-in-the-loop AI content systems at Memorang. Founded a 15-engineer consultancy and shipped browser, messaging, payments, travel, mobile, and cloud systems.

Based in Mumbai • Available for India/APAC travel

Experience

Namefi

Early-stage

ICANN-accredited registrar building AI products for domain ownership and sales.

Lead Applied AI EngineerHands-on engineering
Mumbai / Remote Jan 2025 - Present
  • Built Namefi Outbound from customer discovery through production, cutting buyer research from days to about five minutes per domain: 50–70 ranked leads with fit rationales, decision-maker contacts, and tailored drafts.
  • Built model-judged evals for buyer fit, name and product similarity, and decision-maker contacts; validated outputs through seller reports covering hundreds of prospective buyers.
  • Built and operated Namefi Studio, a Temporal pipeline for logos, posters, website mockups, and motion; separated strategy from generation and used prompt constraints plus visual review for domain/TLD fidelity.
  • Built and operated Namefi Feed, a Temporal ingestion and AI-classification system serving nearly 8,000 active listings, with reliable concurrent ingestion, retries, price verification, and auditable decisions.
  • Built registrar and commerce systems across integrations, registration, checkout, payments, and analytics; replaced Airflow with testable Temporal workflows, simplifying recovery and making orchestration failures rare.

Memorang

Growth-stage

AI-assisted educational content platform for structured curricula and assessments.

Lead Applied AI EngineerHands-on engineeringPeople and engineering leadership: Managed 3 developers
Mumbai / Remote Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
  • Built and shipped EdWrite, a graph-based CMS and content API managing tens of thousands of Cambridge and TOEFL questions, with adaptive practice, scoring, and semantic media recommendations.
  • Built human-in-the-loop generation for question sets, audio, and images, cutting content cycles from months to days; SME review calibrated model-based evals, while client SMEs controlled publishing.
  • Led a three-developer CMS team and roadmap across backend, frontend, and mobile, working directly with the CTO and CEO.
  • Led an AI-assisted Flow-to-TypeScript migration across hundreds of thousands of lines; cut compilation to single-digit minutes, accelerated CI and merges, and enabled safer refactors with fewer runtime errors.

Yuppies Tech

0 → 1

Product engineering consultancy for complex client products.

Founder & Technical DirectorHands-on engineeringPeople and engineering leadership: Led a 15-engineer team
Mumbai / Remote Jan 2021 - Apr 2024

Founded and grew Yuppies Tech to 15 engineers while remaining the client-facing technical lead. Turned unclear requirements into architecture, delivery plans, and production releases. Selected engagements:

  • Veera Browser: led a Chromium-based Android browser from initial architecture through Play Store launch, owning upstream patch management, release tooling, product features, and privacy updates. Later established the iOS platform and release setup.
  • Texts: built a production Facebook Messenger integration by reverse-engineering undocumented protocols, then implemented encrypted messaging, synchronization, groups, attachments, reactions, read receipts, typing indicators, and presence.
  • ZebPay: led modernization of ZebPay's iOS and Android apps, release infrastructure, exchange and payment features, and international KYC. During stabilization, increased the release cadence from monthly to weekly.
  • Mitsubishi Motors: led MiAR, a remote dealership experience delivered through native iOS and iPadOS apps plus WebAR. Shipped optimized 3D vehicle models, support for lower-end Android devices, bilingual content, and contest-administration tooling.
  • Airbus Tripset: owned end-to-end technical delivery of Airbus Tripset, a public iOS and Android travel companion launched during COVID. Built the React Native app and backend services that combined Airbus and Amadeus APIs, CMS-managed travel guidance, itinerary data, and notifications.

Kult

0 → 1

Consumer beauty and skincare commerce.

Vice President of EngineeringHands-on engineeringPeople and engineering leadership: Led a 10-engineer team
Mumbai Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
  • Led a 10-engineer team and owned Kult's zero-to-one product and engineering strategy, covering an AWS-hosted Elixir backend and native iOS and Android apps.
  • Architected both apps and contributed directly in Swift and Kotlin while establishing CI/CD, analytics, deep linking, observability, and the foundations for commerce and engagement features.

Yilu

0 → 1

Smart travel platform built for Lufthansa Group with BCG Digital Ventures.

Founding EngineerHands-on engineeringPeople and engineering leadership: Led a five-developer full-stack pod
Berlin Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
  • Designed the native mobile architecture and release automation, built Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, and shipped iOS and Android features for Eurowings.
  • As the first engineering hire, led a five-developer full-stack pod with a product manager and designer; partnered with the CTO on key hires and served as Scrum Master for early sprints, establishing the team's delivery cadence.

8fit

Growth-stage

Fitness and nutrition platform later acquired by Withings.

Senior Technical ArchitectHands-on engineering
Berlin Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
  • Architected a hybrid Apple TV fitness app that ranked No. 1 in its Health & Fitness category in more than 30 countries, including Germany, and No. 7 in the United States.
  • Built cross-platform mobile features across JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, Java, and Kotlin.

Housing

Late-stage

Indian real estate search and transaction platform.

Team LeadHands-on engineering
Mumbai Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
  • Led the architecture of Housing's React Native app, sharing more than 90% of its JavaScript code across iOS and Android.
  • Designed its state management, reactive data flows, offline persistence, and component-driven UI. Also built automated testing and release systems covering diagnostics, signed builds, beta distribution, and over-the-air updates.
  • Contributed to Housing.com's Progressive Web App for users on slow and inconsistent network connections.

Earlier Consulting and Startup Work

Bridg, 1mg, HornOk, Volkno, Meriad, and self-employed work.

Software Engineer and ConsultantHands-on engineering
Los Angeles / India 2015 - 2016
  • Built web and mobile products for email and customer-data tools, real-time medical consultations, and connected fleet management using JavaScript, Java, and Ruby on Rails.
  • Mentored 1mg's mobile team on hybrid app architecture and modern development tooling.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science.

Computer Science and Engineering
Los Angeles, CA 2013 - 2016

Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram

High School.

Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Math
New Delhi, India 2011 - 2013