Head of Engineering

Gaia | Ex: SportsFam

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About

Experienced technology leader and architect with 10 years in tech, last 6 years leading teams. Expertise in building products, platforms, and organizations across B2B and B2C domains. Passionate about engineering practices, DevOps, continuous delivery, developer productivity, and leadership development. Frequent speaker at conferences and advisor to startup founders.

Work history

Head of Engineering

Gaia

06/2024 – Present

Led engineering at Gaia, an affordable IVF treatment platform making family planning accessible to everyone.

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Founder

Three Ways Consulting

02/2022 – Present

Technology consultant and advisor to startups and scale-ups, helping with innovation, product quality, team building, and strategic tech investments.

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(Fractional) Chief Technology Officer

SportsFam

02/2022 – 06/2023

Worked as Fractional CTO supporting founders in hiring engineering teams, building product and infrastructure for fantasy sports and opinion betting.

Engineering Leadership Mentor (Pro Bono)

Plato

07/2021 – Present

Engineering leadership coach and mentor for individual contributors and managers.

VP Engineering

Blinkit

10/2017 – 02/2022

Led engineering at Blinkit (formerly Grofers), a $1B hyperlocal grocery quick commerce service. Scaled the engineering team from 60 to 200+ engineers, overseeing systems, architecture, and organizational growth through Series B to unicorn status and acquisition by Zomato.

Software Engineer

Blinkit

10/2015 – 10/2017

Served as Frontend Engineering Lead and Infrastructure Engineering Lead at early-stage startup, improving uptime from 94% to 99.5%, implementing DevOps practices, and managing 6-engineer frontend team.

Software Engineer

Wingify

10/2013 – 10/2015

Focused on scalability and availability of VWO (A/B testing service) backend infrastructure, and developer experience for product engineering teams.

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WebQA Intern

Mozilla Corporation

06/2013 – 08/2013

Maintained test infrastructure for WebQA projects and Firefox OS, improved test coverage, and developed dashboards for tracking test failures.

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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology

01/2013 – 05/2013

Assisted undergraduate students with Systems and Network Programming course.

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Software Engineering Intern

Plivo Inc.

12/2012 – 01/2013

Developed Node.js client for Plivo REST API and designed a log aggregation framework using Python, Flask, and Elasticsearch.

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Mozilla

08/2012 – 07/2013

Represented Mozilla in India, promoting the Mozilla Project and Mission, building community efforts, and recruiting and mentoring contributors.

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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology

07/2012 – 12/2012

Assisted undergraduate students with Operating Systems course.

Intern

Wingify

06/2012 – 07/2012

Developed REST API for Visual Website Optimizer and Cross Browser Testing Platform; architected geo-distributed analytics data collection.

Student Developer

Google Summer of Code

05/2011 – 08/2011

Developed modules for the Drupal project providing integration points between Google Apps and Drupal.

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Co-Founder & Web Developer

INK - Liquid Designing

09/2009 – 11/2010

Co-founded design and development agency and led technical work on numerous client projects.

Expertise

Industry
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Data Engineering & GovernanceDeveloper Tools & DevOps
Department
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Backend EngineeringData EngineeringDevOps / Platform / SREFrontend / Web EngineeringML / AI EngineeringProduct ManagementProgram ManagementSoftware & Embedded Engineering
Region
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IndiaUnited KingdomUnited States