Work

I've worked in the tech industry for nearly eight years. The initial years were a rollercoaster - founded a startup and worked for a graph database company and a high-frequency trading firm. I discovered that customer delight is my biggest motivator. Since then, I have focused on building consumer-facing and enterprise products.

Apart from my day jobs (listed below), I work on a few side projects from time to time. I also have some open-source projects on GitHub.

# Work Experiences View Resume

  • Perch

    Founding Software Engineer, Apr 2022 - Mar 2024

    Perch is building a long form content aggregation app - blogs, essays, blog posts. We also built Startup Archive - curated startup advice from the world's best founders, Perch - AMA tool for creators, and gm.xyz - a place to host your community

    I was a founding engineer responsible for ideating and implementing products from scratch. I led backend development, infrastructure setup and maintenance, AI-based article content scraping and indexing, article recommendation engine, web3 token gating and web/mobile UI.

  • Harness

    Staff Software Engineer, Apr 2019 - Sep 2021

    Harness is a modern software delivery platform helping enterprises ship code easily, quickly and resiliently. It was last valued at $3.7 Billion in April, 2022 and I was among the first 50 employees to join Harness.

    I was part of the Continuous Delivery team and the Pipeline team building the foundations for all the other teams (CD/CI/Feature Flags/Cloud Cost Management) to build workflow products. My main contributions were to the design and development of the underlying workflow execution mechanism powering all these products. I also led the transition from a monolith Java app to a polyglot microservices deployment as the product offerings grew.

  • AlphaGrep Securities

    Quant Researcher and Trading Analyst, Jul 2018 - Mar 2019

    AlphaGrep is a quantitative trading and investment firm.

    I researched and developed high-frequency quantitative trading strategies (statistical arbitrage) for commodity markets in China, which became my team's most profitable market.

  • Dgraph

    Quant Researcher and Trading Analyst, Nov 2017 - Jun 2018

    Dgraph is one of the most popular open source graph database in the world. It is built to be distributed and scalable.

    I was a founding engineer at Dgraph. I launched Ratel, which is Dgraph's data visualisation and cluster management interface. I created tooling for the ecosystem - built javascript (browser and node) and python clients for Dgraph, contributed to the other clients. I also laid groundwork for the Dgraph-as-a-service platform built on top of Kubernetes.

  • Plato

    Co-Founder, Jul 2015 - Sep 2017

    Plato is a chat app for one-on-one career mentoring.

    I co-founded the company after a pilot during college placement season and worked on the product and tech. It was funded by Commence Mint and selected for Y Combinator Startup School. We got 2nd position in Microsoft Imagine Cup, India (2015) and were incubated at IIT Kanpur.

# Notable Personal Projects

  • Superstream

    Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

    Superstream is a protocol and a collection of SDKs for real-time money streaming on Solana. It allows anyone to continuously send money to anyone else at any interval up to a second.

    The motivation for this project was to help solve the earned wage access problem. Low-income workers sometimes face cash crunch at the end of the month if there is any sudden financial expense and they have to resort to predatory loans. Workers have to wait for the next payday which is often not aligned with their cash needs. Superstream allows workers to get paid hourly, daily or any other cadence. People can also pay for services in smaller increments, instead of monthly or yearly.

    I designed, implemented, and deployed it on devnet, testnet and mainnet clusters of Solana. The project is open source and documented at superstream.finance.

  • Programming Tutoring System

    Aug 2014 - Oct 2014

    This was a research project under Dr Sumit Gulwani (Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond) and Prof. Amey Karkare (Head of Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Kanpur).

    We built an application to assist in teaching introductory programming courses in the 1st year of college by automating assignment and feedback generation and solution-checking. The project was deployed in the 2014-15 academic year (with 400+ enrolled students) and was used by the students to practice programming assignments and get immediate feedback.