
Director of Engineering @ Webaroo/SMS Gupshup
Mumbai Area, India

Director of Engineering @ Webaroo/SMS Gupshup
Mumbai Area, India
- 9 years of experience working in product organizations both in the enterprise and consumer space.
- Successfully staffed, mentored and managed high caliber development teams.
- Proven track record in taking an idea from concept to a full fledged product both as a manager and as an individual developer.
- Responsible for building complex server side systems,desktop, mobile application and consumer-focused website.
I understand and am comfortable with the creative freedom and high energy essential in start-ups. At the same time I have an appreciation for lightweight processes required to develop products on-schedule and sustain development as the company grows. I have experienced both these stages and have excelled and made significant contributions in each of them.
I’m a tech enthusiast with an entrepreneurial bent whose primary interest is in programming and application design. At heart, I’m still a developer; my passions lie in coding, designing, architecture but the thrill is in building products.
Server, mobile architecture, scalable systems, recruitment and mentoring
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2001 — December 2004 (3 years 3 months)
I worked on architecting, designing and implementing-
* A product which provided access to content through reliable extraction of specific structure from a dynamic web pages and this content can be re-used in portlets, mobile applications, or Web Services
* Studying performance bottlenecks and implementing changes that improved throughput and reduced memory footprint.
* Complete BEEP/APEX protocol stack implementation, which would also run Windows mobile client efficiently.
* Contributed in building automated test framework for server side applications.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 10 months)
I lead the team for development and deployment of an sales force productivity application,
* A Win CE based PDA product to automate the sales force activities. It also provides access to the real time data every time and everywhere.
* Onsite implementation and deployment of the product at Indonesia's biggest retail company, Wichaksana. Currently this product is used by thousands of Wichaksana sales force.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)
February 2000 — December 2000 (11 months)
I worked on system design and implementation of E-learning products Clicktionary and CleverTrainer -
* Implemented the complete server side infrastructure, WebServices like secure XMLRPC protocol for client-server communication.
* These products are used by millions of users today.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — December 1999 (2 years )
B.E (Mechanical) , 1993 — 1997
High School , 1991 — 1993
Programming, reading about new technologies, following investments, reading books and blogs.