Experience

1. Oct 2024 - Present

   VP of Engineering·SuperLinear InsightsHover for impact

   Abu Dhabi / Remote

   Boutique consultancy delivering engineering for multiple stealth + early-stage startups across FinTech, PropTech, LegalTech and e-Commerce.

   Spearheading business delivery, architecture and hiring across the SuperLinear consulting pipeline ($1M+ ARR). Leading 10 full-stack engineers for client portfolios spanning Saltmine (FinTech), VerifyBuy (UAE/GCC automobile-inspection PropTech), Harvey-of-India class LegalTech, and Family Office AI automation. Driving AI transformation through multi-tenant SaaS, LLM-powered document processing (Word add-ins), agentic automation for legal/finance/ops workflows. Also conducting product reviews for flagship clients (Saltmine, Lucio, Bharosclub, Pulse Energy).

   • ▸Owns $1M+/year client revenue and consulting pipeline
   • ▸Leads 10 full-stack engineers across 4 domains
   • ▸Built multi-region AWS architecture for VerifyBuy (UAE/GCC)
   • ▸Shipped LLM-powered document + agentic workflows for Family Office
   • ▸Drove India dev-center transitions for B2B SaaS clients

   • Ruby on Rails
   • MERN
   • PostgreSQL
   • Go
   • AWS
   • LLM / Agno-AI
   • Microsoft Graph API
   • Roadmap
   • Hiring
2. May 2023 - Sep 2024

   Head of Engineering·CoLearnHover for impact

   Abu Dhabi / Hybrid-Remote

   EdTech platform serving millions of students in Indonesia.

   Scaled mobile + backend to 5M+ MAU and 800K+ DAU. Cut cloud + video streaming costs from $100K to $20K/month through YouTube offloading, CDN optimisation and open-source alternatives. Built a high-throughput pipeline for publishing 600K+ videos across mobile, web and YouTube.

   • ▸Cut infra spend 80% - $100K → $20K/month
   • ▸5M+ MAU / 800K+ DAU sustained
   • ▸Published 600K+ videos through a custom high-throughput pipeline
   • ▸Stabilised SEO top-3 SERP rankings via schema experimentation (FAQ, VideoObject, Course)
   • ▸Managed $1.5M/yr engineering budget; team of 20+ globally
   • ▸Switched delivery from Scrum to Kanban for predictable throughput

   • Ruby on Rails
   • TypeScript
   • PostgreSQL
   • AWS
   • CDN
   • SEO
   • OKRs
   • Hiring
   • Vendor management
3. Mar 2021 - May 2023

   Head of Mobile·CoLearnHover for impact

   Remote

   EdTech platform serving millions of students in Indonesia.

   Architected a React Native + Web SDK that lets the team ship features on-demand without app-store cycles. Integrated A/B testing infra to iterate on growth experiments. Launched scalable payment, gamification and retention flows across Android, iOS and Web.

   • ▸React Native Web SDK - eliminated app-store dependency for feature delivery
   • ▸A/B testing infrastructure for mobile growth experiments
   • ▸Scalable payment, gamification and retention flows across 3 platforms
   • ▸Apps maintained 4.5+ rating with 5M+ installs

   • React Native
   • Swift
   • Android
   • Flutter
   • Firebase
   • A/B testing
   • CI/CD
   • Agile
4. Dec 2015 - Mar 2021

   Principal Software Engineer·Byju’sHover for impact

   Bangalore, India

   150M+ registered learners - one of the largest EdTech companies globally.

   Founding engineer on Disney Byju’s Early Learn - 20M+ installs, 4.5+ rating. Led 20+ in-house engineers and managed 3 offshore vendor studios. Delivered 10K+ educational games through a custom no-code SDK, enabling efficient asset production, validation and rollout. Also led chat-based learning apps, the gamified K-5 curriculum, and B2B communication tools for schools.

   • ▸Founding engineer on Disney Byju’s Early Learn (20M+ installs)
   • ▸10K+ interactive games shipped via an in-house no-code SDK
   • ▸4.5+ app-store rating sustained across the lifetime of the app
   • ▸Led 20+ in-house + 3 offshore vendor studios
   • ▸Shipped gamified K-5 curriculum and B2B school communication tools

   • Unity
   • Android
   • Ruby on Rails
   • PostgreSQL
   • Redis
   • Go
   • AWS
   • No-code SDK
   • Hiring
   • Vendor mgmt
5. Sep 2014 - Oct 2015

   Tech Lead·Red Monster GamesHover for impact

   Bangalore, India

   Gaming startup with titles like Real Teen Patti and AB de Villiers Cricket.

   Led a cross-functional team to build Real Teen Patti (1M+ installs) - owned infrastructure, gameplay, and scaling.

   • ▸Real Teen Patti shipped to 1M+ installs
   • ▸Owned gameplay + infra + scaling end-to-end

   • Unity
   • Android
   • iOS
   • Go
   • Redis
   • AWS
   • Jenkins
6. Aug 2012 - Apr 2014

   Senior Software Engineer·Disney InteractiveHover for impact

   Bangalore, India

   Disney’s video-game and interactive-media arm - global hit franchises like Where’s My Water?, Where’s My Perry?, Mickey.

   Founding member of Disney’s India mobile-games team. Contributed to global hit titles and ported them across LG Smart TVs, Tizen and Windows platforms.

   • ▸Founding member of Disney India mobile-games team
   • ▸Shipped + ported Where’s My Water, Perry, Mickey to LG Smart TV / Tizen / Windows

   • C++
   • Android
   • Cross-platform porting
   • Tizen
   • LG webOS
7. Jul 2008 - Aug 2012

   Senior Software Engineer·HuaweiHover for impact

   Bangalore, India

   Global telecoms infrastructure - built VRP V8 router platform.

   Owned the FTP/TFTP protocol stack for VRP V8 routers; core contributor on the SMP layer. Multiple Star-of-the-Month awards.

   • ▸Owned FTP/TFTP protocol stack on VRP V8 routers
   • ▸Key contributor to SMP platform development
   • ▸Multiple Star-of-the-Month accolades

   • C
   • Linux
   • Networking
   • SMP platforms