A strategic engineering leader and full stack professional with over 15 years of experience building and scaling technology teams. My passion lies in creating efficient development ecosystems while enabling engineers to perform their roles effectively. I have successfully built and led frontend platform teams, established engineering vision and culture, and implemented design systems that bridge technical and design disciplines. My technical foundation includes architecting horizontally scalable backends, distributed RESTful API services, and modern, highly interactive web applications using frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue. I excel at identifying cross-cutting concerns, driving standardization, and fostering collaboration across engineering, design, and product teams to deliver exceptional user experiences.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Advanced
  • Team Building
  • Engineering Strategy
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Technical Mentorship
  • Developer Experience

Techniques

Advanced
  • Web applications
  • Distributed architecture
  • Micro services
  • Mobile First, Responsive design
  • Test-driven development
  • Agile methodology
  • Stateful UI Design

Frontend

Advanced
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Design Systems
  • Material UI
  • Radix UI
  • Tailwind CSS
  • AngularJS
  • VueJS
  • HTML
  • CSS

Backend

Advanced
  • NodeJS
  • Python

Data Stores

Advanced
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Riak
  • Solr
  • Redis
  • MemcacheD

Devops

Intermediate
  • Google Cloud
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Circle CI

Work Experience (5)

Engineering Manager, UI Platform Team
Forto
April 2022 - Current
https://forto.com/
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Material UI
  • Radix Ul
  • Tailwind
  • Design Systems
  • Design Tokens
  • Figma Integration
  • Vite
  • Webpack
  • CI/CD
  • Roadmaps and OKR planning
  • Developer Experience
  • Agile Methodology
  • Cross-cutting concerns
  • Cross-functional Collaboration

Forto is a leading digital freight forwarder and supply chain technology platform transforming the movement of goods across the globe. The company combines data analytics, integrated logistics processes, and a scalable technology platform.

Founding leader of the UI Platform team addressing cross-cutting frontend concerns and bridging engineering, design, and product disciplines.

  • Founded and scaled the UI Platform team, establishing its vision, mission, and culture while recruiting 4 talented engineers (3 senior, 1 junior).

  • Identified and prioritized engineering pain points through platform-wide surveys and stakeholder interviews, creating data-driven roadmaps aligned with both developer experience and business goals.

  • Led the standardization of frontend-to-backend communication by developing a unified HTTP library, centralizing authentication, logging, and monitoring while reducing onboarding time for new engineers.

  • Orchestrated a complex, organization-wide migration from Material UI v4 to v5, implementing a bridge solution that allowed gradual upgrades without disrupting product development.

  • Designed and built an observability dashboard tracking migration progress, enabling teams to identify specific areas needing attention with exact file locations and line numbers.

  • Established a cross-team task force of volunteer engineers to drive the component library migration, reducing completion time from an estimated 18 months to 6-8 months.

  • Partnered with design leadership to implement design tokens and create automated workflows from Figma to production code, eliminating manual color and typography updates.

  • Led the development of Forto's first comprehensive design system for the customer-facing Ship application, dramatically reducing development time and design-engineering handoff friction.

  • Modernized the frontend build system by upgrading from Webpack to Vite, reducing cold start times from 90+ seconds to under 1 second and cutting hot module replacement times to near-instant.

  • Initiated and managed the "Pixel to Product" newsletter to improve cross-functional communication about platform changes and upcoming improvements.

Principal Software Architect
Nexsales Inc
March 2016 - April 2022
http://www.nexsales.com/
  • NodeJs
  • AngularJs
  • VueJS
  • Riak
  • MYSql
  • PostgreSQL
  • BeanstalkD
  • Redis
  • MemCache
  • Solr
  • Webpack
  • Material Design
  • WebRTC
  • WebSockets
  • REST APIs
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • Cloud Compute Engine
  • Cloud Functions
  • Cloud Run
  • Cloud Pub Sub
  • Cloud Tasks
  • Cloud Build
  • Docker
  • Terraform

Nexsales is a sales acceleration company specializing in demand generation and lead discovery.

As their principal architect, I was instrumental in designing and bringing to market 2 major products from scratch.

  • Products that I helped build from the ground up:

    Voicereach: A sales conversation enabler with an SLA to provide 8X boost in productivity

    RightLeads: A proprietary lead discovery engine using machine learning to find and score relevant leads in an ever-growing database focusing on IT security

  • Main responsibilities included design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software inside an agile development framework. Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables. Mentor and grow a team of 5 software engineers

  • Worked closely with customers to understand opportunities where technology can be used to drive business efficiently and effectively

  • Early adopters of a single-page app in AngularJS leveraging WebRTC to implement VoIP in browser.

  • Studied user behavior to optimize role-based user experience leveraging material design

  • Studied B2B marketing practices and designed closed-loop marketing strategy and successfully implement the ideas into the VoiceReach product

  • Designed a highly reactive, stateful, web-socket based real-time UI to enable browser-based VoIP capabilities

  • Involved in implementing distributed VoIP backend with Freeswitch and Twilio

  • Feature & technical design for resilient REST-based microservices in NodeJS

  • Technical design of horizontally scalable and highly available data store using Riak DB

  • UI and backend to deliver a fast intuitive way to build complex search queries over a large data set of contacts to deliver a seamless contact list build experience.

  • Technical design of a git like structure to keep track of data as it evolved and changed in a NoSQL data store

  • Design and implementation of scalable distributed file processing pipeline to enable processing and ingestion of large data files (100k to 10M records) using only Google Cloud Platform services

Technical Lead
CitiusTech
May 2012 - February 2013
https://www.citiustech.com/
  • ASP.net
  • ASP.net MVC
  • C#
  • JavaScript
  • XML based WebServices
  • Perforce SVN

CitiusTech is a leading provider of healthcare technology services and solutions to medical technology companies, providers, payers and life sciences organizations.

As a Tech Lead, I was responsible for leasing with a major Life Sciences company to help maintain a large web-based medical imaging application.

  • Understood the inner workings of a Javascript DICOM viewer. Helped with solving bugs and implementing new features in web annotations.

  • Part of the design team building a roadmap for rewriting the medical imaging application using ASP.net MVC 4.0

Senior Software Engineer
ISG eSolutions
May 2009 - April 2012
https://www.isgesolutions.com/
  • ASP.NET
  • MS SQL 2005/2008
  • C#
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • Sitefinity CMS
  • JQuery
  • Telerik
  • ajax
  • Memcache
  • Multi-Threading
  • MongoDb
  • Webservices
  • Web APIs
  • Backbone.js
  • jQuery
  • LESS

ISG eSolutions is a specialized provider of hospitality solutions to various hotels and restaurants in India and abroad. They also provide travel solutions, both web and desktop based, to several UK based travel websites.

As a senior engineer on the engineering team, I led development efforts, designed and implemented platform architecture, and managed other engineering team members

  • Developed competitor analysis platform to analyze and report current prices and routes being offered by other players in the low-cost flights market. The system was built using phantom.js to write web scrapers that ran at specified intervals to scrape competitor websites to discover and report back with prices for programmed routes.

  • Developed a low latency, highly available web feed to be consumed by a travel metasearch engine. This helped with exposing our client’s products to more customers.

  • Designed and implemented the booking module for a travel website with integrations to popular third-party travel booking supplier web services like ABCBeds, GlobeTravel, TuricoHolidays, LowCostBeds, Hotels4U, HolidayTeamFlight, HolidayTaxi, HolidayBrokers etc to provide full itinerary building capabilities

  • Integrated the travel website with a payment gateway to enable safe and secure online payments.

  • Lead development of a UK based travel website in ASP.net and Sitefinity CMS but without using standard heavy asp.net controls. Instead, a pseudo SPA was built using plain HTML and JavaScript relegating ASP.net to only render the initial page and serve as the REST API afterwards. This was before the popularity of ASP.net MVC

  • Designed a multi-threaded module to fetch and generate a deals table using data from multiple web sources. This was combined with weather information and other details to form a comparative grid showcasing the best time in a year to visit a given destination.

Engineering Intern
Nokia
June 2007 - June 2008
https://www.nokia.com/
  • Symbian C++
  • Perl
  • Python
  • XML
  • UML
  • Java
  • Symbian OS
  • Series 60
  • UIQ
  • Android
  • Enterprise Architect

Symbian Software Limited develops and markets operating system software used by Nokia, Motorola Samsung mobile, and smartphones.

Worked with the Location and Connect team within Symbian in Cambridge. The team focused on integrating location-based services into Symbian’s mobile OS

  • Wrote a technology demonstrator by modifying the hardware abstraction layer of the Symbian Location-Based Services subsystem to work on a production phone (Sony Ericson M600i) with a Bluetooth GPS device instead of an integrated GPS chip.

  • Worked with the Bluetooth subsystems team to understand the Bluetooth stack being used in Symbian OS

  • Designed and implemented automation scripts in Perl which parse XML files generated by Enterprise Architect. These files contained sequence diagrams and the script compressed the diagram to hide internal complexities of the LBS subsystem before it is shipped as documentation to customers

Junior Software Engineer
Interface Systems Group
July 2005 - May 2006
http://www.interfacesystemsgroup.com/
  • C#
  • VB.NET
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • XML
  • CSS
  • ASP.NET
  • MS SQL
  • LLBL gen pro

Interface Systems Group is a leading Service Provider of Software development, website designing & hosting and tours management Software.

Job profile included developing, testing and maintaining web applications.

  • Absorbed into the company after an internship with them for 6 months.

  • Developed a web-based MIS software with graphical data analysis tools to manage multiple restaurants.

  • Designed and developed a recipe planner for restaurants that enabled chefs to perform costing of recipes based on ingredient quantities and keep an inventory of stock.

Education (2)

PG-Dip
Internet and Enterprise Computing
Nottingham Trent University
2006 - 2008

  • Intelligent Business Systems
  • Intelligent Systems (AI)
  • Enterprise Computing
  • Object Oriented Analysis & Design
  • Internet Programming
  • Advanced Computer Networks
  • Security in Computing
  • Data Structures
Grade: High 2:1
Bachelor of Engineering
Computer Engineering
Don Bosco Institute of Technology - Mumbai University
2001 - 2005

Languages

English

Native speaker

Hindi

Native speaker

Malayalam

Native speaker

Marathi

Beginner

German

Beginner

Interests

Reading

  • Science Fiction
  • Biographies
  • Technology
  • Military History
  • Aircrafts

Table Top Gaming

Cooking

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