Product Manager & Head of Technology In charge of charting the technical roadmap for the cloud based product - meltag.io, which targets ~$400B unorganised retail industry and helps brands to engage, reward & retain consumers. Currently the cloud-based platform is being used by major brands such as Unilever, P&G, Asian Paints, Berger, Finolex, Gulf Oil, etc across the industry verticals. More info here - www.meltag.io * Working closely with the executive team to conceive and execute on an industry leading loyalty product. * Built technology team of 15+ members from scratch and managing the same. ; * In addition to building one of the company's flagship products my team were responsible for developing and maintaining a wide range of software including web, mobile and enterprise services. My responsibilities included software architecture and driving coding best practices within the team. * Managing End to End (web + mobile + Operation + Analytics) Technology Platform. ; * Track and maintain business metrics which helps in business decisions. ; * Solutions Management, Client sales scoping, Loyalty systems, Promotions, Data warehouses, Vendor Management, Systems Analysis. * Risk Analysis, Cost estimation, Project Execution, Client Relationship Management and People Management. * Managing service operations for the product i.e. Collect, manage, and analyse all controls and monitoring data. Conduct performance and efficiency analyses with a focus on optimising systems architecture. Regularly publish results to management and the extended team. * Worked on several key features that will drive revenue and expand Meltag's presence. Subject matter expert for loyalty programs. This involves knowledge of all integrated systems. * Instilled a culture of measuring almost everything. ; * Digital Product Manager. ; * Design and develop digital products to support and expand Meltag's loyalty platform.

* In charge of charting the technical roadmap. ; * Worked on Drupal CMS for delivering multilingual web portal - www.datacenterdynamics.com * Responsible for extensively developing, maintaining and debugging both contributed and custom Drupal modules and entire code repository based on PHP. * Followed agile methodology for web development while working with multiple teams across different time-zones. * Designed and developed libraries and APIs for use within the organisation and integration with 3rd Parties. * Led strategic rewrites to achieve sub-second performances for web applications, especially using the event-driven paradigm. * Worked with all organisational levels to develop and manage project schedules, identify risks and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders. * Handled service delivery and deployment of new features and products for the website from outsourced development team.

* Worked on a product called hoonur.com which was a first of its kind talent search engine/marketplace for media professionals based on seeker-provider concept. * Designed, developed & managed admin/back-end modules based on LAMP stack. ; * Designed database architecture to implement social network features such as status updates, likes, comments, media posts, etc using MongoDB. * Integrated advanced search feature using Lucene based Solr and implemented semantic full-text search feature. * Migrated code base from Django(python)+MongoDB -to- PHP(custom MVC)+MySQL. ; * Extensively designed and developed Web Pages Using CSS + JavaScript + HTML. ; * Implemented perl & bash scripts to perform routine tasks and custom monitoring to ensure 100% uptime of the services.

* Worked on a product called nachofoto.com now known as feedspot.com which was a real time semantic image search engine. * Was responsible to design the entire codebase from scratch build on top of custom written PHP MVC framework. * Extensively written code in PHP for web crawlers to fetch the desired data from different websites / sources and store it in desired format. * Designed and coded complex regular expressions based on the structure of the data to be fetched. * Architected and implemented database structure for storing large data. ; * Design algorithm to replicate the data to offline storage for delayed retrieval. ; * Designed schemas and integrated Lucene based full-text Solr search for searching real time Images by tweaking parameters based on the requirements. * Designed & Developed API's infrastructure based on JSON & XML to enable third parties to access the search results data seamlessly. * Extensively written code for developing backend management modules and user rights management / roles based access. * Extensively used server monitoring tools to ensure 100% uptime of the servers. ; * Extensively used PHP Graph Library for generating user engagement reports. ; * Involved in writing clean, unobtrusive Javascript/AJAX including experience with

Computer Science, Bachelors Degree

Electronics + General Sciene

High School