Senior Director of Engineering

Leads backend, platform, applied-AI, and data responsibilities across major consumer products, working through senior leaders and architects.

• Partnered with the CFO on a company-wide cost mandate that cut Dailyhunt's monthly infrastructure spend by 49%, creating approximately ₹260 million in annualized savings without compromising scale or reliability.
• Set the engineering agenda as Dailyhunt matured beyond 350 million MAU, shifting focus toward efficiency, recommendation quality, and new revenue initiatives including Dailyhunt Premium and a short-stories format for tier-one audiences.
• Dailyhunt put classification, summarization, and notification-title generation into production: classification abstracts location relevance (state, city, national, international) and notification relevance from an immediate-push perspective, with Qdrant serving as the system of record and Elasticsearch retired from that path.
• Dailyhunt sustained millisecond-class latency above 50,000 requests per second during elections, IPL, and notification spikes; introducing Go services and GraalVM native builds cut compute cost by more than 30%.
• Set technical direction across Dailyhunt and Magzter - integrating Magzter's premium content into Dailyhunt Premium, modernizing Magzter's backend through shared libraries and observability standards, directing build-versus-buy decisions for subscription products, and securing CFO funding for developer AI tooling.
• Built leadership depth by coaching managers and senior engineers into broader ownership, delegating critical platform charters, and establishing succession coverage to sustain execution through organizational change.

Director of Engineering

Led Dailyhunt feed, personalization, API gateway, experimentation, and a multi-service move to Google Cloud.

• Dailyhunt's personalized For You feed grew while maintaining bounded tail latency.
• Guided ranking strategy and execution that increased time spent per user by 35% while holding click-through rate and retention steady.
• Dailyhunt moved more than 40 services and data stores from private infrastructure to Google Cloud, improving reliability and capacity predictability.
• Ran roughly three live feed experiments per week using multi-armed bandit testing, expanding ranking signals from four facets to approximately 200 and lifting automated test coverage from 35% to 75% within 12 months through static analysis, coverage baselines, and a merge gate.

Senior Engineering Manager

Built the notification platform and initiated Dailyhunt's personalized For You feed with a small founding team.

• Dailyhunt's notification platform handled a large daily event volume.
• Architected the first personalized For You feed with a three-person team, contributing hands-on code and sharing product direction with Product.

Engineering Manager

Led the 0-to-1 development and delivery of iPayy, a carrier-billing and merchant-payments platform, including product definition, architecture, team development, and partner integrations.

• Launched iPayy across all major Indian telecom operators, enabling merchant payments through subscribers' prepaid and postpaid accounts.
• Built the team from three to eight, adding QA, technical leadership, and architecture capabilities to support product delivery and carrier integrations.
• Delivered merchant APIs and dashboards for payments, transactions, settlements, and analytics, working directly with clients and carrier partners.

Technical Lead

Built and productized news and content services over SMS and USSD, creating scalable, low-bandwidth mobile VAS and notification platforms that reached millions of users.

Member of Technical Staff

Developed enterprise management platforms supporting the provisioning, monitoring, and patching of physical and virtual infrastructure, including Sun Management Center and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

Senior Software Engineer

Independently developed the Network Analysis Module for Syfact, an enterprise case-management platform supporting fraud-detection workflows at global financial institutions.