Intro to the Design of Everyday Things

Functional Programming Principles in Scala

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Master of Science - MS

I supported teams in the Checkout org, specifically focusing on enabling merchants to flexibly accept payments using Stripe Elements. The key charters I drove included:
• Building platform capabilities to make Stripe Elements highly performant and extensible
• Shipping new Checkout related Elements like Shopping Cart to help Stripe provide more upstream value 
• Driving adoption of Stripe Payment Elements

Engineering Manager - Payments

On the product side, I helped to ship popular experiences such as dynamic pricing, promotions and insight suggestions for hosts and guests in collaboration with a cross-functional team of data scientists, user researchers and ML engineers.

On the infrastructure side, I contributed to Airbnb's pivotal move to a service oriented architecture (SOA) by streamlining and scaling critical infrastructure related to user authentication and rate limiting. Led cross-organizational efforts in defining engineering best practices.

Technical Lead

I envisioned and led the Service Capabilities platform org -  a group of 20+ engineers working on a range of challenging problems in Infrastructure and Developer Productivity domains. Supported managers and teams to drive the following four charters:

• Edge Infrastructure:  'Front Door' for Web and API traffic
• Client Networking: Web, iOS and Android libraries for GraphQL-based data access
• Dynamic Configurations: Enables feature flags and experimentation capabilities
• Internationalization (i18n) Infrastructure: Enables translation capabilities across product surfaces

Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

Built backend services, workflows and tools to enhance Amazon Appstore for Fire family of devices. Part of the team that launched innovative features such as Free App of the Day, Amazon Underground and Amazon Coins

Software Engineer - Amazon Appstore

Built a platform to provide easy data collection and intuitive workflows for developers to increase retention and monetization of their apps. Some examples were mobile A/B Testing and analytics for iOS, Android, and Fire OS platforms. Expanded this offering to launch a new AWS service (AWS Pinpoint) which offered richer analytics, insights and multi-channel customer engagement features

Senior Software Engineer - AWS

Engineering Intern

  Implementation of Precision Time Protocol (PTP) synchronization for smart-grid applications.

Student Research Assistant

Designed application-layer software for wireless modules based on the ZigBee software stack

Undergraduate Student Intern

Responsible for software development of Nexus5k/Nexus2k datacenter switches. Delivered multiple impactful features for both control plane (config sync) and data plane (efficient traffic forwarding)

Software Engineer

I rejoined Airbnb to help tackle the complex and dynamic needs of regulatory compliance in Payments org. Airbnb operates in 190+ countries and needs to solve for a variety of regulations when accepting money or paying out to hosts. If you are excited about how we do this, at scale and with a high degree of accuracy, reach out to me! I support three main charters:
• Building platform capabilities to leverage external vendors
• Crafting delightful product experiences to guide users through compliance processes (KYC/AML)
• Host Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) controls

Engineering Manager

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