Associate Director of Engineering · Bangalore, India
I build the systems and the teams that ship them.
15 years from individual craft to engineering leadership — across fintech, healthtech, and marketplaces. Comfortable operating 60–80% hands-on at architect/staff level depending on team stage — writing and reviewing production code daily, not just directing from above.
- Shipping an AI-native micro-drama React Native (TypeScript) app — leveraging Claude Code with custom skills for TDD and structured requirement gathering
- Designing the eng-leadership chapter of my career around teams that combine craft (TDD, pairing, code review) with AI-assisted velocity
| Era | Project | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| 2024–2026 | AI-native micro-drama mobile app · Napses | Large-scale React Native (TypeScript) streaming app — shipped on schedule with AI-assisted dev workflow |
| 2022 | Real-time social trading platform · Napses | 10K+ concurrent users on TypeScript/Node.js; architected the AWS infra — multi-AZ EC2 + Auto Scaling Group, Redis, Lambda |
| 2018–2022 | Avni — field data collection for NGOs | 100K+ beneficiaries, 50+ NGOs, offline-first React Native, 890+ commits across the platform |
| 2012–2016 | Babajob — blue-collar job marketplace | Grew eng team 1→15, migrated self-hosted → AWS, millions of users |
| 2009–2011 | ThoughtWorks | Where I learned TDD, pairing, and XP — still how I lead teams |
- within — Expo React Native app for structured, non-sycophantic AI conversations about relationships and personal growth
- Sangat — coworking app for indie hackers: matched 50-minute silent coworking sessions, pnpm monorepo, Postgres, Clerk auth
- aero-gpt — full-stack app with AI chat, document upload, and RAG; React Router v7, Prisma, OpenAI Responses API
- cdn-streaming-with-auth — demo video streaming platform with subscription tiers; React + NestJS + PostgreSQL + Bunny CDN
- chartshub — dashboard for viewing and bookmarking financial charts, built on TradingView's
lightweight-charts
TypeScript Node.js React React Native Java Spring Boot
Kafka Socket.IO Postgres Redis AWS (EC2, Auto Scaling, Lambda, RDS, S3) GCP Kubernetes Docker
- 15+ years shipping
- 10K+ concurrent users on real-time fintech
- 100K+ beneficiaries on Avni healthtech
- 890+ commits across the Avni platform (backend, Android sync, web console)
- 60% ↓ production bugs from TDD adoption
- What If Your Entire Software Team Worked From the Same LLM Wiki? — what changes when the repo becomes a continuously compiled knowledge base that PM, developer, QA, analytics, and stakeholders all read and write to
- Build your own Redis — a single-threaded server handling thousands of clients via raw kqueue syscalls, RESP parsing, and a 33-byte buffer per client · GitHub