I can broadly categorize my career into two phases. I spent the first 14 years of my career at IBM Research solving important research problems on the intersection of distributed systems, cloud and analytics and applying them to IBM products and services. My work led to numerous papers and patents, led to major features in multiple IBM products, and created new service engagements. I received IBM’s Outstanding Innovation Award and ACM Middleware’s 10 year best paper award for my work on Power management and virtual machine consolidation.

I spent the next 7.5 years in industry applying the same computer science principles to solve real world problems. I was responsible for all engineering related to hotels for Makemytrip and its subsidiaries, and built the core pricing and supply platforms at Makemytrip. I received Makemytrip’s highest honor for this work. I built the digital engineering team at Airtel from 30 to 170+ talented engineers and engineering leaders. I led some of the most significant and highest impact projects at Airtel during this time and received Airtel’s highest recognition, the Chairman Award, for all three years at Airtel.

I enjoy setting engineering practices for large teams to drive efficiency as well as working in a hands-on fashion with small (<20) member teams building systems from scratch.