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. Hands-on roughly 80% of the time, on purpose.
- Shipping an AI-native micro-drama React Native 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 streaming app — shipped on schedule with AI-assisted dev workflow |
| 2022 | Real-time social trading platform · Napses | 10K+ concurrent users, ms-scale price fan-out, AWS + GCP |
| 2018–2022 | Avni — field data collection for NGOs | 100K+ beneficiaries, 50+ NGOs, offline-first React Native |
| 2012–2016 | Babajob — blue-collar job marketplace | Grew eng team 1→15, self-hosted→AWS, millions of users |
| 2009–2011 | ThoughtWorks | Where I learned TDD, pairing, and XP — still how I lead teams |
TypeScript Node.js React React Native Java Spring Boot
Kafka Socket.IO Postgres Redis AWS GCP Kubernetes Docker
- 15+ years shipping
- 10K+ concurrent users on real-time fintech
- 100K+ beneficiaries on Avni healthtech
- 60% ↓ production bugs from TDD adoption
- 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