Builder and innovator who finds the highest-leverage problem in a room and ships it. Established AI fundamentals at Rippling and drove impact across multiple AI initiatives spanning the product suite. Thinks in systems: architecting solutions that work today and scale for tomorrow. Has done this across multiple hypergrowth companies, Rippling ($250M to $11B) and Simpl (India's first BNPL), knowing when to move fast and when to get it right. Naturally gravitates toward hard, cross-cutting problems that span teams and org boundaries. Polyglot engineer with rare combination of technical depth and leadership breadth.
Took a hands-on role to build and scale AI infrastructure and products at Rippling, partnering with teams across the company.
- Designed and built Rippling's AI platform on Databricks; now hosts 20+ projects across Financial Stack, Payroll, PEO, Procurement, Sales Cloud, and more
- Introduced AI for Ops workloads to scale Rippling's operations; Tax Account Notice Automation is one such initiative achieving 99.6% extraction accuracy and handling 86%+ of SUI notices from government agencies
- Go-to AI architecture partner across the company: consulting Financial Stack, PEO, Service Cloud, Supergrid, and Benefits teams; unified multiple teams' oncall-bot efforts into a single org-wide stack
- Worked on Talent Signal and Rippling AI Assistant, two of Rippling's first AI-powered products shipped to customers
- Designed Sagemaker-based ML training platform for Ads, the first at Rippling; reduced model launch time from 1 week to 4 hours, now serving ~10 production models
- Partnered with teams on AI agents, web testing automation, fraud detection, and agentic UI features
Led the core platform team as Rippling grew from $250M to $11B valuation and engineering grew from 60 to 600 members.
- Managed a shared services organization, scaling it to a ~90-member team
- Built and operationalized Rippling's India engineering hub with robust hiring and performance frameworks
- Reduced deployment times from ~60 minutes to ~10 minutes
- Resolved critical issues related to site slowdowns, deployment bottlenecks, and scaling challenges, ensuring 99.99% uptime
- Modernized application frameworks, in-house background job runner, and CI/CD pipelines
- Scaled a monolithic architecture through the introduction of execution namespaces
- Implemented observability tools (Datadog, structured logging, API and background job instrumentation)
- Stabilized the test suite, improving feedback times by 2x while reducing costs
- Upgraded the monolithic Python runtime from Python 2 to Python 3
- Scaled database infrastructure vertically and horizontally by splitting the monolithic DB using execution namespaces
- Developed a cloud-based remote development environment (CDE), now the default for all engineers; saved ~$16M/year in engineering productivity (blog)
- Designed and implemented a company-wide event platform used across all Rippling applications
Led engineering from the early days of India's first BNPL product as transactions grew 100x and the team from 4 to 30.
- Architected and scaled a technically complex B2B2C fintech platform spanning mobile SDKs, APIs, web, mobile, and ML
- Moved to a polyglot microservices architecture to handle synchronous and asynchronous workloads
- Implemented event-sourcing architecture with Kafka
- Designed and built data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads, powering fraud detection, reporting, and ML features
- Coached team to follow XP principles (TDD/BDD, CD)
- Conceived, built, and open-sourced cloudlift, a devops tool for AWS ECS deployments
- Grew the engineering team from 4 to 30 while maintaining a culture of speed and technical excellence
- Created functional pods aligned with architecture (Conway's law)
- Gave talks at meet-ups and conferences on engineering, scaling, and fintech
Worked on projects of different scale, domain, and tech-stack across multiple clients.
- Built a virtualization platform (similar to AWS EC2) with Citrix Xen as the underlying layer, using Ruby, for a US client
- Built a multi-tenant railway booking application handling >90% of traffic in the UK
- Built a workflow system for a publishing services company
- Built a single page application that disburses a personal loan in a day for a leading European bank
- Built one of India's famous online movie ticket booking platforms using GoLang microservices
Developed software for enterprise clients in the automotive sector.
- Developed a module in a supply chain management solution for a leading automobile manufacturer
- Designed to be flexible and deployed in multiple countries
- Ran webinars internally to upskill the team
Open-source DevOps tool for managing containerized services on AWS ECS, conceived and built while at Simpl.
- Built to automate container deployments to AWS ECS
- Open-sourced; widely adopted by teams deploying on AWS
Lessons learned migrating Rippling's Django monolith to containers at scale.
How we built the Cloud Development Environment (CDE) that became the default for all Rippling engineers.