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Software Engineer

Microsoft

Shipped Windows 10 Photos app ( C++ )
- Designed and implemented image analysis pipeline. This pipeline brings together various imaging algorithms together and also supports versioning.
- Performance improvements of as much as 4x across various components of the analysis pipeline.
- Solely architected the app to support multiple windows in the Photos app.
- Integrated edit pipeline from windows 8.1 Photo editor into the viewer to show users enhanced version of their photos.
- Created an internal first party API to allow other apps to use the crop control in the Photos app.
- Worked with multiple teams in windows platform to get new features added to improve Photos app. 
- Mentored junior developers.
- Connected OneDrive album experience with Photos app album experience allowing users to manage or publish albums to OneDrive.
- Added album share so that users can share their favorite albums with friends and family.
- Working on getting more features in for the Photos app.

Software Development Engineer II

Shipped windows raw codec as part of windows update on windows 8.
- Performance improvements on arm 
- Deployment schema for windows update.

Photo Editor - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, Direct2D, SIMD, XAML, PPL)
- Core member for the design of image editing effect pipeline, rending engine and a variety of edit features.
- Added the direct2d rendering engine in the photo editor.
- Performance improvements for edit features using vectorization and multi core programming.
- Ensured 30FPS on most devices.
- Added image straighten, blemish removal + local area pixel fix engine, revamped crop & selective focus and other contributions

Video Trim - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, XAML, PPL)
- Implemented the complete video trim feature for the photos app.

Camera - Windows 8.1 Camera App ( C++ 11, PPL, XAML)
- Improved startup performance by more than 50%
- Improved performance of other core scenarios by significant amount.
- Feature contributions.

Stood up a TFS + git based build system for the team.

Software Development Engineer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Worked on web applications for marketing studies. (Php, MySQL)

Web Developer

Added Auto Collage in Windows Photo gallery. (C++, COM)

Software Development Intern

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- Mentored many senior & staff engineers and managers. 
- Designed & built multiple systems with critical focus on scalability & reliability. 
- Solved many cross team & organization misalignments with my inter-personal skills. 

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Amazon

- Build tools to combat fraud and content-abuse in Kindle
- Work closely with data science teams to create and deploy ML models

Willow. Senior Placement Platform

•	Built the product from ground up which catered to the need of healthcare facilities and families in need.
•	Elicited and documented the requirements for the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) development.
•	Designed and developed the application including database design, backend, UI in the MEAN (Mongodb, Express, Angular, Nodejs) stack.
•	Participated in pitches to investment firms and got funded for $500k in April 2019.
•	Led a team of two people for further development of the product.

Founding Engineer

SAP Ariba

•	Filed patent (US Patent Office) for building a critical feature for a launch of new vertical of procurement business
•	Built product feature enabled buyers’ monthly negotiations with suppliers for next 3 years simultaneously
•	Designed REST APIs and message dashboard which increased productivity and simplified product usage for non-technical teams
•	Eliminated all manual processes to increase efficiency by automating price lookup of items in a sourcing event.
•	Delivered feature of reusing/modifying contracts before timeline to meet an urgent requirement for a high-profile customer
•	Presented it at showcase meetings, worked closely with product management team for overall design.
•	Conducted training on SAP Ariba products and integration with SAP ERP and cXML standards for data exchange

Product Engineer

Headstart Network Foundation

- Led digital marketing team of 3-5 people for marketing and branding of 5 different initiatives.
- Formulated content strategy for digital properties of more than 50k following in social media. 
- Organized 40+ meet-ups. Facilitated 80+ startup pitches/demos and hosted 4000+  early stage entrepreneurs and wannapreneurs 
- Partnered with brands like Yourstory, NASSCOM, IBM for collaborations in marketing of initiatives
- Organized closed door workshops for mentoring early stage startups from industry stalwarts.

Digital Marketing Lead - Bangalore Chapter

VeriFone

•	Built Backup and Restore feature for Viper payment module to retrieve local transactions on point of sale devices.
•	Increased approx. 10% efficiency at point of sale counters by designing a comprehensive search utility for Topaz. 
•	Improved performance of critical payment scenarios by reducing time from 6 to 2 seconds per transaction.

Software Engineering Specialist

Yodlee

•	Designed 40 Yodlee APIs to interact with bank web-services to gather all financial data of Yodlee customers. 
•	Expanded scope of product usage in personal finance management by creating 50 new scraping bots. 
•	Maintained data gathering bots for financial institutions such as Bank of America etc. for 100% accuracy.

I'm the product-minded software engineer who's working in the trenches of software development for over 12+ years, turning bold ideas into reality. I thrive on solving problems that make a real difference – the kind that not only boost the bottom line but also bring a smile to users' faces. To me, technology isn't just about code; it's about solving real pains of the customers.

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