Experience

17+ years building products and leading teams in the Bay Area.

2021 — Present

Software Development Manager

Amazon

Leading Traffic Engineering, Amazon One, and AmazonUI teams. Building mission-critical systems serving millions of customers across distributed systems and microservices architecture.

Jan 2021 — Mar 2021

Vice President, Software Engineering

Mastercard

Owned the Loyalty Solutions Offers Platform. Partnered with product, sales, and support to drive strategic roadmap. Hardened applications through automated security, performance, and regression testing.

2015 — 2021

Director, Software Engineering

Mastercard

Led engineering organization through 6 years of growth. Drove team staffing, software design, prototype development, and delivery of enterprise-grade platforms.

2012 — 2015

Leader, Software Engineering

Mastercard

Built the enterprise offers management platform from scratch. Led the core development team, improved the targeting engine, and migrated Truaxis StatementRewards to Mastercard. Worked closely with sales to demo products and translate customer needs into solutions.

2010 — 2012

Senior Software Engineer

Truaxis, Inc (acquired by Mastercard)

Core team member on the StatementRewards Platform. Built Statement Credits, Banner Ads, Purchase Insights. Created scalable payments processing (PayPal, ACH via Authorize.net), rewards management tools, and REST APIs for third-party integrations.

2008 — 2010

Software Engineer

Voyij

Built travel deals infrastructure — automated 30K+ deal aggregation via RSS/XML feeds, developed REST APIs for syndication, and created real-time Twitter integrations.

Summer 2008

Software Developer Intern

VeriSign

Built a SQL query performance analysis tool for the retail SSL business.

Summer 2007

Software Engineering Intern

SideStep (acquired by Kayak)

Implemented smoke test automation, built widgets for travel deals, and contributed to the Facebook "Trips" app in Ruby on Rails.

Education

2006 — 2008

MS, Software Engineering

San Jose State University
2002 — 2006

BTech, Information and Communication Technology

DA-IICT, Gujarat

Skills

Java Python AWS Distributed Systems Microservices System Design Technical Leadership Payments REST APIs Hadoop Big Data Agile / Scrum

Awards

Take Initiative Hackathon — 3x Winner

Winner in 2015, Global Winner in 2016, Winner in 2017 at Mastercard.