About Me
Experienced software engineer with a strong commitment to crafting clean, well-designed, and unit-tested code. Proven track record of innovation and technical leadership.
Key Achievements
- 12 US Patents (10 published; 2 pending)
- 2-time Winner of VMware Global Hackathon
- 4-time Acceptance at VMware Research & Development Innovation Offsite (acceptance rate ~10%)
- 2-time Runner-up at VMware Site Level Hackathon
- Accepted at VMware xLabs program, VMware's internal incubator for innovative off-roadmap ideas
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Cloaked
January 2023 - Present
- Early employee, member of the backend platform team
- Building new product features, such as the data deletion offering
- Rearchitecting APIs, database schemas and optimising queries
- Implementing spam prevention using rule-based filtering and third-party machine learning models
- Developing bad actor mitigation strategies
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce
May 2022 - January 2023
- Worked on the development of a monitoring platform for running synthetic tests which ran 200M tests per day.
Member of Technical Staff 3
VMware - Advanced Technology Group, Office of the CTO
March 2021 - May 2022
- Designed and developed a Kubernetes-on-Router solution that leverages spare resources on a managed SD-WAN router to securely deploy and orchestrate containerised applications on the edge.
- Project Santa Cruz. VMworld Demo
Member of Technical Staff 2
VMware - NSX Platform
August 2019 - March 2021
- Worked on the development of a metrics collection platform for NSX.
Member of Technical Staff 1
VMware - vCenter Platform
July 2018 - July 2019
- Developed the stage and install features for installing 1st party appliance (NSX) on vCenter Server.
R&D Intern
VMware - vCenter Platform
January 2018 - July 2018
- Developed a feature/tool that changes the deployment topology of vCenter Server at runtime from having an external SSO appliance (VM) to an embedded SSO.
Skills
Python
Go
SQL
Django
REST API Development
Public Speaking Awards
- 2nd Rank, National Level Debate Competition at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi (February 2016)
- 1st Rank, Inter-Collegiate Debate Competition, Tirpude College of Management, Nagpur (February 2017)
- 1st Rank, Inter-Collegiate Extempore Competition, Tirpude College of Management, Nagpur (February 2017)
- Best Speaker, Impromptu Speech at IBC Titans Toastmasters Club, Oracle Corporation, Bangalore (February 2019)
- 3rd Rank, Impromptu Speech at Toastmasters Zonal Level Contest, IIM Bangalore (February 2019)
- 3rd Rank, Vidharbha Level Elocution Competition, C.P. and Berar college, Nagpur (March 2017)
- 1st Rank, Orator Of The Year, NSS unit, Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur (2015)
- 1st Rank (Team of 5), Youth Parliament, Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur (2016)
- 3rd Rank, Inter-College Debate & Extempore Competition, Government Institute of Forensic Sciences, Nagpur (January 2017)
- 3rd Rank, University Level Inter-Collegiate Debate Competition, Dr. M.K. Umathe Arts, Science & Shri R.Mokhare Commerse College, Nagpur (January 2017)
- 3rd Rank, Intra-College debate competition, Power Grid Corporation in association with Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur (October 2016)