Overview

There are no silver bullets.

Domain expertise in the development of secure web APIs, multi-tenant enterprise-ready job scheduling systems and deep domain modeling across AI, Machine Learning, Security and Graphics / 3D SaaS applications.

Worked across a range of roles — from founding startups to managing teams in large corporations to being a solo developer on new projects.

Experience
San Francisco Bay Area
Services Lead — Firefly Graph
2026 onwards
  • Leading all services and infrastructure for Firefly Graph
  • Joined as sole backend engineer, built team of high-performance engineers
  • Plugin ecosystems, package repository and job scheduling for non-interactive executions
Platform Lead — 3D GenAI & Reviewer
2024
  • Lead infra and services for 3D GenAI models
  • Job scheduling, Kubernetes and GPU work for short and long AI jobs
  • Helped research teams take techniques to production
Enterprise Architect — Firefly
2023
  • Led architecture and development of pilot for Firefly custom models
  • Extremely cross-functional role; pilot was instrumental in making alpha successful
Engineering Manager — Sunrise
2022
  • Led team of 6 building Adobe's flagship 3D web platform Sunrise
Senior SWE — Substance 3D Automation
2020–2022
  • DAG-based 3D pipeline execution engine on the cloud
  • Automatic concurrent execution and parallelization
  • Parser compiler with high-level DSL; spec-driven public API
Senior SWE — Experience Platform
2018–2020
  • Kubernetes for ML/AI workloads; safe execution of untrusted code
  • Jupyter and ONNX ecosystem with deep k8s integration
  • Blue-green deployment of 100+ customer infra instances via Azure RM
  • Platform and Security Champion for the broader team
San Francisco Bay Area · 2017
Senior Software Engineer — CloudSphere
  • Core launch team; delivered product from ground-up in 6 months
  • Led system orchestration, scaling and design for microservices
  • Highly available job scheduler (Node.js)
  • Authorization system protecting customer data across SaaS
  • Built on S3, DynamoDB, SQS; Grafana/Elasticsearch observability
  • On-prem agent watchdog (Python); log streaming for Splunk/RDS (Ruby)
MetricStream [metricstream.com]
San Francisco Bay Area · 2014–2017
Engineering Manager
  • Led Docker/Swarm/Kubernetes rollout across a 400-person engineering org
  • Application provisioning and cluster orchestration tools for company cloud strategy
  • Self-service Node.js web apps to simplify ops
  • Data analytics and ML products in R, ShinyServer and TensorFlow
Sea6 Energy [sea6energy.com]
Chennai, India · 2010–2012
Co-founder and CEO
  • Built team and led vision, technology goals and business plans
  • Co-invented 2 patented technologies for renewable energy from marine plants
  • Worked with angels and industry leaders to secure financing and research grants