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
Adobe [adobe.com]
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
Imperva [imperva.com]
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