CS Engineer, Educator, and a Polymath
I am a computer science engineer passionate about teaching and have built systems, services, and platforms that scale to billions. I have gathered an industry experience of 9+ years and have worked at companies like Unacademy, Amazon, Practo, and D. E. Shaw.
I hold a Master's in CS from IIIT-Hyderabad, specializing in Information Retrieval and Web Mining. I teach a cohort-based course on System Design and have taught 600+ engineers spanning 10 countries.
In my last ~9 years of experience, I have worked at D. E. Shaw, Practo, Amazon, and Unacademy; and have built systems, services, and platforms that scaled to billions.
Post my masters in CSE from IIIT Hyderabad I joined D. E. Shaw for a short stint of 2 months, before moving to Practo and working there as a Platform Engineer, building and owning close to 8 different microservices. Post Practo I worked at Amazon on their primary mission-critical E-Commerce Database and built Data Pipelines that cold tiered the stale data.
After quitting Amazon in 2018, I joined Unacademy as their first Technical Architect and there I designed, built, managed, and scaled services like Search, Notification, Logging, Deployment Engine, and many more. I have now transitioned leadership role and am working as a Director of Engineering, leading the Site Reliability, Data Engineering, and Backend Platform verticals.
In January 2020, I started my
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