Focusing People and Information Technology with Business objectives to create innovative solutions that drive change. Results-Driven Technology Leader in the design, development, delivery and optimization of technologies, systems and processes to maximize business performance. Recognized as an effective problem solver, team builder and program owner who consistently delivers on commitments while adding business value. Experience includes broad-based functional knowledge within Infrastructure and Application development.
DreamFolks is one of India’s leading providers of travel benefits and services; Running India’s largest lounge access programme.
Reporting to the MD and is responsible for establishing the DreamFolks technical vision and leading all aspects of organization’s technology development. Being the top technology executive, playing an integral role in the DreamFolks strategic direction, development, and future growth. Responsible for managing the organization's technology resources and support facilities, local, wide, wireless, Internet, and Intranet networks, telephone, and all related software programs. First one to be hired in tech with a vision of creating a platform for airport services. Currently working on automating various workflows and leading integrations with major banks and card networks in India. Working on mediating integration between DragonPass China and PineLabs India.
- Jagran New Media is ranked at #33 in all Indian Internet Companies according to ComScore.
- Jagran.Com ( #1 in Hindi News), JagranJosh.Com (#1 in Education) and OnlymyHealth.Com (#1 Indian Site in Health).
Jagran New Media is the digital media wing of the Jagran Prakashan Limited- India's Leading Media conglomerate. In this era of Web 3.0, media is about unlimited information and boundless space. It’s an incubation center for new business ideas and identifies gaps in the Indian online space, crafting appropriate products, technical and marketing strategies for the development of online services, products and offering.
Charter:
Reporting directly to the CEO and sitting on the Digital board, responsible for customer-facing technology and product development across the web, mobile, apps, subscriptions, data, BI and marketing. Responsible for technology and digital product development across media brands in technology, automotive, lifestyle and current affairs.
I lead the core digital product manufacturing capability within the organisation, responsible for commercial planning, product management, technical architecture, software engineering, design & UX, business development, and innovation functions.
CareOns application is an attempt to digitize healthcare experience starting from comprehensive health record-keeping and patient education, helping in:
● Organizing your health information and improving health care productivity
● Knowing about your health concerns through standardized and targeted patient education
Provided strategic product management. Carried responsibility for end-to-end product lifecycle including the definition of market and product requirements. Translated high-level conceptual product ideas into clearly defined deliverables. Supervised Agile development and rapid prototyping process. Worked with UI/UX specialists on Persona, Scenarios, Interaction Design, Wire-frames, and Mock-ups. Worked with cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.
Fabence.com is a personalized fashion discovery engine and shopping assistant. It aims to make it easier for customers to discover fashion products in a personalized manner. At the basic level, it allows users to discover fashion products from various portals such as Flipkart, Myntra, and Limeroad etc on one platform.
The approach is to solve this problem by bringing technology and fashion together and provide a technology and design intensive platform to users. The aim is to focus on every detail of the product and provide an improved user experience.
Built a variety of features such as shopping with friends, 24/7 in-built personal stylist, personalized shopping feed, and even a virtual closet. Signing in with one’s Facebook account allows the user to explore various features such as ‘shop with friends’ and ‘Your closet’. Facebook friends can be invited to a live shopping session to search, assort and shop along with the user. This is a very useful feature for users who hate shopping alone and always second guess their choices. Its inbuilt fashion stylist is powered by an intelligence-based algorithm that suggests various fashion ensembles that suit the users, based on their physical attributes.
Design and Development of Naval Combat Management System:
The combat management system is at the heart of naval vessels. It integrates all the ship’s sensors and information of other parties for real time situational awareness. Responsibilities:
- Architecting, Designing and Developing software components central to naval combat systems at SCS group, Indian Navy; Developed innovative approaches to build architectures tailor made to suit the unique constraints and characteristics of the organization.
- Project Planning and Estimation, Execution and Delivery; Successfully delivered the largest and one of the most crucial pieces of the system in record time with accolades received from all entities impacted.
- Requirements capture, analysis and articulation for different stakeholders Evaluating and recommending technology and design alternatives with supporting data and proofs-of-concept; Was instrumental in the choice of some of the core frameworks.
- Enabling effective collaboration between module leads, domestic and foreign development partners, domain experts, end users and software developers; This role required a mix of both technical and interpersonal skills.
- Performance testing and profiling of Data Distribution Service and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
I am directly responsible for analysis, evaluation, process development and implementation of technological solutions in support of logistics operational enhancements and improvements. This includes but is not limited to direct support of pan India team initiatives and new customer programs. I am also directly engaged in the evaluation and recommendations related to new technology, process improvements and cost reduction initiatives driven by logistics technology and product evaluations to drive those improvements. Additionally I am responsible for the successful project development and implementation of related programs.
-Provided ongoing architectural guidance and oversight for all in house logistics platform.
-Designed and developed the business and data access framework for the company's enterprise applications.
-Designed and developed ASP.NET web assets including customer-facing web applications.
-Designed a services layer to simplify and standardize performance of all service ‘tasks’ and that would support the ability to plug into 3rd party systems.
-Defined, implemented and enforced development and design standards.
-Performed R&D, built prototypes and POCs to identify and roadmap relevant new technologies.
-Interviewed and hired a development organization of senior, top-notch software engineers.
-Cloud solution architecture on Amazon Web Services
Implementation of Network Security Infrastructure as per PCI DSS standards. Involved in Penetration Testing of Production Systems. Designing and Implementation of Application Security Framework. Customized Exception Logging Framework ELMAH for production systems.
-Cloud solution architecture on Amazon Web Services
Involved in design and development of contemporary submarine networks and systems. Worked on various interface protocols like MIL STD 1553B, Ethernet, RS 232/422 etc.
Involved in design and development of telephony product. Implementation of VOIP Application on Symbian OS. Port G.729 voice codec on a TMS320C55x DSP CPU.
Network Administrator of College. Led trainings on CCNA. Highly keen in Network security, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing of Networks.