Experience

Where I've made an impact

12 years shipping production systems — from a training institute and 0-to-1 products through logistics ERP and an AI platform serving 300+ facilities.

Apra Labs

Associate Architect · previously Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2019 – Present

300+ facilities served
30% cloud costs reduced
10→55 team growth

Built the AI and data platform layer for a unified facility management product serving 300+ US facilities.

  • Virtual Credentials — facility entry/exit across 300+ US buildings
  • Reporting platform — 1000s of reports per hour across 300+ tenants
  • Analytics platform from scratch — facility operations monitoring
  • GraphRAG pipeline — 150K support case documents, accurate answers
  • Interactive chat system over 4 TB database
  • Cloud Cost Agent — real-time Azure analysis, 30% cost reduction
  • Infrastructure Performance Agent — health scoring and regression detection

Leadership & Impact

  • Managing 3 clients with technical expertise, helping the team build and ship products
  • Leading a team of 4 as technical mentor across multiple projects
  • Architected all systems end-to-end
  • Led 10 community meetups on Saturdays
  • Campus hiring lead for 4 years — IIIT Dharwad & GIT Belgaum
  • Grew with the company from 10 engineers to 55 people
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MildlyClassic

Engineering Team Lead

May 2016 – May 2019

70K dockets/month
2.5K daily users
7 engineers hired

Built and scaled a mission-critical logistics ERP from scratch to 2,500 daily users handling 70K dockets/month.

  • End-to-end ERP — Finance, Ops, Booking, Hub Management, CRM, Route Planning for PAN India secure logistics
  • Clients: large jewellery manufacturers shipping daily from manufacturing to retail
  • Bulk docket creation via upload, 70K dockets/month
  • Scaled from 100s to 2,500 daily users with zero downtime
  • Migrated DigitalOcean → AWS in 3 months after security incident

Leadership & Process

  • Hired 7 engineers, led the team through the full product lifecycle
  • Direct client interface — requirements to modules
  • Established 4-week release cycle — build, test, deploy monthly
  • System served entire company (Ops + Finance) all day, every day

Meanwhile — Sister Company · Wifi Dabba → YC W17

Pre-Jio era — built byte-counting and usage sync software on Wi-Fi hardware for Wifi Dabba, selling data at ₹2/100 MB. Built the Google NBU analytics platform for Hubballi. Hired 4-5 members post-funding.

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UXgage

Co-Founder & CTO

Oct 2015 – Apr 2016

0→1 product shipped
₹5L cash prize won

Took an idea from zero to a shipped product in 6 months — won a ₹5L cash prize from Sandbox Startups, with office space and Azure infrastructure granted separately.

  • Core product architecture — PHP, Neo4j, Cassandra
  • JS instrumentation engine capturing user interactions and behavioral data
  • Data pipeline for large-volume user interaction storage

Leadership

  • Owned the product end-to-end — not a contributor, the builder
  • Hired ~3 engineers, mentored them, unblocked technical challenges
  • Conducted product demos for clients and stakeholders
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Earlier

2010 – 2016

Firaa.me

Side Project · Built at IdeaFlask · Sep 2014 – Sep 2015

Built and shipped a travel blogging platform end-to-end. Reached 500+ organic users in 6 months with zero marketing spend.

Samvit Learning

Founder · Apr 2011 – Apr 2016

Founded a software training institute during 2nd year of MCA. Trained 250+ students in web programming technologies. Managed 25+ innovative projects.

dotCORD IT Solutions

Web Developer Intern · 2010–2013

Interned for 3 years at GIT Incubation Center. Learned software engineering before completing MCA. Built applications on PHP frameworks (CodeIgniter, Yii).

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