Staff Engineer & Engineering Lead | Bangalore, India

12+ years building distributed systems, leading teams, and shipping products that scale. Currently at Acko Insurance as a Staff Engineer, growing from individual lead → Engineering Manager → technical direction setter across multiple product lines.

Acko Insurance — Lead → EM → Staff Engineer

July 2022 – Present

  • Built Acko’s travel insurance platform from scratch — domestic & international coverage, real-time flight tracking, and automated claims processing
  • Led an AI processing pipeline for the travel pass platform — from email classification to information extraction — and achieved CASA certification
  • Built B2B partner onboarding tooling that cut onboarding time by ~70%
  • Shipped Onboarding 2.0 — a cross-domain customer onboarding platform with cross-sell couponing — deadline-driven, went live the day before a major sales event
  • Introduced Domain Driven Design organisation-wide; reduced dev time ~15% and improved code quality ~25%
  • Integrated GitHub Copilot into team workflows, boosting engineer productivity ~20%
  • Grew from leading individual projects → engineering managing a team → Staff Engineer owning technical direction across multiple product lines

Unacademy Group (Mastree) — Engineering Lead

Dec 2020 – Jun 2022

  • Joined as SDE3 at Mastree; promoted to Engineering Lead for key Unacademy products
  • Led development of live 1:1 mentorship class booking, educator availability marking, and AI-powered doubt-solving
  • Built a full payment system at Mastree — subscriptions, one-time payments, and EMI options
  • Mentored 5 engineers across backend, frontend, and mobile platforms

Slice — Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2020 – Nov 2020

  • Built a dynamic couponing engine that adjusted rewards based on real-time user behaviour and budget constraints — drove a 2% increase in on-time credit repayments
  • Integrated Razorpay and SETU (BBPS) for auto-debit and mobile payment channels
  • Led a cross-functional team to refactor and modernise legacy credit repayment codebase

Semantics3 — Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Mar 2020

  • Designed core microservices handling 200M+ monthly updates for internal e-commerce applications
  • Built a custom scheduling system to automate crawling, processing, categorisation, and per-customer catalog delivery
  • Developed internal React/TypeScript dashboards used by data and ops teams
  • Contributed to an AI-powered product classification platform improving e-commerce data accuracy

Vokal India — Senior SDE

Dec 2015 – Jun 2017

  • Designed and built low-latency, real-time messaging backends in Go and Elixir for a large-scale user base
  • Built and open-sourced an Elixir-based MQTT binary library, since adopted by multiple third-party applications
  • Helped establish technical culture; mentored junior engineers across the team

Technical Skills

Languages: Go · Java · NodeJS · Elixir · TypeScript

Architecture & Design:

  • Domain Driven Design (DDD)
  • Event Driven Architecture
  • Microservices Patterns
  • Distributed Systems Engineering
  • Backend / Server Engineering

Security: End-to-End OAuth2 with OpenID — SSO & Access Management

Open Source: Active contributor; built MQTT clients for IoT and real-time messaging applications

Education

Bachelor of Engineering — Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidyalaya, VV Nagar (2009–2013) CGPA: 8.14 / 10

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Languages: Gujarati · Hindi · English