Lead Software Engineer
Equal Experts
(Full-time)
Sep 2022 - Present (3 yrs 6 mos)
Bengaluru, India
AI-Enabled Engineering Specialist embedded at Travelopia, leading front-end engineering across the Yachts (The Moorings & Sunsail) and Le Boat brands, shipping production systems used by customers across the US, Europe, and multiple currencies.
- Reverse-engineered an entire legacy application in 6 days using AI-assisted workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) — originally scoped at 4 months.
- Led Credit Card Surcharge for Yachts Checkout using PaymentJS with Fiserv — estimated to save 5-7M GBP annually. First brand within Travelopia live for both online and phone bookings simultaneously.
- Replaced legacy Drupal Checkout with a modern SPA for The Moorings and Sunsail, rolled out to all regions and currencies. CTO and Brand Technology Partner present for go-live.
- Delivered Le Boat New Online Checkout as a full SPA redesign across 8 international websites in ~6 weeks.
- Launched Le Boat Manage My Booking — crew management, extras selection, and instalment payments, built with AI-assisted delivery throughout.
- Built Le Boat Price Framing / Bundles (A/B tested, full rollout Dec 9). Ancillaries contribute 26% of Le Boat's overall business — Phase 1 showed strong mobile conversion uplift.
- Building Voice IQ: AI-powered call coaching dashboard using Talkdesk + Google Gemini — transcription, LLM scoring, and coaching feedback for Sales/Support teams.
Lead Software Engineer (Contract)
Travelopia
(Contract)
Nov 2022 - Present (3 yrs 4 mos)
Bengaluru, India
Contracted via Equal Experts to Travelopia. Leading the Apps Squad across Yachts (The Moorings & Sunsail) and Le Boat for front-end engineering, checkout modernization, payment systems, and AI-powered internal tooling.
Senior Software Engineer
InVideo
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022 (10 mos)
Remote
Led UI architecture for a next-gen video editing platform handling 4K media with bleeding-edge web technologies (WASM, WebCodecs, FFmpeg).
- Architected and executed a large-scale code migration from Angular to React using Module Federation — improving build performance, team autonomy, and long-term maintainability.
- Made critical UI architectural decisions impacting the front-end of a product used by millions of creators worldwide.
- Provided on-call support and directly engaged with users to triage and resolve production issues, ensuring high availability for a real-time editing experience.
Senior Consultant (Contract)
ThoughtWorks
Aug 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 yr 3 mos)
Remote
Delivered across 3 client engagements, working in React, Angular, React Native, and Gatsby.
- IDFC First Bank: Built complete user journeys for iOS, Android, and Web using React Native with industry-first cloud-based hyper-personalization and server-side toggle-based journey enabling.
- Caterpillar: Developed features for a dealer/customer-facing PWA with deep Google Maps integration — asset tracking, geo-fencing, utilization optimization, and fleet-wide financial management.
- Metro Digital: Built a performance-focused portfolio website from scratch using Gatsby. Achieved 95+ Lighthouse scores across all categories.
Software Engineer
CoffeeBeans Consulting
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 yr 10 mos)
Bengaluru, India
Full-stack engineer across 4+ client projects in a consulting environment.
- Talent500: Built features for Canvas, a next-gen ATS enabling multi-channel sourcing from proprietary talent pools to third-party job boards and LinkedIn.
- Unibiz: Conducted deep performance analysis of a heavy React application — identified memory leaks, raised issues with third-party library teams, and demonstrated measurable improvements.
- Syncari: Implemented metadata-focused features across the full stack for a distributed data management platform integrating Salesforce, Zendesk, and HubSpot.
- Organized the Food Code Sleep Hackathon, mentored new engineers, and led upskilling sessions on production-readiness.
Senior Engineer
QBurst Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020 (7 mos)
Calicut, India
Promoted to Senior Engineer. Led full-stack development across multiple client projects and mentored junior engineers.
- Rocket Partners: Developed mobile + kiosk PWA applications for a retail supermarket chain. Code quality commended by client top management.
- Mile Auto: Built the Quote-to-Bind process for a pay-per-mile auto insurance portal (Vue.js), including a Porsche-branded variant.
- Pure Engage: Implemented a Hadoop-based ETL pipeline — collection jobs for periodic CDR fetch, Spark jobs for rating/billing/tax calculation, and Salesforce integration.
- Won special mention in "Game of Code" internal hackathon. Completed GCP Architecture and TensorFlow specializations.
Software Engineer
QBurst Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Jun 2016 - May 2019 (2 yrs 11 mos)
Calicut, India
Started career as a full-stack web developer. Rapid growth across diverse projects and technologies.
- StayNTouch: Built features for a hotel property management system (Web + Mobile). Developed automation suites using Selenium with cross-browser testing, Jenkins CI, and SauceLabs.
- Anywhere Auctions: Created entire application modules from scratch in Angular for a real-time real estate auction platform with DocuSign integration and fraud detection.
- Neo Trader: Implemented interactive candlestick, OHLC & line chart components using D3.js for an online commodity trading platform. Identified a critical memory leak.
- Blockchain POC (Concentrix): Built demo applications from zero showcasing identity management, smart contracts, and shared ledger — delivered end-to-end from setup to client demo.