Resume
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Education
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering July 2012 – July 2016 GPA: 9.17/10.0; Branch Rank #3 The Air Force School Delhi Cantonment, India Senior Secondary, CBSE; Average: 94.3% 2011 – 2012 Secondary, CBSE; CGPA: 9.8/10.0 2009 – 2010
Experience
Google Software Engineer Bangalore, India Datascope Search Infrastructure March 2022 – present Bootstrapped the team from the ground up in a newly forming org in India
Hired 10+ candidates for the org, conducting more than 30 fit calls
As the sole resident Search expert on the org, responsible for ramping up the new hires
As Technical Lead, responsible for direction, execution and delivery of multiple projects supported by the team, including Real Time Feature Monitoring (RTFM), Anomaly Detection, AutoIntent Horizontal Monitoring
Regularly working with Data Scientists, SREs, Language Specialists, Feature Teams, Infrastructure Teams, Release Engineers across 4 Product Areas: Search, Assistant, Youtube and Maps
Software Engineer Mountain View, California Search Fulfillment SRE October 2020 – March 2022 Started the Search End-to-End Reliability (SEER) project to monitor the end-user perceived reliability of Search
Prototyped, got buy-in from leadership and evangelized the solution across multiple teams in Search
As Technical Lead of the federated group across 4 teams (approx. 20 people), responsible for the overall direction, consensus and infrastructure
Jaggi Infotech Private Limited New Delhi, India Founder January 2020 – September 2020 Using technology to streamline the financial activities of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India
Google Software Engineer Dublin, Ireland Assistant SRE, Search Intelligence SRE, Search Backend SRE October 2016 – July 2019 Worked on the reliability of Google Search and Google Assistant, with contributions spreading across serving infrastructure, microservices, production monitoring and alerting, load balancing, memory allocation, capacity planning, turn-ups and turn-downs of Search and related services in Google datacentres
Handled multiple major+ outages in Search and Assistant
Regularly conducted hiring interviews and trained new hire SREs
Led a group of engineers during a code-yellow to build a Real Time Feature Monitoring (RTFM) system for Google Assistant
RTFM became very successful (Google has applied for a patent on RTFM), and is now the de-facto feature monitoring system for Assistant and Websearch and being prototyped for Youtube and Maps
Evangelized the project in multiple forums, like SRE All Hands and Summits
Software Engineering Intern Mountain View, California Search Infrastructure May 2015 – July 2015 Worked on the middle tier of Google Search Serving stack, specifically on the component responsible for combining results from multiple backends into the final structured page by analyzing and operating on the relevancy scores
Migrated late-request RPCs to use a new, simpler parallelisation scheme
Google Summer of Code FreeBSD Foundation Mentor Summer 2018 Mentored a student on importing Xen grant-table bus_dma(9) handlers from OpenBSD to FreeBSD
FreeBSD Foundation Student Summer 2016 Haiku, Inc. Student Summer 2014
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India Teaching Assistant Compilers Course Monsoon 2015 Incharge of designing the structure and deliverables for the course project of implementing a compiler for the decaf programming language
Responsible for conducting tutorial sessions and for grading quizzes, assignments, course projects and examinations
Teaching Assistant Computer Programming Course Monsoon 2014 Responsible for conducting practical tutorials and examinations
Curated assignment problems for around 300 freshmen taking the course
Students’ Parliament General Secretary April 2015 – April 2016 Primary liaison between faculty, administration and students of the university
Led the Executive Wing of the Parliament and worked towards bettering student academic and cultural life on campus
Established the Student Academic and Counselling Board (SACB) responsible for maintaining an active discourse on academics and research at the university
Students’ Parliament Elected Member April 2014 – March 2015 Admin - Open Source Developers Group 2014 – 2015 Conducted sessions to introduce freshmen and sophomores to Free and Open Source (FOSS) software
Sessions were focussed on available open source softwares, different types of licences, how to get involved and start contributing to open source software
Organiser and System Admin - Felicity Threads November 2014 – February 2015 Felicity Threads is the annual technical festival of IIIT Hyderabad Researched and selected the events and competitions to be a part of the festival
Recruited people to work on specific roles necessary for the festival
Responsible for the entire technical infrastructure of the festival, setting up and maintaining mail servers, reverse proxy, databases, containers, and ldap
Patents, Awards & Honours
Patent - US 2022/0165259 A1 May 26, 2022 Low Latency Automated Identification of Automated Assistant Function Failure (link) Spot and Peer Bonuses Received more than 20 spot and peer bonuses, including a spot bonus for RTFM from the VP of Search and Assistant Branch Rank 3 2016 Among students graduating with B.Tech. in CSE from IIIT Hyderabad in the year 2016 Commendation Certificate 2016 For all round performance and contributions in the fields of Campus life and IIIT-H services Dean’s List Awarded for Excellence in Academics - For being in the top 5% of the class
Technical Skills
| Programming Languages | C++, C, Python |
| Tools and Utilities | Git, Perforce, Svn, Mercurial, LaTeX, SQL, Flex, Bison, Octave |
| Web Technologies | Django, React, HTML/CSS |
| Containers and Hypervisors | Docker, Xen |
| Operating Systems | Linux, MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD |
Sport Programming
Ranked 913 in Google CodeJam 2013 Round-2. India Rank - 11
My team Heuristics ranked 4th in the 2015 ACM-ICPC Asia Chennai Regional Contest (link)
My team TheHeuristics ranked 2nd in the 2014 ACM-ICPC Kharagpur Online Contest and 7th in the Kharagpur Onsite Contest (link)
Wrote a blogpost explaining the construction of my favourite data structure, Suffix Automata, to help fellow sport programmers. (link)