Experience
Jun 2023 - Present
Tech Lead (Founding Engineer)
Hotelzify• Scaled from Founding Backend Engineer to Tech Lead, taking full ownership of the company's primary product line (previously managed by the CTO).
• Manage and mentor a team of 5 engineers, drive engineering decisions, detailed design specs, code reviews, and sprint planning.
• Architected and own 4 core revenue systems (Booking Engine, Price Parity Engine, Google Hotel Center & Ads, Channel Manager) powering 90% of company revenue and processing $8.6M+ in monthly booking value.
• Achieved <200ms p95 latency on user-facing APIs through strategic denormalization, query optimization, indexing, and caching.
• Refactored system to event-driven architecture reducing price inaccuracies by 88% and achieving 22% increase in impressions.
• Led technical execution of 30+ production features and 15+ integrations across payments (Razorpay, Paytring), AdTech (Google Ads), metasearch connectivity (Skyscanner, TripAdvisor, Wego).
• Automated hotelier and guest escalations, eliminating 45+ hours/month of manual operations across support team.
• Led integration of AI agents (Cursor, LLM-assisted coding) into team workflow and mentored engineers on spec-driven development.
• Voted Performer of the Year 2025 (33% of organization-wide votes).
• Tech Stack: Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, JavaScript, AWS (SQS, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, EC2, CodePipeline), GCP (Cloud Functions, Cloud Scheduler), Redis, Docker, Sentry, Retool, Git.
Apr 2023 - May 2023
Backend Engineer Intern
Wealthy (Buildwealth Tech Pvt Ltd)• Contributed to the Mutual Funds Tracker microservice. Built the migration of fund tracking via MF Central APIs.
• Built a wrapper class to use Postgres with FastAPI and Celery.
• Earned a full-time offer as the top performing engineer among 8 interns.
• Tech Stack: Python, Django, FastAPI, Celery, Postgres, Metabase.
Feb 2023 - Apr 2023
Full Stack Engineer Intern
Dhanlap | Ark Neo financial services• Scraped, parsed over the web to extract 2.5k mutual funds data
• Modelled schema and wrote complex Ecto queries to retrieve filtered data from the database.
• Dynamically developed around 2.7 K pages for showing all data related to mutual funds.
• Engineered Batch script to update all the data in the database.
• Directly communicated with CEO, CTO, product, testing and UI/UX designer.
• Technologies : Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres, Ecto, Postman, EEx (Embedded elixir), Tailwind CSS
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Full Stack Engineer Intern
Maveric Systems Limited• Implemented a POC to migrate from the existing backend to microsoft Azure web pubsub service with Flask. The backend establishes websocket connection to enable cross-device communication.
• Reintegrated authentication from OAuth to Custom Authentication using OTP in frontend.
• Developed Dashboard referencing figma docs and displayed charts using API data.
• Technologies : Microsoft Azure, NodeJS, Flask, ReactJS, Tailwind CSS, ChartJS
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Full Stack Engineer Intern
Gokion• Developed a landing page referencing figma docs.
• Developed 5 features: combo, menu, order, invoice, and dashboard screens by integrating REST APIs for SAAS product.
• Built an internal tool/website to identify customer activity.
• Technologies: Typescript, NodeJS, ReactJS, Material-UI, HTML, CSS, Postman, redux-toolkit. AWS.
Feb 2021 - May 2021
GSSOC contributor
GirlScript Summer of Code• Secured a Rank of 20th out of 6000+ developers.
• Contributed to a variety of projects.
• Understanding and learning new technologies and packages to implement new features in projects.
• Demonstrated my skills in React js, HTML , CSS, JavaScript, Redux.
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
CWoD Full-stack Developer
CRIO Winter of Doing• Learnt and demonstrated development skills to qualify from stage 1 which comprised 13,000+ developers.
• Cleared Coding test with a rank of 428 to qualify for stage 2 phase B. (one among 1000 developers)
• In stage 2 phase B, demonstrated my skills by making a full stack application with REST API archetechture in 8 days.
• Tech used: Swagger UI for API documentation, React js, JavaScript, React-bootstrap, Node js, Express js, Lowdb, npm package manager, gitlab for version control, testing done with AWS E2 instance.
Aug 2019 - May 2023
B.Tech, ECE
PTU (formerly Pondicherry Engineering College, PEC) - Pondicherry• Major in Electronics and Communication Enginnering with a CGPA of 8.72.
• Started my full stack programmig journey. Built around 10 landing pages for college and department related events.
• 2x runner in intra department football championship, 1x Winner.
• Bronze medalist with PEC college team in intercollegiate footnall championship
• College football team Vice Captain
2017 - 2019
High School
KV no. 1, Pondicherry• Took Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in 11th and 12th grade.