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14+ years building production data platforms and AI systems - managing 40+ engineers across data, AI, and full-stack teams, architecting systems processing 10M+ transactions daily, and building self-service ETL pipelines handling 150TB/day at Agoda. From high-volume data infrastructure to voice-first agentic AI at an a16z-backed startup.

Work Experience

Layerpath [a16z Speedrun'25 Backed Startup] Remote – Coimbatore, India
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mar 2025 – Present
  • Architected "Path AI" – voice-first agentic AI system with 7-stage FSM implementing BANT + Four Forces frameworks; handles 1,500+ calls/month with 85%+ accuracy and 75% cost reduction vs. human SDRs.
  • Built observability with Langfuse: conversation traces, tool call tracking, and prompt versioning for A/B tests.
  • Scaled the business from zero to early revenue; manage a team of 2 engineers and 1 designer; oversee support, operations, and hiring.
Cloud Ambassadors [Google Cloud Partner] Remote – Coimbatore, India
Director of Engineering | Data & AI Jul 2024 – Feb 2025
  • Led 3 engineering teams (40 engineers) delivering production agentic AI systems for Google Cloud clients: conversational AI agents, document intelligence platforms, and enterprise RAG search solutions.
  • Architected multi-tenant enterprise search platform serving 1M+ documents with hybrid search (vector + BM25).
Tookitaki [Thunes Holdings] Singapore
Engineering Manager | Data & Full Stack Sep 2022 – May 2024
  • Managed 24 engineers across 3 units, delivering Anti-Fraud, AML, and SaaS products processing 10M+ transactions/day.
  • Architected Anti-Fraud solution using Apache Flink, achieving 19x performance increase with sub-100ms latency.
  • Reduced annual OPEX by 30% via Hadoop modernization: HBase to ScyllaDB, Kubernetes-based Spark migration.
Agoda [Booking Holdings Inc.] Bangkok, Thailand
Staff Data Engineer | Data Platform Team May 2022 – Aug 2022
  • Led the migration of the Big Data platform from HDFS to Vast (AWS S3 API compliant); designed and implemented a centralized credential management service with HashiCorp Vault integration.
Senior Data Engineer | Data Platform Team Aug 2021 – May 2022
  • Developed tooling and processes for seamless data migration from HDFS to Vast S3 object storage; led code reviews and mentored junior engineers.
  • Prototyped table format solutions using Apache Iceberg and CDC pipelines with Debezium & Apache Flink.
Data Engineer | Data Platform Team Jan 2020 – Aug 2021
  • Implemented self-service ETL data pipelines for high-volume data (~150 TBs/day); designed and automated inter-cluster ETL job and data migration tools for 190+ teams.
Senior SDET | Data Platform Team Jan 2019 – Dec 2019
  • Established quality engineering and CI/CD best practices within the Big Data environment; developed Python libraries and frameworks for comprehensive data validation (Spark & Koalas).
Early Career Experience India
Test Automation & Quality Engineering Roles Jul 2012 – Dec 2018

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  • redBus [MakeMyTrip] – Lead/Senior SDET: Led API test automation framework development; integrated CI/CD for continuous validation.
  • Scientific Games – Test Automation Engineer: Performance tested high-throughput lottery APIs handling millions of transactions.
  • Cognizant [LexisNexis] – Test Automation Engineer: Built API test automation framework for Lexis Advance legal search platform (100+ RESTful endpoints).

Skills

Programming Languages: Python, Scala, Rust, Java, TypeScript (Next.js, React, Node.js)
Agentic AI & GenAI: Pipecat, LlamaIndex, Langfuse, RAG (Milvus/Zilliz)
Data & Infrastructure: Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, FastAPI, Postgres, ScyllaDB, Redis, Airflow
DevOps & Cloud: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, BigQuery)

Education

PSG College of Technology | Anna University Coimbatore, India
B.Sc Information Technology CGPA: 9.43/10 Jun 2009 – May 2012