Profile

FORTE

• Have extensive experience in architecting, re-architecting, designing and implementing large-scale backend/web applications
• Eloquent and skillful in functional and object-oriented programming, design and methodologies.
• Dogmatic about producing highly reusable semantically meaningful space-efficient debuggable and maintainable quality code. To crash is a shame!
• Have extensive experience in refactoring beyond-repair production code and transforming it into robust secure testable high quality code with no new defects and agreed breaking changes
• Conceive, Propose, Document, Maintain and Adapt engineering standards and policies for efficient functioning of team and the product. The what and how matters, the why gives meaning.
• Dutifully groom and mentor engineers to build and sustain the best-in-class team. Be the brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
• Language agnostic, polyglot, linguist, linguaphile - Scala, C#, Java, Rust, Go, Python, C++, TypeScript. Prudent enough to employ the power of the language/technology to solve business problems effectively.
• Have extensive experience working collaboratively in small and large teams practicing Agile software development.

PERSONA

Avid Blogger

• A Developer’s Experience

  Introduce discrete programming problems from an alternative viewpoint, not HOWTOs, and present plausible solutions, Wild analogies of scenarios identified across platforms or languages.

• Rhetoric Musings

  Thinker, philosopher, failed writer

• Lights Preserved

  Love photography. Capture and present the original beauty of the subject without manipulation.

Articles Published Online

• C++/CLI Primer – An Apress Book
• JINQ – Java INtegrated Query. 🔗
• Application Models 🔗
• Lo and Behold 🔗
• Bits, Bytes and Stones 🔗
• “Please Don’t Fail Me!” – Decorator Cries Out to Template Method 🔗
• Type-Safe Logger For C++ 🔗
• Scrollable Image Viewer 🔗
• Simple Tree List View 🔗

WORK EXPERIENCE

• As Staff Software Engineer with Teladoc Health Inc since Nov 2020
• At Livongo
  • As Staff Software Engineer July 2019 - Nov 2020
  • As Senior Software Engineer July 2017 - July 2019
• As Technology Architect with Cognizant Technology Solutions (May 2011 – May 2017)
• As Senior Consultant with ThoughtWorks Technologies Ltd, India (May 2010 - May 2011)
• As Technical Lead with HCL Technologies Ltd, India (Jan 2003-Apr 2010)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronics) – 1997 - 2001