Building platforms that scale, and teams that ship.

Zostel

• Cut monthly AWS spend in half — from ~$9,000 to ~$4,500 — through media, transcoding and infrastructure work.
• Built an in-house image proxy & media server, PoC to scale-out: pages from ~70 MB to under 10 MB, CloudFront egress from 14 TB to a few hundred GB.
• Rebuilt CI/CD on AWS with per-PR demo environments; carried the team unaffected through the npm supply-chain compromise.
• Consolidated multi-account AWS data via DMS into one analytics DB — self-serve reporting for every team.
• Own hiring, on-call, incident workflow, and 1:1s with every engineer.

Manufactured

• KYB/KYC (Alloy, Trulioo), Plaid banking data, deep QuickBooks Online integration.
• OpenAI + Gmail email-parsing pipeline driving the logistics lifecycle end-to-end.
• Factoring pipeline that moved the risk team from spreadsheets to the platform.

ClassHero

Sole contributor to the teacher dashboard of a Math app used in thousands of US schools; one of two backend engineers, on AWS and Heroku.

TrulyMadly

Migrated chat from polling to WebSockets and scaled to 800k concurrent connections; owned dev/QA AWS infra.

Nexxus Payments · HealthKart · Zomato

Bank & payment-processor integrations across the Gulf; e-commerce ops systems; opened Zomato's public APIs to developers in its early days.