Experience
2021 — Now
2021 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
Airtable is a connected apps platform that aims to lower the floor of software creation.
• Built a critical data redaction pipeline to prevent unauthorized data from being synced to web and mobile clients without which the permissions system would not have been secure.
• Built a data leasing mechanism to grant temporary write access to users who accidentally lose access to the data due to erroneous edits which helped reduce user frustration.
• Built client and server components for a new user experience that simplified the sharing of visual interfaces to aid in the deployment of data across large company audiences.
• Worked on improving internal debug tools, reducing flakiness of critical tests, writing benchmarks for perf intensive workloads.
2017 — 2021
2017 — 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Quip is a document collaboration tool helping people communicate more effectively and efficiently. Founded by Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs. Backed by Greylock and Benchmark. Accquired by Salesforce. Powering Slack Canvas today.
• Technical lead for a team of 5 building an @mention Quip integration for Salesforce Records. Project involved designing a new data storage model and providing cross platform support with real time syncing capabilities
• Built document collaboration features like Version History (historical edits in a document) and Live Paste (linked content across multiple documents). Made significant contributions to core editor areas, including copy paste capabilities, undo redo stack, and document saving pipeline
• Automated Mac and iOS build systems using Github Actions and ported a Selenium based UI test suite to a distributed test runner environment. Both projects helped improve developer productivity by over 30 mins
2016 — 2016
2016 — 2016
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
A collaboration between IDEO, Target and the MIT Media Lab exploring the creation of new ventures to solve issues and challenges in modern food systems.
• Participated in conducting 12 in-depth user interviews and went on 3 immersive industrial visits to gain insight into the complex dynamics of modern food systems
• Built 6 concepts using rapid prototyping techniques that focused on education consumers about the impact of their food consumption
• Collaborated with experts from Target and the MIT Media Lab to synthesize user research on food systems and consumption habits into common actionable patterns
2013 — 2015
2013 — 2015
Singapore, Singapore
99.co is a real estate rental portal that envisions to innovate a cutthroat industry through a fusion of traditional brokerage, technology, design & human emotion and provide users with an honest, transparent and delightful room rental experience. Team of over 40. Operations in Singapore & Indonesia. Backed by Sequoia Capital.
• Developed the first version of the iOS application written in Objective-C, and took a leadership role in mobile engineering efforts working closely with a team 4 engineers
• As part of an architectural rewrite to split the monolith codebase, migrated multiple backend functions into microservices using Python/Tornado/MongoDB hosted on AWS
• Built and launched product features such as a map based search function with time travel as a filter, powerful listing management tools for property agents & realtime instant messaging capabilities
2012 — 2013
2012 — 2013
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Teach For India is a nationwide movement where exceptional graduates and young professional teach in under resourced schools across the country with the goal of eliminating educational inequity.
• Built a custom Salesforce module to manage the multi step candidate recruitment and selection process handling a high volume of over 18000+ applicants
• Built a ticketing and scheduling application for inspirED, the annual education conference attended by over 500+ people
• Built a social network portal to facilitate the discovery of teacher training resources, job opportunities and team connections for over 100+ staff members, 700+ teachers and 1000+ alumni members
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master’s Degree
2015 — 2017
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Engineering
2007 — 2011
Jamnabai Narsee School
1992 — 2005