Professional Experience & Education

Current
Prudential Financial

As the VP of Engineering for the Sales and Distribution business at Prudential Financial, I lead a dedicated team focused on the engineering build and evolution of our sales and distribution channels for Prudential products. Our technology platforms are utilized by over three hundred thousand advisors and wholesalers across the United States. Through the development and maintenance of various digital products, my teams aim to transform the experience of purchasing, selling, and servicing life insurance.

I play a pivotal role in shaping our organization’s technology and business strategy, enhancing Prudential's digital capabilities. Previously, I also led technology for Prudential’s direct-to-consumer business, earning multiple industry awards for excellence in customer experience. Our life stages platform empowers individuals to navigate crucial life events with assurance, offering a blend of digital tools and access to skilled advisors, thus making it straightforward for clients to receive guidance on their terms and timeline.

Responsibilities:

• Coach teams and build effective organizational structures.

• Establish processes for hiring and team development within the engineering organization.

• Define the overarching technical strategy and lead architecture discussions.

• Drive the technical direction of the business.

• Foster thought leadership and collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners to support our engineering teams.

• Manage engineering organization cash flow and oversee build vs. buy decisions for key tools and technologies, with a customer-centric approach.

Before
Squarespace

I serve as an engineering leader at Squarespace (SQSP). My teams are responsible for build & evolution of 4 verticals at SQSP -

• Content Management Platform: A distributed content management systems at scale that allow millions SQSP customers to manage their SQSP product content.

• API & Developer Platform: A SQSP offered API and developer platform that allows merchants and partners to provide offerings and integrations for the SQSP ecosystem.

• Communication Platform: A centralized communication platform that manages inbound and outbound transactional and marketing communication to/ from our SQSP customers.

• Search Platform: Enable various product teams at SQSP to leverage search platform and build search offerings for our customers.

Notable contributions

• Building and scaling three fully agile teams from ground up. Helping teams navigate the Tuckman’s team development stages. At peak, delivered ~15 projects per team quarterly with an average team size of 4.

• Cross collaboration and strong relationship building with various stakeholders across the company.

• People, budget, and career management for engineers on the team and coaching leaders to multiply themselves.

• Setting org and team wide processes to streamline discovery, planning, execution and delivery of product/ platforms.

• Successfully navigated reorgs with a people centric leadership approach yielding in a 100% retention rate in my teams.

Goldman Sachs

Marcus

Managed a team of talented engineers to deliver various projects/ features for Marcus, a consumer banking platform of Goldman Sachs. Working closely with the product management and business folks, delivered on many important initiatives like customer oauth token management, loan decisioning platform, small loans product offering, disaster & relief offerings, etc.

Intraday Risk

As part of the Intraday Risk Management team, I designed & built a ‘Risk Dashboard’ platform using REST and AngularJS. This enabled Risk Managers to monitor clients’ exposure to the market thereby accurately measuring the impact of market-moving events. The system consumed ~2000 trades/ second in real time, rendering them in a grid based format and making the entire dataset filter/ sort enabled.

I also contributed to the development of a low latency system in C++ that calculates the intraday trading risk and alerts the Risk Managers of high risk trades. Based on ~10/15 complicated inputs to the system, this platform computed the risk for the firm on each trade within a span of millisecond. Huge win for the platform was successfully being able to alert our risk manager during the Knight Capital error trades issue.

Achievements:
- Global Technology Innovation Awards- Best in Business Unit
- Global GS Hackathon winner for year 2015
- Worked with ‘Save The Elephants’ foundation as part of the GS Gives initiative

Charles River Development

I worked with a talented set of engineers who were responsible for the Commissions & Fees management system at CRD. I contributed by architecting, designing and implementing a currency exchange API for Charles River Investment Management System’s Commission dashboard making it available for conversion in over 100 different currencies. I also helped revamped the commission and fee rules engine from Charles River’s legacy system to a more UX friendly system thereby saving ~30% time for traders.

Jasma Engineering

As a Lead Software Developer at Jasma Engineering, I developed a data management software for Jasma. The software manages and searches multi-disciplinary data spread in over twenty five application fields from quotation – order – procurement until execution. It also offers searching features with different cross linkages, helping quick data mining in systematic form for efficient management & decision making.