Jul 2023 - Present
• 1 yr 3 mosCreator of multiple monetized YouTube channels
🎥 YouTube.com/@Hobby_Explorer_Tamil
🎥 YouTube.com/@Hobby_Explorer
😆 Helping my subscribers to live a happy & prosperous life
📂 Managing my YouTube Ad Revenue with regular Bookkeeping & Accounting
📚 Educating myself on how to be a better YouTuber
🚗💨 0 to 100,000 Subscribers in 35 days!

Creator and Producer
Hobby Explorer
2023 - Present
• 1 yr 9 mos🇺🇸 Hobby Explorer LLC is my umbrella company for all my channels with a combined following of more than 1.3million subscribers.
🇺🇸 I personally answer subscriber Questions at two of my YouTube channels: Youtube.com/@Hobby_Explorer_Tamil and Youtube.com/@Hobby_Explorer
🇺🇸 Idea generation for future video contents.
🇺🇸 Direction, Filming & Editing
🇺🇸 Collaborating with other Creators & Brands
🇺🇸 Guiding my creative team (video editor, thumbnail designer)

Software Engineer
Nextdoor · Full-time
Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
• 3 yrs🔥 It would be an understatement to say, my team and I played a major role in this company's IPO. 🔥
🫡 Big thanks to our fearless leader Swapnil Shrivastav who is now leading Google Local Ads. 🫡
🔥 I lead the Design & Development of B2C Ads Billing Platform for Nextdoor Ads which processed more than $100m in credit card charges in less than 2.5 years.
* Integrated with Stripe as our Primary Payment Processor using their Payment Intent APIs.
🔥 Held weekly meetings with Stripe Account Executives & Nextdoor Head of Ads Product & Nextdoor Accountants, CPAs to chart a path for the Ads Billing Platform.
🔥 Developed a full-stack solution for customers to choose monthly or usage-based cycles.
🔥 Lead the development of Nextdoor's first subscription billing product for small businesses.
🔥 Collaborated with Finance Team to develop pub-sub metrics for Billing Data which eventually gets used for Quarterly Revenue Reports by Nextdoor Finance Teams post IPO.

Software Development Engineer
Amazon Lab126
Aug 2016 - Mar 2020
• 3 yrs 8 mos• Designing and developing product features for Alexa time programs.
• Notable projects include: Move/Cancel calendar meeting; Voice sign up and deliver notifications on Alexa Devices.
• Scaling backend systems and improving operational efficiency.
• Designing and deploying high performance production services with robust monitoring and logging.

Startup School - Founder Track
Y Combinator
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
• 6 mos• Our App was much appreciated by a small community of "Meme Creators".
• Having regular calls with them to understand their world and what to build next.
• Predicting Meme Popularity using Facebook pages API
• Developed iOS, Android, and Web apps at http://memeyogi.com
• Got Accepted into a 10 Week program by Y Combinator to improve upon our project.
• We were mentored by Push Bullet CEO Ryan Oldenburg. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-oldenburg-70661694

Software Engineer
Vlocity (Acquired by Salesforce)
Jul 2015 - Aug 2016
• 1 yr 2 mosThis was a short but interesting stint for me. When I decided to leave the company, my hiring manager(with good intentions) wished me luck and tried his best to make me stay. Better package. Better work location. But, I had different goals. I wanted to learn Machine Learning and work on Alexa, I got a very good opportunity at Amazon. So I had to move on. 🥹

Turn (Acquired by Amobee)
Jul 2012 - Jul 2015
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2014 - Jul 2015
• 1 yr 4 mos• 🥹 My hiring manager left for another job, he told me on his last 1-1 that he saw his younger self in me. 🥹
• Developed Real Time Bidding integration to bring onboard several ad exchanges to increase inventory.
• Implemented integration tests to simulate real time bidding in staging environment.
• Built a Docker framework to spin up micro services for integration testing.
• Developed a webapp to monitor cluster health using Play Framework in Java.
Software Engineer
Jul 2012 - Mar 2014
• 1 yr 9 mos
Software Engineer
Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2011 - May 2012
• 1 yr 5 mosKinsey Project:
• Collected, Encrypted, and Stored - sensitive, Personally Identifiable Information(PII) on our University Servers.
• Assisted Prof. Filippo Menczer in his research for the Kinsey Reporter project. First developer of the kinseyreporter.org
• Developed the server side API for Kinseyreporter.org mobile apps iPhone and Android
• Developed the API for visualizing the collected survey data in kinseyreporter.org
• Developed the first mobile prototype using JQuery mobile for the survey system
Other Lab works include:
Implemented Google Timeline API to display the twitter hashtag feed on truthy.indiana.edu/movies
• Redesigned LANET-VI project website lanet-vi.soic.indiana.edu

Software Developer Intern
IBM
May 2011 - Aug 2011
• 4 mos• 🥹 On last day of my internship: My Hiring Manager/Mentor told me I was the best Intern he had ever hired!!!!!!! 🥹
• Developed a Workload Management System (WLM) module for Information Server
• Wrapped the server as a RESTful web service using apache wink
• Proposed various design solutions for complex multi-threaded problems
• Addressed numerous exceptions in the system and written unit test cases using JUnit