Experience

Where the systems
were built.

A career built around systems thinking — across enterprise, startup, and scale-up environments — always centered on architecture, reliability, and real-world impact.

Kumo AI DeltaStream Confluent SAP Ariba + earlier roles
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Kumo AI

Graph-Native ML Platform · Mountain View, CA · –

Principal Engineer, Cloud AI/ML Infrastructure

AWS · Kubernetes · Argo · Python · BYOC

Kumo AI is a graph-native machine learning platform applying relational deep learning directly over enterprise data graphs — enabling ML predictions without traditional feature engineering. I led a cloud engineering team of 5, building next-generation Kubernetes-based infrastructure across AWS with planned expansion into Azure and GCP, supporting SaaS, multi-tenant, dedicated, and BYOC deployment models for enterprise customers.

Platform Built

  • →Kubernetes control plane & data plane across AWS
  • →SaaS, multi-tenant, dedicated, and BYOC deployment models
  • →End-to-end compute, storage & networking roadmap
  • →Observability, SOC2 continuous compliance, incident management

Leadership Scope

  • →Led cloud engineering team of 5 across infra & platform
  • →Cross-functional alignment with product and security orgs
  • →Hiring, interview loop design, and team development
  • →OKR planning, sprint execution, and servant leadership

Platform Scope

Owned the end-to-end cloud platform roadmap — scaling compute, storage, and networking across multi-cloud deployment models while driving SOC2 compliance, cost engineering, and observability for an AI/ML platform serving enterprise customers.

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DeltaStream

Serverless Streaming Data Platform · Menlo Park, CA · –

Principal Architect, Streaming Data Infrastructure

Java · Go · Kafka · Flink · BYOC · AWS · GCP

DeltaStream is a multi-cloud serverless streaming data platform — eliminating the complexity of building real-time data applications for operational and analytical use cases. Powered by Apache Flink, the platform enables continuous SQL queries, event-driven pipelines, and serverless stream processing at enterprise scale. I joined as a founding Principal Architect, taking the company from seed funding through Series A and from zero to millions in annual revenue.

Platform Built

  • →Streaming query execution engine infrastructure
  • →Multi-tenant stream processing with isolation guarantees
  • →Kubernetes-based job scheduling for Flink workloads
  • →Control plane / data plane separation for BYOC model

Leadership Scope

  • →Founding-level architectural decision making
  • →Hiring and growing the core infrastructure team
  • →Defining engineering culture and operational standards
  • →Customer-facing architecture reviews and technical strategy

Key Achievement

Drove DeltaStream from zero to millions in annual revenue, securing Series A funding — making 10-year architectural decisions at startup velocity while establishing the BYOC data plane, multi-tenant Flink isolation, and serverless query engine infrastructure across AWS and GCP.

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Confluent

The world's data streaming platform · Co-creators of Apache Kafka® · –

Principal Engineer, Infrastructure

Confluent Cloud · Kafka · Flink · BYOC

Confluent is the world's data streaming platform, built by the original co-creators of Apache Kafka. I scaled developer productivity, platform, and cloud infrastructure across a 600+ engineer organization — improving engineering efficiency by 1000x, reducing release timelines from weeks to hours for GA, hotfix, and CVE releases, and growing a high-performing team of 25 engineers from zero through championing, recruiting, and calibration.

Systems Built

  • →Release & packaging, CI, Docker, and productivity tooling
  • →Data aggregation pipeline for build & test execution insights
  • →IaC-based tools infrastructure via Terraform (secure, cost-optimized)
  • →Provisioning pipeline: immutable CI infrastructure in minutes

Impact & Scale

  • →1000x engineering efficiency across 600+ engineer org
  • →Releases: weeks → hours (GA, hotfix, CVE at click of a button)
  • →Grew team from 0 to 25 engineers; 300+ interviews conducted
  • →6 successful full-time conversions from internship program

Org Scale

Developer productivity and platform infrastructure for 600+ engineers across docs, Developer Experience, Solutions Architects, and core engineering — spanning cross-org initiatives that compressed release cycles from weeks to hours.

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SAP Ariba

World's largest B2B commerce network · Palo Alto, CA · –

Architect & Cloud Infrastructure Lead

Procurement SaaS · Ariba Network · Spend Management

SAP Ariba operates the world's largest B2B commerce network, connecting millions of buyers and suppliers globally. I led multiple engineering initiatives across a 2,500+ engineer organization, scaling the Ariba commerce network from $50B to $500B and achieving a 1000x engineering throughput improvement. Recipient of the peer-voted Ariba Star Award for delivering a groundbreaking automation framework that reduced test qualification cycles from 5 days to 3 hours.

Systems Built

  • →5,000+ container platform across bare metal, SAP Monsoon, AWS
  • →FRITZ chaos engineering platform for microservices resiliency
  • →Nomad-based orchestration engine for developer self-service
  • →Real-time test analytics with Kafka, HDFS, and Apache Lily

Measured Impact

  • →Automation time: 50 hours → 5 hours (Ariba Star Award)
  • →Build: 8 hrs → 30 min · Deploys: 6 hrs → 20 min
  • →Test qualification: 5 days → 3 hours
  • →100,000+ test cases per day, 2,500+ engineer org

Org Scale & Recognition

Led 40+ engineers across 5 global datacenters. Managed 20+ product initiatives and held a patent for Chaos Engineering: Test Plan Generation Using Machine Learning. Peer-voted Ariba Star Award winner for automation framework reducing test cycles from 5 days to 3 hours.

Earlier Career

Building the foundation

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Centrify Corporation

Principal DevOps Engineer · Sunnyvale, CA · May 2017 – Aug 2017

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Relational Networks, Inc.

Engineering Team Lead · Sunnyvale, CA · Aug 2009 – May 2011

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DataPipe Managed IT Services

UNIX Developer · San Jose, CA · Feb 2008 – Aug 2009

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Premier Technology Pvt Ltd

Software Engineer · Nagpur, India · Jul 2004 – Jan 2007

Technical depth

The tools and systems I know deeply.

Streaming

  • Apache Kafka
  • Apache Flink
  • Confluent Platform
  • Kafka Streams
  • ksqlDB

Cloud & Infra

  • AWS / GCP / Azure
  • Kubernetes (K8s)
  • Terraform / IaC
  • Service mesh (Istio)
  • Helm / operators

Systems

  • Distributed consensus
  • BYOC architecture
  • Multi-tenant isolation
  • Observability (OTel)
  • Chaos engineering

Languages

  • Java / Scala
  • Go
  • Python
  • SQL (streaming)
  • Bash / scripting

Interested in working together?

I'm open to advisory conversations and leadership roles in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-native platforms.

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