Resume

Founding DevRel hire. Built the function from scratch: community platforms, marketing automation, newsletter, social channels, monthly webinars, conference presence, and outreach. LocalStack grew from a community-led open-source project to a Series A company over this period.

• Primary DevRel liaison for every major release from v0.14.4 through v4.0, including the 1.0 GA. Prepared release notes, user-facing docs, social campaigns, and community engagement for each one.
• Co-created the LocalStack Docker Desktop Extension for visual local cloud management. Scaled to 25,000+ active installs on the Docker Extensions Marketplace.
• Architected the Serverless Quiz App and Swag Store demo (React, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, deployed via AWS CDK). Both ran as live, interactive lead-generation demos at AWS re:Invent, driving 200+ demo sessions across the conference.
• Led technical content partnerships with AWS, Docker, Cloudflare, LambdaTest, GitPod, and Shipyard.
• Scaled the LocalStack Meetup group to 1,000+ members. Hosted monthly virtual events for two years and ran three in-person Cloud devXchange editions in Bangalore plus one in Chennai. Speakers came from Docker, Snowflake, Nasdaq, Google, and CockroachDB.
• Implemented AWS service emulators inside the LocalStack codebase (Identity Store, Managed Blockchain, PCA, WAF, Elastic Transcoder, Pinpoint, Textract). Hardened the persistence test suite. Built the official setup-localstack GitHub Action.
• Co-led the company blog migration to Astro with Algolia search, dynamic routing, and WebP optimisation. Hit Lighthouse SEO and Accessibility scores of 90+.
• Started the email newsletter on a self-hosted Sendy on AWS, later migrated to HubSpot, and grew it past 6,150 subscribers. Grew LinkedIn from under 500 to 28,000+ followers and Twitter/X from under 300 to 3,200+.
• Produced video content on LocalStack's YouTube channel, now at 30K+ views and 1K+ subscribers, covering product demos, feature walkthroughs, and conference recordings.
• Built Grafana dashboards for DevRel metrics. Ran the first Hacktoberfest (21 contributions). Drove adoption of the Discuss Forum (60K+ views). Onboarded and mentored two DevRel engineers.

Worked with the Editors and Platform team on cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) solutions for HackerRank Work and the Interview platform.

• Developed initial prototypes to enable Python interpreter and REPL execution in the browser using WebAssembly and Pyodide.
• Integrated a runtime error overlay into HackerRank's in-house browser-based bundling and preview library to improve the developer experience.
• Automated the deployment of HackerRank's bundling and preview library over a static file server using GitHub Actions and Google Container Registry.
• Optimised continuous integration and deployment for the core IDE by about 50% via container caching and a handful of Docker bug fixes.

Worked with the Angkor (DevOps) team at Nethermind on processes and operations for the Ethereum ecosystem.

• Built organisation-wide CI/CD pipelines for Nethermind (the .NET Core Ethereum client), Voyager (an early block explorer), the One-Click validator, and Melange (an Ethereum event subscriber).
• Worked on Melange, a plug-and-play pipeline project for serving Ethereum and Layer-2 event data with higher correctness and uptime guarantees.
• Developed benchmarks for Melange against Blocknative and Etherscan while tuning scaling and performance.
• Integrated AWS Lambda functions to track and validate 12,000+ Gnosis Chain and Nethermind validators, surfacing operational and business insights.
• Deployed nodes and services including Iron Fish, Geth, Görli testnets, and Erigon clients.
• Configured and deployed WireGuard IPsec VPN as the organisation-wide VPN, with two-factor authentication on top.
• Wrote algorithmic implementations (Pedersen Hash, ECDSA) for Juno, Nethermind's StarkNet client in Go.
• Built a cross-platform scheduled job to track memory consumption across Nethermind nodes and trigger remediation.

Worked with Economize, a SaaS for analysing and optimising cloud infrastructure costs.

• Redesigned the company landing page to support more nuanced product narratives.
• Proposed and prototyped a recommendation system for GKE pod requests and limits using the Metrics API.
• Deployed and maintained the internal knowledge base on Outline (self-hosted on EC2).
• Built dashboards in Looker, Tableau, and Data Studio to generate insights and comparison metrics against the company's primary product.
• Applied SEO practices to lift keyword rankings and organic listings, with analytics tooling feeding a continuous improvement loop.
• Managed the company's engineering blog (economize.cloud/blog) and contributed articles on Google Cloud, product updates, and FinOps.
• Set up a Slack release bot through GitHub Actions that announced and shipped builds to Google Container Registry.

Short engineering contract with the open-source research arm of Quansight, re-engineering continuous integration pipelines for SciPy.

• Revamped SciPy's CI on GitHub Actions to use the Meson build system.
• Implemented build and compiler caching with Ccache, cutting CI build times by about 70%.
• Worked with senior engineers on the Meson migration and parallelisation of CI providers.
• Refactored the CI scripts to run locally via Act so contributors could reproduce failures.
• Shaved roughly 30% off the macOS CI run for SciPy.
• Added benchmarking on the CI pipeline using Airspeed Velocity and GitHub Actions.

Technical Writer and Developer

Google Season of Docs (moja global)

Apr 2021 — Nov 2021

Remote · 8 months

Worked with moja global's Technical Steering Committee to audit, prepare, and develop documentation, tutorials, and case studies, under the mentorship of Sabita Rao and Sagar Utekar.

• Spearheaded a documentation working group of 140+ volunteers contributing to moja global's open-source documentation.
• Wrote analysis and documentation for the data preparation tools that implement the GCBM in Chile, developed in-house at moja global.
• Developed moja global's documentation style guide and content strategy as part of the content and brand revamp.
• Refactored contributing and governance documentation for clearer navigation.
• Built CI pipelines for several moja global projects to improve build testing for incoming contributions.
• Wrote developer documentation covering module development with FLINT, working alongside GSoD volunteers.
• Contributed to FLINT.Cloud, FLINT UI, FLINT JSON Editor, and other projects under the moja global umbrella.
• Mentored fellow contributors and helped drive a 400%+ increase in community size over six months.

Built a Polyglot Jupyter kernel using the IPython machinery for the MetaCall Core library, under the mentorship of Gil Arasa Verge.

• Developed the initial product centred around an IPython kernel for inter-language function calls.
• Built and integrated a Polyglot REPL using Node.js and MetaCall Core into the IPython kernel.
• Implemented UX features around using the kernel inside the Jupyter client.
• Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions and container-based deployment on Binder.
• Delivered a documentation site for the MetaCall Jupyter Kernel using Sphinx and Read the Docs.

Worked with the Customer Content Services (CCS) team on OpenShift and developer-tool documentation.

• Wrote modular documentation for OpenShift, the enterprise container platform, and Red Hat developer tools.
• Delivered release notes for OpenShift Container Platform 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8 covering web console bug fixes.
• Wrote documentation for creating sample applications via the OpenShift web console.
• Documented Red Hat Certification's chart-verifier tool for certifying Helm Charts on the OpenShift console.
• Documented securing webhooks with EventListeners in OpenShift Pipelines.
• Added support documentation for filtering by certification level of Helm Charts on OpenShift.
• Collaborated with the OpenShift DevTools team on a GitHub Issue/PR dashboard for tracking development.

Worked with the Developer Outreach team to promote DeepSource, an automated static code analysis tool.

• Reviewed issues, bugs, and anti-patterns as part of outreach.
• Helped integrate DeepSource as a static code analysis tool with several open-source projects.
• Wrote technical content around static code analysis in Python and JavaScript.
• Developed a user guide for integrating Code Transformers with the DeepSource configuration.
• Wrote the Developer Outreach Handbook to coordinate efforts within the team.
• Fixed documentation bugs on the DeepSource docs site.

Software Engineer

Qxf2

Jul 2020 — Oct 2020

Bengaluru, India · 4 months

Built an internal survey application to track company culture and the innovation drive, and migrated the technology stack from a Bootstrap/Flask/Quilt stack.

• Built reusable React components (React Bootstrap) for the admin dashboard, user dashboard, landing page, registration, and feedback forms.
• Wrote the server-side code in FastAPI with Uvicorn, focused on latency.
• Migrated the storage layer from Quilt to Neo4j using a Python Pandas script.
• Deployed on AWS EC2 (Ubuntu AMI) with GitHub Actions handling CI/CD.
• Wrote Selenium automation tests for the Weather Shopper application using the Page Object Model.
• Curated Python exercises for future Qxf2 interns.