About
I am a Principal Engineer with over 9.5 years of experience building data-intensive, secure enterprise systems at scale. Most recently at Cyble Inc., I joined as the 6th founding team member and built three products · Vision, Hawk, and TIP · from the ground up, shipping critical backends from zero to production in days.
My work spans Python, Flask, FastAPI, Kafka, Celery, Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, AWS, and GCP. I architected a full Threat Intelligence Platform in 25 days using LLM-accelerated development, engineered high-throughput APIs serving over 1 billion records with sub-second latency, and led a team of 9 engineers while contributing to ISO 27001 certification and achieving significant infrastructure cost savings.
What I'm looking for
Principal Engineer with 9 years building distributed backend systems at scale. Founding engineer at a cybersecurity startup where I architected three products from scratch, led a team of nine engineers, and shipped production systems handling billions of events daily. Deep expertise in Python, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and LLM integrations using OpenAI and Claude. Looking for a remote Staff or Principal Engineer role at a company where the problems are hard, ownership is real, and the team is small
Experience
Principal Software Engineer
Cyble Inc.
Sep 2020 – Present
• Founding team member (6th hire) — shaped architecture, engineering culture, and hiring from day one across three products: Vision, Hawk, and TIP.
• Architected Cyble TIP from scratch in 25 days — leveraging prompt engineering and LLM-accelerated development — enabling first enterprise pilots and unlocking new revenue streams.
• Built Cyble Hawk MVP in 10 days, directly unblocking strategic government partnerships; owned product roadmap and stakeholder communications through GA.
• Engineered high-throughput APIs querying 1B+ records with tight latency SLAs via index strategy, denormalized views, and read replicas.
• Designed Kafka/Celery ingestion & enrichment pipeline with idempotent workers, retries, and DLQs; reduced manual operations hours by 75%.
• Built correlation/knowledge-graph pipeline unifying signals from 30+ services for high-precision entity linking across threat intelligence feeds.
• Reduced annual infra costs by $36K via TAXII server optimization, storage tuning, and intelligent job scheduling.
• Implemented dark-web scraping framework and metadata schema that simplified indexing and accelerated analyst search performance.
• Led a team of 9 engineers — hiring, mentorship, code review standards, trunk-based development, staging gates, and on-call playbooks.
• Contributed to ISO 27001 certification by aligning architecture, logging, and data retention with compliance requirements.
PythonKafkaElasticsearch
Engineer – Applications & Engineering
R1 RCM Global Pvt. Ltd.
Aug 2019 – Sep 2020
• Delivered features across US Healthcare / Revenue Cycle Management products (R1 Hub, QASuite) with rigorous quality gates and multi-environment validation (DEV → QAT → UAT → STAGE).
• Introduced Jenkins + SonarQube CI/CD pipeline as a POC — later adopted team-wide — improving code coverage visibility and reducing vulnerability debt.
• Practiced Agile ceremonies with cross-functional teams to reduce release risk and improve delivery predictability.
JenkinsSonarQubeSQL Server
Software Development Engineer
Calibrated Advisory, LLP
Dec 2016 – Aug 2019
• Built web applications across real estate, HRM, and health domains; gathered functional and non-functional requirements end-to-end.
• Reduced client team size from 25 to 5 by automating workflows for a health & nutrition company via a custom Windows application.
• Implemented LAMP and Microsoft stack platforms for billing, attendance, and in-house operations.
PHPLaravelMySQL
Education
UPTU
B.Tech · Computer Science
2012 – 2016
Skills
litellmlangchainfast apiflaskprompt engineeeringredislaraveldockerkafkaseleryeleastic searchmysqlpostgresmongodbc#codexclaude codegcpawspython
Languages
English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Full professional proficiency)