Experience — 10 yrs

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• Own the order-processing platform (40+ services, 2B events/day); re-architected around Kafka, cutting p99 latency 85% and infra spend $1.2M/yr
• Led the company-wide move to Kubernetes across 6 teams with zero-downtime cutovers
• Drive architecture reviews; mentor 5 senior engineers toward staff scope

• Built the payments orchestration service in Go handling $800M/yr across 12 providers
• Introduced contract testing and canary deploys, halving integration failures

• Built streaming ingestion (Kafka/Spark) processing 500GB/day for the analytics product
• Cut warehouse query times 10x with partitioning and materialized-view strategy

• First engineering hire; built the core reporting API (Python/PostgreSQL) from scratch to 200 paying customers

• Designed the event pipeline handling 2B messages/day on Kafka; cut p99 latency from 900ms to 120ms
• Led migration of 14 services from EC2 to Kubernetes with zero-downtime cutovers
• Mentor two engineers; run design reviews for the platform team

• Built checkout and payments services in Go serving 400K daily orders
• Introduced contract testing across 20+ services, cutting integration failures by half

• Full-stack work on the reporting product (Python/React); first engineering hire

Ananya Stackwell

• Real-time order tracking over WebSockets for 40+ daily orders across 3 campus canteens
• JWT auth with role-based dashboards for students, canteen staff, and admins
• Deployed on a $5 VPS with Docker and a GitHub Actions pipeline; 99% uptime over 6 months

• Trained a CNN on 12k labelled frames to 91% accuracy on 26 static gestures
• Real-time webcam inference at 24 fps; 2nd place among 84 teams at HackMeridian 2025

• Scores repositories on tests, docs, and commit hygiene; 300+ users from campus

• Built 6 Express REST endpoints powering an internal analytics dashboard
• Wrote 40+ integration tests, raising service coverage from 58% to 80%
• Closed 9 production bugs in the first month, two of them customer-reported

• Shipped marketing pages in Next.js scoring 95+ on Lighthouse
• Automated the image pipeline, cutting median page weight by 60%

• Ran the Instagram and Shorts calendar for 3 D2C brands — combined following grew 18k → 31k in 10 weeks
• Built a reusable template kit that cut per-post turnaround from 3 days to 1

• Assisted on two branded shoots; owned dailies and rough cuts in Premiere Pro

• Street-food vendor documentary: 45k YouTube views, screened at two college festivals

• 120 user entries in three weeks; picked up by a city daily's weekend edition

• Alumni-creator interviews; 8k plays across Spotify and YouTube

• Reported six city stories, including a page-3 lead on hostel food safety
• Fact-checked 30+ pieces on deadline for the metro desk

• Wrote 25 web stories; SEO-tuned headlines lifted average CTR by 15%

• Filed 4 RTIs, built the fee dataset, and charted five years of hikes in Flourish

• Eight campus workers photographed and interviewed after midnight

Sundar Pitchwala

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Product manager with 8+ years turning ambiguous problems into shipped products. Led cross-functional teams of up to 12 across discovery, delivery, and growth; known for crisp prioritization and measurable outcomes.

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• Owned the analytics product line ($6M ARR), growing adoption 42% year over year through a redesigned onboarding flow
• Shipped a self-serve reporting suite with engineering and design, cutting enterprise support tickets by 30%
• Introduced quarterly outcome-based roadmapping adopted by all four product teams

• Launched the company's first mobile app, reaching 50K monthly active users within a year
• Ran 40+ A/B experiments on activation, lifting trial-to-paid conversion from 9% to 14%
• Partnered with sales on top-20 accounts, shaping roadmap bets worth $2M in renewals

• Coordinated releases across three client-facing web products; wrote specs and led UAT
• Built the internal metrics dashboard used weekly by leadership

• Raised section-average math scores from 68% to 81% in two years using weekly diagnostic quizzes and re-teach loops
• Designed a hands-on science lab program (12 experiments/term) adopted by three other sections
• Class teacher for 34 students; parent-meeting satisfaction 4.8/5 across six terms

• Taught mathematics and EVS; started a reading club that grew to 120 members
• Coordinated the annual science fair — 60 exhibits, 400+ visitors

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Brand and editorial designer with 6 years of studio and freelance work — identities, packaging, and campaigns for food, culture, and tech clients.

• Lead identity systems for 12+ clients, from concept through brand guidelines and rollout
• Art-directed a packaging line that won a regional ADC merit award

• Produced editorial layouts, social campaigns, and motion graphics for retail accounts
• Built and maintained template libraries that cut production time by a third

• Logos, menus, and posters for local restaurants and venues

• Grew channel from 0 to 480K subscribers with weekly long-form videos and daily shorts
• Closed 60+ sponsorships including recurring deals with three SaaS brands
• Built a two-person editing team and a repeatable production calendar

• Produced short-form video for client accounts totaling 5M monthly impressions
• Ran paid + organic experiments that doubled engagement on two flagship accounts