Work

Experience

1. Sep 2021 – present

   Senior Software Engineer

   Deepen AI · Arcsine Software Pvt Ltd · Hyderabad

   • Senior Software Engineer Jan 2025 – present
   • Software Engineer Sep 2021 – Dec 2024

   • Architected a natural-language query interface over large datasets, up to 5,000 objects per query, running generated Python filter logic in a sandbox with runtime validation and isolated execution.
   • Built documentation search on embeddings, replaced rule-based QA checks with prompt-driven validation that stays deterministic, and added tracing across the AI features.
   • Built features end to end, from Django REST APIs on MongoDB to React and Three.js interfaces for 3D data, including customer-facing APIs with versioned results.
   • Made background processing reliable: automatic retries for failed jobs, detection of stuck tasks, lock-based protection against duplicate runs, and a job-status view.
   • Added two-factor authentication (TOTP, backup codes) and closed security gaps, including clickjacking and stack traces leaking from password reset.
   • Built scheduled sync between the main and EU production environments for data residency, and retention jobs that remove deleted data after 90 days.
   • Moved slow on-request reporting to scheduled precomputation, and led platform upgrades to Ubuntu 24 and Python 3.12.
   • Joined by automating a product’s UI regression suite in Selenium-Java, then moved into backend and full-stack feature work.

2. Apr 2025 – present

   Hawzu, Snoowl Audit, Snoowl Answers side projects

   Independent products · sole engineer, alongside my job

   Hawzu · since Apr 2025

   Test management for QA teams.

   • Took it from an empty repository to production alone: the API, the web app and four public sites.
   • A release-readiness view that puts coverage, test runs, defects and risk together into one verdict.
   • Ask Oracle: plain-English questions about a project, answered by a deterministic query engine. The AI only interprets the question, and usage is metered per request.
   • Permissions across workspaces and projects, enforced on the server. A new endpoint stays blocked until someone declares who may use it.
   • Background jobs moved off a separate queue service into the main database, with a lock so two server copies never run the same job.
   • Jenkins, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI integration, importing build reports as test runs.

   Snoowl Audit · since Oct 2026

   Checks what a support chatbot says against the docs.

   • Writes questions from a company’s docs, checks every chatbot answer against them with the passage that proves each mistake, and runs red-team tests.
   • Before building it, I checked the judging against a test chatbot with planted mistakes: 72 of 72 caught, and all 37 serious findings correct.

   Snoowl Answers · since Oct 2026

   A support assistant that answers only from the docs.

   • Answers only from a company’s docs, cites its sources, and says so when it doesn’t know.
   • Runs on the same backend as Audit, with meaning-based and keyword search, and an API that existing chatbots can switch to by changing a URL.

3. Sep 2019 – Sep 2021

   Senior QA Analyst — Automation QA Lead

   MCS Solutions · now Spacewell, a Nemetschek company

   • Owned the Selenium-Java automation framework end to end, from design through CI integration, across several test suites.
   • Built the shared utility and component layer every suite was written against, which made new tests faster to write.
   • Led triage of production and test failures through log analysis and root-cause work with the backend developers.

4. 2016 – 2019

   Career break

5. 2015 – 2016

   Project Associate

   Cognizant · Bengaluru

   • Optimised Selenium automation workflows, cutting regression effort by about 30%.

6. 2012 – 2015

   Systems Engineer

   Tata Consultancy Services · Hyderabad

   • Built Selenium-Java automation frameworks for regression testing, and diagnosed system issues from logs, configuration and execution traces.