About
I've spent 18+ years building technology platforms and engineering teams across industries most people spend an entire career in just one of: cloud infrastructure at AWS, privacy and AI at Meta, fraud detection in Australian banking at ANZ, digital transformation in insurance at Zurich, and security-critical Ethereum blockchain infrastructure at Eigen Labs.The thread connecting all of it is a simple pattern — walk into an unfamiliar industry, figure out what matters fast, build the team and architecture to deliver. That's led to some outcomes I'm proud of: leading the largest internal cloud migration in Amazon's history ($200M), launching AWS services generating $1B+ ARR, automating privacy enforcement across 200+ ML systems at Meta, and building infrastructure protecting $10B+ in digital assets with zero incidents.I'm both a technical and an organizational leader. I've architected platforms, led product launches, and defined engineering strategy — while also building multi-level engin…
Experience
Head of Engineering (Vp)
Syndicate · Seattle, Washington, United States
Led engineering: hired, mentored, and scaled experienced engineers. Drove core products and Arbitrum-based L2/3 infrastructure for programmable appchains. Key contributions: • Led design of programmable onchain sequencer smart contracts for custom transaction ordering, inclusion, permissioning, MEV, and economic mechanisms (web2/web3) • Led design of ValKey-powered mempools for efficient, privacy-optional transaction handling • Engineered infrastructure on Vercel (edge), GCP, and AWS Nitro Enclaves (TEE) for secure, scalable execution • Advanced decentralization & UX with TEEs and ZK proofs (fast verifiable withdrawals/sequencing) • Delivered sovereign appchain workflows (custom gas tokens, rules, economy) via Arbitrum Orbit • Established & drove partnerships with EigenCloud (AVS-secured sequencers), Alchemy (accelerator + integration), and GCP (RPC/cloud support), leveraging prior ecosystem relationships. Syndicate enables scalable, sovereign appchains with programmable onchain sequen…
Head of Engineering (Vp)
Eigen Labs · Seattle, Washington, United States
Early engineering leader (joined at seed stage), reporting directly to CEO. Served as interim Head of Security during rapid scaling phase while leading the successful hire of the full-time role. Bootstrapped and scaled engineering organization from 8 to 30+ engineers/managers (~4× growth) in 14 months. Led core development and successful mainnet launches of EigenLayer ETH/LST restaking platform + EigenDA data availability layer. Key quantifiable impacts: • Enabled major fundraising: $50M Series A (Blockchain Capital) + $100M Series B (a16z crypto) → $150M total raised post-seed • Scaled restaked TVL from $0 to $16B+ (with peaks exceeding $20B per industry reports and historical data) • Delivered 3 testnets + 3 mainnets across EigenLayer and EigenDA • Established technical foundation enabling a growing ecosystem of AVSs (Actively Validated Services) leveraging EigenLayer’s pooled Ethereum security for new infrastructure, oracles, middleware, and rollups • Strengthened security posture a…
Senior Manager - Software Development
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Seattle, Washington, United States
• Spearheaded the development of infrastructure-as-code services for AWS, enhancing automation for software builders. • Designed tools to streamline infrastructure modeling and provisioning, ensuring safety and compliance in code changes. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and improve service delivery across Amazon.com.
Engineering Manager & Product Lead (Web3 Infra)
Protocol Labs · Seattle, Washington, United States
- Leading engineering & product management for core infra platforms that are operated as public services for IPFS, Filecoin, and Drand protocols - Project Lead (Engineering & Product) for drand (https://drand.love) - decentralized and distributed randomness beacon service available to all Internet users
Group Technical Program Manager - Privacy & Data Infrastructure
Facebook · Menlo Park, California, United States
Led Technical Program Management organization that transformed privacy at Meta from reactive compliance to automated enforcement at scale. Directed delivery of Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI)—including universal data taxonomy, automated classification systems, and real-time information flow controls—across 200+ production systems serving 3B+ users (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Ads ML). Managed team of 8+ experienced Program Directors driving privacy-by-design across Meta's data and ML infrastructure. Achieved dual outcomes: mitigated $200M+ legal exposure while increasing ML experiment velocity 5x under GDPR/CCPA.
Engineering Manager - Quantum Ledger Database (Qldb)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Greater Seattle Area
Leading cross-team efforts across program management and software development to build and operate Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) service, which was announced as GA in Sep 2019 and plays a central role in Amazon's NoSQL database and blockchain strategy. Amazon QLDB is a fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log owned by a central trusted authority. Amazon QLDB tracks each and every application data change and maintains a complete and verifiable history of changes overtime. QLDB is serverless: there are no servers to manage or read and writelimits to configure, and it automatically scales to support the demands of your application.
Principal Technical Program Manager - Ec2 Networking & Elb
Amazon Web Services · Greater Seattle Area
Member of the AWS EC2 Networking software development team (VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, PrivateLink) fulfilling engineering program management and product management functions. Led numerous engineering and product teams to enable the launch of major new products such as VPC-to-VPC NAT (for Lambda, QuickSight, and more), PrivateLink and Network Load Balancer (NLB). Working with service teams across Compute (EC2, Lambda), Storage (S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis) and Machine Learning/AI organizations to deliver new AWS offerings.
Senior Technical Program Manager - Ec2 Networking & Elb
Amazon Web Services · Greater Seattle Area
Member of the AWS EC2 Networking software development team (VPC, PrivateLink, Elastic Load Balancing, EC2 Networking) fulfilling engineering program management and product management functions. Providing leadership in strategic planning, customer engagement, and leading cross-team efforts for complex engineering initiatives involved in building new features and products in AWS. We build and operate a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) layer that underpins the numerous VPC connectivity requirements of several AWS services as well as products used by customers. Led the planning and engineering build of critical and complex new products such as PrivateLink and Network Load Balancer (NLB) involving several teams across AWS covering engineering, product management, finance and marketing functions.
Senior Solution Architect
ANZ Bank · Melbourne, Australia
Winner of 1st Digital Hackathon organized by the Head of Innovation and CIO. Focused on delivering business outcomes related to use of Data Analytics, Real-time Decision Systems, Big Data platforms & Digital Channels. > Lead a team of cross-functional architects and designers on major projects in delivering complete technology solutions. > Lead solution architecture and design activities on projects in delivering systems across multiple business domains and technology platforms such as: * Next Best Conversation - Use of Big Data Analytics to create tailored marketing campaigns and engage customers across multiple channels * Analytics and Decision Systems for Credit Risk Management functions * Digital Banking Platforms including Mobile and Web * Financial Fraud Decisioning & Analytics including business event integration. * Sales/Marketing CRM > Contribute to feasibility assessments, preparation of investment cases and definition of business requirements for business change initiatives.…
Enterprise Architect - Group It Architecture & Strategy
Zurich Financial Services Australia · Sydney, Australia
- Reported to the CIO and worked in a leadership capacity in the Enterprise Architecture & IT Strategy function for Life Insurance & Investments division. - Provide technology thought-leadership and advisory services to C-level business & IT execs. Undertake IT Business Relationship & Engagement responsibilities. - Architecture Leadership, Roadmap Development & Project Portfolio planning. Lead planning for various programs in partnership with the business. - Public speaking engagements (http://goo.gl/Vkk9U, http://goo.gl/p0I5X, http://goo.gl/1zgTO) - Planning, product management, REST API, UX & technical design and end-to-end delivery of the first mobile apps for Apple iOS and Google Android platforms - http://goo.gl/D1ejV. - Represent Zurich at ACORD Life Steering Committee (http://www.insurancenews.com.au/financial-services/acord-life-committee-expands). - Championed use of innovative technology & proposed initiatives. Implemented projects with focus on Mobile, Social Business, APIs,…
Solution Architect - Multichannel Banking (Apis)
Barclays Bank Plc · Singapore
- Architect multichannel banking product platform for Barclays Global Retail & Commercial Bank in emerging markets across EMEA and Asia Pacific. - Lead assessment of transitioning legacy Banking platforms with the new Multi-Channel Banking Product (based on Oracle Flexcube) for Barclays EMEA. - Lead Integration Architect for integrating the Channel Applications with Core Banking systems using SOA principles and IBM WebSphere Middleware technology. - Develop the Services Architecture across Retail & Commercial Banking systems. - Utilise IBM SOMA and IBM IFW Framework for Banking to define canonical data models. - Key banking systems (COTS and In-house bespoke) such as Core Banking systems for Retail and Corporate Banking from Oracle Flexcube Retail (FC-R) & Commercial (FC-C); Payment systems
Education
Macquarie University
PG Diploma in Information Technology, Software Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Bachelor of Engineering (Gold Medal)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certificate, Data Science - Tackling the Challenges of Big Data
Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
Senior High School, Mathematics & Science
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