From problem → strategy → experience → execution.
Product Engineer with 8+ years shipping customer-facing experiences at Walmart and Cisco. I work at the intersection of product thinking, engineering execution, and AI.
Currently exploring
AI-powered customer experiences
Focus
Product × Engineering × AI
Years building products
Selected products & platforms
Cross-functional partners
Fortune 50 companies
I combine product thinking with hands-on engineering — shipping customer-facing digital products end-to-end. My work sits at the intersection of product strategy, customer experience, frontend engineering, and AI. I frame the problem, design the experience, and ship the code that makes it real.
Product × Engineering × AI isn't a title on a slide — it's how I work. Framing the problem, designing the experience, and shipping the code are one continuous practice, and AI is a lens on all three.
Over 15+ years my work has evolved from frontend engineering into product-oriented engineering — building customer-facing experiences, shaping product decisions, and using technology to solve real customer problems.
Contract · 8 yrs 1 mo · Santa Clara, California
Product Engineer / UI Engineer
Led end-to-end frontend for License Plate Vehicle Search — a response to an 18–25% VIN-based lookup failure rate. Extended GraphQL for dynamic vehicle attributes; collaborated with product, design and engineering to enhance discovery (bed length, aspiration) and shipped vehicle-editing workflow updates from Figma.
Product Engineer / UI Engineer
Led frontend product development across Sam's Club membership — Join redesign, Upgrade, Renew, Convert and partner-sponsored memberships. Delivered flagship initiatives including Sponsor Membership, One-Click Renewal (authored PRD) and a configurable Promotions framework. Extended GraphQL, ran cookie-based A/B testing, and drove migration to Walmart's Glass framework and Living Design. Used Quantum Metric, Splunk and OpenObserve to investigate friction; led accessibility across Renew, Upgrade and Convert.
Contract · San Jose, California
Frontend Developer
Built enterprise web applications with AngularJS, Node.js and Java/Spring — integrating REST APIs and backend services, and translating business requirements into end-to-end frontend solutions across solution design, implementation and testing.
Full-time · Bengaluru, India
Senior Frontend Developer
Built AngularJS directives and reusable components for SAP CRM-based enterprise applications. Presented UI concepts to clients and management; worked with SAP CRM data structures (Z-tables, views, Data Dictionary) and shipped reporting and notification workflows.
Full-time · Bengaluru, India
UI Developer
Web layouts, forms and reusable UI components with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AngularJS. Wrote AngularJS services and factories consuming web services; implemented AJAX-driven dynamic tables.
Full-time · Bengaluru, India
Lecturer
Taught Computer Networks, C++ and C to BCA students. Developed course structures and instructional materials; collaborated on curriculum and examination development.
Product, engineering, and AI aren't separate tracks I switch between — they're one integrated way of working. Here's what I lean on in each.
Selected work at the intersection of product, engineering, and AI — each one framed as a problem I chose to solve, not a résumé bullet.
A community discovery platform bringing every Karnataka-related organization, event, place and service in the US into one structured product — instead of fragments scattered across WhatsApp groups, org websites, Facebook, Instagram and newsletters.
An intelligent personalization surface that used customer behavior and order history to bring the right membership perks to the right member at the right moment — instead of a generic perks page.
A self-serve activation flow for employer-sponsored memberships — collapsing a manual, multi-team hand-off into a single onboarding experience that unlocked a new B2B2C channel.
A few principles I lean on across product, engineering, and AI.
Discovery before decisions. If I can't say the user's problem in a single sentence, I don't have it yet.
Journeys, not screens. Friction hides in the seams between systems, teams, and hand-offs.
I own the frontend implementation, so product decisions get tested against reality — not slideware.
LLMs earn their place when they make the product genuinely more useful. I look for that fit, not the buzz.
Ship, measure, learn, adjust. Instrumentation beats intuition every time.
The best products come from tight collaboration between product, design, engineering, and the customer.
Community work where I get to practice exactly what product asks of me — coordination, ownership, and customer experience at scale.
Core Committee Member
Led cross-functional planning and execution for a large-scale national convention, overseeing publicity, website, stage design, sports, and cultural programs.
Food Committee Chair
Led food strategy, vendor coordination, and logistics for large-scale community events, delivering exceptional attendee experiences.
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8+ years building customer-facing products. Engineering depth, product instincts, AI-native.
Hiring a Product Engineer, exploring AI-native product opportunities, or want to compare notes? I'd love to chat.