OYO is an Indian multinational hospitality chain of leased and franchised hotels, homes and living spaces.
https://www.oyorooms.com/
Software Development Engineer III (Jul 2020 - Jan 2023)
While primarily contributing to Global search team, I also worked across teams and orgs.
Key Contributions:
- Search Results Page Re-architecture ( Reduced P99 API latency from 5s to 2s)
- Cache client (Apache Lettuce) Performance tuning ( for search results and many other microservices ) –
led to 2x better cpu utilisation and 50% latency reduction.
- Search APIs refactoring for oyo vacation homes(OVH) business merger with hotels tech stack
- 2Yr Vision Roadmap for OYO Global Search
- MLOps setup with AWS sagemaker and Airflow thereby reducing dev to prod ML efforts from 10 to 2
days.
- Cost Reduction with several tech stack optimisations ( Reducing from USD 1000 to USD 500 per day).
- Recruiting Process : Conducted 100+ interviews for SDE I/II/III and Online Campus Hiring Days
- Internal SDE mentoring programmes like OYO Evolve and Design Hour Sessions
- Bar Raiser Sessions for Outage Analyses and Preventive Measures
- Successful PoC with firecracker-vm for performant reactive scaling of k8s pods.
- Predictive Resource Calculator for k8s modules
- Mentored a team of 10+ SDEs
Software Development Engineer II (Oct 2019 - Jun 2020)
As part of PMS backend, I led error handling and stability cum security projects. With ovh platform team, I contributed majorly in devising merger plans for assets from Leisure group tech stack.
Key Contributions:
- Error Generation and Reporting: Helped in reducing TAT for consumer support tickets from 5+ days to <
2 days.
- Code Review and Code Quality Assessment: Integration with SonarGate and fixing OWASP bugs in tier 1
stack.
- Mentored 4 SDE1s/SDE2s.
Recognitions and Trivia:
- Awarded Coaching Guru - Best mentor award
- Rated Exceed Expectations for three consecutive years
- I have reviewed more than 200 PRs for Oyo in 3 years