Experience

11+ years: engineering, government consulting, project management

Six organisations, from mainframes and blockchain to national government platforms. The last few years have been project and programme management.

In numbers

The scale of the work

40Mmembers on the national cooperative registry
~70 lakhcentral government employees and pensioners whose pay the 8th Pay Commission reviews
5M tonnesa year: India's 2030 green hydrogen target, which the certification portal is built for
$2M+ a yearwind-energy application portfolio run, about ₹15 crore+About 55 applications, team of 35
80+government websites moved onto one framework
₹35 crore+combined value of three government projects: National Portal of India, Green Hydrogen portal and the website ranking frameworkAbout ₹23 crore, ₹7 crore and ₹5 crore
Roles

Where I have worked

Jan 2026 – present
New Delhi · Client: NeGD, MeitY

Manager, Digital Transformation

BDO India

Runs two national government platforms for NeGD at the same time, with a team of 8. Project values: about ₹7 crore and about ₹21 lakh.

  • Led the 8th Pay Commission demand portal (about ₹21 lakh) from kick-off to go-live in about a month, across four organisations. About 21,000 demands are on it today, for a Commission that reviews pay for about 70 lakh people.
  • Took the Green Hydrogen certification portal, a project of about ₹7 crore, from the first meeting with the ministry to launch by the Minister on 1 July 2026. 8 certificates have been issued so far, towards India's target of 5 million tonnes a year by 2030.
  • Got both platforms through external security audits before launch. On the hydrogen portal, 48 of 51 internal findings were closed before the external audit began.
  • Scoped the Phase 2 AI work for both platforms. The hydrogen portal's is approved and in procurement.
Nov 2024 – Jan 2026
Pune · Client: global wind-energy company

Project Manager

Infosys

Owned a $2M+ a year application portfolio (about ₹15 crore+) and a team of 35.

  • Ran about 55 applications that support wind turbines, with 20 people in delivery and 15 in support.
  • Took the unit from a complete loss to about 15% profit in six months, by fixing how the work was organised before reducing headcount.
  • Held 99.9% service levels on systems that run 24×7, and cut the time to fix a production issue from 4 days to under 12 hours.
  • Brought AI into ticket routing and closure in stages. It reached production and was not rolled back.
  • Reset the relationship with the client's senior IT leaders with a fixed reporting and escalation routine.
Apr 2022 – Nov 2024
Delhi · Ministries of the Government of India

Senior Consultant, Government

EY India

Government consulting for several ministries, working directly with Secretary-level officers on approvals and scope.

  • Delivered the national cooperative registry for the Ministry of Cooperation, taking a paper-based office to a live platform. About 40 million members, about 1,800 societies, and application processing more than 70% faster.
  • Got the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act amended so that electronic notices and digital signatures were valid. The amendments passed in about six months.
  • Moved 80+ government websites onto one common framework, with security audits and STQC certification.
  • Built a ranking framework for government websites (a project of about ₹5 crore), with IIT Delhi and IIM Indore, covering 150+ parameters. NeSDA uses it today.
  • Redesigned the Indian visa system (IVFRT 2.0) across airports, land ports and seaports, covering the process, the screens and testing.
  • Wrote the DPR and RFP for a new version of the National Portal of India, a project of about ₹23 crore, and onboarded the vendor.
Jun 2021 – Apr 2022
Noida · Client: EY Global Delivery Services

Software Engineering Lead (Blockchain Architect)

UST Global

Led blockchain product work for EY's global delivery services.

  • Built Skillchain, a blockchain platform that records employees' skills and certifications, and took it to a unit-wide pilot at EY. About 80% of people joined voluntarily.
Jun 2020 – Jun 2021
Noida

SDE

ValueCoders

Built backend and blockchain systems in three regulated areas within a year.

  • Built systems for a cryptocurrency exchange, a document-management platform and a civil records platform.
  • Designed the architecture, the APIs and the performance fixes for these products.
Oct 2015 – May 2020
Gurugram

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services

Started on mainframes for a UK client, then moved into blockchain.

  • Automated a manual card-dispute reconciliation on a bank's mainframe, saving about £200,000 a year by the client's own calculation.
  • Cut reported defects by 40% within six months by reworking the dispute-handling steps.
  • Built blockchain proofs of concept on Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric. Two reached production, and the first blockchain lab on TCS's own infrastructure was set up as part of this work.
Education

Degrees and certificates

  • PGDM, Post Graduate Diploma in ManagementIMT CDL, Ghaziabad · 2023
  • B.Tech, Computer ScienceUPTU, Lucknow · 2015
  • Certified Scrum MasterScrum certification
  • Project Management CertificateGoogle
Skills

What I work with

Delivery
Jira, Confluence, MS Project, OpenForge, Figma, GitHub
Front and back end
React, TypeScript, MERN, Node.js, API-driven services
Data
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, workflow and data modelling
Blockchain
Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum, Quorum, smart contracts
Cloud and DevOps
AWS, NIC MeghRaj 2.0, GitHub Actions CI/CD
Government standards
Parichay SSO, Aadhaar eSign, DSC, NICSI, GIGW, UX4G
Security and quality
VAPT, SAST, STQC, WCAG 2.1 AA
AI
Claude for delivery work; AI in production support and translation