
Senior engineering leader with 19 years in software and 11 years leading large engineering organizations. Currently Single Threaded Owner for Managed Hosting for WordPress (~$150M), accountable for engineering, product, and cross-functional execution. Known for building high-performing teams from nothing, turning around failing ones, and driving AI-native product innovation — including pioneering Airo for WordPress from a personal 10-day proof of concept to one of GoDaddy's core AI bets.
Single Threaded Owner for Managed Hosting for WordPress, accountable for engineering, product, and cross-functional alignment across a ~$150M business — leading an organization of managers and directors.
Inherited cPanel, VPS, and Plesk engineering on top of Managed WordPress. In early 2024, led a full organizational reset: rebuilt all three product teams in India from scratch within 3 months.
Inherited a product with recurring security incidents, an unstable API, and no structured planning or goal-setting process.
Built a 10-person engineering team from scratch and delivered ManageWP — still the leading WordPress website management platform — leading to GoDaddy's acquisition of the team and product in 2016.
Started with paid freelance work at 14 — business applications and similar — while building game engines and graphics systems for the love of it; won a regional programming competition enough times to be barred from future entry. Studied Computer Science at university in parallel with a startup job, passing everything first attempt; left mid-way when a professor scored the work highest in the room but not the maximum, because it wasn't in the textbook. After the startup's gaming pivot failed, earned a product engineering role and was promoted to Head of Software Engineering within a year.