Dec 2015 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Noida Area, India

Aug 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Noida & San Francisco

• Shifu was a product startup I Co-Founded with two friends. Shifu was a context-aware predictive personal assistant for your android smartphone. Shifu used Artificial Intelligence-based algorithms to predict what activity you would be doing next on your android phone and Remind you to do it at the right time. Shifu was acquired by Paytm in 2015 for USD 8Mil
•  Conceptualized the product and led the design & development.
•  Raised investment from eminent investors in India and San Francisco Bay Area.
•  Bolstered user growth by managing media, PR, as well as product flow based growth tactics.
•  Prospected potentially beneficial business relationships and forged crucial alliances & partnerships.
•  Bootstrapped the venture from ideation to installed base of 1.5M users
•  40% of Daily Active Users (DAU) used every feature of the app
•  Shifu Featured and promoted for innovation by Google on Play Store home page. Shifu got positive reviews by prominent tech reviewers like Robert Scobell (Robert Scobell Show), Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)
•  Featured in TIME Magazine and other publications across India, Middle East, Russia and Latin America.
•  Launched localized version of App in Russia, Turkey, Dubai, Germany and China
•  Attained cost saving of USD 50,000 worth by moving backend from AWS to Google Cloud in 1 week
•  Paytm acquired Shifu in Dec 2015 for USD 8M

Dec 2009 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Noida Area, India

•  Led end-to-end design & development of social media apps and games for children
•  Started Social Network Apps team
•  Refined push notification process to increase open rate and engagement via customized content, timing, and segmentation
•  Partnered with OEM app store and platform app stores including Google, Blackberry, and Nokia
•  Tracked usage patterns and collaborated with advertisement companies for monetization
•  Created a portfolio of 20 Apps with collectively 52M downloads
•  Designed and launched Trill, the first free stand-alone Twitter client for Nokia Series 60 phones
•  Designed a Recruitment and On-boarding process increasing offer-to-join ratio by 35%; over 50% hires promoted or achieved A+ rating within first year of joining.
•  Launched games including Hangman & kiddo; Won Award for Kids Apps at Forum Nokia
•  Maintained a daily active unique user base of 1.2M with 7M daily page views and daily revenue of USD 2000 – USD 8000

Mar 2009 – Dec 2009 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Affle India is a Singapore Headquartered startup in the field of Mobile Application, Content and Advertisement. Our Product SMS 2.0 works provide added functionalities like Rich Text SMS, Free content etc. Affle had distribution partnerships with leading MNO like Airtel, IDEA.
• SMS 2.0 was also pre-bundled with the Samsung J150 line of phones.
•  Spearheaded the SMS 2.0 product client services team for managing key accounts: Idea Cellular & Airtel
•  Established partnership with Nokia for embedding the product in series 60 and 40 mobile phones
•  Fostered collaboration with Hungama and MSN for content management services

Jan 2007 – Present · 19 yrs 2 mos

• Mobile Monday's Delhi Chapter aims to bring together mobile enthusiasts, developers, technologists, business folks, entrepreneurs, VCs under a common forum. The chapter would channelize efforts to develop an active mobile community that can network and share information.

Mar 2006 – Mar 2009 · 3 yrs

• Monsooon Multimedia is a San Mateo Headquartered startup in the field of wireless digital video.Our Product HAVA is an integrated Video Place Shifting, Time Shifting and DVR device with the capability of multicast over LAN and Uni-cast over internet. My responsibilities at Monsoon are listed below.
• Working on the UI & Functional specification document of HAVA Mobile player .handholding the evolution of Mobile player from early wire frame -to- prototype to beta and finally to production.
• Working with interface designer, engineering, sales and customers to Prepare UI & Functional specification document for HAVA Mobile Player.
• Coordinating Beta program for HAVA Mobile Client and handling customer issues.
• Managing Monsoon’s involvement in various Forums like Apple iPhone Developer Program, Forum Nokia. Verisign Publisher ID , Symbian Certification .
• Acting as a interface between Development Team, QA Team and Clients.
• Working with functional head and clients to estimate the time and resource requirement to ensure that we meet all delivery deadlines.
• Prepare a weekly/fortnightly/Monthly Project status report for every OEM project and share it with Management.
• Tracking the bugs and issues reported by clients, assigning priority to them, and tracking them till closure.
• Aggregating feedbacks and Feature request from various clients and present a case before Dev team /Management to Add Feature/ Fix issue in product.
• Maintaining up-to-date User Documentation [User Guide, Installation Manual, Help File, FAQ] for every project.
• Taking care of Localization exercise, coordinating between client and Localization Team to ensure timely translation of String by client and proper integration of Translated strings in product by our team.
• Ensuring that all the component in package are of right version ,Doing basic minimum sanity testing for every build before uploading it on FTP server and dispatching release notification .

Jun 2004 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos

• WebPalins is a Delhi based Software Company dealing in HRIS and Recruitment Management Solutions .Our SkillPoint family of staffing management software is one of the leading product in domestic market .
• >> Significant Accomplishments;
• Conceptualized & executed an e-mail marketing strategy, resulting in a foothold in US markets. Achieved & sustained a lead response rate of 10%.
• Gained entry to new business segment Like US Staffing Market ,Development Center of Indian IT Firms and Telecom Service Provider .Got the first corporate client & first Staffing client for the WebPlains .List of Client includes big Corporate like IDEA Cellular ,XANSA etc.
• Increased Visibility of SkillPoint through web based promotions and Networking by using Industry specific Discussion boards, forums, blogs and Networking sites .
• Managed End To End Sales Process
• Devised the process of tracking customer feedback and analysis of the same as an aid for better decision-making.