Mar 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Mentor
• Mobility Startups Incubation Program - https://www.nsrcel.org/mobility/
• Women Startup Program - https://www.nsrcel.org/women-startup-program/

Jan 2018 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Singapore

Apr 2017 – Jan 2018 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jan 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr

• Worked on building data platform as a service to aid in analytics and machine learning.

Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 · 4 mos

• Worked on the data platform.

Nov 2013 – Aug 2014 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on few products for enterprise clients (builders).

Mar 2013 – Nov 2013 · 8 mos

• Owned and managed platforms that power social experiences across all Yahoo properties by enabling properties to drive user growth and engagement by harnessing social and interest graphs.
• Conceptualized and evangelized building of a unified social graph that encompasses user profiles, relationships, interests, contacts, entities and activities drawn from various social networks, services and devices. This project has become a key business goal for the platforms organization in Yahoo.
• I collaborated with engineering, design, sciences, partnerships, legal and marketing teams across geographies to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects by gathering requirements, assessing business fit, developing use cases, drawing up product roadmaps and managing product development and delivery schedules.
• Nominated for Yahoo Super Star Team Award - 2013

Jul 2012 – Feb 2013 · 7 mos

• Ideated and productized the HackTracker tools. http://hacks.developer.yahoo.com
• Evangelized Yahoo technologies in various OpenHackDays.
• Led technical teams in University Hack Days (HackU’s) across the top 5 IITs in India and contributed to industry-academia relationships through anchoring joint projects and mentoring students.

Feb 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Developed front end experiences for Yahoo Movies, TV, omg! and Shine.
• Led development of an HTML5 based mobile web version of Yahoo omg! Started this as a hack and convinced stakeholders to launch it in Philippines. Its success resulted in the product being rolled out in 3 other international markets (BR, UK, CA).

Jul 2010 – Feb 2011 · 7 mos

• Integrated social games from Zynga into Yahoo! Games.

Apr 2007 – Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led the design, development and implementation of GPS/GPRS based fleet tracking and management systems and passenger information systems
• Struck a multi-million rupee deal with a large commercial heavy vehicle manufacturer for licensing the fleet tracking and passenger information system IP
• Built the Bangalore Transport Information System (btis.in) platform from the ground up and then oversaw its replication in other cities across India.
• Developed a collaboration app for cross-state crime investigation by the CIDs of southern states of India and trained police officers to work with it.
• Built and managed an information platform for tracking elections
• Played a key role in setting up the Bangalore Traffic Control Center by liaising with various Govt. departments and agencies and corporate entities viz. Infosys, Cisco, IBM, BMTC, BTP
• Contributor and community coordinator for Open Street Map project. (http://openstreetmap.org/)

Apr 2007 – Apr 2010 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• HeadStart is a not-for-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship. HeadStart's stated objective is to bring entrepreneurs and startups and new product companies, prospective investors and customers together. I initiated Startup Saturdays a monthly meetup event in Bangalore which has now spread across to 12 other cities in India. (http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/)

Jul 2006 – Mar 2007 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Conducted research on video codecs and efficient mechanism for video distribution over the Internet
• Analyzed and evaluated networked digital signage systems and control systems
• Ideated and orchestrated the development of a prototype signage network and took the prototype on a road show across signage and advertising industry events.

Sep 2005 – Jun 2006 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked with Akshara foundation to build a GIS based platform to visualize and analyze the effectiveness of a project aimed at assessing and improving learning abilities in children attending Govt. schools (http://www.karnatakalearningpartnership.org/)
• Developed an interactive online routing system for the Indian road network
• Conducted pilot studies established correlation between tele-density and traffic density on Bangalore roads along with a telco (Airtel) and Bangalore Traffic Police.

Oct 2004 – Sep 2005 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Setup the EDUSAT network connecting all engineering colleges under VTU (Vishweswaraya Technological University) in Karnataka.
• Setup and managed the http://forum.vtu.ac.in/ a discussion forum supporting e-learning in VTU.
• Initiated the usage of SMS as a mode of feedback/communication for remote learning.
• Pioneered the distributed seat selection process for PGCET, GOK. (http://hindu.com/2004/08/26/stories/2004082604240500.htm). This has now become the norm for counseling for admissions into professional courses.

Sep 2001 – Sep 2004 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led the technical team behind the Janaspandana Programme connecting the remote rural citizens with the Chief Minister of Karnataka over satellite video conferencing.
• Conceptualized and developed GIS based Crime Analysis and Reporting Engine (G-CARE).
• Liaised with various Govt. departments and agencies to analyze their needs for spatial data and decision support systems. Served on various committees to evaluate software and hardware systems and advised on their procurement in Govt agencies.
• Developed the Bangalore Geographic Information System (BGIS), the Bangalore Cadastral Information System (BCIS)
• Anchored the pilot satellite based distance education programme for 15 engineering colleges from State Institute for Rural Development, Mysore.
• Coordinated with ISRO, Narayana Hrudayalaya and various Govt. Hospitals to setup and operationalize a telemedicine network in the state of Karnataka.