Sep 2019 – Dec 2024 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• Leading the technology and product teams of 6 startups across various industries as a Fractional CTO.
• Led and delivered 15+ SaaS products across domains like SEO, content generation, content management, HR tech, cybersecurity, social media, adtech, martech, and fintech.
• Built and implemented AI/GPT-powered automations for high growth startups, consulting on scalable AI integrations across multiple business functions.
• Led the development of the largest known Indic LLM at the time—a 20B-parameter GPT-NeoX model trained from scratch via distributed training across multiple time zones backed by a New York VC, in collaboration with PhD scholars from Russia and with support from Stability AI.
• Successfully launched three SaaS products on Product Hunt, with one reaching #4 Product of the Week in AI. Sold 2 of them
• Collaborated with 40+ early and mid-stage startups on technology, hiring, and product development, focusing primarily on reducing go-to-market time and building MVPs.

Dec 2018 – Sep 2019 · 9 mos · Noida Area, India

• Aggregated and analyzed over 38 million records to generate salary insights for companies and roles across India, supporting over 700K users monthly.
• Implemented pixel tracking to monitor page segment views, serving over 2 million users using AWS, AlphaID, and MapReduce.
• Oversaw a complete infrastructure migration from AWS to in-house bare-metal servers, achieving zero downtime and 100% data integrity.
• Developed advanced search and recommendation algorithms using Elasticsearch.
• Spearheaded an MVP that analyzes users' skills and recommends targeted learning resources by learning from the career paths of professionals with a similar career trajectory.

Feb 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

• StartupFlux helped investors and businesses discover, track, and evaluate startups by analyzing funding, news mentions, headcount, industries, and market trends.
• At StartupFlux, I led and managed the technical team in a fast-paced startup environment, driving both product and engineering efforts.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure systems with a strong focus on automation and distributed architecture
• Built data processing pipelines using ML algorithms like SVM and KNN, with feature extraction and NLP tools like Spacy and NER
• Applied clustering techniques (Random Forest, K-Means) to classify and enrich startup data
• Developed large-scale web scraping workflows using Scrapy and Splash, optimized with MongoDB and MapReduce
• Automated tasks using RabbitMQ and Celery on secured Linux servers
• Led development of the main dashboard and microservices using Angular, Flask, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch
• The company later transitioned into a full service tech agency, applying our core expertise to client projects.

Dec 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Building an all-in-one platform to streamline food ordering in food courts, featuring a paperless online menu, centralized admin and restaurant dashboards, customer wallet, and personalized, proximity-based promotions.
• I was a broke college kid so to fund my startup
• Developed VR 3d e-commerce store, static, and progressive web apps with AngularJS, ThreeJS, Bootstrap, PHP, NodeJS, and Flask.
• Built IoT-based software solutions for institutes, hospitals, and digital signage using PyGame, PyQt4, and OpenCV.
• Created cross-platform mobile apps for IoT services (traffic control, food delivery, elevator systems) using Ionic and React Native, including a personal project with over 15K downloads.
• Prototyped home automation using ESP8266, MQTT, and sensors.
• Developed SEO automation tools with Scrapy.

May 2015 – Jun 2015 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Created a multi-tiered training course for aspiring cybersecurity enthusiasts to develop and enhance their skills.
• Mentored new cybersecurity enthusiasts and was offered a role as an instructor due to my performance.