Jun 2025 – Dec 2025 · 6 mos

• Spent some time in Idea Maze testing markets.
• Built Amazing products. Learned a lot.
• AI Shark Tank: A crypto-powered streaming avatar platform for human founders to pitch to AI Judges who could autonomously deploy capital.
• SoulCypher: Streaming Avatar platform powered by realtime voice agents.
• Tangent: Ad Injection in Generative AI outputs.

Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area/Dubai/India

• A vertical generative media powered platform for animated media creation.
• Built and led a team of AI researchers from top generative AI labs including Adobe Firefly, Meta, NYU.

Mar 2023 – Jul 2023 · 4 mos

• Worked on an implementation of verifiable ML in decentralized social feeds. Wanted to build a future where each inference from a model would have a zk-proof attached to it. Figured both the tech and the market aren't there yet. Decided to move on. Was part of the Spring 2023 Cohort of a16z's Crypto Startup School.

Mar 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Led teams of incredibly talented Engineers and Engineering Managers to build and improve,
• 1. Polygon PoS chain
• 2. Polygon Avail (Before the spinoff)
• 3. Supernets & Edge (Now Polygon CDK)
• 4. Polygon Wallet/Staking Suite and related dApps

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 · 11 mos

Sep 2021 – Nov 2021 · 2 mos

• Led a team of 10 engineers to build and scale a couple of UberEats verticals(Eats Expansion initiatives).

Sep 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs

• Eats Engineering --
• Working as a Tech Lead on the Over The Top variant of UberEats. Driving architectural and design decisions for the team.
• Worked on reducing support cost for eats, by intelligent analysis of ongoing support issues and extending the existing infra to introduce support-as-a-service as part of platform offerings.
• Risk Management & Fraud Prevention --
• Working on detecting and preventing fraud happening inside Uber's systems, while improving the experience of the users being impacted by fraud friction.

Dec 2017 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

Jun 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Dec 2020 – Nov 2021 · 11 mos

• Helped build the MVP and long-term technology roadmap.

Sep 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on the publisher-side video-ad infrastructure of media.net (Contextual AdTech vertical of Directi, Exited for ~$1B).
• Worked closely with clients like Bloomberg, Forbes, Reuters, and WebMD.

Jul 2013 – Aug 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked on the development and maintenance of complex infrastructure of web apps
• providing visualization and consumption for various financial instruments with firm-wide
• usage.

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Google Summer of Code Participant - https://www.opennms.org

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Google Summer of Code Participant - http://www.openintents.org