Sep 2023 – Nov 2023 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built MockPilot - AI Co-Pilot for Business Teams as a solopreneur
• Learnt a bunch of things - how to form a company, what's a cap table, how to pitch to VCs and Accelerators, networked with founders and operators across multiple events, created pitch decks for pre-seed, and also built a Slack App.
• Recorded a Podcast as a guest speaker
• Caregiving as a first time parent

Nov 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · On-site

• Key Responsibilities:
• Led the Integrations Charter enabling 30+ Partners across Payments, OTT, Gaming, E-commerce, Mobility, Podcasts.
• [IC Mode] Owned E-commerce and F&B category funnels end-to-end
• People Management:
• Direct Reports - 2 Product Managers
• Product Pods - 2 (Content Pod, Commerce Pod)
• Pod Sizes - 25+ across Engineering, Design, Program, QA

Jan 2021 – Nov 2021 · 10 mos · On-site

Apr 2020 – Jan 2021 · 9 mos · On-site

• Joined within a flat hierarchy to start with

May 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

• #HRTech #B2B #SaaS #Bootstrapped
• Key Responsibilities:
• Owned the product strategy, backend architecture and Cloud architecture for Mobcast’s 30+ Enterprise clients across BFSI, Retail, Hospitality, Pharma, Manufacturing, etc.
• Product development roadmap to enable 1-to-10 scale-up to the tune of USD500K+ ARR.
• Big Wins:
• 4.5 stars rated across 40k+ App Store reviews across orgs.
• Reduction in cost of deployment by 80% and time for deployment by 5x (3 months → 2 weeks).
• People Management:
• Direct Reports - 10 across Engineering, QA

Feb 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

• #Marketplace #B2C #Seed #SeriesA
• Key Responsibilities:
• Led product development for 0-to-1 and 1-to-10 stages.
• Scaling PMF for Product-led growth in 6 cities and a total of 8 categories.
• Big Wins:
• Led the transition from Excel-based to experience-based user journeys - 85% of the workflows were automated.
• Break-even in 2 categories via Product & Growth initiatives.
• People Management:
• Direct reports - 8 across Engineering and QA.
• Collaboration - Worked with leadership across Management (CXOs), Finance, Marketing, Category Managers, Operations, Customer Support, etc.

Sep 2014 – Dec 2014 · 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• The Design Tinkering Club (now a DFA chapter) is a social innovation club that aims to tackle social problems by leveraging technology. Some of the projects I worked around were Women Safety and Women Empowerment.
• I was also involved organising a hackathon for Ebola, which led to the birth of a tool called SMSante - later published on Indiegogo (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/smsante-smsepidemics).
• I was also interviewed by the NYU weekly which can be found here https://wp.nyu.edu/connect/2014/12/02/hack-ebola/

Sep 2014 – Dec 2014 · 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Researched for challenges on OpenIDEO platform for Greenhouse (https://engineering.nyu.edu/greenhouse)
• Single-handedly developed a data platform called 'Scraped' for automating the process of data mining from LinkedIn Groups for my research professor
• Developed a student safety app for Windows Phone titled ‘Buddy’.

Nov 2012 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Was working full-time in a part-time role, while I was pursuing Graduation from the University of Mumbai.
• Was responsible for the first release of the flagship product Mobcast (mobcast.in)
• Was also responsible for the backend architecture including setting up of the database and the tech stack.
• I undertook the responsibility of developing the CMS (for admins) as well as the Windows Phone app (for corporate employees).
• Grew the team from the initial 3 to double digits. I also led the very lean team of developers and interns to deliver the product for corporate demos and we landed our first client - Lupin Pharmaceuticals!
• One of the rounds of interview for technical positions was also under my purview