Feb 2025 – Jul 2025 · 5 mos · Mumbai · Hybrid

• Pioneered a new revenue stream by leading a 10-person cross-functional team to launch in-app ads, gaining C-suite buy-in and partnering with external vendors to generate $8M incremental revenue within 60 days
• Conceptualized and launched an AI-powered recommendation feature that improved 20-day customer retention, driving a 5% increase in paid users and generating $35M in additional revenue in four months
• Drove the decision to retire a third-party tool and migrated workloads to the in-house ML platform by reducing onboarding friction; raised adoption from 30% to 80% daily users with projected savings of $1M/year

Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 · 5 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

• Spearheaded the sale of an internal LLM management platform by defining its positioning, value proposition, and leading a strategic revamp, generating $700K in new revenue
• Partnered with local state government to launch a standardized student testing app by developing the go-to-market strategy for launch across 70 districts, reaching 200K teachers in 2 months

Jul 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr

• Managed a 15-person team to deliver an ad-traffic optimizer tailored to client requirements across the US, UAE, Japan and Europe, increasing ad revenue by $35M while cutting annual server costs by 70%
• Launched an AI-powered marketplace for ad-deals that offers premium promotion and visibility options for top customers, by leveraging competitor analysis and client feedback to improve return on investment by 15%

Jul 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Introduced a new revenue stream by aligning 30+ stakeholders across the C-suite, engineering, design and sales to launch an AI-based bid price optimizer for an ad bidding platform that generated $80M in 12 months
• Led a 3-person team to develop an AI-based user targeting module that optimized ad spend for Fortune 100 media clients, increasing return on ad spends by 20% and improving our ranking in client reports from 10th to 3rd
• Revised the onboarding process and added a buddy program for mentoring new hires that cut ramp-up time by 30%

Mar 2021 – Jul 2021 · 4 mos

• Led the development of Samsung Camera’s first AI-powered “Night Mode” by leading a team of 3 and securing C-suite buy-in through competitor analysis to establish the USP for flagship phones that generated $1B in sales
• Engineered a camera module by conducting user research, defining the development roadmap, and managing weekly sprints, reducing crash rate by 35% and battery drain by 8% per session

Jun 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Collaborated with Korean and Vietnamese teams to build an ML-based color-tuning module by developing the core ML model and optimizing on-device performance latency, which was launched globally to 25M+ flagship devices
• Selected as 1 of 20 to co-develop Samsung Camera’s first software-based “Super Slow-motion” feature with the Korea R&D Center, now offered as standard feature across devices since 2020

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Bangalore

• Received a PPO for FTE (1/20 of 300+), awarded highest rating intern evaluation
• Convinced MD to build a pre-emptive detection and scaling system to combat server downtime for Samsung saving $5M annually