Nov 2024 – Apr 2025 · 5 mos

Jan 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Exploring several startup ideas in the consumer space:
• Pumpkin - Relationship wellness for couples
• Amla - Mental health wellness via limiting time spent on mobile social media
• Yapp AI - Photo-sharing app amongst IRL friends & loved ones
• Growing HelloRamp AI:
• Digital Retail in the automotive industry is fragmented and inefficient. Customers face poor visuals, lack of transparent information, and cumbersome buying processes, leading to frustration and low engagement. Dealers miss opportunities and have low conversion rates.
• HelloRamp SaaS AI uses 3D technology and AI to revolutionize how pre-owned vehicles are marketed, sold and managed online.

Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Part of Nazara: India's first public gaming company. Halaplay is a subsidiary focused on Cricket Fantasy Gaming (DFS) in India. Lead a team of 25+ people with over 2M $ in ARR. Focused on product innovations, performance marketing with influencers, FB, Google Ads & tech-stack optimizations. As a public-listed entity oversaw compliance with accounting, business and regulatory requirements.

Jun 2015 – May 2021 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Bigpesa: Licensed Bookmaker in Kenya. A full-service sports betting and casino brand.
• Sportsie: One-stop destination for fans covering Live Scores, News, Highlights, social news along with social games Predictions, Fantasy, Trivia. Deployed in 15+ countries in 7+ languages
• CricBet: Social virtual currency cricket prediction game with live odds and social leaderboards.

Aug 2013 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Working on redefining experience for cricket fans through Matchup Cricket
• 7+ Million Predictions
• 50K+ Users - all organically acquired
• Average Session duration of 15+ minutes
• Acquisition-offer from India's largest cricket portal
• Partnered with Hike Messenger for IPL 2015 to bring match predictions to Hike users. 250K users played increasing the time spent on Cricket channel within Hike by over 30%

Nov 2012 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Full-stack technology partners with Wisden India - a premier cricket brand.
• Managed entire tech-stack as Managed Services:
• 1. Fully-responsive web portal
• 2. Editorial Dashboards
• 3. Native Mobile apps
• 4. Cloud Infrastructure & support on Amazon AWS

Jun 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• We built a white-labeled mobile publishing platform for news focused media houses to seamlessly bring their content on mobile and connect to its readers through mobile apps. Customers included YourStory, Sportskeeda, Daijiworld, Sakal amongst others.
• Dug deep into the Indian news publishing industry. Got hands dirty selling the platform to regional and national newspaper houses. Cold calls, innumerable follow-ups, trips across different cities, heartburns - typical enterprise B2B. Formed partnership with technology vendors to enhance product capabilities. Dabbled a bit into Android, Web & iOS programming.

Jul 2004 – Jun 2011 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• Driving vision and roadmap for fraud management products & solutions worldwide to help telecom operators be better prepared for current and next-generation frauds. Hands-on with product roadmap, support, Sales & Pre-sales functions.
• Fraud Management product processes billions of call-records in real-time to identify & prevent frauds within Telco networks & operations.
• 7 years in telecom fraud and fraud management domains. Extensive customer interface to solution end-to-end fraud management requirements across the world. Visited customers in USA, Chile, Brazil, Ireland, UK, Turkey, Poland, Togo, Singapore, India, Malaysia etc.
• Youngest TPM in the PLM ( Product-line Management ) team and was loved across all functions. Loved being hands-on and help all stakeholders across the board.
• Was amongst the first to be certified (with distinction) by TUFF [ Telecom UK Fraud Forum ] within the company. Also invigilated subsequent exams.
• Part of multiple roles earlier - Developer, SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Fraud Management, Technical Anchor - helping telcos get the maximum out of the products.