Oct 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr · Charlottesville, Virginia, United States · Hybrid

• Won UVA Entrepreneurship Cup Discovery competition, securing a $5,000 grant and a spot in the iLab incubator by the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia to advance customer and product development for Krity
• Launched our proprietary audiobook catalog on the company website and across major streaming platforms—including Spotify, Audible, Apple Music, and JioSaavn—achieving 40K+ monthly active listeners from all parts of India
• Got featured in JioSaavn’s ‘Top Audiobooks’ list on platform homepage for 20 consecutive weeks, solidifying Krity’s presence on India’s second-largest audio streaming service

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022 · 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Conceptualized a new product offering that would help improve the experience of the early-stage users of the cloud
• Conducted user interviews and surveys to identify customer pain points, and proposed new features and workflows that address those problems
• Developed the pricing and positioning strategy that can lead to incremental revenue from this product of $25MM annually
• Set up a BI dashboard to track user activity that would help better understand this customer segment pre and post launch

Jun 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Increased revenue by $20.5MM by personalizing the dish recommendation system on the food delivery platform
• Increased the top line by $4.8MM in additional orders by improving the delivery system performance during times of high demand
• Reduced the logistics cost of food delivery by $840k annually by programming the order assignment logic to prefer low-cost carriers over high-cost carriers
• Increased cart to order conversion by 1.8% (14.5m additional orders) by optimizing the delivery charge based on the consumers' willingness to pay in the region
• Increased daily time available for delivery by 1000hrs by building a simplified app flow to prevent carriers from getting blocked inadvertently on the app

Jul 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bhadrachalam Area, India

• > Saved US$3m by reducing product rejection by optimizing the operating parameters of the manufacturing process using Machine Learning methods
• > Opened up a business opportunity of US$14.6m by developing a paper variety which matched the specific needs of the customer
• > Spearheaded “Quality Workshops” to interface Production teams with Sales and Marketing for discussing market challenge and formulating product strategies
• > Reduced purchase returns by 12% by designing and conducting supplier evaluation over 20 different suppliers and recommending process corrections
• > Achieved a 15% increment in customer quality index by internally auditing 11 production lines across 3 factories

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bhadrachalam, Telangana, India

• Saved US$1.7m annually by increasing the yield output of the wood pulping process by –
• > Experimenting with different storage patterns to reduce the desorption rate of moisture from wood
• > Regressing historic data and finding the optimum holding time of wood inventory for maximum yield

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Pithapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India

• Re-designed the Front End Accessory Drive brackets of a combustion engine with different materials for cost and weight reduction