Jan 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ITCMAARS is a crop-agnostic full stack AgriTech platform, together with a 'phygital' ecosystem, that provides agriculture and allied services to ~1 million farmers and 1,150 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)

Dec 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Animall is one of the world's fastest growing agritech companies on its mission to disrupt the dairy ecosystem in India.

Mar 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Exora Labs uses production process based artificial intelligence to help manufacturing teams prevent quality and yield losses.
• 1. Understand why inefficiencies occur: Automated Root Cause Analysis
• 2. Prevent them using Predictive Recommendations
• Top 25 Nasscom AI for Good initiative.**
• Runners up Elevate 2020 – A government of Karnataka seed grant initiative.
• Finalists SOGAL Global Pitch Competition (San Mateo)

Feb 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Advise startups on product and technology strategy.

Jan 2018 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Successfully built and led a team that delivered N-Connect - A classroom based communities platform that gives kids learning experiences they love.
• The platform integrates teachers, students, and families in a close-knit community by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages.
• Platform Scale Achieved:
• 250,000 students. 300,000 parents and 25,000 teachers.

Jan 2017 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

• Built a team of customer focussed engineers, data scientists and product managers that delivered a mobile & web application that bought joy to millions of South-Indian movie watchers.
• Engaged cross-functionally with other teams such as marketing, sales, and finance to ensure an aligned product & engineering vision.
• Implemented Agile across the organisation.
• Key achievements:
• A scalable & secure Android, iOS and web application with over 1.5 million downloads and 25000+ daily active users.
• Movie content management system (CMS) for B2C and B2B partners.
• B2B2C App integrations with OlaCabs, ACT Internet.
• Movie recommendation engine using content-based and collaborative filtering machine learning models.
• Made Fastfilmz a Google Widevine Implementation Partner.
• Setup a data pipeline using Amazon Redshift and Metabase BI that enabled us to build in-house data analytics and data science operation.

Feb 2016 – Dec 2016 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• All things in an early-stage startup:
• 1. Implemented Agile across the organization.
• 2. Drove all product plans; working closely with the Founders to ensure we get our initial product right.
• 3. Our entire technology stack was outsourced - worked with external vendors to ensure that our user stories were being implemented and quality was met.
• 4. Quality assurance: Ensure the product met the acceptable levels of quality before it reached our consumer.
• 5. Spent considerable time marketing and selling our product in the field to get a better understanding of unmet customer needs.

Mar 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led an Engineering team that successfully delivered Michelangelo an Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) running on digital set‐top boxes.
• The design of the EPG:
• 1. Enables viewers to quickly find programmes; information and options of the current programme.
• 2. Offers programmes to the viewer for purchase.
• 3. Serves as an interface to interactive applications.
• 4. Supports advanced video and audio technologies.

Sep 2005 – Jan 2009 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Part of the team that worked on the software stack of one of the earliest time based recording set-top-boxes in the world.
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070213005959/en/NDS-MediaHighway-Middleware-Deployed-DIRECTV-Latin-America
• Successfully led a cross functional international team at Bucharest to deploy Romtelecom’s New DTH Satellite Platform
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20061004005016/en/NDS-System-Romtelecoms-New-DTH-Satellite-Platform