Feb 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I bootstrapped a mental health company that aimed to create culturally relevant therapy for South Asians abroad. This was a project I was really passionate about because of my own issues with mental health.
• I learnt a lot from this experience -
• 1. Mistakes made while raising capital - the importance of a story vs solid early stage metrics.
• 2. How to effectively run demand side tests and the mental disciplined required to run them effectively. It's easy to read about lean startups in a book and an entirely different thing to actually implement.
• 3. How to experiment in order to find scalable distribution channels.
• 4. I grokked why certain metrics are important to a business and took a lot of hard decisions.
• 5. I understood the importance of culture building from the beginning (something I failed to do initially, that the employees I hired taught me)
• 6. Most importantly, I delivered consistently good mental healthcare to ~150 users (many of whom personally reached out to me when hearing about our shutdown to ask me to keep it going).
• I shut down the business because I realized that the market wasn't ready yet (despite reducing CAC by 3x in 5 months and having month to month retention of ~80%) to sustain a large business and I wanted to contribute something larger to the world.
• I'm happy to talk about my experiences and what I learnt. This was one of the most meaningful things I have done in my life and I served a lot of people that looked like me who weren't being served. Had I been able to run this business at break-even I would have as it was a net positive for the world.

Sep 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Started working with Bold at Xelpmoc (ran their initial team). After I left Xelp, I transitioned into a software engineering role.
• I was responsible for helping build the entire application, ranging from frontend, backend, devops and architecture.
• Towards the end of my time at Bold I transitioned into a part-time role so that I could start ThinkFreely.

Apr 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• A startup incubator that tried to build startups for the next 500 million Indians. Helped (in some small way) to take the company public on the Bombay and National stock exchange.
• Given P/L control over the loss making Bangalore office in January 2019 and 8 months runway.
• Sold $220,000 USD worth of contracts and cut burn to extend runway to 18 months.
• Architected and built the Tata Cliq Progressive Web Application. The time to interactive for this application was <5 seconds (as of May 2018), making it an exceptional PWA. At peak, this site serves 2 million daily active users.
• Architected and built Snaphunt, a startup that went live in June 2018 and raised a million dollars from BeeNext at a 5 million dollar valuation.
• Built Knack, a startup in the SME space that has gone to market and has signed its first deal with an enterprise client, K11.
• Recruited, hired and taught a team of 40 in React, Redux, NodeJS, test driven development and modern devops (continuous deployment, kubernetes and docker).

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Helped build Activities product, which was Remind’s first attempt to monetize.
• Recognized that Remind had no documentation nor a design system, which resulted in code duplication. To address this, I launched Component Explorer, which is a documentation tool that inspects code and updates itself.
• Found a pain point in Remind’s sign up flow for teachers, presented a data driven argument for adding a Google Classroom integration and built a prototype showcasing one step sign up. After launch, Remind decided to productize the idea as part of its product roadmap for the year.

Sep 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco, California

• Architected internal API to make it much easier for engineers to build new visualizations.
• Developed geospatial visualizations using the API I built.
• Implemented API for usage across multiple teams with minimal regression and code stoppage.

Feb 2014 – Jun 2014 · 4 mos · Palo Alto, California

• Responsible for bug fixes on main site, and optimizing front end javascript code to be able to deal with high numbers of users. Creator of GIF creator.

Mar 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Palo Alto, California

• Designed and implemented a javascript framework to create standard, pluginizable web applications.
• Worked in the field with customers from the SEC to deploy a custom web application leveraging the framework.