Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · United States · Remote

Oct 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos · United States

• Joined LTI after the acquisition of Powerupcloud in 2019
• Led the Global AWS Business Unit at LTI
• In these 3 years, the AWS business at LTI grew by 6x
• LTI won 2 AWS Awards at AWS Reinvent 2022 (first ever for any group company of L&T)
• LTI was selected to be part of several AWS programs, including Restack, Data Analytics, Modernization

Jan 2019 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · United States

• Ideated CloudEnsure.io - an autonomous cloud governance platform build on the well-architected framework of AWS
• Led the product design including use case, UI/UX, product features
• Built a 'pizza sized' team of architects and engineers and led the team to develop MVP of CloudEnsure.io
• Built the GTM strategy for CloudEnsure.io, testing the market acceptability with the MVP
• Formed a comprehensive product team including product manager, marketing team, and technical team to develop the product further
• Worked closely with the product teams to build an autonomous engine in CloudEnsure.io to fix the critical issues detected by the audit module

Jun 2015 – Sep 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• As the Founder & CEO of Powerupcloud, built a 200+ people company without any external funding in less than 4 years.
• Powerupcloud has become a leading Public Cloud Consulting Partner for AWS, Azure & GCP in a span of 4 years.
• Powerupcloud is one of the fastest ever to achieve Premier Partnership with AWS, placing Powerupcloud in the top 0.1% of all AWS Partners Worldwide.
• Powerupcloud holds the highest number of AWS Competencies in India among any other AWS partner.
• Powerupcloud won the 'AWS Partner of the Year' award in 2018, 'Microsoft Business Analytics Partner of the Year' award in 2017 and 'AWS Innovation Partner of the Year' award in 2016.
• Powerupcloud has successfully completed 500+ projects for enterprise customers across 10+ countries.
• Powerupcloud is the only AI & Data Competency Partner of AWS in APAC region.
• Powerupcloud is the only company to hold AI Competency with both AWS and Azure.

Sep 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Lead the business development and sales for Minjar Cloud across the APAC region including India, Singapore, Malaysia & Thailand.
• Achieved $1.2 Million order book in 12 months for Cloud & Data Professional Services division of Minjar Cloud with a lean sales team.
• Lead the partner & alliance management for Minjar Cloud with cloud OEMs like AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc.
• During this period, assisted Minjar to move from Advanced Partner to Premier Partner tier of AWS.

Dec 2012 – Aug 2013 · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Lead the cloud business unit at Progressive, managing P&L for the cloud business vertical.
• Launched several successful cloud solutions in multiple platforms to attain a sustainable business model.
• One among the first adapters of AWS Re-seller model and build a business around re-selling AWS services in India.
• My day-to-day activities involves consulting, project planning, deal closures and relationship management with clients and partners.
• I have closed several enterprise deals but also created and executed flexible pricing model for SMEs helping us to close deals with start-ups.
• Expertise in consulting and selling services of cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Google Apps and Office365.

Mar 2012 – Dec 2012 · 9 mos · Noida

• As the Product Manager of IT & IMS vertical, I am responsible for business management of the entire vertical with a revenue of INR 5 crore.
• My primary task is to research, build and release new products as per the market needs.
• Plan and execute nation wide BTL campaigns for IT & IMS courses across 50 centers.
• Develop & deploy fool proof revenue recognition model to prevent slippage of revenue targets.
• Coordinate with the sales team & operations team in executing the product delivery at the retail centres.

Jun 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Founded Addopensa Fashions Private Limited in June 2010.
• Experimented institutional sales and direct marketing of custom apparels for Addopensa in Bangalore, Delhi-NCR, Chennai and Hyderabad.
• Streamlined the back-end manufacturing operations and order processing which suits retail business model.
• Established a manufacturing unit in Tirupur, Tamilnadu to build an end-to-end delivery center.
• Had to close down the business due to policy changes in Tirupur which led to shutting of many dyeing & yarn processing units.

Jun 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Lead an "Innovation Committee" of 10 members including managers and leads to bring in new innovative processes which would improve the business.
• Trend analysis and forecasting of KPIs like sales, margin, waste, stock etc of Tesco stores in UK, Thailand, Malaysia
• Gather business requirements from business users in other countries and draft BRDs, BSDs, TSDs and supported Business Applications.