Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · India

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

• I advise FC companies in areas where I can add value. In the process, I also learn from new companies and how they are shaping the future. A very fulfilling role and I love it.

Jun 2022 – Dec 2022 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Having first hand seen how financial health of an individual/family takes a hit due to medical needs, Rio Health is working on a mission to ensure medical needs of an individual/family are well taken care with right financial solutions for them.
• Developed the product roadmap, hired interns/developers to develop the product.
• Created product plans for no-cost EMIs, business model, integration plan with NBFCs.
• Created a pipeline of 100K+ USD per month loan book along with other co-founder & sales head.
• Raised ~250K USD from micro VC, FnF and commitment for additional 250K USD.
• Decided to pull the plug due to unforeseen circumstances and returned 100% of the money back to the investors. Learned valuable lessons in the process.

Sep 2021 – Jul 2022 · 10 mos

• India's #1 online poker company, #16 in the world in online poker (as of Dec 2021).
• 10M+ Customers.
• Several thousands of concurrent users at peak.
• My job is to take the company to new heights, create high performance culture and scale the technology to create higher business value for all the stakeholders.

Jul 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• My role is to help Curve Cue with a wide variety of things including hiring, product positioning and anything else where I can benefit them. My goal is to see them become a success.
• CurveCue team is a startup made up of highly experienced professionals with extensive experience in Artificial Intelligence, Fixed Income, FinTech Integration, Data Analytics and Visualisations. They have a multinational team of professionals based in the UK, India and Australia.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Working with a very talented set of people to change how we do payments for online purchases in India.
• ePayLater allows customers to “buy now and pay later” on online portals with just a single click. The customers are billed only after they receive the delivery of the product. This addresses the trust issues related to online shopping and acts as a good substitute for COD.
• ePayLater has also emerged as a leader in the SME lending business in last few years and is making a significant impact in proving credit to retails. Credit boosts the ability to retailers to increase their sales and we are humbled to partner with them on their journey to wealth creation. We have been able to forge partnerships leaders in the Cash & Carry business like Walmart, Metro cash & carry to provide credit to their retailers and lots of new partnerships are being forged as we speak.
• Awards and recognitions:
• 01. India's Most Innovative FinTech(lending) 2019 by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt of India
• 02. Express IT Award 2019 for IT Innovation - MSME, by the Financial Express.
• 03. Technoviti Awards 2019 - Banking Frontiers
• 04. Finnoviti Awards 2019 - Digital Credit
• 05. Featured in the Digital India Release by the Ministry of Information Technology, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
• 07. Shortlisted for the Hon’ble PM’s program on the Beneficiaries of Digital India on NaMo app
• 08. Product Innovator Award of the Year at the India Banking Summit & Awards 2018
• 09. Skoch Order of Merit, 2018
• 10. Featured by Business Standard as top Artificial Intelligence startup
• 11. Business World Tech Company to watch out for - 2018
• 12. Featured in the list of top 50 Fintech Companies in India by Fintech Asia (2017)
• 13. Featured in the list of top 100 disruptive Indian start-ups to look out
• for in 2017, by the Hacker Street
• 14. Featured in the list of top 100 startups to look out for in 2017, by Sutra HR (dated 01 January 2017)

Jun 2013 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs

• Multi Factor Authentication – Launched a new Outlook auth stack that provides single sign on with rest of the Office suite and enables Multi-Factor Authentication. O365 enterprise customers can now have the peace of mind that Outlook is secure against password theft and also ensure that the user password never leaves the enterprise environment. Over 300 customers switched to Office 365 as a direct result within 6 months of the release.
• International Email Address (EAI) – Launched EAI for Outlook 2016. The next billion internet users don’t know English and EAI empowers them to embrace one of the world’s most popular communication medium. They can get in and out of email without worrying about English.
• Currently working on a yet to be released feature that redefines the core outlook user experience.

Feb 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• ISO Mounting – Launched ISO Mounting for Windows 8. Say good bye to optical disc drives and 3rd party tools. Additionally, this work eliminated 30K Windows crashes per month that were caused by 3rd party tools.
• Zero Power Optical Disc Drive (ZPODD) – Launched ZPODD for Windows 8 and extended battery life for the users. Proposed significant updates to the ZPODD standards specification (called Mt. Fuji), worked with ODD partners/Intel/AMD to get the changes accepted and ensured success of the feature.
• Storage Drivers – Owned 3rd party storage driver program for Windows 8. These drivers are responsible for ensuring a seamless connection to storage devices connected to the PC. Was directly involved in ensuring excellent Windows read/write performance for over 30% of the PCs in the world.

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• PowerShell for iSCSI – Worked on replacing the existing iSCSI command line tool with PowerShell and defined the long term strategy. This directly provided Microsoft a better leverage compared to the competition by providing an improved UX and functionality.
• The project was well received by the Windows Leadership and showcased in the publicity emails sent by Microsoft for university recruitment.

Dec 2005 – Aug 2008 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• SUN System Management Center – Worked on various parts of the management app using Java, C, and Shell Scripting. Reduced the installation time of the app by over 20%.
• Web project – Took initiative outside of work responsibilities to design and develop a web tool for consolidating SUN’s CSR activities and removed 3rd party dependency resulting in savings of over 100,000 USD annually.

Aug 2004 – Apr 2005 · 8 mos

• Teaching Assistant for courses on Structured Programming, Introduction to Linux and Introduction to Design at DA-IICT.