Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

• Helping professionals and their families make their best move. We launched this company during the pandemic when corporate relocation was stalled. Several professionals and families debated their choice to live around their work location when their job could be done from anywhere. We learnt a lot from families who choose to move for a better lifestyle and are now helping other professionals to do the same.
• Our recommendations and techniques at nextburb.com are data-driven. We save a significant amount of time in the research stage and handhold families throughout the move process.
• Move to a place where you belong. Schedule an appointment to discover the best places to live.
• https://www.nextburb.com/book-an-appointment/

Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 9 mos · Pune Area, India

• Leading a team to develop innovative applications for relocation & recruitment industry.
• I am currently hiring senior front-end engineer who has map based UI application development experience and data engineers who can make sense of data using R / python.

Jan 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Harbinger Systems is a global company providing software technology services for independent software vendors and enterprises, with a specialization in product engineering.
• Harbinger Systems builds software solutions leveraging social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) technologies for domains such as human capital management (HCM), healthcare, e-learning, and publishing. Harbinger Systems also uses emerging technologies like big data, OpenStack, and internet of things (IoT) to build products for tech startups.

Mar 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

Nov 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 4 mos

• Primarily at pre-seed stage. Some of the companies I have invested in
• HomeLight (US)
• AppZen (US)
• HeadOut (US)
• Explara (India)
• Cafe Peter (India)

Apr 2011 – Jun 2018 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• After putting onion.tv on hold, I have switched to doing consulting full-time and work with various companies from time to time (most of the time as professional consultant on-board and sometimes informally as an entrepreneurial friend)
• As in my past career, I have been focusing on small and medium companies especially technology or internet related product based companies.
• My current interest areas are Internet of Things, Data-Driven Products / Services, and SaaS (for ed-tech | healthcare | enterprise)
• Have also been doing better strategy + marketing for outsourced product development companies for lead generation, innovation in products / services, exploring new opportunities / diversification / fund raising.

May 2009 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• I along with other co-president lead this non-profit and am responsible to drive various projects and events besides establishing great vision and culture for building a passionate community for the betterment of society.
• Net Impact Pune (a chapter of global www.netimpact.org) is a dynamic group of professionals working with various for-profit and non-profit organizations who use their business skills and network to make a positive impact on the Society.
• At Net Impact Pune various various social initiatives in following areas are undertaken
• Environment and Urban Planning
• Education
• Rural Development
• Healthcare
• Socially Responsible Communities

Jul 2008 – Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Lost early competition to competitor who got acquired by Google / Youtube. Later, market need for metadata based requirements are becoming 'custom-solutions' in education industry and not a high-priority need in media industry. Due to which a scalable proposition of onion.tv isn't validated.
• So development are put on hold at present and would be re-fueled again at right time.
• Lead the overall development of onion.tv. We focus on enhancing the media playback experience by integrating relevant information with the video.
• Doing just about everything that a usual startup founder needs to do - programming, marketing, hiring, sales, and most importantly making sure we progress a little every day!

Sep 2007 – Aug 2008 · 11 mos

• I work as consultant on part-time basis for various startups across the globe. Key areas are -
• Conceptualizing the idea. And also molding it into something which can help earn money right from start.
• Market Research and planning
• Crafting an innovative business model which will click with the idea.
• Help with drafting a full business plan
• Planning out things for raising funding (seed / early stage) which includes drafting a term sheet which could be appropriate for startup.
• I can also help in the process of preparation before you pitch to angel / VC.
• And many more things on marketing and financial model side
• Some of my consultancy service done in past -
• Startup in bay area - Identifying the right target market for the solution built by startup. And creating a marketing plan to initiate penetrating into that market place.
• Startup in India - Help in crafting the right business model and reviewing business plan for marketing and financial strategy.

Aug 2007 – Dec 2007 · 4 mos

• I worked as strategy consultant to progress software in Boston.
• Problem Assigned: To identify the main causes of decline of OpenEdge sales after exhibiting 20 years of success in market and propose strategic changes to grow the sales.
• Analyzing the revenue generation channels of OpenEdge product and impact of market dynamics on them. Provide recommendation based on the analysis to grow the sales.

Jul 2003 – Jul 2006 · 3 yrs

• As an embedded team member am working on range of Kenati networking products NPBloX(Network Management Framework), and verticals(Gateway, WiFi, VoIP) built on top of NPBloX.
• Along with networking products I also work on NPLinux, a small footprint embedded linux distribution and its customization for various embedded boards(ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, XScale).
• I also have experience porting of device drivers from proprietory RTOS to embedded linux.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 · 5 yrs