Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos

• 1. Designed and delivered a credit-based course on Agentic AI for postgraduate students.
• 2. Conducted pre-placement mentorship sessions to prepare students for recruitment processes.
• 3. Contributed to the Job Success Track, supporting students in achieving better career outcomes.

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Mar 2025 – Jun 2025 · 3 mos

• Helping early and mid-stage startups scale through AI, product strategy, and growth consulting—focused on elevating Gen AI adoption, user experience, automating workflows, and driving revenue.
• Selected Projects:
• 1. Website AI Agents – Boosted website ROAS through AI-driven automation and personalized onboarding experience
• 2. Flik – Built an AI-powered fashion discovery app, redefining how users explore and engage with fashion.
• Currently consulting full-time with a US based $150M ARR Ecommerce company to integrate AI agents across user journeys and backend operations.

Feb 2024 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr

• Driving Growth & AI initiatives at Lenskart.
• Built Recommendation system (with Gen AI) for recommending eyewear based on Face, Outfit, Personality and others
• Virtual Shopping Assistance (Human + GPT)
• New User Acquisition projects to drive users to lenskart App
• Shopify for eyewear to run multiple brand apps powered by Lenskart app
• Improved buying experience (Eyewear & Contacts) to create aha movement and faster checkout

Feb 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Building best in class premium experience for digital first buyers shopping eyewear products
• I led the John Jacobs Pod which consists of Revenue/growth, product and tech team
• Reporting to Cofounder (lenskart) & CEO (John Jacobs)

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 · 2 mos

Apr 2022 – Jul 2022 · 3 mos · India

• One of 14 Startups selected across all the IITs for IIT Startups Cohort 8 ( 1st Cohort in india ) for accelerator program supported by Top IITians.
• Find more details at https://iitstartups.org/

Oct 2020 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

• As an Alumni of Ideas Program supported by IIT Bombay 1990 Batch Alumni.
• I was responsible for mentoring my junior batches to help them understand the early stages of Entrepreneurship and asking them the right question that helps them be on track from cohort 1.

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr

Nov 2019 – Aug 2020 · 9 mos

• The Startup Leadership Program (SLP) is a selective, global, training program and lifelong global network for founders, leaders, and innovators who want to become startup CEOs.
• Classes are held on evenings or weekends. The program began in Boston in 2006 with seven Fellows (participants).
• It has grown to 28 cities in 13 countries. Every year 15-25 Fellows join the program in every city.

May 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

• AI for builders at Dell foundation with their Early dev hires- May 2025
• AI for Startups at MESA School - March 2025
• D2C Startup meetup by Netcore - March 2024
• Hiring AI talents for Startups - Feb 2024
• Building Consumer business by Drapers & Echai - Aug 2023
• D2C founder Event by Klub - July 2023
• Jury for World CSR Congress at Taj lands, Mumbai - April 2023
• Judging NM insight - Feb 2023
• Echai & Drapers bangalore startup event - Dec 2022
• Amity University - April 2022
• Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim - March 2022
• Pillai's college of Arts, Science and Commerce - Feb 2022
• Technical council, IIT Bombay - Aug 2021
• Ecell IBS - Jan 2021
• Lokmanya Tilak college of engineering
• Patkar College - 2021
• Hult Prize, Bangladesh - Aug 2020
• IEEE Bombay section - Nov 2020
• Entrepreneurship Workshop by DSSE, IIT Bombay and Enactus India (10k Attendees) - May 2020
• Google Developers Club KIIT - April 2020
• Hosting Mumbai's Largest Reader's fest by Readsnet - 2019

Aug 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Apli.ai is India's largest campus placement platform scaled to 1200+ colleges, 6L students and 400+ companies. It went viral in the first 6 weeks with 8K+ downloads within Mumbai from 70+ college
• Later we pivoted to a career discovery platform in 2022 where candidates can experience without even applying to the company and decide a right career path for themselves.
• Backed by IIT Bombay and IIT Startups.
• It was inaugurated by Mr. Bharat Desai, founder of Syntel and Prestigious alumni of IIT Bombay at DS School of Entrepreneurship in 2020 by winning Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Indonesia across 35+ countries.
• Shivam was the founder and CEO, his job entailed responsibilities mentioned below:
• Product:
• handled product solely was responsible for launching different launches for
• 1.Career discovery and job application platform: where candidates can taste different roles in top companies and then decide their career path and also apply to different similar jobs on the platform.
• 2. Employer branding and Talent pipeline platform
• 3. University placement management system
• Fundraising and Investor Relations:
• Responsible for raising funds which was able to secure seed round with top angel investors and some actors. Parallely was also managing investors with quarterly updates and suggestion.
• Growth:
• First sales person in the team to sell the belief before even the product was ready with several companies such as Schindler, Alsisar impact and others. Parallelly he played a major role in scaling the university ecosystem in just 18 months.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 mo

• Hult Prize is an Intiative by Pres. Bill Clinton and Hult Business School to solve social problem

Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 · 4 mos

• Hult Prize is an Initiative by Pres. Bill Clinton and Hult Business School for creating an impact by Social Startups.

Sep 2018 – Sep 2018 · 0 mo · Powai

• 28 Startups were selected out of 138 to attend the boot camp.
• The mentors were IIT-B Alumni, Hola chef founder, Lenden club founder, Investment professionals.
• Part of a finalist team for an Idea Pitching competition; presented on behalf of the team.

Aug 2018 – Feb 2019 · 6 mos

• Create an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in the country by promoting Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship.
• Patnerships with Organization promoting Entrepreneurs.
• Conduct National level Entrepreneurship bootcamp in the country.
• Conduct Sessions to promote the Bootcamp

Jul 2018 – Jul 2018 · 0 mo

• Selected to represent India at Global Entrepreneurship bootcamp
• ( 160 delegates | 35+ countries | 17 teams )
• Part of a finalist team for an Idea Pitching competition; presented on behalf of the team.
• Lead a team to won the Global Entrepreneurship bootcamp.

Oct 2017 – Nov 2017 · 1 mo · Mumbai

• Awarded an LOR by the CEO for Outstanding performance .
• Generated 125+ leads for the brand awareness of Interntheory while developing new business opportunities in an University initiative
• Lead a team of 4 members to bring these figures into practicality with planning and execution of all communications and actions to the Executives.
• Creating and managing promotional collateral to establish and maintain product branding
• Competitor and customer insights analysis

Aug 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr · Navi mumbai

• ROLE:
• Spearheading 3-tier team of 20 core group members
• Managing budget to execute institute events
• INITIATIVES:
• Initiated Intellectual Property platform to ensure student-faculty interaction, envisioning 25% increase in tech startups
• Collaborated with other various other cells for smooth functioning

Aug 2017 – Nov 2017 · 3 mos · Mumbai

• Endorsed by the Vice-president of Talent Management for outstanding performance.
• Brand development of AIESEC in Mumbai
• Completing daily task assigned on proper timings
• Smoothly Communicate and get lots of task done

Jul 2017 – Oct 2017 · 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• The project was regarding Social media marketing Intern
• I was the best performers for continuous consecutive 3 weeks by performing the task at higher accuracy and before time

Jun 2017 – Jun 2017 · 0 mo · Navi mumbai