Jan 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid

• Built the team to scale ApplyBoard's e-commerce platform into a $100M business line, expanding into 15+ countries within 3 years.
• Led product and strategy to grow revenue from $30M to $75M and achieve break-even within 12 months.

Aug 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• I help startups in various AC programs with reaching Product-Market Fit and scaling their Users/Revenues

Jan 2022 – Sep 2022 · 8 mos

• Leading Cross-team initiatives (Wattpad + Yonder) around Creators and content monetization
• Leading international partnerships and product integrations

Nov 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Led Wattpad’s expansion, strategy, and GTM in India, building India-specific teams across key business areas: Creators, Studios, Brand & Product Partnerships, Marketing, and Content Discovery.
• Grew India into Wattpad’s 2nd largest English readership market with 300% MAU growth, 200% increase in creators, and 400% surge in engagement within 2 years.
• Developed the company’s playbook for international expansion
• Served as Site Leader and Spokesperson for Wattpad India.
• Launched Wattpad’s first India Brand Campaign in partnership with Times Group, India’s largest media company.
• Led brand partnerships with PUMA, Xiaomi, UNICEF, T-series, SONY entertainment
• Led Studios partnership with Audible India and developed a pipeline of additional partnerships.

Feb 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · India

• I helped Techstars portfolio founders of early stage companies with finding PMF, team building, and business strategy.

Feb 2019 – Feb 2019 · 0 mo · India

• My first attempt at a TEDx talk about "How Intelligent is AI?". The lens I have used to explain the topic is by explaining how Wattpad is using AI to disrupt the entertainment industry globally.

Nov 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Led the team to organize the largest Canadian Alumni event in India in partnership with The High commission of Canada in Delhi, India-Canada Business Chamber and Ivyplus.
• Raised Sponsorship from Jaguar motors for the event.

Jun 2016 – Apr 2021 · 4 yrs 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• I represented the university for various outreach efforts in India:
• Helped 300+ prospective students from India with their admission application at UWaterloo by sharing custom guidance based on their educational backgrounds and career/academic goals.
• Consulted 100+ Indian parents in figuring out various financing options to fund their child's education at Waterloo (including educational loans, scholarships, bursaries, on-campus jobs, co-op jobs, off-campus jobs, etc.)

Sep 2015 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Led product and growth teams for India's premier Student Housing & Co-living platform, working closely with the CEO to scale operations to 35 employees, 150 contractors across 4 cities, and $3M ARR.
• worked along side CEO to raise over $4M from prominent angels, UHNIs, Family offices and VCs.
• Optimized digital and physical products (website, app, IoT, internal systems), driving a 32% increase in organic leads via landing page improvements and new acquisition channels.
• Launched and scaled a referral program, contributing 40% of monthly leads.
• Automated and digitized processes, reducing resident move-in/out TAT by 7 days.
• Boosted ARPU by ~50% through value-added services tailored to user needs.
• Scoped and deployed MVPs for IoT integrations, including smart locks, digital meters, and face recognition systems.
• Improved user ticket resolution TAT by ~70% with a custom mobile-based ticket management system.

Jan 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

• TripMD was a chat-concierge for all your healthcare requests.
• This was my first experience as a CEO right after undergrad, and I made a lot of mistakes. My favorite mistake was to build for a small market early on and unable to grow out of it.
• We were backed by some of the top pre-seed investors in India - Rajesh Sawhney (Ex-Reliance CEO) , Anupam Mittal (Founder Shaadi.com), TA ventures, Indian Dream Capital.

Dec 2013 – Jun 2014 · 6 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Worked with portfolio startups on their product enhancements.
• Chief organizer of GSF Hacks – One of the largest hackathons in India (1000+ participants)
• Performed due diligence & evaluated startups from multiple domains for pre-seed investments (800 startup applications from around the world)
• Planned & executed North America leg for GSF Global startup accelerator program – 15 week mentorship program hosted across SF, NYC, Waterloo, Boston, Bangalore, Singapore and Delhi.

Jun 2013 – Jan 2014 · 7 mos · Toronto and Delhi

• Vote Compass is an internet based election pre-polling company that partners with TV media companies during elections
• Finalized the B2B sales deal with NDTV - India’s largest TV media house in terms of viewership
• Set-up on-ground field activity support for the Indian general elections 2014

Dec 2012 – Aug 2013 · 8 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Recognized as one of Canada’s top 36 entrepreneurial students for the 2013 cohort.
• The prestigious program is run similar to Thiel fellowship program, where you are provided with capital to work on your venture.
• Co-founder and CTO of Purchext: an e-allowance mobile app for teenagers. Featured in Next36 media release
• Developed the android app and managed the complete product cycle (mobile & backend) from idea to launch

Sep 2012 – Dec 2012 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• AppDynamics is a KPCB and Greylock Partners backed company
• Worked alongside Director of Product on AppDynamics’ official online community forum for customers and partners
• Launched official online community forum for customers & partners with 1500+ threads to 400+ businesses.
• Worked with in-house support & content team to create preliminary content for launch. Co-ordinated guest content with 50+ customers & partners to activate community.
• Created and maintained the forum team’s roadmap and milestones. Represented the team in communication with product, engineering and marketing team leads

Oct 2011 – Oct 2011 · 0 mo

• DatumDroid
• An Android OCR search app to retrieve customized results
• Finalist in IIT Bombay Techfest Android app contest (Appsurd)

Sep 2011 – Dec 2011 · 3 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Designed & implemented the book recommendations feature for the desktop app, increasing the e-book sales by ~$100K+ in revenues in the first quarter after launch
• Got developer credits on the desktop and e-reader application for my work
• Implemented real time book search in a library on the desktop app to reduce search results load time by 50%
• Implements the adding/editing notes feature in a book on Kobo desktop app.

Feb 2011 – Mar 2011 · 1 mo · Greater San Diego Area

• Researched in User Experience of an upcoming navigation technology. Shot a video to be shown to market the product to clients.

Jan 2011 – Apr 2011 · 3 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• Designed and developed Qualcomm's proprietary Diagnostic Tool to collect RAM dumps from Android MSM Chipsets in Linux environment
• Awarded Diamond Qualstar by Corporate R&D group for assisting in an upcoming navigation technology user experience study
• Improve performance and scalability of device-driver using C libraries for polling, pthreads, timers, sockets and signals. Tested using python scripts.
• Presented and demoed the tool along with Team Manager to other Linux-Android Team Leaders and Director as the tool will be used by all Linux based development teams for Android, both at Qualcomm and its customers (HTC, Google, etc.)

May 2010 – Aug 2010 · 3 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Developed and designed a native application prototype of TaskCaddyLite from scratch for Android platform. TaskCaddy was a White labeled app for local handyman companies in Los Angeles to provide repair work to their clients.
• Worked alongside company's CEO on the UI screens for TaskCaddyLite for Android and other platforms.
• Researched & Integrated Square API for credit card processing, Google API for GPS & a 3rd party printing API with the app.
• Submitted a technical report on major design patterns for Android REST client native applications for future co-ops

Sep 2009 – Dec 2009 · 3 mos · Barrie , ON

• Joined company called 1Shoppingcart.com, which was acquired by Web.com a week later
• Developed and designed a Ruby worker to allow merchants to send special and bulk emails to their customers and affiliates on specific transactions. Timely processing of various merchant & affiliate bills was also handled.

Jan 2009 – Apr 2009 · 3 mos · Waterloo, ON

• Developed and designed Advanced file search app in C# & secure user functionality of a reporting application in VB.NET.
• Actively involved in designing of Toyota's production software in Windows Mobile & Windows CE 5.0 environment