Aug 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• The Payments platform at PhonePe is at the heart of every transaction. It is responsible for making sure that the 20 million+ transactions we enable every day, have high availability, reliability and scalability, while also constantly innovating, so that we can power existing and new features and lifestyle categories for PhonePe users. I lead a team of Product Managers who build and manage this platform, working closely with Engineering, Business, Design and other teams to make things happen.

Sep 2018 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Meesho is India's largest social eCommerce platform, backed by Facebook, Naspers, YCombinator, Sequoia and other marquee investors. Meesho enables Indian micro-entrepreneurs (housewives, students etc) to sell fashion and household products to their social circle, on WhatsApp, Facebook etc. During the time I worked with Meesho, the business and the company valuation grew 20X, and the team grew 10X.
• I played various roles and built various teams at Meesho: from the Shopping Experience (Discovery and Recommendation) Product team, to the Data Science and Personalization team, and the Search and Catalog product team.
• One of the key things my team built at Meesho, is Image Search - which lets Meesho users search products by uploading an image. This has particular relevance in Meesho's business model, and along with being one of the most loved and acclaimed features of Meesho, it is one of the most significant and successful use cases of AI and ML in Indian eCommerce.

Dec 2017 – Sep 2018 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Ola is India's leading cab aggregator. The Marketplace team tries to strike a balance between various participants of the cab marketplace (Consumers, Driver partners and Ola), to ensure good economics and experience for all the participants. The key levers through which we do this are Pricing, Demand Shaping, Supply Shaping and Allocation.
• I headed the Supply Shaping product team, and was in charge of Driver Incentives as well as shaping of driver behavior. The most interesting part of my stint was the massive improvement we brought in Ola's unit economics, which was a first for cab aggregation in emerging economies.

Apr 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• We started galleri5 with the mission to simplify discovery and sharing of visual content. Currently we are building a marketplace of social media influencers, to make it easy for marketers to spot the right influencers for their brand. We have also built a social discovery and sharing platform for original visual content. You can check out the galleri5 app on App Store, Play Store and on the web.
• galleri5's investors include Raghunandan G (founder and former CEO of TaxiForSure) and Phanindra Sama (founder and former CEO of RedBus).

Oct 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• InMobi is the world's largest independent mobile ad network. Our team was the 'control room' of the ad network. We were responsible for Access, Allocation, Yield, Transparency and Network Health - which are the key levers / indicators for profitability and revenue in any ad network. We interfaced with every team within the company to make sure the network was being run optimally. Particularly, there was a lot of overlap with Strategy, Data Science and Product teams.
• I also initiated and owned a project to transform InMobi's network from first-price auction to second-price auction. We took help from a Professor at IIM Bangalore to create a theoretical foundation for the move. Theoretical findings as well as results of simulations strongly favored the move. Ultimately I worked closely with engineers to spec all the changes required. While I was still trying to align all stakeholders towards this change, I decided to start up, and left InMobi!

Aug 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• After a brief stint in Barclays Singapore, I moved to London. After its acquisition of Lehman Brothers, Barclays had the largest repo desk globally. I traded repo on Fixed Income securities (focussed on Credit and RMBS), across currencies. Since Europe was in deep waters after the US financial crisis, this was an interesting time for the market. We were trading a lot of paper issued by European banks, particularly from what was called Peripheral Europe - Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Greece. Making dozens of important decisions on trades every hour, it was a great learning experience. It sharpened my analytical and negotiation skills, as well as my speed of thinking. Dealing with high-profile hedge fund clients as well as senior traders at competing broker-dealers was a humbling experience, one that also taught me the value of professional relationships.
• Finally after 2 years the learning got saturated and I got bored of finance, and felt that I could do much more with myself. That's when I decided to move back to India and shift my career focus towards technology.

Apr 2010 – Jun 2010 · 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Working with with the New York RMBS Research and Trading desks at a time when the banking world was still recovering from the financial crisis, I developed a model to predict the likely return of an RMBS security by analyzing the quality of its underlying loans and underwriting companies. This was an intense introduction into the financial sector, and I felt challenged enough. This made me opt for finance opportunities full-time after MBA.

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Bell Labs Bangalore was suggested to me by Prof Amit Kumar at CSE IIT Delhi, with whom I was doing a research project in theoretical Computer Science. I worked on 'Routing Data Flow on Multi-Hop Networks'. This NP-hard problem had applications in upcoming technologies like WiMax (WiFi throughout a city).
• I worked with Dr. Supratim Deb and wrote a white paper covering my findings and tests. We proved that this problem was NP-hard, and devised a heuristic solution which was empirically efficient.
• Through this internship, I got a good idea of what research as a profession looks like. I also realized that pure research, without application or implementation is probably not my piece of cake, and I would like to stay closer to business and / or implementation.

May 2007 – Jan 2008 · 8 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Lyric was founded by Dr. Ben Vigoda of MIT Media Lab and MERL, with the idea that signal processing could be done using analog chips rather than digital. Analog chips came with the advantage of occupying less space, consuming less power, being cheaper to manufacture, and faster by orders of magnitude. They however needed advanced algorithms for maintaining the same accuracy as digital, which was my role as an intern when the company had just been founded, to devise and simulate such algorithms. I worked directly with the founders, most of the time out of their home, before the company moved into its first office after receiving funding from DARPA.
• Ray Stata (founder of Analog Devices) was one of the early investors in Lyric along with DARPA. At a nascent stage in my career, the chance to work on something cutting-edge and make a real difference, and to meet people like Ray and discuss my ideas and work with them pushed my boundaries early on. After a 3-month stint at Boston in the summer of 2007, I continued working remotely with Lyric from IITD campus, and again spent a month in Boston during the subsequent winter.