Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

• I create content on startups and fundraising. Helping early stage founders and aspiring founders navigate their early startup journey.

May 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Overall responsible for Product management, Product Marketing, Partnerships . Also led Growth/Acquisition for working professionals as a cohort.
• Re-Built the Product team at Zolve and owned everything product at Zolve.
• Led a team of 8 -PMs, Analysts and interns to solve the financial challenges of immigrants in the US and built the following
• Worked on KYC, Onboarding and reduced the overall on-boarding time to 90%
• Increased referral contribution to an industry best of 40% of Zolve users
• Worked on making Zolve a platform product to launch various services in days instead of months.
• Launched Zolve Store - A one stop marketplace for all financial needs of an immigrant. Partnered with players like Fletch, Kimble Health , ISO, Tango, Insurify, Savvy, Upstart, Lendbuzz
• 3Xed Cross sell revenue in just a few months with products like Auto loans , personal loans, gift cards, Zolve perks , Insurance
• Launched a one of a kind credit card repayment product - Pay with cash and scaled to over 20Million USD txn volume.
• Launched and scaled Zolve paid credit cards penetration to more than 22% of overall CC users. Industry best paid card penetration. Monzo has roughly 6% paid users.
• Launched Z-Pay , a payments platform for credit card bill payments, P2P transfers
• Launched Rental and Utility payments in partnership with Ingo Money
• Worked on multiple projects in core banking with partners like MasterCard, I2C, and banks like The Bank of Missouri, Community Federal Savings Bank
• Worked on multiple projects across fraud, risk, credit, collections, compliance
• Decreased the DPD, roll rates
• Revamped the Zolve Loyalty program - Z points by enabling points usage across multiple products on the app. Introduced Pay fees with points.
• Increased Wallet Share and Zolve user retention
• Worked on Remittance, NRE, NRO accounts
• Also led overall growth and acquisition of working professionals (H1B visa holders) by leading social, content, Influencer, CRM marketing

Jul 2022 – May 2023 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Kraze app was our pivot from qorner.
• India's first gaming app for TV show fans.
• Aiming to solve fan-engagement for TV show fans and TV show producers, shows
• Built and launched a real money gaming app called Kraze app- Dream11 for TV show fans
• Went Viral on YouTube and Telegram
• App crashed on D1 because of massive pull from the audience
• Scaled to 4L+ users in just 3 months
• Did gaming GMV of over 10Crores in 3 months
• Launched one of its kind Fantasy game for reality shows like Bigg Boss, Splitsvilla, MasterChef
• Launched and managed industry leading opinion trading game on TV shows
• Built a community of over 1L Tv show fans
• Also launched B2B fan engagement and gamification platform for TV channels and shows
• Pitched to shows like Shark Tank, Khatron ke Khiladi & more
• Took a hard decision of shutting down the business
• Returned leftover money to the investors!
• Got a bunch of acquisition/acquihiring offers but chose a different path for founders and the team.

Jun 2020 – Feb 2021 · 8 mos

• Mentoring upcoming product talents.

May 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Was trying to solve the financial challenges of the creator economy.
• India's first financial app for creators.
• Built Khatabook kind of app for creators to help them track their revenue from multiple sources and a full stack influencer payment management for brands and agencies
• Raised ~700K USD from top investors like Titan Capital, Blume, UpSparks and angels like Kunal Shah, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, and founders of companies like ShareChat, BharatPe, OneImpression and creators like Mythpat.
• Partnered with YouTube to enable detailed YouTube analytics and revenue tracking
• Scaled to 20K creators and over a 1million USD revenue tracking in just few months
• Goal was to make creators financially stable and build a Neo bank to solve access to credit.
• qorner for agencies and creators was one of the fastest ways to manage , pay , invoice and manage accounting for the creators and agencies.
• Pivoted to Kraze app later.

Nov 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led a team of super talented Product managers to solve problems of India and Globe at OnePlus.
• Products by the team
• Cricket scores
• SMS 2.0 App
• Google Duo integration
• Work Life Balance
• OnePlus Scout
• Founded OnePlus Pay , partnered with Visa, MasterCard, NPCI, 9+ banks , Reliance Jio.

Apr 2019 – Nov 2019 · 7 mos

• Acting like an Intrapreneur and leading all product and business initiatives related to global and local partners for OnePlus India | Software Partnership Products for OxygenOS.
• Head for all products made with a partner.

May 2018 – Apr 2019 · 11 mos

• 1st PM to join the Oneplus India Product team.
• Leading partnership products and integrations at OnePlus.
• Setting up overall vision and roadmap for product in India

Jun 2015 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Product Lead for Tapzo Banking SDK which is now a complete startup on it's own - Nuclei,
• Product Lead for Payments,Loyalty initiatives like Tapzo Gold, Tapzo wallet, Coupons.
• Successfully integrated Tapzo SDK in few of the biggest banks' app including BHIM SBI Pay, Indusind
• Built a highly bundled loyalty program Tapzo Gold.
• Led the Tapzo's central engineering team of 7 developers, 3 testers to build and improve payments- Integrated Amazon Pay, Researched UPI, Integrated Juspay.
• Led Tapzo's Loyalty engineering team of 4 developers, 1 tester for product loyalty initiatives
• Built Tapzo Wallet and worked on increasing its penetration
• Built preventive fraud mechanism products
• Was responsible for app level infrastructure products i.e. notifications, coupons, notification engagement dashboard
• Also in the early days-
• Handled Product, Strategy, Operations and Analytics for Food category on Tapzo.
• Also, worked on product projects like user engagement, notifications, etc.
• Led the complete Food Category on Tapzo
• Built and scaled the Food category on Tapzo from scratch.
• Co-developed the one of a kind online food ordering product
• Worked along with the product team on the product road map and the vision
• Owned complete customer experience for the Food Category.
• Complete P&L ownership of Food category.
• Managed Zomato, Swiggy, Freshmenu and Faasos 's product, marketing and operations.
• Played an integral role in partner integrations.
• Managed relations between different partners including Zomato, Swiggy, Freshmenu and Faasos.
• Set up the whole process and operations of curated menu feature in food.
• Worked on different models and modes of user engagement
• Understanding user behaviour and journey
• Worked closely with the product team to align the product with the business model
• Worked as a product analyst for various categories
• Conducted market research and user studies
• Built strategies based on understanding and analysis of user needs

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Worked on mobile number portability (MNP).
• Understanding and implementing the complete MNP process.

Mar 2014 – Jun 2014 · 3 mos · Noida

• Generating leads across various colleges and courses.
• Running marketing campaigns.
• Organizing sessions and tests for potential leads.
• Promotion of Career Launcher across colleges and social media.

Feb 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• Solely founded the first Film society of college.
• Organised a National Level Film festival with 50 entries from across India.
• Managed a team of 10 in implementing the complete festival.
• Organised various competitions of film making,photography throughout the year

Feb 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida

• Was selected the General Secretary of the student council among 1500 students.
• Led a team of 30 in organizing our annual fest.
• Brought sponsorship worth 5 lacs including the title sponsor i.e. Campus shoes and sponsors like Barry John Acting studio.
• Organised many events including a national level film festival, managing the star night.