Nov 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• ▪ Founded an ultra-social stock trading platform connecting fin-influencers & new-age investors, securing $700K angel funding for Product-Market Fit & GTM.
• ▪ Built & launched Kamai.app (Flutter) with chat rooms & analytics backend, leading a 12-member team (engineers, analysts, marketers).
• ▪ Pioneered vision for an AI-driven Robo-advisor platform, empowering retail investors with certified expert-vetted insights for profitable trading.
• (Platform shut down due to regulatory changes & investor sentiment downturn post-SVB collapse.)

Aug 2017 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Berfila Foods, Talentlight, Alfastox, Zifting etc.

Jun 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• ▪ Built & led India's Development team from scratch, scaling to 100+ engineers & managers within months.
• ▪ Remotely Managed & collaborated with teams & stakeholders across Japan, Singapore, & US.
• ▪ Generated hundreds of millions in revenue by developing new features such as Abandoned Cart Recovery (by building big data analytics platform) and by optimising features such as Browsing & Purchase History, Coupons etc.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2016 · 7 yrs · Gurgaon, India

• Held multiple leadership roles since the startup's early days till its pre-IPO days.
• ▪ CEO, Infibeam Logistics Platform
• → Grew 400-member team across Product, Engineering, Business & Operations & remotely managed 12 last-mile logistics centers across India, handling tens of thousands shipments per day.
• → Launched SaaS platform (Shipdroid) that automated and seamlessly integrated thousands of micro ecommerce merchants with multiple logistics providers for automated shipping & fulfilment.
• → Optimized lead-times to achieve 1-day deliveries and executed India’s first iPhone midnight launch deliveries, in 2014, setting new industry benchmarks.
• → Cut operational costs by 50% through automation, optimizing security, inventory tracking, and fraud prevention.
• ▪ Head of Product, Technology & Operations of Books/Movies/Music-
• → Launched the largest online selection of books in India in 2009-11 with 20 million titles then.
• → Led the development of CMS infrastructure & e-commerce stack (ruby/rails), integrating it with all
• major national/international vendors (Ingram/Alibris).
• → 1st in India (2010) to launch technology stack of E-books’ ecommerce (Java) with ½ million titles &
• DRM (Adobe Content Server) for Indian publishers.
• ▪ Head of Product Search & Virality -
• → Rolled out field-collapse feature to Solr's faceted-search for the 1st time ever on an Indian website in 2010, coupled with user behavior metrics and ranking refinement, thus improving CTR and engagement/dwell-time exponentially.
• → Stayed ahead of competition by leveraging community support through forums to patch Solr code much ahead of time to fix source bugs & field collapsing for highly relevant search results.
• → Growth hacked (SEO & virality) Infibeam to millions of hits/month in 0 marketing budget.

Apr 2005 – Feb 2009 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• ▪ Managed ‘Checkout by Amazon’ India team while collaborating with remote US team for 3 months before exiting. Role - Product design and Scrum manager.
• ▪ One of the first few hires of Amazon.com India center, Amazon Webservices division (AWS), Payments, India. Led the design & development of core components (on java) of highly available transaction-based distributed database called FPS (Flexible Payments Service) that supported billions of transactions throughput and integrated it across multiple services of Amazon web-services (AWS) like S3, SQS, notification, monitoring, analytics, data-warehousing etc.
• ▪ Slashed AWS API latencies by a massive 50% through deep root cause analysis and monitoring of critical bug while collaborating with remote infrastructure engineer in Dublin/Ireland. Was awarded 'E-award' for the same.
• ▪ Was awarded with ‘Amazon.com Trainer’ award in 2007.

Jul 2003 – Apr 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Migrated OVPA (servers’ system performance product) to ‘virtualization’ server technology (team of 4), successfully executing $1 million deal for major international banks by HP.
• Was conferred E-award in 2004.