Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Building to deliver home food at scale. App at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ping.in

Dec 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Bootstrapped multiple products to solve for product discovery at brick-and-mortar stores.
• Drove product discovery across fashion, toys & home decors in 50+ Chennai stores.
• Built a solid Text-to-Image product recognition AI search engine.
• Feel free to test drive at www.shopchat.co.in/search

Feb 2021 – Dec 2021 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Help build Auto ML platform for Fashion.

Jan 2020 – Nov 2020 · 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Worked on projects in the vision space.
• Algorithms worked on -
• Fully connected networks, CNNs, Autoencoders, Variational Autoencoders, GANs (pix2pix, WGAN, AE-GAN, MSG-GAN), Faster RCNN, YOLO and RNN's - GRU & LSTMs.
• Problems worked on -
• Multi-class classification, object detection, image-to-image translation, image synthesis, CBIR, sentiment analysis & sentence classification.

Jan 2019 – Sep 2019 · 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Protomate is for fashion designers at all levels. By automating initial design steps, Protomate can quickly prototype range boards so that designers can focus their energies building further on product ideas they like.
• https://www.protomate.co

Oct 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

• Deep diving into machine learning with particular interests in computer vision and generative models. Completed important courses online along with extensive self studies in the area of Ml related math, python programming & research papers related to GANs.
• From March 2018 - Nov 2018 - Travelling and meeting industry/domain leaders to learn about different problems and opportunities that ML can help solve.

Oct 2016 – Sep 2017 · 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Bootstrapped Fyndo to solve the problem of offline product discovery but soon had to wrap up.
• https://venkatesh74.wixsite.com/fyndo-publish

Aug 2010 – Jan 2015 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• My first start up. Was duly responsible for the overall growth and sales of Pinehill.

Jan 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · Shanghai City, China

• BDL Fashion is a completely integrated apparel sourcing company headquartered in China. Co founded this company in late 2009 and exited at $12M top line to found an e-commerce kidswear brand.
• www.bdlfashion.com

Apr 2008 – Dec 2008 · 8 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Direct group is a AU$300M+ multi channel retailer and I worked here as a management trainee & IT support manager getting access to the groups entire scope of operations from product design to last mile delivery.

Feb 2007 – Feb 2008 · 1 yr · Auckland, New Zealand

• JK Kids was a 50 store kids apparel brand HQ'd in Auckland, NZ. As a management trainee, I was a learner and an hands-on contributor to different functions of the company including Finance, marketing, warehousing, store operations & visual merchandising.