Jun 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Along with some amazing teammates at IDfy, I spearheaded the scaling and enhancement of India’s #1 Video KYC product suite, driving performance, reliability, and user experience improvements.
• Collaborated closely with BFSI clients to understand their business use cases and provided strategic solutioning, while also assessing their existing tech infrastructure to ensure seamless integration with IDfy’s APIs and fraud detection product suite.
• In addition to this, I conceptualised and led the end-to-end development of LLM–based products, from ideation to deployment.
• Proactively identified emerging Deepfake threats across IDfy’s product suite and developed a Deepfake Detection solution with cross-organisational applications.
• While doing this over the course of two years, I developed a strong expertise in API design and development, along with hands-on work experience in technologies such as WebRTC, microservices architectures, etc.

Feb 2023 – May 2023 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jun 2022 – Sep 2022 · 3 mos

Aug 2021 – Jul 2022 · 11 mos · Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

• Started Cultext with the objective of empowering test-prep and college students by providing them with a platform where one can buy, rent & sell new & used textbooks
• Major roles: Product Management, Strategy & Overall Business Management
• Utilised market research & design thinking skills to realise the actual problem & craft the right solution
• Signed MoUs with 7 major book vendors & wholesalers and 12 major Libraries & Coaching Institutes of Bhopal to initiate a formidable supply chain & create an initial pipeline of customers
• On-boarded and managed a team of 10+ individuals comprising of Ex-Swiggy Managers & Employees
• Bootstrapped to an MRR of INR 25K, serving more than 150+ customers across the city of Bhopal with an NPS of 9.91
• Major Accomplishments:
• Recipient of a prototyping microgrant from MIT-SolvED under their Youth Innovation Challenge'21.
• Winner idea at the Innonext Challenge 2.0 hosted by the B-Nest Incubation Center, Smart-City, Bhopal
• Received Incubation at BNest Incubation Center, Smart City, Bhopal(MP)
• Received mentorship from TiE- MP & pre-incubation at IICE, IISER- Bhopal
• Recognized as a startup by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade(DPIIT), Startup - India.

Jan 2021 – Mar 2021 · 2 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Sep 2020 – Jul 2021 · 10 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Apr 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Now, Cultext!
• Mar'21: Received felicitation at Wadhwani Foundation's Nextgen ignite program and was selected for Global jury evaluation.
• Feb'21: Semi-finalist at The Ten Minute Million(TTMM), E-Summit'21, IIT- Bombay
• Jan'21: Featured at Startup-Expo 3.0, E-Summit'21, IIT- Roorkee
• Dec'20: Pre-incubated at Innovation and Incubation Centre of Entrepreneurship(IICE), IISER-Bhopal
• Oct'20: Winner startup idea at Curveball'20, an institute-level entrepreneurial competition hosted and conducted by Innovation and Incubation Centre of Entrepreneurship(IICE), IISER- Bhopal
• Every year, 44 million Indian students drop out of schools and colleges due to the high cost of education. Azalea Books is an effort to reduce this number by making books affordable and available to all students.
• Founded in April-2020