Oct 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Sep 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• SOLV is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank; started with a vision to empower India's 60M+ small businesses(MSMEs) by leveraging technology and in turn, working towards unlocking the next wave of growth for India. We’re building the foundation for a stronger, sharper, more entrepreneurial India — one small business at a time.
• We are creating an open platform to enable commerce (storefront, cataloging, chat, order management, logistics, settlement), fintech (credit, supply chain financing, payments, cards), and business (insurance, travel, accounting) services.
• Responsible for all things tech at Solv spanning across Product Management, Design/User Research, Product Engineering, Core Services, Data Engineering, Data Sciences, Cloud DevOps, Corp IT & Platform Operations.

Sep 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• InMobi is India's first Unicorn and a world-leading Marketing Cloud platform - a provider of mobile data and technology platforms that helps global brands understand and engage connected consumers. The InMobi Network provides a massive global reach of 1.6B users, across 165 countries.
• I was part of InMobi's leadership team and headed Engineering of Inmobi's Marketing Cloud Vertical. Played an instrumental role in the transformation of InMobi's product lines into Enterprise SaaS Businesses.
• As part of a strategic partnership with Microsoft, led the co-creation of a suite of MarTech SaaS offerings targeting the CMO and Ad Industry - this included platforms for Mobile Market Research, CX Management, Marketing Insights, Audiences & Marketing Automation.
• Responsible for building new product teams from the ground up, building cloud distributed platforms responsible for handling large data scales; all along making this as a self serve enterprise SaaS platform. Actively involved in executing multiple strategic M&A activities - evaluation of the deal pipeline, technical due diligence, and subsequent integration.

Sep 2014 – Sep 2018 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru & New York Area

• SureWaves is a Programmatic TV Advertising company funded by AccelPartners, JP Morgan & TR Capital. SureWaves is a media convergence pioneer offering products that interweave television, digital displays, mobile, and internet. SureWaves provided an aggregated reach of over 500 million viewers to advertisers.
• Skynet is the world's first End-to-End Programmatic TV Advertising Platform that includes Demand Side, Supply Side, Optimisers & Marketplace. The platform is also available as a SaaS offering for TV broadcasters in the US to manage their Ad sales and to make their inventory available on Digital Video Advertising Platforms.
• Spot TV Network is a Sell-Side Platform providing cloud-based automation and optimization for Local Cable TV advertising sales. With over 600 TV Channels on it, this Ad Network functions as a Virtual National TV Channel garnering higher aggregated viewership than any other National channel in India.
• I worked closely with the CEO in defining the business strategy, product roadmap & GTM. As CTO, I headed Technology, Product Management & Data Sciences. I participated in fundraising discussions and represented SureWaves on Industry panel discussions both in India & US.
• I conceived & architected a state of the art cloud platform for TV Ad inventory optimization powered by a combination of linear programming and genetic algorithms techniques - consistently delivering campaigns 20~30% better than industry standards. Built prediction systems for forecasting demand (campaigns), supply (airtime) & performance (ratings).
• I also built auxiliary products for intelligent tv ad detection (using a combination audio/video fingerprinting & ML), Mobile TV Ad Sync (using audio fingerprinting similar to Shazam) & OTT advertising solution.
• Over the period, I applied for 8 patents (6 already granted).

Nov 2011 – Apr 2012 · 5 mos · India

Aug 2011 – Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area & Bengaluru Area, India

• Shufflr was a B2C social video app startup funded by Intel Capital. Shufflr had over 5 million active users from 160+ countries, and has been featured in many major international media publications including NYT, WSJ, TechCrunch & GigaOM. 

Shufflr was available on iOS, Android, & Facebook. Shufflr combined real time signals like trends in social media, celebrity activity, news, location data with user's social graph to surface relevant videos.
• As the CEO, I was responsible for setting the company vision and product strategy, as well as running day to day operations. I traveled extensively across the US & Europe for fundraising and Biz Dev. I also spent time in the Bay Area attending technology conferences & interfacing with press/media.

Oct 2008 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area & Bengaluru Area, India

• We started Althea with a vision to build world-class technology and ship some kickass products out of India. I drove technology and product management. We iterated through many brilliant product ideas before we landed on Shufflr. My co-founder and I coded the first few versions of the Shufflr app, cloud platform & recommendation systems.
• We went to built a strong product engineering team in Bangalore and set up lean business operations in the Bay Area. We rapidly iterated & successfully launched various products targeting global audiences. I continued to remain hands-on with Product Management, Algorithm Design, and Platform Architecture. I proposed various innovations that powered our Social Video Discovery platform, which was later filed as patents in India & the US.

Jul 2005 – Dec 2008 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Orange County, California Area & Bengaluru Area, India

• SiRF Technology, Inc. was a pioneer in the commercial use of GPS technology for consumer applications. It later merged with CSR (Bluetooth market leader) and Samsung acquired the combined entity.
• Member of the Bluetooth ULP standardisation committee & architected SiRF’s Bluetooth ULP software solution.
• Part of the new product concepts team at SiRF, which worked closely with Marketing to build new markets for GPS (camera, watch, phone & fitness bands). I led the development of low cost GPS onboard units for state owned buses in collaboration with IIITB.
• At Truespan (before acquisition) - Mobile TV software & firmware development. Field trials & Customer integration at Las Vegas & Milan.

Jul 2004 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Member of Samsung's Next Generation Wireless Research Team

Jan 2002 – Jul 2004 · 2 yrs 6 mos · India

• Linux Kernel Hacking, Device Drivers, Embedded Systems & Network Programming.
• Final Year Internship (2002 - 2003): Low foot print Embedded TCP/IP stack Implementation for 8 bit microcontrollers.