May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

• Award winning performances -
• Top 100 CIO Awards 2025, UK.
• Business Growth Excellence Award 2024, within first 9 months of joining the organisation.
• Strategy and successful transition to becoming the leading data and analytics provider in public sector. Ethical and fair use of AI for regulated industries.
• Designed, coached and ran an AI boot camp for students. Successful 16 students built solutions involving AI and automation on 3rd day of the boot camp.

Aug 2023 – May 2024 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Had resigned from a comfortable job to self fund a Stealth Quantum start-up. Built proofs of concept for a few narrow use cases in fintech. I didn't want to raise funds before I built full product - which now are ready.
• This was my third serious Entrepreneurial venture.
• In hindsight, I should have been more prudent at Cashflows management.

Nov 2022 – Jul 2023 · 8 mos · On-site

• Built world's largest career platform with more than active 550k student learners on the platform
• Bridging employability gap thus helping 50+ universities, 2700 corporates and millions of students
• Vendor management and occassional sales closure along with client calls.

Jan 2022 – Nov 2022 · 10 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

• Providing next 1 billion people financial freedom
• Innovative social fintech helping under served communities across the globe get access to their own pension
• Built team from scratch, delivered a product helping real people on ground. Complete 0 to 1 journey. Was the first tech employee.
• Clients across India, Kenya, Bangladesh, LatAm and African continent

Feb 2021 – Oct 2021 · 8 mos · Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria · On-site

• Helped transform a struggling series A start up into a successful series B funded, growth unicorn within 6 months of joining the company and when the whole world was shutdown due to pandemic
• Delivered multiple AI driven products serving operations in 8 frontier markets (Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganga, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire etc)

Apr 2020 – Dec 2020 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• * Successful transformation of a struggling product to help win new clients (17 countries as opposed to 8)

Jan 2019 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Helped build, deliver and operate
• India's largest multi brand preowned vehicles platform
• India's largest repossessions platform for Banks and financial institutions (>60% marketshare)
• India's largest vehicles auction platform (>60% marketshare)
• India's largest multi brand dealership platform
• India's first AI driven products for automotive industry. Convinced leadership about AI and built AI team from scratch.
• Transformative leadership to win and retain marquee customers
• Successful M&A due diligence for Acquisition and integration of a B2C brand

Apr 2018 – Jan 2019 · 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• It's Amazon!

May 2017 – Apr 2018 · 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Jan 2012 – May 2017 · 5 yrs 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · On-site

• In short, things I built, managed and operated were helping manage quarter of trillion dollars in assets. If you are from Investments industry, you know. Investment analytics, decision systems before making an investment decision, Risk management controls, Performance measurement, Performance Attribution, Performance reporting (GIPS compliant), Single source of truth, no margin for failure.
• Builder/Owner of 20+ business critical, high visibility, high impact, data systems. Built with care and vision for tracking 200 yrs of historical and live investments data across the globe, for all asset classes. Peer groups, benchmarks and own proprietary models.
• Along the way, fixed a legacy system that would run 23 hours daily... optimised to finish in 20 minutes.
• Worked mostly on CTO's number one priority initiatives

Mar 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• As a management and tech consultancy,
• Built India's first digital land records system
• Built India's first IoT driven water quality management system
• My second serious attempt at Entrepreneurship. Fairly successful one. I learnt the importance of surrounding myself with people who are smarter than me. Successful delegation would have helped me save from a burn out as an Entrepreneur.

Oct 2005 – Feb 2010 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore and New York · On-site

• Managed offshore team of 40+ developers.
• Built business critical trades management platform, bringing efficiencies + compliance + saving client millions of dollars annually for a very large bank on wall street
• Built and maintained wall street's portfolio investment tool to manage ~35billion dollars, beating underlying benchmark by 1100 bps (huge success, practically unheard of in the Industry).

Aug 2002 – Oct 2005 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Built a Document Management System
• Built an engineering and calculations heavy system for designing and repairing fighter planes (I am an aerospace engineer by education).
• Built multiple CAD/CAM/PLM solution targeting Manufacturing, Automotive, Aeronautical industries.

Sep 2001 – May 2002 · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• My first serious entrepreneurial venture, in the field of drug discovery but using data and analytics.
• Protein synthesis, molecular properties prediction, molecule viewers etc.
• I learnt the importance of building a product that someone actually needs -- which we clearly didn't know the need of when in college.