Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

• Tinkering, exploring and meeting interesting people

Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs

• Meta Verified is now a $1B+ business.
• I led a globally distributed team of 70 to build and scale Meta’s first subscription product, Meta Verified. I joined as the only PM before launch to own the business offering, led the initial launch, and drove the global rollout.
• In parallel, I built a company wide program to help internal candidates explore and transition into product management roles.

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

• Led a team focused on standalone 0-1 bets at New Product Experimentation (Meta's internal incubator). I launched 2 products:
• Flow, to empower creators to create video content with Gen AI
• Super, to help creators monetize their super fans in an intimate live format

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

• Led monetization growth for all messaging apps (WhatsApp, Messenger and IG Direct) driving adoption to 4M advertisers (40% of total).
• Drove ‘Click-to-Whatsapp’ ads to $1B growing 80% YOY. Then, I built the case for investing in and founded a growth team for all ‘Click-to-Message’ ads products, a $10B business for Meta.

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

• Advising amazing founders and operators to build a product practice. Also, learning a great deal from them.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 · 0 mo

• Grew Request-A-Quote by 25% y/y leading to more than $500M in services revenue.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

• 10x’ed experiments with 2x accuracy. My approach is the subject of a Harvard Business School case (https://s.hbr.org/349U5Ao) authored by Iavor Bojinov & Karim Lakhani

Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 · 5 yrs · Multiple

• > Experimentation Masters Podcast "Yelp: A Story Of Building An Experimentation Program"
• > Harvard Business School: "Industry deep dive on experimentation"
• > Fuqua School of Business: "Scaling the culture of experimentation at Yelp"
• > Everything Marketplaces: "Insights From Leading Yelp Request-A-Quote Marketplace"
• > Masters of Conversion: "The Yelp Story: Building an Experimentation Program From the Ground Up"
• > Bocconi University: "Building & Managing Experimentation Programs"
• > Product School: "Building & Managing Experimentation Programs"
• > Product School: AMA
• > IIITD: "What do Product Managers really do"
• Notes
• > How I prepared for my Facebook execution & metrics interviews: https://bit.ly/3gI09oG
• > How I Prepared for Facebook PM Interviews: Leadership and Drive: https://bit.ly/3A0zegj
• > PMs aren't the CEO of the product: https://bit.ly/3z0AboQ
• > Experimentation during volatile times: https://bit.ly/2ILBa7r
• > Reading notes: https://bit.ly/37ZPuC3

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Sunnyvale, California

• Worked in a new products group to build a AI shopping assistant and chatbot for teens.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr

• Developed an open sourced product called MindTheWord for people to learn new languages acquiring >10K MAUs. Recruited and mentored two engineers to support the product

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · India

• Founded an 8-person company offering a unique restaurant loyalty program to raise funds for education nonprofits and streamline operations.
• Customers subscribed monthly to access discounts, and a portion of the proceeds was given to partner nonprofits, while enabling customers to track their positive impact. Before shutting operations, we onboarded 100s of restaurants and nonprofits, and funded education for 10+ underprivileged children.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 · 6 yrs · United States, France, India

• > PreCog Research Lab (3 years) - Developed a tool for identification of threats online to process millions of data points to provide actionable insights, currently in use by 60+ state and national agencies
• > Dell EMC (6 months) - Developed a data access layer for 17K registered developers that reduced development time by 50%. Presented as flagship project at EMC world’15 in front of 14K by the group president.
• > Georgia Department of Transportation, Atlanta (1 year) - Developed a plan for a large scale traffic and incident management system catering to 10M private citizens in Georgia. Research published in Transportation Research Board & Georgia Tech.
• > INRIA, France (4 months) - Among 5 people selected for the INRIA internship program and the Charpak Research Internship Scholarship by the french government.
• > CMU, Winter School (2 months) - Analyzed the social and commercial impact of an image, uploaded on Flickr by performing linguistic, geospatial, probabilistic and statistical analysis of > 20 million images
• > Niti Aayog (3 months) - Helped the Indian government stay online and served a few coffees