Oct 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked on launching Self Driving (Autonomous) cars in Australia (Like Google Waymo).
• Journey: Super Exciting
• Learnt a lot about self driving tech
• Worked on raising funding for the Project ($300Mn from Hyundai)
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Full strategy on Should Ola venture into /or not into Self Driving cars
• Worked on Fund raising (Learnt stuff about fund raising; interesting conversations)

Feb 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Launched Practo in Brazil (Created a Business plan -> convinced the CEO -> got $1.5mn Cheque)
• Journey: Took a flight to Brazil with a suitcase and single handedly created $1mn ARR and 120 member strong team. Remained the Country Head of Brazil for the entire time.
• Exciting Highlights
• No 1 brand in website traffic in doctor search in just 9 months.
• New language, new culture : learnt insane concepts about team management / handling
• Roles and Responsibilities (Usual Stuff)
• Responsible for Revenue and Brand
• Handled Sales, Marketing, Operations
• Drove Product market Fit
• Handled SEO to drive it to no1 position

Mar 2015 – Feb 2016 · 11 mos

May 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• First 30 people to launch Amazon in India in June 2013
• Journey
• Launched OnePlus One and other exclusives with Blackberry, Micromax etc
• Launched Midnight delivery for Apple Launch
• Roles & Responsibilities (The usual stuff)
• Handled all aspects of category management for Mobile category - Inventory Management, Pricing, Planning etc
• Festive sales and peak handling etc

Apr 2012 – Jun 2012 · 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Credit Trading Desk: Studied and created cash flow models for transaction deals of a $100mn SWAP trade. Created a risk scenario analysis and evaluated the equivalent cash flows for the transaction in trade. Analysed the motivations of the particular SWAP transaction based on client profile and collateral agreements
• High Frequency Trading Desk: Quantitative algorithm for optimal pricing and execution of market-making positions. Market microstructure trading – identifying trading party order flow through reverse engineering of order flows. Strategies involving the adaptation of algorithmic trading to OTC markets through Bayesian methodologies

Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

• Summary: A white coal biomass manufacturing unit (renewable energy sec, First of its kind in India)
• Bootstrapped with $66K investment; Turnover $0.2M, Exited 2014 (machinery import from Zhengzhou, China)
• The company used agro waste products as raw material and produced a high quality, environment friendly fuel product for industrial and commercial purposes. White coal is environment friendly produce which delivers the same calorific value as coal and hence serves as an excellent resource of alternative fuel.

Jul 2009 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Involved in launch of Analytics Suite and DDS (Dynamic Discounting Solution) system.
• Research Articles Published for above launches includes:
• 1. Movement sequence mining of mobile patterns
• 2. Customer segmentation based on usage data and topical distribution
• 3. Plan optimization churn predictor
• 4. Graph Triad detection
• Brief Summary of above research articles
• 1. Captured precise mobile movements for location specific advertisement marketing. Achieved better hit rates, using sequential pattern mining, to target users with discounts who have a high probability of entering the location
• 3. Plan optimization technique which uses simplex formulation to detect potential churn loses based on competitor network plans and automatically calculate revenue optimization
• 4. Find triad formation to increase network density to churn more revenues from existing customers for any mobile network instead of chasing customer acquisition
• Responsibilities
• Analytics Suite 1.0 - feature conceptualization, Product Management, Overviewing & facilitating production by leading cross functional teams to execute product delivery, customer support, installation, hiring talent.