Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 9 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• Twin Ventures is an AI-focused Angel Fund that backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive ventures, solving real-world problems. We invest in companies that define new markets that can turn into category leaders through Applied AI
• Observe AI - Voice AI for Call Centers
• Sibros - Enabling Connected Vehicle Ecosystem
• Verisim Life - AI-powered Drug Insights
• Beans AI - AI-powered Last 100 Mile Delivery
• Zeni - AI-powered Finance Team for Startups and Small Businesses
• Matician - AI-powered Robots to help People
• Meemo - Personal Finance Reinvested for Millenials
• XOR - Recruitment Engagement Automation
• Chime - IOT enabled Personalized Chai Machine
• DataSine - AI-powered Content Personalization
• Games of Whales - AI-powered Revenue Optimizer
• Suspect Technologies - AI-powered Law Enforcement Platform
• Shoptimze - AI-enabled Commerce for Brands
• Pawsh - Personalized Dog Grooming
• Daloopa - AI built financial models

Jan 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Amex acquired Mezi in Jan 2018. Took the Mezi mission forward post-acquisition. Focused on scaling the Mezi platform to 10 million users across 8 countries.

Jun 2015 – Nov 2015 · 5 mos

• Closely working with the executive team and advising them on product and business strategy for international and emerging markets.

Mar 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

• On March 14th 2014 Rdio acquired Dhingana to expand into the Indian markets. Leading the Product and Business Strategy for Rdio in the Emerging Markets including India.
• Rdio is the groundbreaking digital music service that is reinventing the way people discover, listen to, and share music. With on-demand access to over 20 million songs, Rdio connects people with music and makes it easy to search for and instantly play any song, album, artist, or playlist. Launched in August 2010, Rdio is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded by Janus Friis, the co-creator of Skype. Available in countries all over the world, Rdio is funded by Janus Friis through his investment entities

Jun 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Skift’s Most Interesting Corporate Travel Startup of 2017 - Mezi is an AI-powered travel concierge and booking platform that offers a personal travel assistant to every business traveler. Mezi’s proprietary AI-powered chatbots, offer a human-like personalized experience over messaging, to all business travelers. Mezi allows business travelers to plan and book their entire travel over messaging. Mezi uses AI, natural language processing, neural networks and deep learning to understand a traveler's requirements, like a human travel agent would and stores user preferences for future interactions. For a business traveler, Mezi can plan and book their flights, hotels, dining reservations, things-to-do, events and concert bookings and also handle itinerary changes and cancellations, all through a simple messaging interface.

Apr 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Leading the Product Vision and Business Strategy for worlds #1 Indian music streaming service while driving product design and innovations.
• Drove the overall Product Vision with a huge focus on growth, engagement and retention to grow the user base from 500K to 10M MAUs with $0 in marketing spend
• Drove Product Development from conception to launch for Dhingana's applications across iOS, Android, Blackberry, Win8, Nokia and Desktop platforms
• Worked with multiple stakeholders across Engineering, Business, Sales and Marketing to align teams across product definition, vision and launch plans
• Ideated a Personalized Push Notifications systems driven by social recommendations to drive increased engagement and retention rates across iOS and Android applications
• Lead the Product Design and Execution for Dhingana's Premium Subscription services across iOS and Android platforms including telco integrations
• Ideated and architected Dhingana's Content Delivery Platform optimized to reduce streaming bandwidth costs by 5 times as compared to a third party CDN
• Successfully hired and retained a highly talented team of senior management leads and individual contributors across Product, Engineering, Marketing and Business Development verticals from companies like Yahoo, Amazon, Microsoft and Zynga
• Built and scaled a team of 25 employees across two continents - Sunnyvale, CA and Pune, India

Jan 2011 – Apr 2011 · 3 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• I lead the product vision for the Exceptional Performance Team at Yahoo! We are the center of expertise for Performance within Yahoo! Our team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. We conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Our best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.
• Lead the Product Vision for Yahoo’s mission critical Performance Measurement products & tools and technically lead the Engineering team to execute on my vision
• Work with top Yahoo! teams worldwide like Yahoo! Frontpage, Search, Mail and Media properties to evangelize Web Performance Optimizations
• Technically lead the engineering on backend architectures, scalability, front end engineering for all planned feature sets and framework development.
• More about us: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Sunnyvale, CA

• I lead the Exceptional Performance Team at Yahoo! We are the center of expertise for Performance within Yahoo! Our team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. We conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Our best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.
• More about us: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/

May 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• I work for the Exceptional Performance Team at Yahoo! We are the center of expertise for Performance within Yahoo! Our team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. We conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Our best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.
• Responsible for restructuring the entire code base for YSlow using OO JavaScript.
• Design and Develop features for RoundTrip Performance Measurement tool using PHP and MySQL.
• Design and Develop monitoring scripts using PHP and MySQL for monitoring our backend LINUX servers.
• Responsible for backend data harvesting and aggregation for RoundTrip Measurement Tool.
• Evangelize performance best practices developed by our team to other Yahoo teams as and when necessary.
• Actively monitor the health of the entire RoundTrip system of 5 to 6 servers.
• Analyze and improve backend MySQL performance by optimizing the SQL queries.
• Develop new UI features using CSS, HTML, PHP and JavaScript.
• Perform research and analyze performance data for core Yahoo properties as and when necessary.

Jun 2004 – May 2007 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Los Angeles, CA

• Symantec Corporation is a global leader in Internet Security. I worked as a Software Engineer in the LiveUpdate group.
• Lead the complete development efforts for the latest version of Symantec Intelligent Updater using Win32 C++. Intelligent Updaters are extensively used by customers to deploy and update contents on their machines, when LiveUpdate cannot be used.
• Lead the complete development efforts for Symantec’s Virus Definition Management Utility called DefUtils using Win32 C++. Defutils is installed on all computers running Symantec’s products and it centrally manages and updates Virus definitions.
• Extensively worked on developing several versions of Symantec’s LiveUpdate Technology using Win32 C++ and Java. LiveUpdate is installed on 350+ million machines and it is the prime channel for updating all Symantec’s products.
• Designed and developed a Java LiveUpdate Integration library which can be used by any product team.

Aug 2000 – Jul 2002 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Designed and implemented a complete LDAP Server Replication tool in Java and C
• Designed and implemented the complete Replication Algorithm for this tool using DFS algorithm
• Implemented and developed the Front-End GUI for Web Administration tool using Java Swing
• Performed Unit testing, FVT and designed test cases for the replication tool and web admin tool
• Worked on database connectivity and complete back end integration using JDBC and IBM DB2