Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

• GAME intends to enable 10 million mass entrepreneurs (local entrepreneurs solving local needs or utilizing local resources) to create 50 million jobs by 2030.

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Why - Actualise human potential
• How - Enabling Grassroots entrepreneurship
• What - Multiple experiments ....

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

• Livelihoods/Talent:
• Urban Company,
• Workex,
• Vaahan, Lal10, CabDost, Spottabl, Josh Talks
• Learning/Education:
• Quizziz,
• Xamcheck, Crio.do, HashLearn, Makkajai, Imagin8ors, Crejo.fun, Hippocampus, Quinnergy, Entri.app, Unschool, Wise Leap, Ocky Pocky, BitClass, Suraasa,
• Others: CrediWatch, Neuu, Turms, GoodBox, HaloDoc, iService(now part of Servify), Aisle, ExploreLifeTraveling, Sheroes, MillionEyes, UCIC, Digitible, Pratilipi, Mahila Money, GrayQuest, Clear, TranZact, xTo10x, Virgio, Consuma, EPIC, PicSee
• Exited: mGaadi, WizCard, JoJoDelivery, BetaOut, TapChief, Hansel.io,
• Non-Profits/Social Enterprises:
• ReapBenefit, AlohoMora, India Education Collective, Inqui-Lab, The Nudge Foundation, ISDM, RangDe, Access Livelihood Consulting(ALC), Terra.do, Indian School of Democracy, Citizen Matters

Dec 2013 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Leading the people function at Flipkart.
• Partner in business success by acquiring & growing talent & establish a talent pipeline that can meet future needs of Flipkart's explosively growing businesses.
• Make HR Data & Technology driven.
• Understand the WHY; EXPERIMENT; Learn; Deploy.

Dec 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr

• Leading Product, Technology, Business and Operations for PayZippy & eBooks

Sep 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Built & scaled an engineering team that I am proud of.
• Contributed to Flipkart's overall strategy & org-building.

Jun 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Lulu.com acquired Ugenie(weRead). Post acquisition, I continue to be responsible for delivering weRead(earlier called iRead).
• I am also responsible for creating services which can be reused by Lulu.com as well.

Apr 2008 – Jun 2008 · 2 mos

• Led the engineering team of ~12 smart engineers at Ugenie to deliver on the "Books iRead" product.

Jun 2007 – Apr 2008 · 10 mos

• Along with a coworker, conceptualised, built and grew weRead(then called Books iread). Was able to help make weRead successful enough for the company to change its direction completely and focus on weRead.
• Played the following roles:
• Played the role of a tech lead & project manager - implementing features & key modules myself and guiding, mentoring & working with other team members. Took care of Prioritization, Estimation & Task Allocation
• Played the role of a product manager in the early phases – conceptualization, listening & responding to user feedback, coming up with new features, prioritizing, measuring constantly, partnering with other applications for mutual growth, monitoring and staying on top of Facebook developments.
• Built other applications which were a lot more viral & used them to grow Books iRead. Harry Potter Magic Spells (1.2M installs), Chocolate Fantasy (375k installs) & Pillow Fight (140k installs).

Jul 2006 – Jun 2007 · 11 mos

• Was the first hire (and the second to join) Ugenie, hence played multiple roles.
• Created the 2 scalable web-services that made a large part of Ugenie’s backend - Catalog & Search
• Interacted with partners like Muze & Ugam to define schemas & deliverables
• Created a Lucene based search index to enable searching on Ugenie’s catalog.
• o Constantly measured and improved search effectiveness
• Mentored another engineer to come up to speed with the Catalog web-service & own it.
• Integrated with Shopping.com’s api’s to enable users to buy from a much larger variety of products.

Dec 2005 – Jul 2006 · 7 mos

• Built a platform for supporting SMS based applications. I was
• Involved in the Design, Architecture of the entire system.
• Developed the generic framework that allows new Applications to be built very easily.
• Used Scrum, effectively
• Patent : http://www.freshpatents.com/Platform-for-managing-mobile-domains-and-keyword-activated-applications-dt20071220ptan20070293247.php

Apr 2004 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos

• The Charter for the group was to use data-driven insights to inform and influence Yahoo’s products and business strategy to increase user engagement, and to identify business/revenue opportunities that maximize value to Yahoo network.
• For the projects listed below, I have been responsible for defining the scope, understanding the high level goals of the business unit, asking the right questions, figuring out data sources, massaging the data, analyzing different views & user segments, coming up with actionable recommendations and presenting the analysis to the business teams.
• Important Projects
• o User-centric analysis of Yahoo! Messenger
• o Front-door analysis for Yahoo!
• o Quantifying the impact of Yahoo! Toolbar
• o Discovering emerging websites & patterns based on off-network data
• Some Recommendations were used by CxO's for defining strategy.

Jul 2002 – Mar 2004 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Worked on the Inventory Management System which is responsible for predicting Yahoo's Ad inventory (impressions, clicks on all Yahoo pages).
• Entirely responsible for the Demographic server : Predicts Inventory for specific demographics; handled all feature additions & bug-fixes.
• Started & Led Ad Optimizer (Ad Warehouse) project: A data mining research project aimed to help find out, what makes Ads perform better.
• As project lead met with Sales & Client insights teams to gather requirements
• Performed project planning, interviewed for the 2 positions & mentored them.
• Worked with team members to try out various data mining approaches to model the behaviour of Ads. Presented findings to the Ads team.

Nov 2001 – May 2002 · 6 mos

• Worked on creating a Text to Speech Library that could run on Palm devices.