Oct 2021 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 2023-2025: Head of Product, Pricing Strategy and Platforms. Solving for sustainable growth at Flipkart via deep AI and Data Science based automated and intelligent price recommendations across millions of products with the goal to build customer trust and deliver business objectives.
• 2021-22: As Head of Product for Fintech and Payments, my vision is to make Flipkart the E-commerce and Fintech destination for the real India by providing the most convenient, trustworthy, and affordable payment solutions for hundreds of Millions of online shoppers. I lead multiple teams and products in core payments, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), Co-branded credit cards, and Insurance verticals.

Apr 2017 – Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As Head of On Device AI in India, inspiring the next Billion global smartphone users by creating solutions for real, unmet consumer needs and to make Samsung the first brand of choice for new users. Leading multiple teams to bring deep AI to core mobile applications in domains such as Camera, Voice, Privacy, Search, Messages, Gallery, Keyboard and more.
• Established Product Management as a core charter At Samsung India by building and mentoring a team of exceptional, customer-obsessed Product Managers.
• Led the Samsung Make for India taskforce by partnering with and building solutions with emerging startups in India.

Jan 2012 – Apr 2017 · 5 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Mobile Payments, Carrier Billing, Mobile Identity and Authentication, Fraud Management, Mobile Carrier Relations, Partnerships.
• Pivoted the company to create a new line of business of combating mobile fraud, doubling the revenue and setting up for acquisition.

Jan 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As a weekend hobby, designed, created and launched multiple mobile gaming applications on Google Play with over quarter million downloads.

Jan 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Software Tools for licensing and activation of IoT devices.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2011 · 6 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• C and C++ based Embedded Systems, Device Drivers

Jan 2001 – Jan 2005 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Tunneling Protocols and TCP implementation for reliable networking of IoT devices.

Jan 2001 – May 2001 · 4 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• - Architected, designed and implemented a secure multicast protocol with copyright protection and a permutation based encryption scheme to stream either live or stored video in real-time over the Internet.

Aug 1999 – Dec 2000 · 1 yr 4 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• ­- Responsible for teaching basic computer science and data structure concepts to undergraduate students using Java for the "Introduction to Computer Science" course at the University of Illinois.

May 2000 – Aug 2000 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed software in VJ++ to import external profile data from portal’s database to Inktomi’s database.
• Wrote filters in VC++ to pull html pages and images from the merchants’ websites to Inktomi’s database.

Jun 1998 – Aug 1998 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Designed and developed software in C to define and represent solid objects in memory as 3-D array of bits and modules to perform various operations like translation, rotation, intersection etc. on them, and then to display them in isometric and orthogonal views.