May 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Afresh builds AI-powered forecasting and inventory software for fresh grocery, one of retail’s most complex and under-optimized problem spaces. As their first PM hire, I worked at the intersection of data, integrations, and ML to remove the company’s biggest growth constraint: customer onboarding. I led the development of a standardized retail data model and ETL platform that reduced integration effort by 80%, enabling faster enterprise adoption. I launched Afresh’s second product, a web application for corporate grocery teams, and helped close the company’s first multi-million-dollar enterprise deal by shipping core platform capabilities like SSO and store-level assortment targeting.

Oct 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I built scalable platforms that enabled Walmart.com to serve a wide omni-channel assortment of 200M items across their digital and physical footprints to customers at low prices that helps them save money and live better.

May 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• First PM hire at early stage startup building the first AI assistant for health and fitness www.astro.fit. We built a nutrition assistant before GenAI! Did a bunch of pivots in the attempt for product market fit.

Aug 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Campus Connect is a platform to enable effective student communication within campus.
• Secured seed funding, managed a 20-member team and launched product with 10,000+ active users
• Interacted with college stakeholders in over 50 campuses to identify key features for initial product launch
• Collaborated with design team to prototype 2 mobile and web apps iterating product design through user testing
• Worked along with developers to prioritize product roadmap and release features
• Sold the company in March 2017 to education tech startup

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• Presented market analysis to CEO for cloud adoption in DevOps enabling the company to enter a new market segment
• Designed prototypes to revamp partner management website and worked with engineering team to launch the update
• Developed tools to onboard and manage reseller partners, which boosted sales force efficiency and company revenues

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• 1. Worked closely with Tallenge execs and software engineers to design and build the NITK Tallenge instance.
• 2. Successfully ran two summer contests on the NITK Tallenge instance. Achieved this through effective planned publicity through facebook page and other social networks.
• 3. Delivered a series of documents which were compiled to form the user guide. These documents were used in the Campus Ambassador Handbook.
• 4. Created an animation video promoting the Campus Tallenge program. An innovative and fun video which explained the benefits of the program through speed drawing animation technique. This resulted in very high student engagement and multi-fold increase in brand awareness.
• 5. Organized an event where contest winners would get to display their talent at a popular art café in Bangalore. Resulted in spreading the awareness about the Campus Tallenge program to target audience from other colleges in Bangalore.
• 6. Created a detailed report analyzing the success of contest website and used feedback to suggest improvements in the program for future success and engagement.