Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Singapore

• Payments at Google: core consumer experience on GPay India and overall APAC lead.

Sep 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• At Hotstar my mandate is to build interactive, community-based and social experiences for the largest video OTT platform in the country. First step: IPL 2019.

Nov 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• At Cuemath (an after-school math program for K8 students) I was responsible for building the products and experiences for our three key stakeholders - students, teachers and parents. The products ensured:
• that our state of the art curriculum was delivered to our students to ensure the best learning outcomes
• our teacher partners became competent Cuemath curriculum teachers and effective business partners through timely and in-depth training
• our community of parents stayed engaged with day-to-day class activities and our philosophy of math learning

Jul 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• At Practo, I led the central user experience and product team that developed and managed all of Practo's user- and doctor-facing apps.
• I also led the Network division and its three products: a network for users based on health insights and content, a professional social network for doctors and a network for family members around their health records.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I invest in and advise a number of startups in the B2C, consumer internet and gaming space. I prefer collaborating with individuals who are in it for the long haul and who I have worked with directly or indirectly in the past.

Feb 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As Studio Head of Tiny Mogul Games I was responsible for:
• running a world class mobile gaming studio out of India made up of developers, designers, product managers and artists
• coming up with our product strategy
• formulating the design and product direction of our games
• operations and execution of our strategy
• hiring
• working with partner teams across our sister companies
• Our games are available here:
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Tiny+Mogul+Games
• TMG makes world class mobile games for the Indian market. Our game - Shiva: The Time Bender - was one of the first Indian games to be featured by Google Play across the globe. Dadi vs Jellies won the "Game of the Year" at the Nasscom Game Developer Conference in 2014.

Jan 2013 – Feb 2013 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Game Design Lead responsible for product strategy and design, game balancing, narrative structure and design, and content creation across some of Zynga's most successful titles: Mafia Wars, Cafe World, Treasure Isle, YoVille, Vampire Wars and FishVille.

Oct 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Game Design Lead responsible for product strategy and design, game balancing, narrative structure and design, and content creation across some of Zynga's most successful titles: Mafia Wars, Cafe World, Treasure Isle, YoVille, Vampire Wars and FishVille.

Jul 2008 – Jan 2009 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• An animation film studio setup by the Bennett, Coleman and Co. Was the head writer on a number of television pilots and full-length animated films.

Jun 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Part of the Future Forward initiative of the Murugappa Group. Consulted on various new investment areas - toys, video games and bio-fuels.

May 2004 – Oct 2010 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Everywhere

• Bibliography:
• Books for Children:
• Emperor of the World (Untold Stories from the Jungle Book) by Disney (2010)
• Dorje’s Stripes (2010)
• Novels:
• An Excess of Sanity (WIP)
• You Who Never Arrived (WIP)
• Gamebooks (Interactive Fiction for Young Adults) by Scholastic:
• Banana Republic: The Enemy of My Enemy II (2010)
• The Enemy of My Enemy (2009)
• Audiobooks by Karadi Tales:
• Crickematics – Narrated by Rahul Dravid (2009)
• Short Stories for Children:
• Bad Moon Rising (anthology of mystery stories by Puffin of the same name)
• Monsters Above Your Bed (appeared in Spooky Stories by Scholastic)
• Split Infinitive and the Destroyer of Worlds (appeared in Superhero by Scholastic)
• Sneezed Out of Existence (appeared in The Moustache Maharishi and Other Unlikely Stories by Scholastic)
• Baba Yaga (appeared in 7 Science Fiction Stories by Scholastic)
• Have taken writing courses and workshops in the following fields for children (ages 6 to 16) and college students:
• Speculative Fiction – Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Comic Books and Manga
• Convergence of Science and Poetry