Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

• Minimal Viable Product.
• Got 'em acquired.
• Liked Melbourne.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 · 4 yrs · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

• Built Last9. The company, the product, and the team.
• Raise capital. Seed to Series A.
• From 2022 to 2023, we backed every live cricket stream in India.
• Moved on.

Jul 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Managed 6 data centres across 4 countries.
• Served five 9s for half-a-billion credit scores.
• Cut operational costs by 50%.
• Got bored.

Oct 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

• Built DataStax Managed Cloud.

Apr 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune Area, India

• 1 of the 3 co-founders.
• Delivered high-scale projects for tech companies across South East Asia.
• Acqui-hired by TrustingSocial.com

Apr 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Campbell, California, United States

• Founding Partner. Built and managed Apache Cassandra and Spark IaaS.
• Acquired by Datastax in October 2016.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 · 5 yrs · Austin, Texas, United States

• E-Learning for Soft Skills before it was a thing.
• Couldn't hit PMF.
• Tried for 5 years, learned life.

Feb 2009 – Dec 2009 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Aspired to build the Youtube for Audio.
• However, I lacked the skills and technology to run a business.

Mar 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• First mainstream Open Source work.
• Implemented the Python support for KDevelop
• Nerd stuff: Syntax highlighting, Indentation recognition, Syntactical checker.
• Learned humility.
• Full exposure to multicultural diversity.

Jan 2006 – Feb 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• First job. All cool things under the sun.
• System admin, Database Admin, Fast Parsers, C++, Linux.
• Remember being young and having a lot of fun.