Sep 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Took time off to recharge, reflect, and push myself beyond the familiar — mentally, physically, and socially:
• 🧘‍♂️ Spent 10 days in a silent Vipassana meditation retreat in Sikkim, India — learned how to observe cravings and discomfort without reacting; gained a deeper understanding of focus, suffering, and how to manage it.
• 🏔️ Completed a month-long Basic Mountaineering Course in Sikkim, graduating as an A-grader — pushed myself in physically demanding conditions, built mental resilience, and later summited a 6,000m peak in Bolivia.
• 🌎 Backpacked solo across Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru for 110 days — lived in unfamiliar cultures, made deep connections, and grew socially; from dancing salsa in front of 500 strangers in Cali to navigating remote Andean towns, I built confidence and adaptability in every setting.

Oct 2022 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Joined the early team at Scapia to build one of India's most rewarding travel credit cards. Owned the end-to-end product for flight and hotel bookings, helping scale flight bookings from 0 to 200+ per day.
• Led development of core travel experiences including ticketing, ancillary services, payments, travel insurance, and browse flows.
• Evaluated and integrated multiple flight and hotel suppliers to improve inventory reliability, reduce booking failures, and minimize customer escalations.
• Launched “Travel Now, Pay Later,” leading to a 10% increase in flight bookings and a 16% boost in average ticket size.
• Built a modular offers engine for personalized travel discounts, driving a 22% uplift in total travel bookings.
• Worked closely with design, operations, and engineering teams to ship features rapidly while improving customer satisfaction and retention.

Jun 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Started as the first Product Analyst on the Community team and transitioned into a Product Manager role within 5 months. Owned the Feed Engagement charter — a key driver of user retention across Apna’s 20M+ user base.
• Led the development and launch of new features to boost engagement on the community feed, contributing to a 30% increase in active usage.
• Identified and addressed architectural bottlenecks, increasing the share of network content by 25% and supporting a top company OKR.
• Partnered closely with engineering, design, and data science teams to build, ship, and iterate quickly in a high-growth environment.

Jul 2020 – Jun 2021 · 11 mos

• Scaled Private Brands business in 0-1 stage for Lifestyle
• Complete ownership of Business PnL
• Responsible for creating business forecasts & identifying key drivers to improve top & bottom line
• Helped improve profitability for Menswear - Marketplace

Jun 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr

• Complete ownership of category planning & budgeting from GMV to transacting buyers & product margins, aligning capacities with all relevant stakeholders
• Provide crucial data - driven insights to grow the category from 0 to ~40 cr monthly revenue
• Work with various business teams and build dashboards, to boost demand efficiency
• PnL management to boost category towards positive margin on a product level

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos

• Worked with Process team for Food - FMCG category to bring down RTO percentage and cost per kg
• Moved to Fresh as sole FPA setting up entire process of data capturing, recording & analysis
• Owned entire planning exercise for the category

Jul 2018 – Dec 2018 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Apr 2018 – Sep 2018 · 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• UNITE2030 is a global initiative by The IDHouse to unite worldchangers from across the globe to solve some of the world's most pressing problems related to sustainable development goals. For 48 hours, 17 diverse teams, comprising of 72 worldchangers from 57 countries, worked intensively to come up with 17 different projects for first 6 Sustainable Development Goals
• I worked in a team of 4 people from Armenia, India, Greece and Ghana and came up with a mobile based education app, 'EdUP' to help the disabled children in Ghana have equal access to quality education (SDG 4). Designed action plan, branding sheet and pitch deck as part of the competition.
• Led the team to finish 6th in the competition
• Additionally, the idea was also presented to Municipal Executive Officer of Tamale, Ghana a few weeks later.
• In third edition of UNITE2030 in September, I teamed up with participants from England, Brazil and Kenya. We countered the problem of deforestation through an innovative solution involving crowdfunding on a micro level, simplifying green action.
• Won the competition, and chosen as the local ambassador for the UNITE2030 community.
• Through this experience, I learnt how to study a given problem and come up with feasible solutions in a timed environment. I learnt how to take failures positively, analyse mistakes, improve upon them and then finally deliver.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 · 0 mo · Greater Delhi Area

• 1. Selected as one of 300 delegates for Harvard US-India Initiative (HUII) 2018 conference.
• 2. Keynote speakers included P. Chidambaram, Dr. Devi Shetty, Dr. Arvind Subramaniam, Pankaj Pachauri along with several acclaimed experts in various panels on journalism, society, entrepreneurship, culture & politics.
• 3. Attendee at Ideas Fair

Dec 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 mo · Goa, India

• 1. Performed qualitative and quantitative fundamental analysis of the publicly listed firm, Harley Davidson.
• 2. Evaluated the stock and gave recommendations at the end on whether to buy, sell or hold the stock.
• 3. Presented consolidated analysis and recommendations in a stock pitch video.

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• - Built a model to save 4 man-hours everyday through automation of the process

Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 · 11 mos · Goa India

Aug 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Goa India

Aug 2014 – May 2015 · 9 mos · Goa India