Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Look to participate meaningfully in this role to help grow the product / platform community in India to nurture 10K product leaders.

Jul 2022 – Jun 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Singapore, SE Asia

• MatchMove is a fast-growing and disruptive fintech company in digital payments and banking. The company's proprietary Banking OS enables Embedded Banking and the capabilities of Spend|Send|Lend|Defend|Ascend within our clients’ existing apps. The company is headquartered in Singapore with offices in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
• The acquisition of leading e-commerce infrastructure provider, Shopmatic, is the next step in that journey: combining a best-in-class Digital Commerce platform focused on SMEs with MatchMove's advanced Embedded Finance capabilities.

Apr 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the entire startup/SMB charter for PayU (India's largest Fintech) Product team.
• Played a pivotal role for Merchant experience across PayU product suite for merchants across Payment experience/Treasury/organic acquisition with our hunting / farming teams, partnerships across all verticals with platforms and resellers and banks in collaboration with our banking operations/Neobanking folks. Work closely with our data science+risk teams (Enterprise, SMB/omni channel) etc.

Dec 2020 – Apr 2021 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• The Indian payments space is currently the hottest in the world! At PayU (India's largest Fintech), I get to innovate on unique industry first constructs to build platforms our PayU merchants will love!
• PayU India is the flagship company of the Prosus (Naspers) group which is a $200 Billion internet and media conglomerate listed on Amsterdam and Johannesburg stock exchanges respectively. PayU provides payment gateway/payment aggregator platform capabilities a/c Enterprises, SMB, startups and Government cohorts. In India, PayU serves more than 450000+ merchants with over 100+ payment methods and is the preferred payments partner for nearly 60% of the e-commerce merchants, including all leading e-commerce companies and a majority of airline businesses.

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · 11 mos

• Responsibilities - Global data sciences group (GDSD - Data platform group)
• Partners
• Rakuten Ichiba (Japan), EBates (Rakuten Rewards)/Kobo, Rakuten Golf, Rakuten Taiwan Advertising, Rakuten France, Germany - Americas (+Rakuten Marketplace) across peak shopping seasons (ex: key thanksgiving holiday season (Black Friday/Cyber Monday) in Nov, Dec 2019 (impact recognized across leadership / Rakuten group worldwide))
• Championing the Product vision/strategy, execution (3, 5 year) for the Rakuten catalog platform / Competitive intelligence platform / expanding to other verticals across the Rakuten ecosystem of services
• Launched a key highly cross functional product matching initiative across myriad teams around engineering, operations, PgMO, Product sciences - Seattle, San Mateo, Rakuten Institute of technology), Tokyo and 3rd party providers product matching initiative that directly contributes to an uplift of double digit million USD $/annum in time for holiday season, USA 2020 (utilising AI/deep learning)
• Envisaged from the ground up a Competitive intelligence platform that contributed to direct millions of $ of increase in Gross merchandizing sales (GMS) and consumer experience

Sep 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Rakuten is a global multi billion $ profitable behemoth doing a variety of businesses (the Rakuten eco-system) pivoted around its core memberships program, brand and data. They have marketplaces around the globe doing e-commerce (they run Japan’s largest E-commerce marketplace called Rakuten Ichiba), travel, fintech, messaging (they own Viber) and also offer carrier services (MNO) in Japan (from 2019). I would work for the Rakuten Catalog platform/EBates team (under the Global data science department) managing an advanced competitive intelligence platform whilst solving a variety of complex computer science problems around structured data for over a billion+ item and Product Master entities for their global catalog. The role provided me an unique opportunity to solve data/AI/ML problems at scale in an impactful way. Needless to say, the frequent travel helps me socialize and build lifelong relationships with my stakeholders worldwide from Tokyo Japan to India to Europe to the USA.

Feb 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Bengalore, India, Boston, MA, New York, New Delhi · On-site

• LIQUIDMIND® is an AI Agent marketplace. We also focus on some key areas such as Internatonal Trade. As part of that, we have AI Agents and Agentic workflows solving entire enterprise use cases. In this, LIQUIDMIND® automates workflows for International Trade using AI (+Trade Documentation optimization) for both medium->large domestic and medium->large exporters (manufacturers or traders). We are hiring for product management/sciences/engineering and data sciences roles.
• We are an NVIDIA Inception Program startup, a Microsoft for startups program company on Azure, Amazon for startups and using AWS, Hosted on Lambda. We also use the home grown data stack like Yotta's Shakti Cloud.
• We are bootstrapped, hiring smart engineers/data scientists, product management/sciences/engineering and data sciences roles.

Apr 2016 – Dec 2016 · 8 mos · San Jose, California, Bangalore

• The eBay monetization platform processes over USD $10 billion of revenue/year (primarily from its over 14 million seller base) doing GMS (gross merchandizing sales) of over USD $90 billion/year whilst doing 12000 Transactions/second and is a high visibility team.
• I participated on many key seller billing/monetization/Indirect taxation/compliance (VAT/GST) initiatives for over 30+ countries globally) in this stint to build great momentum, improved product vision/strategy execution (moved the entire team to Agile Scrum successfully) capabilities of the team.

Oct 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore, India

• In my 18 months at Flipkart, I led a team of product managers/engineers to ship a whopping 6 high visibility/high value and impactful customer delight features (many a first in Indian e-commerce) as part of the Commerce (Customer shopping experience, Cart/Checkout, Flash Sales) and Supply chain platforms (Last mile). In this stint, we managed to raise the CSAT (NPS) by over 20-30% straight (sustained) across many aspects of the forward and reverse supply chain whilst improving the bottom line by millions of $ and frauds/leakages by 90% instituting the right product design constructs. My work has been widely recognised by the then top leadership of Flipkart.
• Flipkart was acquired by Walmart in May 2018 for USD $21 billion.

Mar 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• I setup, scaled the product team with A+ hires from good b-schools, focused on the end-end Capillary tech product portfolio through extensive product/customer development by working closely with his end customers (omni channel retailers)/sales team to ship products customers love around omni channel and marketing campaigns to deliver a 5-10% ROI on their businesses.

Jan 2013 – Mar 2013 · 2 mos

• Capillary was an exciting bet on marquee VC firms (Sequoia Capital, Norwest Ventures and Qualcomm ventures) and the founding team (from IIT-KGP) with a unique opportunity to contribute to the Indian startup eco system to build out their early product capabilities and Product team with a classic “saying no to focus on fewer things that matter” and bringing in enterprise Product management skills/process rigour.

Jun 2010 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, Bangalore

• I worked with the Product Management function at iPass Inc. (Nasdaq: IPAS) in the Telecom/networking space. In this role, I directly (or indirectly) engaged with carrier partners and enterprises worldwide (North America, EMEA, J/APAC), through iPass' sales channels to deliver products to iPass' customers by constantly shipping products in an iterative 6-week (Agile Scrum) release cycle.

Apr 2005 – Jun 2010 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• I scaled IBackup.com, IDrive.com and RemotePC.com's Product startup from scratch to a team of over 120 team members in under 9 years with building a profitable USD $20MN business in online backup/sync/collaboration from scratch.

Apr 2001 – Apr 2005 · 4 yrs

• I was the first employee of IBackup in their Bangalore division. I pretty much got a very unique opportunity at a very early age to build a team from scratch (by starting off with a small 5 member team) and scaling the product suite and the product center and the product/operation processes to a large 120-member team in a little under 5 years. Through this time, I helped the co. grow in revenues from negligible revenues (2001) to a little under USD $20 MN ARR (2010) and was directly involved in CXO level decision making and operationalizing the setting up of an outright acquisition of a development unit next to ITPL (International technology park of India Limited), Whitefield Bangalore (Brigade tech park, 9th floor, Whitefield, opposite Shipping corporation of India). A very valuable experience!

Nov 1999 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Trivandrum

• I worked with the Oracle Products group of TCS with exposure on Oracle databases doing extensive customer pre-sales, customer development to ensure their businesses run efficiently. Sample customers I worked directly to setup massive scale DBA operations using Oracle 8, 8i were: BESCOM, ITC Infotech, Ashok Leyland etc.

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr · Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Bangalore

• Worked on complex challenging product development assignments in this role from inception to implementation on the simulation of underwater acoustics/sonars used in navigation. Involved a detailed study of Oceanographics/Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques and understanding of how real life computer simulation projects could be undertaken.