Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jan 2014 – Aug 2018 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Independent consultant working with policy think-tanks, international development organizations, social enterprises and non-profits. My practice focuses on providing analytical, business, entrepreneurship and communication solutions to these organization. My clients include
• Clinton Health Access Initiative: Spearheaded the development of the National Cold Chain and Vaccine Logistics Action Plan. It involved intricate working with the Ministry of Health and six other development partners including UNICEF, UNDP and others.
• ACCESS Health International, an international health policy research and consulting firm: I was the Research Manager for The Health Financing Support Program (HFSP), which helps countries and states in their journey towards Universal Health Coverage through financing and data reforms. I initiated and drove all partnership conversations with the Health Department, Madhya Pradesh (MP) including Principal Secretary and Mission Director, leading to our first confirmed partnership. I was also involved in building a winning proposal worth 25k USD to extend Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana IT systems
• to primary health care
• Startup-India: Built and executed a market entry strategy for a health-focused non-profit looking to create employment opportunities for women.

Mar 2011 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs · Chanakyapuri, Delhi

• The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) is one of India's oldest and leading think tanks focusing on public policy. Accountability Initiative is a research initiative within CPR, focused on strengthening the debate on accountability and transparency in India.
• I joined this research group as the Communications and Technology Officer after a year of volunteering, interning and consulting with development organizations including AI. I was responsible for development of partnerships and strategic outreach. Professionally, it was a very satisfying job, giving me a number of avenues to showcase my talents. My key achievements:
• Conceptualized, developed and managed all aspects of an action-research capacity building
• program (PAISA course) to increase citizen engagement with the PAISA report on social sector
• budgets, governance and outcomes.
• Parts of the course have been incorporated in the training program for District Collectors at the IAS academy.
• I was also invited to present the impact of the course at a 20-member consultation on ‘Strengthening Panchayats’ presided by Dr Mihir Shah, Planning Commission
• Developed toolkits, learning videos and other knowledge products to promote access to AI’s research and uptake of research findings on public service delivery systems
• Organised conferences, workshops and talks designed to promote dialogue and share research findings
• Managed all of AI’s online and offline communications including the website, social media, production of reports, policy briefs, blogs and videos
• Conceptualized and single-handedly organized a bar-camp ‘unconference’ titled “Technology and
• Transparency Camp”
• Designed and implemented the operational aspects of the PAISA survey and volunteer training program in Himachal Pradesh and Bihar, managing a team of 3 members and 100 volunteers
• Led the development of AI’s budgetary data dashboard. Responsible for the entire process from wire-framing and design to testing and delivery

Dec 2007 – Mar 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

• NetApp, Inc. is a hybrid cloud data services company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It has ranked in the Fortune 500 since 2012. The secret to the high-performance, high-volume data services provided by the company is the proprietary ONTAP operating system, which is based on the WAFL file layout.
• I was recruited to the WAFL team after a gruelling set of interviews. Working with this high-performance team, while understanding the complicated file-system operating system and working on customer features was an immensely challenging and exciting experience.
• I have total respect for people who have a life-long career in information technology -- one of the most analytically exciting jobs on the planet! However, my real passion lay in development work, and I was more interested in the social implications of technology, than the technology itself. So in 2009, after a year at Netapp, I took a break from software to volunteer at remote locations in India.

Jul 2004 – Dec 2007 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Infosys Limited (formerly Infosys Technologies Limited) is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. The Product Engineering Department (PED) provides engineering services and solutions across the lifecycle of our clients’ offering. I worked in the PED department with blue-chip client Cisco on porting their single-process operating system IOS to their cutting-edge multi-process router operating system ION based on BSD Linux.
• It was analytically challenging role, requiring a thorough understanding of kernel programming, network protocols, multi-process systems engineering, LINUX development environments and operating system architecture. Learning these in a short while, on the job, while being able to deliver on client expectations and surpassing them made this job highly challenging.