Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• TheFutureIQ focuses on explaining concepts and ideas I find fascinating and which I believe everybody should know about, to help understand how the world works. It includes everything from science, technology, economics, psychology, mental models, and personal improvement.

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs

• GenWise offers middle- and high-school students introductory courses in new and emerging disciplines through high quality mentors from around the world with expertise in a diverse spread of contemporary areas and the ability to teach engagingly. The focus is on creating life-long learners who love to explore beyond their formal curriculum.
• At GenWise, I’ve been teaching a number of courses in areas that I find fascinating: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI, Modern Cryptography, Game Theory, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies, and Defense Against the Dark Arts (which is an introduction to critical thinking, and inoculation against fake news), and more.

Mar 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 1 mo · Pune Area, India

• NIDHI - National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations - is an umbrella programme conceived and developed by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, for nurturing knowledge-based and technology-driven ideas and innovations into successful start-ups. PRAYAS - Promoting and Accelerating Young and ASpiring innovators & startups - is a programme that provides grants and a platform to idea-stage entrepreneurs with a physical product offering, who require support for prototyping. EIR - Entrepreneur in Residence - is a programme that provides a stipend, mentorship, office and lab space to young and innovative entrepreneurs for pursuing a promising technology business idea. The idea is to inspire the best talents to be entrepreneurs, to minimise the risk involved in pursuing start- ups, and to partially set off their opportunity costs of high paying jobs. Venture Center is a Government of India initiated science/technology business incubator, housed in NCL-Pune, providing services to entrepreneurs and startups offering products and services exploiting scientific expertise in the areas of materials, chemicals and biological sciences & engineering. Venture Center is a Programme Execution Partner (PEP) for the NIDHI-EIR programme, and a Prayas-Center (PC) for the NIDHI-PRAYAS programme.
• I am a member of the committees of both - the NIDHI-PRAYAS-PEP and NIDHI-EIR-PC programmes - and am involved in selections of the entrepreneurs/startups, and monitoring progress on a regular basis.

Mar 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 1 mo · Pune Area, India

• ReliScore.com is a software platform that allows companies to find the right candidates by posing challenges in their areas of interest along with corresponding job postings. We have technology to auto-evaluate responses of candidates in various domains including, programming, testing/QA, support, devops, system/database administration, and more. The same technology is also used by companies for ongoing assessments of employees to identify training requirements, pre- and post-training benchmarking, and also for programming contests for branding or employee engagement.

May 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Pune Area, India

• Tap 'n Tap builds modular software products (apps, platforms, and cloud-based solutions) for the Android ecosystem that allow OEMs, manufacturers, operators and retailers to ship enhanced versions of the Android OS to strategically differentiate themselves from other players.
• My role was to help build out their India-based development team, including key responsibilities in hiring, on-boarding of employees, and mentoring and guidance to the juniors and smooth handover

Mar 2009 – Mar 2012 · 3 yrs · Pune Area, India

• BharatHealth.com is a software-as-a-service offering targeted towards Doctors in India. It is currently live as a private beta.

Mar 2008 – Dec 2018 · 10 yrs 9 mos · Pune Area, India

• PuneTech was a non-commercial, for-the-community, portal for information about all the interesting technology work going on in Pune. PuneTech gave me a lot of exposure into the tech community in Pune, and also how to build and run an online/offline website+community.

Jul 2007 – Present · 18 yrs 9 mos

• Innoviti is a software product company in the payments processing space whose primary products include a payments automation gateway for retail merchant businesses, and a dealer trade credit platform for SMEs.
• I am an advisor for various aspects of technology, including architecture, performance, security, as well as senior tech hiring decisions for the company.

May 2007 – Present · 18 yrs 11 mos · Pune Area, India

• FinIQ is a banking software product company, specialising in pricing, dealing & processing of treasury & wealth management structured products, supporting FX, forwards, options, accumulators, TRF, equity linked, range accruals, baskets, structured notes, credit linked, IR linked, IRS, CDS, equity swap, cash equity (incl corporate actions), mutual funds and unit trusts, regular and exotic bonds, DCI with workflows for retail, commercial, private wealth as well as corporate banking can be automated including client pricing request, electronic pricing (via models or multi-dealer links), order management, trade capture, documentation, settlement, mid life event processing, redemption and accounting. FinIQ customers include 25 banking groups all over the world (75 banks).
• I am a consultant and advisor for various aspects of technology, including architecture, performance, security, mentoring juniors, as well as skill enhancement, learning and development. Current focus is Gen AI strategy and adoption.

Aug 2002 – Dec 2007 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• I was a senior researcher in the Symantec Research Labs, Pune, India. We built prototypes of emerging technologies to determine whether they could be productized. For a while, I was heading this group, but decided that I did not want to be a manager, and went back to being an individual contributor. I joined this group in 2002 when the company was still Veritas Software.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr

• Senior Product Architect and Principal Developer
• Quiq Inc was a company that provided software and services for Internet based Customer Support and eCRM (Customer Relationship Management). I was responsible for the design and implementation of the core search engine used in the product suite.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr

• Module Architect and Project Leader
• Worked on the Teradata Object-Relational DBMS (TOR), a scalable, parallel, object-relational database management system. I was involved in various aspects of the architecture of the system, and design and development of individual features.

Jan 1992 – Jan 1999 · 7 yrs

• Research Assistant
• Architect and Developer on the team that designed and developed the Paradise Scalable Object-Relational DBMS.