Aug 2018 – Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Helping Indians get fit - through services, products and technology.
• I led several strategic initiatives at cure.fit ($1.5B valuation, raised ~$500M)
• Key initiatives
• Founded cult.sport and as GM, built it into one of India's top brands for fitness and sports products
• Grew the business to tens of millions $ ARR with profitable unit economics
• Built an org of 300+ - including product design and manufacturing, supply-chain operations, growth, marketing, tech, finance etc.
• Evaluated and completed several acquisitions, led transition and integrations.
• Prior to founding and leading cult.sport:
• I helped launch and drive adoption of cult.live - India's #1 online fitness classes, used by over 2M users to stay fit at-home.
• Led several digital wellness businesses - online therapy, diagnostics, teleconsults etc.
• Helped incubate and spinoff sugar.fit - a tech-driven diabetes reversal product.

Sep 2017 – Dec 2023 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Independent board director at IIFL Capital (publicly listed company).
• Informal advisor/mentor for several startups/founders.
• Angel investor in 20+ startups including Scripbox, Squad, NanoNets, Airmeet, Thesys, Dexwin,, Kubric etc. (Please do not DM me for angel investments - have stopped doing these).
• Board member at Cure.fit & Sugar.fit (2019-23)
• Board member at ShadowFax (2019-21)
• Venture Partner at Pi Ventures (2017-23)
• Founder of Craftworks venture studio (2017-2019) - crafting deep-tech products - video-based applications and automating "creativity".

Sep 2012 – Dec 2017 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I managed the product, engineering, UX and data-science teams at Myntra - the top fashion/lifestyle e-commerce company in India.
• Helped the company grow from $30M to $1B (annualized) revenues. As part of the leadership team, helped navigate the company through various changes - difficult economic times, periods of aggressive competition by better funded competitors (Amazon, RocketInternet), acquiring and integrating our primary competitor (Jabong).
• Helped build one of the most loved online shopping experiences for fashion, and introduced many unique mobile experiences. Built up a strong tech team of 400+ (engineers, product-managers, UX). Myntra is reputed for its unique tech-oriented culture. Scaled up the tech stack to handle baseline growth of 15x and peak growth of 100x (over daily baselines).
• Launched several product innovations such as using AI for fashion design (Moda Rapido), focussing the company on mobile, smart JIT procurement, use of ML to forecast demand, community-oriented commerce etc.
• Built strong connections to the ecosystem including advising/partnering with startups, representing Myntra at conferences, promoting open-source contributions, bringing influential speakers and driving three acquisitions.

Apr 2011 – May 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mountain View, CA

• Delivered the software stack for the world's first lightfield camera. Responsible for web, desktop app and mobile components.
• Funded ($50M) by Andreesen-Horowitz, NEA, Greylock
• http://goo.gl/73Rk4
• Time Magazine best inventions on 2011
• http://goo.gl/kI9Vz
• CES 2012 Last Gadget Standing
• http://goo.gl/uvGwu

Oct 2009 – Jul 2010 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• StumbleUpon was the leading content-discovery engine (eg. TikTok) of its time. I led engineering, helped rebuild the team post-spinout from Ebay. Delivered first versions of several key new products - iPhone app, Android app, iPad app, Chrome-extension, Video-stumbling.
• Built an analytics system to allow detailed analysis of user behaviour. Launched a new Ads system based on user interest-targeting.
• Hbase and OpenTSDB were incubated within Stumbleupon at this time, and later became popular open-source tools.

Dec 2007 – Mar 2011 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• RockYou built and distributed social games and used to run the biggest social ad network of its time. Managed all development for games and ads, QA, operations and customer-support (120+ ppl).
• I joined the company pre-revenue and helped build RockYou Ads into the largest third-party ad-network on Facebook (100M users/month, 20B ads/month). Hired most of the engineering team.
• In Fall 2010, I was appointed co-CEO (on the departure of the founder-ceo), and helped the company make a strategic transition from being an advertising-focussed company to becoming a social gaming company. This transition included staff restructuring, revising the product roadmap and completing some key acquisitions.

Jan 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Head of technology for Yahoo!'s marketplaces business unit ( $250+M, 70+ engineers/pm). This unit included Yahoo! Shopping, Travel, Autos, Real-estate etc.. Each of these verticals was a top-3 destination in its category..
• Also led the team building the monetization platform for publishers for Yahoo!'s next-generation ad-network (Apex) and managed existing publisher platforms (DirectMedia, YPN etc.)

Jan 2002 – Apr 2005 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Raised VC funding (apax), hired the team (30+ eng) and built the leading web-service security and monitoring solution, and deployed it at several Fortune 100 clients (merrill-lynch, cisco, etc.). Confluent was acquired by Oblix (which was acquired by Oracle soon thereafter). Oracle continues to sell the product as Oracle web-services manager.
• Transitioned the Confluent team into Oblix post-acquistion. Managed the Web-services security product-line for Oblix, including engineering, professional-services, QA and documentation.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 · 4 yrs · Palo Alto, California

• Founding member of E-speak team that built a pioneering REST-based B2B platform. Represented HP in several web-services standards bodies (UDDI, WSDM etc.) and co-authored several standards (eg. WS-Conversation Language and WS-Change). Published over 15 technical publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Filed seven and was awarded three patents.

Mar 1995 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Research into runtime-optimization of distributed systems. Two examples :
• 1. Deferred dataflow analysis - authored an oft-cited paper about a novel compiler optimization technique that used runtime information (e.g. the input data set) to optimize a program while it was running. This was very effective for optimizing long-running applications (eg. scene rendering, chip layout, airflow analysis etc) where the more impactful code-optimization opportunities depend on the input dataset, and hence compiler optimizations have to be "deferred" to run-time.
• 2. Usenix paper on - network-aware mobile programs. Here "mobile" refers to a program than can move across machines (not a program than runs on mobile devices). This paper described how a process can hop machines while running (by snapshotting its runtime state and sending that AND its code to a different server where it reincarnates) so it can run closer to the data it needs. This proved very useful for "big data" applications where there are large hetrogenous data-sets at different locations (astronomy, weather, healthcare etc.)