Nov 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• As a co-founder and MD, I am leading a team of 13 folks from various functions such as Sales, Marketing and Operations. My focus is on running the business operations including Hiring, BD, Technology development of the company smoothly along with driving future growth through new initiatives.

Nov 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• At EXTARC, we build Niche Software products in Higher Education Space. Lead the team of experts in the entire product life-cycle - Product Ideation, Product Development, Project Execution & Adoption and Sales.

May 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Part of Bing Search services team which powers Bing.com, m.bing.com, Cortana and other Microsoft products. Currently working on building TV Experiences for all the Microsoft end points. Responsible for talking to various data providers for feed on-boarding, designing experiences, driving product initiatives and co-coordinating across teams.

Apr 2013 – May 2013 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Part of Cloud and Enterprises group and Disaster Recovery Team. In the short span of time, written a Spec and built the first version of the tool that provided internal metrics to the developer team.
• On the larger front, designed an end-to-end solution for addressing all the customer issues faced while using Disaster Recovery services.
• Awarded PPO as an appreciation for the performance in the project.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad Area, India

• As member of Student Affairs Council,
• Conducted electronic elections for the first time in IIMA and increased turnout to 95% which received national media coverage; developed the software for the same
• Took key policy decisions regarding the IIMA community; Part of medical sub-council
• Selected the co-ordinators of 25 clubs and instituted 2 new Ops and Heritage clubs
• Selected and leading a team of 17 members; Ensure 24x7 IT services on campus
• As Co-ordinator, Computer Center Committe,
• Negotiated the PAN IIMA Laptop deal worth 1.5 crore INR.
• Headed a team of co-ordinators across different IIMs and delivered laptops on day-1.
• Developed productivity improvement apps on campus total visits of 1500 visits/day
• Revamped DBab+ and increased usage to 1.5 million page views this year

Jun 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Ahmedabad

• Epaata.com is a personal radio that plays music based on mood, time and interests backed by data analytics
• Market Research - Feature discovery of the product is done using Lead user methodology & customer interviews
• Execution - Led a team of 2 engineers and 2 non-engineers and built best-class search engine and BI framework
• Analytics- Integrated with Mixpanel and Google Analytics to understand the behavioural patterns of users
• Product development and the Feature design is done based on feedback from user data analytics
• Traffic data Average time spent: 36 minutes per day per session, Returning user : 83 %

Apr 2012 – Jun 2012 · 2 mos

• Acted as Technical Product Lead for on-boarding open data of events which included 1500 community and event websites in US.
• Appreciated by Shasi Seth (SVP of Search & Market places then) for building a transparent pipeline for supervised data ingestion. Improved the team performance by over 4 times with the new methodology.

Sep 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Part of the team that built Artisan - a javascript library similar to Jquery which builds UX widgets with simple configuration. Artisan Query Builder is part of Search plugin used extensively within Yahoo! to put up content on all the Yahoo! sites.
• Events Team : Onboarded upcoming, zvents and eventsouce data providers using brand new Hadoop based Technology stack, it's the first time it's being done within India. The model we built acted as case study and other teams in Yahoo! Local adopted it quickly.

Jun 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Straight out of the college, I joined Producers Desktop team as UX Engineer where I learnt Frontend technologies including Javascript, CSS, PHP and YUI with deep understanding. I was part of 3-member team that built the Core Framework for Producers Desktop and its Core plugins such as Edit and Search.
• Took the lead in on-boarding several internal customers including Sports and Entertainment.