Jul 2025 – Present · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

May 2025 – Feb 2026 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Sierra Ventures is an venture capital firm founded in 1982, with over $2 billion invested across 13 funds. Currently deploying $270 million Fund XIII, Sierra partners with visionary B2B founders at the Seed and Series A stages. The firm offers deep operational support and access to a robust CXO Advisory Board of Fortune 1000 executives, helping startups scale in enterprise software, AI, infrastructure.

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

• CMU's Technical Entrepreneur Coaching Hub (TECH) focuses on helping technical professionals in Silicon Valley who aspire to become technical founders.

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Opaque is the first confidential computing platform that enables secure data sharing, multi-party analytics and machine learning on encrypted data.

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Acquired by Cisco
• sourced the deal and attended Board meetings
• Isovalent created eBPF and Cilium open-source projects. eBPF makes the kernel programmable and Cilium is used by massive enterprises to connect, secure and observer their Kubernetes clusters.

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

May 2020 – May 2025 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Deals: Cohere, Harness.io, Isovalent, Exaforce, Relyance, Opaque.co, StackGen, Deductive AI
• Portfolio Companies: Clari, Qwiet AI

Apr 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• The Emerging Venture Capitalist Association is a non-profit dedicated to supporting the emerging VC community.

Jan 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Acquired by Mirantis

Nov 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Acquired by DigitalOcean

Sep 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Sourced Nimbella (serverless cloud leader; acquired by DigitalOcean)
• Sourced Shipa.io (continuous cloud operations; acquired by Mirantis)
• Built and ran CIO Forum (100+ members)
• Entrepreneurial community building: annual Engineers Week, small group product conversations

Jan 2018 – Mar 2018 · 2 mos

• Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health and medtech.

Sep 2017 – Dec 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley

Mar 2017 – Jan 2018 · 10 mos

• Roo.chat is your AI-enabled personal digital wellness coach
• Funded by the Garage incubator at the Kellogg School of Management
• Funded by New Venture Launch, taught by Troy Henikoff (Math Venture Partners) at Kellogg

Apr 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Boston

• AppNeta was acquired by Broadcom
• launched AppNeta Performance Manager
• Product strategy owner for TraceView (Acquired by Solarwinds)
• Led engineering to be the first in APM industry to ship PHP7 and Go (beta) support
• Added Scala language support – shipped deepest visibility into Play framework & Akka actors
• Create, and prioritize instrumentation backlog for 5 different languages including Java, Ruby, .Net

Feb 2014 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Boston

• Primary Sales Engineer for Traceview; achieved 87% MRR increase by closing trials
• Responsible for demo environments, completing RFIs & owning trials to solve customer problems
• Recognized as most valuable Appnetian: October 2014

Apr 2013 – Jun 2013 · 2 mos · Mumbai

• Secured approval for final product launch plan from India leadership team of P&G
• Used Nielsen Advisor to conduct landscape analysis on India Haircare category
• Collaborated with MediaCom India to develop media plan for the launch
• Identified and recommended the Target Group using SPSS for Surveys
• Competitor response modelling to anticipate competitor action and quantify appropriate response
• Performed Analysis by Hypothesis to arrive at and recommend consumer insights

Sep 2011 – Aug 2012 · 11 mos · Delhi, India

• Built and guided a 5-member technical team; created new sentiment analysis engine to capture public sentiment on Twitter
• Designed and implemented machine learning models for systematic identification of 'wisdom of the crowd' and 'wisdom in the crowd'

Oct 2010 – Aug 2011 · 10 mos · Framingham, MA

• Data engineering work to help cable industry clients with offer optimization
• Wrote Python and Perl scripts to automate ETL (extract-load-transform) process
• Implemented Oracle SQL scripts to process and analyze large volumes of data

Jun 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Primary Software Developer on multiple versions of eJones web application, a dynamic collaboration system introducing prediction market mechanisms in social environments
• Wrote shell scripts to automate provisioning, configuration and monitoring of cloud resources
• Developed multiple applications using CodeIgniter MVC framework, amazon EC2 instances, amazon S3 storage, open source load balancers and caches.
• Built and managed a REST API to be consumed by our customers
• Shipped a sentiment analysis engine to the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank
• Trained machine learning model for sentiment analysis

May 2008 – Jun 2008 · 1 mo · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Developed pdf generating software in Python using Haru library. The software continues to be used at flipclips.com