Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Founded the company to solve immediate and long term needs of the care industry. We are currently doing our beta trials in select communities across India. Stay tuned for more exciting news this holiday season!

Aug 2018 – Oct 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Built the company with an idea, designed, architected and product managed India's First EV Charging App. Signed up BigBasket as our Marquee customer, raised Series A funds from Reliance, scaled the company and market. Finally exited by selling to Reliance/Jio Group to pursue the next big thing.

Oct 2017 – Jul 2018 · 9 mos · Bangalore

• @ AutoGrid, I ran engineering teams focused on Enterprise Applications for Cloud (using RoR), Big Data Processing (using Python, HDP, Kafka etc), UI/UX/Customer Engagement (RoR and Angular), DevOps. I also was the architect of solutions for Energy Storage and MicroGrids implementations for Indian Utilities and Energy Service Providers

Jul 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I ran two business units that I built from scratch at the Velankani Group : 1. Lithium ion based Energy Storage for Residential, enterprise and automotive applications and 2. Computing Hardware Manufacturing (Servers, Desktops and Small Form Factor devices)
• Achievements:
• 1. Started a high-voltage team of Electrical and Firmware Engineers to build a revolutionary Battery Management System for Energy Storage Technologies.
• 2. Defined Engineering, Product and Service Roadmaps for Home, Enterprise and Automotive markets
• 3. Drove partnership with Intel Corporation to define processes for a vertically-integrated manufacturing of Computing Products including Servers and HPC
• 4. Defined and executed a product roadmap for launch and GTM
• 5. Acted as Owners' Representative in mapping and collaborating with Industry/Ecosystem executives (CXO) for partnership

Feb 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore, India

• At "That Machine" we pursued DIY computing but ended up designing a unique energy storage module that turned out be immensely useful for cell management in performance batteries.

Apr 2012 – Jan 2013 · 9 mos

• Market Development Activities such as Retail Promotions, Retailers-specific events, ATL activities using Joint-Marketing budgets, BTL and Digital Campaigns and Activations. All these focused on maximizing RoI (Sales Vs Marketing $) for consumer sales.

Mar 2010 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Jointly owned and delivered a quarterly target of $XX Million from a leading OEM. Planned and executed the OEM’s PC and Datacentre Roadmap for 10 Quarters. Analysed and delivered revenue forecasts for APAC planning teams with consistent linearity. Introduced new products and services for the account by engaging upper management, product marketing and engineering teams. Represented the account in regional and worldwide programs by providing inputs on customer sales, market traction and ecosystem readiness. Spearheaded ODM, Vendor and enterprise-customer matchmaking for the account.

Aug 2008 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

• Consulted in the field of Design Engineering of GPS based devices while trying to start a company focused on Mobile Internet Devices (Tablet).
•  Consulted with Telematics4u Pvt Ltd by technical training and bringing the ASP of VTU (GPS+GSM) hardware down by more than 50% by interfacing with Taiwanese and Chinese OEMs/ODMs
•  Was instrumental in establishing partnerships and alliances with a semiconductor company for a tablet focused start-up (EAFT Technologies) that I was considering to join as a co-founder
•  Established a products vertical for iWave Systems, a hardware design house, based on Freescale, Intel and SiRF SoCs and ASICs

Dec 2006 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

• At SiRF India, I was the first FAE and was instrumental in nurturing the Indian GPS market. My duties included identifying design houses, manufacturers and distributors. I acted as the in-house GPS champion and contact point for APAC sales staff on SiRF product portfolio.
•  Pioneered GPS and location based technologies and was the single point of contact of SiRF India’s Sales and Marketing team for all technology issues including for design wins, training, customer qualification and design reviews
•  Supported APAC accounts for AGPS and LBS technologies
•  Instrumental in bringing-up India’s first GPS Module with efforts in design review, validation and Go To Market Plan (With Design house "iWave Systems")
•  Published a whitepaper and Marketing Collateral on Geo-tagging of Imagery and drove Proof of Concepts with Cannon and other Camera OEMs

Apr 2006 – Dec 2006 · 8 mos · Bangalore and Sunnyvale

• Technical Support for US and Taiwan TEMs. Supporting Unified Access Momentum among standards bodies and OEMs.Moved to SiRF when Hardware Engineering team was amalgamated.

Mar 2005 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

• Ran CO/CPE Test Lab and supported Apps Engineering for Field Sales for Interoperability with other Industry players in the Central Office (DSL-CO) domain.

Jun 2004 – Mar 2005 · 9 mos · Chennai Area, India

• For the Centillium Account, I led a team of Test Engineers dedicated to the account. Created and Owned Test Plans for Function ,White Box Testing and IOT for DSL LT (CO).

Mar 2001 – Dec 2003 · 2 yrs 9 mos · US and India

• Did various roles in Fault Tolerance of Networks, Benchmarking of Network Appliances and bandwidth and Networking Security ( was part of a team that implemented a custom AES variant with Diffie-Hellman PKI for a Classified Customer).

Mar 2000 – Mar 2001 · 1 yr · Richardson, Texas

• Testing of High Availability and Fault Tolerance features for AXD 3XX line of Switching products. Championed Erlang Functional Programming language, taught by elite faculty from Ericsson Sweden Office.

Aug 1999 – Mar 2000 · 7 mos · Denton, Texas, USA

• Ran the Musical Acoustics Lab for Undergrad students.