Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs

• YouTube Movies & Shows:
• Scaled YouTube.com/Movies from an early-stage product to a $XXX M business with ~100 % YoY growth (vs 9 % industry).
• Drove 100+ growth experiments across the funnel to boost acquisition, conversion, and retention.
• Expanded to iOS and Living Room screens, launched ad-supported movies, and secured continued investment from CPO by demonstrating outsized momentum.
• YouTube Creator Economy:
• Led the redesign of the $B creator-payment model to decouple earnings from ad-impression volatility—an initiative that later informed YouTube Shorts payouts.
• Launched YPP Select to reduce erroneous demonetization of brand-safe content, enabling creator self-labeling and generating high-quality training data to improve ML accuracy.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs

• Built String Wars which provided automated online guitar lessons using sound recognition (like Shazam). Paid app with ~200k downloads and 4 star rating reaching 11th position in the App store for education.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr

• Identified, sourced, and evaluated investing opportunities in consumer internet companies.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs

• Built trusted relationships with CXOs of blue chip companies across IT, FMCG, Constructions. Closely worked with senior leaders influencing strategic decisions impacting P&L, investments, business growth, cost optimizations.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr

• Built a simple way to create surveys, collect responses, and analyze and visualize results through an easy to use interface and API. Think Survey Monkey with powerful analytics. Won the Google Product Prodigy competition.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 · 0 mo

• Graphs, Probability, and Algorithms.