Apr 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Building the next-gen fintech platform for India. Leading both engineering and product teams at BharatPe.

Jun 2020 – Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Building the largest financial services platform for small merchants in India.
• BharatPe processes over $19 billion in payments and has helped the merchants in getting ~$500 million in loans. It is funded by top-tier investors like Tiger, Sequoia, Ribbit Capital, Coatue, and others. We have raised over $600 million dollars, with a valuation of $2.85 billion.

Apr 2017 – May 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Delhi, India

• At Instalocate, we are building a network of AI assistants to provide you worry-free travel experience. Hundreds of millions of people are stranded at the airport, train stations and bus stops. There are lots of websites/apps to help people with buying tickets but there is nobody to help when people face problems during their travel. Our mission is to help these passengers so that they can travel with peace of mind!

Feb 2012 – Mar 2017 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Started @WalmartLabs office in India. Hired the initial team of @WalmartLabs India and led an amazing set of engineers!
• @WalmartLabs India initiative has grown 100x over the last few years and we have more than 1500 people across multiple business teams.

Apr 2011 – Mar 2017 · 5 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed data science and machine learning products by combining the art of merchandizing with data science to solve three fundamental problems of retail -
• (1) how to identify customer demand,
• (2) how to determine which items to carry (assortment) and
• (3) how to price the items.
• Started competitive and algorithmic pricing initiatives that enabled Walmart to provide the best prices to billions of customers - both online and physical stores. Played an important part in shaping the pricing and assortment strategy of the world's biggest company!
• Built real time analytics systems at Walmart Scale - imagine handling data of more than one billion dollar revenue per day!! Proud to lead an amazing team of talented engineers who made it happen in a very short time.
• Started @WalmartLabs office in Bengaluru in 2011 - hired the initial team, set up the office and led various international projects focused on multiple geographies - Asia, Europe, North America and South America. More than 700 people have joined Walmartlabs India since then!

Jul 2006 – Apr 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Mountain View, CA

• [Acquired by Walmart in April 2011 for $300M+ - http://tcrn.ch/i5TC3y]
• Joined Kosmix at a very early stage (pre-revenue) and saw the full lifecycle of the company - developed consumer facing products, validated business models, expanded the business into multi-million dollars, experienced the acquisition by Walmart and saw the integration process after the acquisition!
• Over the five years, I played various roles at Kosmix - product management, engineering, user experience and business development. Some highlights are:
• Developed vertical search engines for Shopping, Autos, Local, News, Finance, Jobs, Music etc.
• Scaled the user base of various Kosmix properties to 250 million users/year
• Brought millions of dollars in revenues and made my business unit profitable.

Jun 2005 – Sep 2005 · 3 mos

• Managed three products, developed marketing strategies and interacted with partners for beta releases.
• Designed new business models to increase the number of premium signups

Jan 2005 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Stanford, CA

• Implemented the new architecture of a video search engine (Educators Corner) that resulted in 300% increase in monthly page views and organic visitors from over 130 countries in less than a year
• Check out http://ecorner.stanford.edu if you are interested in entrepreneurship related videos.

Jan 2004 – Aug 2004 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Designed an automated simulator that reduced the network protocol testing cycle time by 35%
• Analyzed various problem solving paradigms to increase the speed of software development

Feb 2003 – Dec 2003 · 10 mos

• Designed the world's first Wi-Fi based network - 'DakNet' - a low cost system to provide internet services, email and tele-medicine to the villages
• Led the technical team to deploy DakNet network in Cambodia for America Assistance for Cambodia

Sep 2002 – Jan 2003 · 4 mos

• Developed the first test bed network for Self Configuring Pervasive Mobile Networks
• Identified and solved problems associated with high mobility in mobile ad hoc networks

Dec 2001 – Feb 2002 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

Jun 2001 – Aug 2001 · 2 mos

• Represented India in Ericsson’s International Summer Internship Program 2001. Only thirteen people were selected from all over the world
• Designed and implemented a Voice Mailbox Access Demonstrator over packet-switched bearer in GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) using Adaptive Multi-rate (AMR) coding

May 2000 – Dec 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Bootstrapped a web portal for the students of Delhi University in the summer of 2000.
• Dulife.com got impressive reviews from thousands of users from all over the world.
• Responsible for all aspects - technology, design and marketing.