Oct 2020 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Growing and Sustaining Developers & Startups Ecosystem:
• + Managing the strategy and operations of Google for Startups Accelerator (GFSA) India, incorporating strong alignment with Curriculum, Engagement, Experience and Stories, thereby helping Indian startups solve Next Billion Users (NBU) problems and empowering them with the best of Google (technology, network, and mentorship) to build and scale successfully.
• + Scaled the Google Developers Expert (GDE) India community with 28% growth YoY, resulting in 70+ hand-picked experts, reaching 110K+ developers.
• + Giving direction and support to 14 TensorFlow User Groups (TFUGs) across India, to increase awareness and adoption of TensorFlow libraries, reaching to 30K+ developers.
• Strategic Engagement with Product Areas & Key Stakeholders:
• + Engaging Product Areas and 10+ cross-functional stakeholders to realize the priorities, success metrics, and regional opportunities amplifying the high quality content through verified experts.
• + Increasing the product quality and product-market-fit by actively sourcing specific and actionable product feedback from the developer communities and tech influencers.
• Amplifying Thought Leadership, enhancing Google’s Brand and Reputation:
• + Mapping the stories of tech adoption and impact from our expert communities and startups ecosystem, to build long-term platform presence. Revamped Google Devs India: YouTube News Show to enhance awareness, adoption & engagement around community programs.
• + Supporting Diversity and Inclusion efforts by enabling 20+ women in tech through Women Developer Academy (WDA) in India, and launched Road-to-GDE (candidate mentoring initiative) with 100+ participants, in collaboration with the global team, to increase the number of women onboarded to GDE program by 100%.
• + Anchored and established the support infrastructure for 30+ COVID response efforts from the community, and connecting mentors from the ecosystem.

Sep 2016 – Apr 2017 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• Working at Google via Optimum, Managed India outreach of Google Developers Launchpad program (g.co/launchpad) to provide mentorship to early-stage, mid-stage and growth-stage startups through low-touch initiatives and high-touch Accelerator program (g.co/launchpadaccelerator).
• Goals:
• + Establish Partner and Mentor network PAN India
• + Nurture Influencers in the ecosystem and spearhead the advocacy of Google technologies
• + Create scalable programs for the vibrant community of developers and entrepreneurs to help them succeed on Google platforms
• Work:
• + Mentoring and supporting startup ecosystem in India (emerging market)
• + Nurturing and Engaging Launchpad Mentor Community PAN India
• + Helping emerging startups to build and scale successfully on Google platforms
• + Conduct Design Sprint for managed Tier-1 startups to create unified User experience for their Apps
• + Public Speaking in large developer conferences and events for Android Things, Progressive Web Apps, Building for Billions frameworks, and Building better products focused on solving India related problems
• Achievements:
• + Mentored 11 Startups & established enterprises with Google Design Sprint to improve their unified User Experience. On-demand services marketplace, Urbanclap, trimmed their features to half in 5 days (bit.ly/DesignSprintUC) with this mentorship.
• + Google platform Education and Adoption - Worked closely with Startup and Developer ecosystem and helped them adopt latest technologies on Google platforms - Android Things and Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
• + Organized Launchpad Leaders Lab - A Leadership development workshop for 25 Startup founders, CXOs, and Leaders, to help them know about their leadership strengths and blind-spots through structured feedback.
• + Built external partnerships with top 15 co-working spaces across 3 regions - Bangalore, Mumbai and NCR to grow and scale startup-related activities and in-person Mentorship.

Apr 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• Responsible for the direction, strategy, and management of the program at large.
• Defining Goals:
• + Defining strategies towards engagement of Atal Tinker Labs at 10 locations across India
• + Engage with Government and like-minded organizations to build National Innovation Alliance
• + Manage relationships with key stakeholders including Government & Non-Government agencies, partners, communities, and influencers
• + Funnel Innovation and drive Tech Creations to community, solving real-world challenges
• Leader & Coach:
• + Leading the Ecosystem, driving Sustenance and Excellence
• + External mentor to Innovators / Developers / Startups across India
• + Galvanising internal and external volunteers to support our program activities
• + Creative thinker, passionate to core, data-driven decision maker
• Program Management:
• + Running full-fledged program to empower young Innovators
• + Advocating Tech Creations aimed at solving community challenges
• + Creating comprehensive metrics, dashboards and results analysis
• + Managing 10+ extended resources
• Achievements:
• + Reached 10,000+ young innovators in 6 months with mentorship and support at 10 Atal Tinker Labs
• + Conducted 30 Unbox Tinkering workshops in 4 months sprint, creating 700+ influencers across 29 States & 5 Union Territories, creating 1M impressions on social media.
• + Published National Tinkering Model and Content as the de-facto curriculum to support young innovators across 500 Atal Tinker Labs.
• + Significantly increased the program creativity within the team leading the path of Tech to Community for top 30 innovations.
• + Designed and Launched National Innovation Alliance (Intel Future Skills Forum) - A National platform for Tech Creators. Funnelled 30 Innovations targeted at solving community challenges, organizing 300 mentorship hours with Entrepreneurs and empowering them to go to community and market

Jul 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Develop Device Drivers for Android Tablets.
• Delivered Test Driven Development (TDD) based framework for developers.
• Trained Developers to develop Test Cases for Interfaces and other display features.

Dec 2013 – Jun 2014 · 6 mos

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• I run Student Yatra - an independent initiative to enable students to start building with latest technologies.
• Goal:
• + Conduct a Yatra (journey) to Universities/Colleges to reach every Engineering student across India
• + Enable students to start building with latest technologies and hence make informed decisions
• Workshops conducted on the following technologies:
• + Progressive Web Apps
• + Android Things on Intel Edison
• + Web development with Polymer
• + Google Cloud Platform, with GAE focus
• + Firebase
• + Internet of Things with Intel IOT Platform - Galileo and Edison boards
• + Intel XDK - Cross platform Hybrid App development tool
• Achievements:
• + Reached 2000+ students in last 1.5 years across 15+ Universities across India
• Under this initiative, Universities and Colleges can request for a session through this link: http://bit.ly/Request-for-Session

Jul 2013 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore, India

• Established Developer Relationships with Developer Ecosystem using Google Technologies.
• Organized Events: Building and Supporting local developer communities.
• Delivered workshops in colleges on latest Google Technologies in Bangalore and Tamil Nadu.
• Public Speaking at large Developer conferences such as GDG DevFest and Code Pursuit.
• Supported Women in Tech and conducted Google's Women Tech Maker events in Bangalore.
• Collaborated with Intel and other leading companies to conduct the events in their premises.
• Worked with cross-functional Google initiatives - Google Business Group (GBG) and Google Student Ambassador (GSA).