Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos

• Software Requirements and Interaction Design
• Gave Recitation on Data Analytics, Style Guide and Prototyping tools to a batch of 30 students

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos · Foster City

• Responsible to drive a product (open source unsupervised ML-based anomaly detection) from problem to idea, and idea to launch in 12 weeks.
• Validated the problem by conducting customer interviews and market research on anomaly detection.
• Defined & validated the solution; proposed a 12-week roadmap by collaborating with the engineering team.
• Drove MVP from idea to launch with an F1 score of 0.8 in 6 weeks by leading highly technical 6 ML engineers.
• Drove the development of sequential and point anomaly detection ML models (HTM, LSTM, isolation forest, autoEncoder), and prioritized hyperparameter tuning based on business value metrics.
• Collaborated with 5 cross-functional teams at VISA and CMU to make open source licensing decisions.

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Reported to the VP of Connected Technology Ecosystems (Former CEO of Runtime.io - acquired by Juul). Runtime.io was acquired by Juul labs to leverage their open-source operating systems for IoT Devices.
• Responsible for identifying investment in open-source software initiatives. Open-source initiatives include open-sourcing proprietary code, promoting more upstream contributions, initiating worldwide ambassador programs, and sponsoring open source foundations. It primarily attracts software engineers and improves the company's brand and goodwill.
• Achieved cross-functional leadership preliminary consensus to invest up to ~$1M in setting up an open-source organization and sponsoring open source initiatives for short term ROI of 1.5X in <2 years and long term goodwill.
• Formulated the vision and mission by drawing insights from 10+ organizations and case studies.
• Constructed and validated the program strategy for open-source initiatives in 5+ verticals by interviewing respective senior leaders, achieving preliminary consensus.

Jan 2019 – Apr 2019 · 3 mos

• Assisted the professor in teaching 30+ students on 'Enterprise Innovation' by providing the latest examples from the industry.

Jan 2019 – Mar 2019 · 2 mos

• Program & Product Manager for two NASA Research Project in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University.
• Catalyzed 20% increase in software development by prioritizing relevant features together, and grooming backlog to remove unimportant feature requests. Wait time between team members reduced by 80%.
• Reduced wait time between three engineering teams by 80% by executing agile scrum principles in three cross-functional teams of4.
• Introducing a standardized testing process that reduced testing time by 30%, thus, increasing the release rate by 10%.

Sep 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Organized documentaries and guest lectures to create awareness on
• harms of plastic waste and thus need to avoid it,
• segregating waste,
• avoid hazardous products and increasing use of 'upcycle' able products,
• importance of spreading awareness on sustainability.

Nov 2017 – Aug 2018 · 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Spearheaded the partnership between IIT-B and the State Government of Maharashtra (2nd largest in India) for a technical skill development project targeting 7 million unprivileged youth, receiving an in-principle grant of USD 14K for the pilot project.
• Drafted a feasibility study and change management strategy for utilizing open-source operating systems in government estimating an annual revenue savings of up to USD 800K.

Aug 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs

• Zer0 is an AI Advertisement Campaign Planning Software Application. The software recommends tailored and optimized advertising campaigns for large size companies. The product manages $2+ Billion worth of marketing campaigns annually.
• The unique business model allows the software to analyze 45K+ Indian citizen’s media engagement data through a combination of a primary source of surveys, and third party services collaboration (free of cost). Providing an opportunity of utilizing Machine Learning and AI in predicting media behavior trends.
• Validated the need in the USA and Global market by interviewing Head of Marketing in large size companies for e.g. Cognizant.
• In charge of requirements gathering, feature prioritization, customer relations, marketing, and negotiations. Closed the deal with the second-largest state government of India i.e. Maharashtra (120M citizens) as the first paying customer.
• Directed the software development life cycle utilizing Agile and a Lean i.e. Scrum + Kanban Methodologies launching the software product in 6 months.

Aug 2016 – Jul 2017 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Maharashtra is India's second-most largest state (120 million citizens). Mumbai, its capital city, is often referred to as India’s commercial, financial and entertainment capital.
• Chief Minister's Fellowship is a highly prestigious and competitive fellowship for youth to bring a change in the government. I was one of the 50 candidates selected out of an average pool of 10,000.
• Conceptualized and presented India’s 1st ‘Online-Lottery’ that would increase State Lottery Departments’ revenue up to 650% in 1 year. Drafted the detailed project report including architecture and underlying technologies.
• Prioritized features of web-app ‘Police Expenditure Analytics Dashboard’ reducing the decision time by 90% and saving $20K each year. Mentored development team of 5 software engineers to develop and launch it in 3 months.
• Redesigned the UI/UX and business process of Government’s Grievance redressal platform reducing the ticket bottleneck by 60% and achieving increased user interaction by 1500% in 9 months.
• Revamped the Standard Operating Procedure for updating GoM website optimizing Turnaround time by 1000% (1 week -> 1 day).
• Created Standard Operating Procedure for Communication Plan and Media Strategy to reduce turn around time of processes by 30% and 85% respectively.
• Championed digital literacy by initiating online and offline competitions with a reach of 1 million citizens.

Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 · 11 mos · Mumbai

• Designed and developed software solutions applying design thinking to problems.