Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Mumbai · On-site

Sep 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

Mar 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• CSF is a Gates Foundation and Google.org funded philanthropy focused on improving education in India.
• At CSF, as a Founding Member of India’s first digital National Teacher Platform (DIKSHA), I led its strategy and execution in a team of 7 in partnership with the Government of India. DIKSHA aims to digitally transform professional development and classroom delivery of ~9M teachers in India by 2020.
• My work entailed liaising with diverse stakeholders, including senior bureaucrats and politicians, funders like Google.org, content providers and technology-teams, to drive approval and deployments of national budgets ($20M+/year), content creation and large-scale adoption of DIKSHA.
• This led to the introduction of QR codes for linking digital content in ~200M textbooks across 5 states, garnering 20M+ scans in 3 months. These QR coded textbooks will be launched in 15 states by 2019

Jul 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Opera is a global big-data focused strategy consulting firm, with presence across North America, Europe, and Asia.
• I led Opera’s entry into Media & Entertainment industry by delivering big data strategies for key clients, and also developed business strategies for Opera’s expansion into agriculture and sports industries.
• Key achievements:
• Developed an analytics-driven movie-scheduling solution with a team of 10 for a $1.2B cinema chain in Europe, and was awarded the Second Best Paper in Opera’s Technical and Analytical Conference, San Diego, US on the solution
• Drove adoption of the solution, navigating resistance by film buyers and client leadership as the sole on-site member, resulting in a turnaround of the solution
• Won Opera’s Global Innovation Competition 2016 for developing strategies for entry into agriculture and sports sector

May 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Developed analytics-driven demand forecasting and business development solutions with firm leadership, for Media & Entertainment, Retail and Airline clients, leading to 3 projects generating $8M in revenue.
• Led a team of 7 to strategize a 2-year recruitment plan and student counseling program to hire ~50 employees from premier Indian universities.

Jun 2013 – May 2014 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As a member of the Pricing Automation and Analytics team, created enhanced services for competitor-based pricing strategies, including the design of image-character reading methodology and migration of pricing data on Amazon cloud. Improved competitive pricing for Amazon, covering 100+ competitors and 50M+ SKUs.
• Collaborated with Hiring Team for recruitment planning and execution across IITs.

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Bangalore

• Interned with the Pricing Automation and Analytics team, and received a pre-placement offer for a full-time role.

Apr 2011 – Aug 2011 · 4 mos · Linkoping, Sweden

• Conducted research on the development of open-source platforms for business analytics, simulation and modeling as part of Programming Environment Laboratory, Linköping University under Prof. Peter Fritzson