May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

• An Ex-Founder & a Full-Stack Product Manager (Design, Product & Marketing) I'm having 10 years of work experience in designing, architecting, building and scaling products (multi-million user mark) across various domains like Marketplaces, Social, HR, Gaming/ Gambling, Research, E-commerce, and Analytics.
• I can help you with -
• Product Platformization
• Product NFX (Network Effects) & Gamification
• Product Strategy
• GTM Strategy
• Portfolio Review
• Pitch Decks

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

• An Ex-Founder & a Full-Stack Product Manager (Design, Product & Marketing) I'm having 10 years of work experience in designing, architecting, building and scaling products (multi-million user mark) across various domains like Marketplaces, Social, HR, Gaming/ Gambling, Research, E-commerce, and Analytics.
• I can help you with -
• Product Platformization
• Product NFX (Network Effects) & Gamification
• Product Strategy
• GTM Strategy
• Portfolio Review
• Pitch Decks

Oct 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · India

• Product Stage – 0-1 | Impact Driven – designed, architected & delivered an AI-driven analytics platform for real-estate developers. Onboarded 10 beta users (builder entities) in the first two months
• Localytics is an AI-driven Predictive Analytics-cum-Design Platform for the Real Estate Industry, helping Land Owners & Builders with crucial hyperlocal data for their existing & upcoming property development where I led product, design, architecture & engineering delivery
• Successfully mapped 14 cities’ data across 20 core categories related to property development and purchase on a spatial layer, and shipped the beta version
• Onboarded 10 beta users (builder entities) in the first two months of launch for early user feedback

Aug 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Product Stage – 0-1 | Impact Driven – delivered 30 successful sprints, improved dev efficiency by
• 40%, modularized product architecture & engineering tech stacks improving TTM by 25%
• Buddybet, a Social Betting Product, is operational across 3 continents, and 25 regulated markets
• globally in a short span of 12 months, with a total transacted value of ~$3Mn (GMV)
• Leading a 25-member Product Engineering Team across IRIS, React JS, .NET & Flutter tech stacks
• alongside QA engineers
• Architecting technical solutions for social + betting user experience and driving all teams toward final
• delivery across 0-1, 1-10
• Conducting Network-Effect-led Product Marketing, Organizational & SDLC-Agile Processes, Developer
• Experience (DX), and Recruitment & Talent Grooming, thus, increasing overall developer productivity
• by 40%

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos

• Product Stage – 0-1-10 | Impact Driven – increased user adoption of Typeset by 30% in first six months,
• drove B2B product-led growth at 20% YoY reaching $400k ARR & led 0-1 user acquisition of first 20k B2C
• users for SciSpace with avg. 7mins/ day engagement time for a 30-day cycle
• SciSpace, one of the world’s largest hosted libraries with 270Mn+ Research Papers and 180Mn+
• Authors, where its core typesetting product - Typeset, has been widely used by 1Mn+ Research
• Authors & Nobel Laureates globally
• Spearheaded growth across the company by working hands-on with the Design, Product, and
• Marketing Teams & launched SciSpace (v1) – aiming to be the LinkedIn for Researchers; redesigned
• the Ops Processes across each department for things to scale pretty fast
• Architected a robust social platform from the ground up, integrating Network Effects (NFX) &
• Gamification elements; achieved 50% growth in user interactions & a 25% boost in MAUs post-launch

Apr 2020 – Aug 2020 · 4 mos

• Product Stage – 0-1 | Impact Driven – formed niche local community of 5000 monthly active users, scaled to avg. 1.5 orders/ user/ week in 3 months duration
• We designed, built & deployed whole product (ca. April 2020) when Lockdown 1.0 begun in India
• which used advanced BLE Technology where we’re able to detect the COVID-19 Positive Patients we’d
• have encountered in our vicinity when we (as users) went shopping daily essential utilities
• Users could book the daily slots for essentials like veggies, milk and even medicines from nearby
• shops & medicals and were having the option of cancelling/ getting notified if some of the items were
• unavailable at specific kirana store which they’d then order from other nearby stores
• We delivered the whole product on Play Store in just 15 days; had to refine and launch again as
• Contact Tracing Apps were not allowed by Govt. of India (or any world governments)

Feb 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Product Stage – 0-1 | Impact Driven – scaled to 90k users (30k MAUs, 45% D30 retention), enabled $300k worth of collabs, onboarded 40 exclusive indie artists to sell content, avg. CAC of INR 8/ user
• It was World's 1st Audio-centric Social Collaboration App Designed to Simplify Earnings where our
• whole vision rested on three key things - Talent, Trust and Credibility - around which we were building
• a Social Ecosystem so as to create a better market dynamic for communities
• Engineered a highly available (<1.5s TTL) social network capable of handling up to 100k concurrent
• users where the messaging system alone benchmarked <1s response time (near real-time)
• Led Cross-Functional Teams of Product Engineering (Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Testing), Design (UIUX, Graphics, Video), Marketing (Content, Copywriting, ASO/SEO, Paid Ads), Sales (Business
• Development, Partnerships) & Hiring (Superstar Teams across roles) where my forte has been
• approximately at everything mentioned herein
• Led full-fledged Product, Marketing & Company Pipeline (weekly, monthly, quarterly cycles), and have
• overachieved the said goals by pushing the limits of Product Engineering (w/ limited resources) and
• Marketing (by bringing super-loyal users w/ minimal CAC)

Apr 2018 – Nov 2018 · 7 mos

• Built full-fledged marketing strategies and business development plan for a Fire Extinguisher Manufacturer in Pune
• Facilitated Sales to Govt Departments (tenders and open orders) and few notable private sector orders to the tune of INR 2.5Mn

Jun 2017 – Mar 2018 · 9 mos

• Setup Pune City's GST Business Ops single-handedly
• Self-taught New GST Laws & helped CAs, Accountants & SMBs with GST Filing Services
• Started 'acntng.' - Accounting Startup focused on helping SMBs at scale
• Earned business connections and gained fair working knowledge of Taxation, Accounting and Laws in India

Oct 2016 – Apr 2017 · 6 mos

• Product Stage – 0-1 | Impact Driven – scaled to 1100 registered users, 2.5k downloads
• k.nect was a private social networking app based on warm 1st- and 2nd-level intros.
• It was my first stint at software where I’d built a prototype of a Private Social Network where we
• could leverage 1st level connect of our immediate circle
• Later shut it down as I didn’t have the bandwidth to continue on the marketing/ scaling of it

Apr 2016 – Aug 2016 · 4 mos

• Co-developed a very critical part for a Timer-Bomb for a Major Defense Mfg Co. in India
• Another one for a Poultry Farming Co. which gave them an edge in the said market

Oct 2015 – May 2016 · 7 mos

• Given my background into Physics, my love for Electromagnetism as a force and booming global trends due to Tesla Motors, I designed the whole EV (Motorbike)
• Also dived into Battery Mfg vertical but due to Industry's Lack of Innovation apart from PM-based Motors and Li-ion based Batteries, I'd to struggle a lot finding a way out for Solid-State Batteries made locally to keep full control over the ecosystem
• In the end, I might have found a viable solution where EVs will be running without Li-ion Batteries/ PM-based Motors but I've been holding that due to the reluctance of the Industry to embrace something new.

Apr 2014 – Sep 2014 · 5 mos

• Changing market dynamics led me to offer an unsolicited project to one of India's Largest FMCG Giant built on one of the most innovative product-based ecosystem driving their Sales to INR 10Bn in 12-18months' time
• The whole ecosystem - Product (Patentable) & GTM (Ecosytem-based) was set & would have been possible if they'd have provided me the access to the resources but they deemed it critical (read - impossible) to develop and ended up loosing the opportunity to only see it somewhere (similarly) taken by a competitor 4-5yrs later in their product offerings.

Nov 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Interned/ Freelanced for side gigs
• Did a short stint for a Biofuel Machine Company which could convert any kind of waste (dry & wet) into Methane Gas, Aviation Fuel & Coal; had hands-on with the overall work assistance.

Sep 2012 – Feb 2019 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Pune Area, India

• Grew the overall business vertical at 15% CAGR for 3yrs consistently
• Learned Product Designing & Development for Automotive & Defense Industry Clients
• Handled a team of 15 key people and multiple vendors across verticals
• Learned how 'business' works and how unstructured, lengthy and unstable are the relations and business deals generally.