Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• 💡 Launched a mass-market white-label app studio empowering influencers and content creators to monetize, engage, and reward their followers through personalized mobile apps.
• 🧩 Purpose & Vision
• ✔ Helped creators own their digital presence and build direct, monetizable relationships with their audience.
• ✔ Offered branded apps with built-in features for content delivery, community, rewards, and analytics.
• ★ Key Achievements
• ✔ Zero-cost beta launch reached ~1.5M users & 10+ followers.
• ✔ Identify and led the end-to-end partner cycle: Demo → PoC → RFX → Activation
• ✔ Integrated with the Google ecosystem to enhance UX, performance, and analytics.
• ✔ Positioned the product as a scalable plug-and-play solution for the influencer economy.

Dec 2013 – Jan 2020 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• 💡 Core Concept
• Technology partner to early-stage startups, delivering end-to-end product strategy, engineering, and software development — from idea to scale.
• 🏆 As CEO & Achievements
• ✔ Defined and executed business strategies across revenue, capital, branding, and delivery.
• ✔ Bridged visionaries (business) and executors (tech) to turn strategic ideas into scalable solutions.
• ✔ Built and scaled domain-relevant, high-performing teams; set up delivery center in Bangalore.
• ✔ ​Partnered with 15+ startups and led 25+ product launches across US, India and Australia.
• ✔ Achieved 8× Revenue Per Employee (RPE) with 80%+ gross margins.
• ✔ Reduced costs by up to 80% through lean teams and optimized tech stack.
• ✔ Led Apogaeis to a potential acqui-hire opportunity by TESCO.
• ✔ ​Clients included Agile3Solutions (acquired by IBM), eLynx (acquired by Black Knight Financial Services), Waypedia (USD10M+), Kearney.
• ✔ ​A client, Uento, acquired 4M+ users globally. Zero paid marketing.
• ★ As Fractional CPO
• ✔ Owned the Product Lifecycle:
• Idea → Feasibility → Definition → Design → Validation → GTM → MVP → PMF → Scale.
• ✔ Translated leadership vision into actionable product strategies centered on end-user value.
• ✔ Made data-informed decisions that aligned product development with go-to-market success.
• ✔ Engaged closely with customers and stakeholders to shape roadmaps & achieve Product-Market Fit.
• ★ As Fractional CTO
• ✔ Advisor to founders, CXOs, and startup teams on tech strategy & execution.
• ✔ Owned the Project Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC):
• Vision → Strategy → Solution → Architecture → Implementation → QA → Deployment → Security → Scale
• ✔ Engineered scalable, secure, and resilient platforms, both vertically and horizontally.
• ✔ Modernized legacy systems and delivered tailored enterprise, web, and mobile applications.
• ✔ Built custom frameworks with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and security.
• ✔ Led product benchmarking and strategic execution for long-term scalability & safety.

Apr 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• The Home Depot (RedPrairie): Warehouse Management
• IBS (International Business Systems) Enterprise Mobility: Supply Chain System
• IBS (International Business Systems) Integrator: Integrate, Package & License
• ✔ ​Migrated legacy Supply Chain System (IBM i) to cloud-based mobile & web solutions.
• ✔ First team member to start solutioning, create architecture and development.

Feb 2011 – Mar 2011 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ✔ FinLytics Built on massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture.
• ✔ ​Drove Java certification initiative — enabled 8 engineers to achieve SCJP and 2 to earn SCWCD.
• ✔ Gained Banking and Financial domain expertise by actively participating in programs.

Mar 2007 – Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Global leader in financial data aggregation & analytics, serving 1,000+ companies including 12 of the top 20 US banks.
• 🏆 Key Achievements
• ✔ Top Performer (2009) and 2nd Top Performer (2008).
• ✔ 10+ peer awards for proactively helping and solving critical issues.
• ✔ Independently built FTAuto, cutting ACH return processing from 3-shift manual work to instant, 24/7 zero-error automation.
• ★ Key Contributions & Products
• ✔ DirectPay – One-click card-based bill payments (single, recurring, auto-pay) with instant account verification.
• ✔ FTAuto – Automated ACH return processing (CD, NOCs, etc.).
• ✔ Personal Finance Management – Bill Direct (PFM-BD) – Unified view of loans, credit cards, bank accounts, investments, utility etc.; expense tracking, cash-flow management, instant payments, notification etc.
• ✔ Bill Pay Account Accelerator (BPAA) – One-click payee & payment switching across banks with verification, import, and deletion features.