Sep 2025 – Oct 2025 · 1 mo · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Intentionally took time to zoom out, reset, and reconnect with what matters.
• → Vipassana — Completed a 10-day silent meditation retreat (3–15 Sep). Genuinely the best 10 days of the last 10 years. Came back sharper.
• → Community & Ecosystem: Helped one of the world's biggest tech companies host their first-ever partner roadshow in Kolkata. 250+ registrations, end-to-end support.
• → Startup Ecosystem: Supporting a private business school's incubation center in Eastern India to launchtheir first cohort — helping connect founders, mentors, investors, and resources.
• → Learning: Reading, yoga, podcasts. Investing in the things that make me a better thinker and a better person.
• → Conversations: Talking to a lot of interesting people about what they're building. Feeding my curiosity!

Mar 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kolkata · Hybrid

• Worked directly with the Co-Founder and CMO to make West Bengal from below of the list to the company's 3rd largest market with ~11% revenue contribution — through ecosystem building, partnerships, and community activations.
• → Ecosystem & Partnerships: Built and managed 15+ strategic partnerships — Zoho, NITI Aayog, Meta, Truecaller, IDFC First Bank, ONDC, eChai, TEC, CETA, and others. Represented the brand at startup events from local meetups to TiE Global to government offices.
• → Community & Events: Designed and executed 10+ online and offline events nationally — focused on learning and knowledge-sharing for business owners — engaging 1,500+ professionals.
• → Bengal Startup Ecosystem: Actively worked to bring tech, community, and investment to West Bengal's growing startup scene — connecting founders, partners, and institutions across the region.
• → Content & Brand: Created Dhandhe Ka Funda — an original educational reel series on Instagram. 20+ reels produced independently, covering product features and market trends. Grew LinkedIn 4x (600→2,400) and YouTube 3.75x (800→3,000) organically.
• → Offline Marketing & Special Projects: Conducted market drives across key geographies with relevant stakeholders to build brand awareness and drive on-ground adoption.
• → ORM & Operations: Built Online Reputation Management SOPs from scratch across 6 platforms — Play Store, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and GMB.
• → Product & Presales: Ran product demos for prospective customers and direct referrals. Collaborated with MyOperator team for larger customer needs — generating ₹5L+ in partnership-led revenue. Supported AI-based Knowledge Management System with the CEO using customer queries and AI tools.

Sep 2022 – Oct 2022 · 1 mo · Singapore · Remote

• 🟡 They were mainly a confession page on LinkedIn for professionals.
• 🟡 I helped them with their content, social media & strategy front.
• 🟡 I have personally written more than 20 copies for their LinkedIn page, for the month of Sept'22. We've grown from 2 to 225 followers within 30 days in a 100% organic manner on LinkedIn.
• 🟡 We were also thinking of building a video-based IP, which will host on YouTube but that didn't happen and eventually, the page stopped.

Nov 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Singapore · Remote

• Joined as the first employee at a Singapore-based content agency— and helped scale it from zero to a recognized podcast and content platform across Southeast Asia.
• → Growth & Client Success: Helped the founder to build and manage a portfolio of 30+ B2B enterprise clients across Southeast Asia — driving growth through relationship-led sales, direct outreach, and strategic partnerships. Supported expansion beyond podcasts into Blogs, Shorts, and Ghostwriting — translating product value into measurable brand outcomes across client accounts.
• → Community, Events & Content: Drove client podcast strategies that consistently achieved Top-10 category rankings across regional charts. Managed community building and online events — creating engagement touchpoints that strengthened brand presence and client retention.
• → 0→1 Founding Experience: Core member of the founding team — owned end-to-end operations including social media, guest management, influencer partnerships, vendor management, and QA. Contributed to positioning, go-to-market strategy, and company building directly alongside the Founder across time zones, in a fully remote high-ambiguity environment.

May 2021 – Oct 2021 · 5 mos · India · Remote

• Joined as the first employee at an early-stage product startup — and did what every first employee does: everything. Strategy, marketing, operations, investor outreach, product research, and customer support — all at once, from day one.
• → Growth & Revenue: In the first 100 days after launch (Aug–Nov 2021), helped generate ₹20,000+ in revenue with zero customer acquisition cost — by resolving 500+ customised customer requests from thousands of product viewers, driving transaction value of several lakhs through the product.
• → Customer Success: Handled ~100 live customer queries simultaneously with an 80% success rate — building early customer trust and retention for a product where 90% of users didn't even need to sign up.
• → Content: Wrote 10 blogs in 3 months covering technology topics — from "Evolution of Mobile" to "Smart TV Buying Guide" — building organic discoverability from scratch.
• → Investor Relations: Supported early-stage investor outreach and relations alongside the founder — getting exposure to fundraising conversations at the very start of my career.

Mar 2021 – May 2021 · 2 mos · India · Hybrid

• → Managed day-to-day operations for the EPC category — supporting 130+ partners daily across operations, problem solving, and demand generation.
• → Onboarded 37 new partners and activated 19 within the internship period.
• → Improved NPS by 28% through deep-diving into customer and partner pain points and solving them systematically.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2021 · 3 mos · West Bengal, India · On-site

• In the first week of their launch, I walked into Good Tea — a neighborhood tea and sandwich café — and saw potential. The relationship evolved naturally, and I came on board to help with marketing strategy and digital presence, purely out of fun.
• → Grew monthly sales from ₹9,000 to ₹20,000 in 3 months — more than 2x growth with zero paid marketing.
• → Helped them open a 2nd shop in a better location — in just the 3rd month of their business.
• Closed in April 2021 when the Covid 3rd wave hit. Bad Luck;(

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Hybrid

• As a professional for 5+ years, communities have been my classroom, my network, and my tribe. Being part of diverse communities has shaped how I think about ecosystem building — and introduced me to some of the most interesting people I know.
• Some communities I'm actively part of:
• > Bengal Entrepreneurs Ecosystem, (BEE), Founders Circle, LinkedIn Local Kolkata, Headstart West Bengal Chapter, Fueler.io, Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog, Startupholic Catalyst, Successbrew, Community Managers India, s11s, A Junior VC, The Indian Bibliotica, Community Cold Coffee Universe, Kinder Bengal, LFS Startup India Community, Rising East, The Ecosystem Community, Chopping Tech Startups, Nerds & Notes, Indian Silicon Valley, mongoDB Kolkata, Awaaz Welness, WeBuidl Yogic Community, What's New Shantanu?, Build to Sell, Connect D'Minds, Nick Vinckier's community, SMEDOST, Eastern India MSME, Merger & Funding, CrazyTok Podcaster Community, GlobalSpin, Founders Office Club, Unwind Ventures, GrowthStart, Friends of Bengal, Meditation and Breathwork, Startup Monk, MIBF, Elite StartUP & Emerging Tech, The D2C Folks, How to Podcast by CrazyTok, First Generation Entrepreneurs Club, BNI Winnerz (Kolkata), Business Heroes, First Generation Entrepreneur Club, Startup Spotlight, Young Entrepreneurs of India (Under 35),
• And a few more :-)

Jan 2020 – Feb 2020 · 1 mo · Bankura, West Bengal, India

• We learned about the working and all about any Thermal Power Station briefly . It was a nice experience being there .We have learned about
• ● Coal handling plant
• ● Boiler
• ● Turbine
• ● Transmission line

Aug 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs · India · Hybrid

• Founded the official Quiz Club of the Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering department at Techno International New Town — and built it from zero into a recognised student-led community with a global footprint. Made it the most active student communities in Eastern India's engineering college circuit, running events through COVID virtually without stopping.
• → Team & Operations: Led a 25-member team spanning question makers, designers, video editors, web developers, social media marketers, event managers, and volunteer coordinators.
• → Community & Reach: Grew to 6,000+ followers from 45 countries on Facebook & LinkedIn — entirely organically.
• → Events & Partnerships — Organised 8 events over 2 years including IITKgp Science & Math Quiz, SciTech 1.0 & 2.0, Mind Rush, and Incendio — in partnership with IIT Kharagpur Quiz Club, ISRO, and Techno India Group.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Kolkata · On-site

• Business 1 @ Class 11 — The Notebook Cover Printing Venture: Friends needed custom front pages for their practical notebooks. I charged ₹15 for color, ₹8 for black & white. Designed everything on my home computer, printed at the neighboring cybercafé for ₹8 and ₹3 respectively. Pocketed the difference. Earned ₹1,500–₹2,000 before final exams shut operations down.
• Business 2 @ Class 12 — The Coin Arbitrage Operation: Bus depots in Kolkata exchanged coins for cash at 10% interest. I saved coins by walking instead of taking autos, collected them for a month, and exchanged them at the depot. Eventually raised "capital" from friends — gave them a Kochuri-Malpoa treat worth ₹15 from the profit (read dividend, kept the rest for myself. Ran this until my Higher Secondary exams.
• First lesson in arbitrage, capital raising, and investor relations, haha ;-)