Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

• India's largest fintech platform for distribution of Personal Finance Products. Making credit card lifestyle accessible.

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Mar 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos · India · Hybrid

• Scaled an EdTech company from concept to 2 global products, Practically and Wriety, achieving 50K+ users, 32% organic Q1 growth, and full P&L ownership across a peak workforce of 350 in 3 countries.
• Increased annual revenue from $500K to $2M in a single year (300% growth) with a 48% profit margin by expanding B2B and B2C sales channels and building a 150-person sales team that delivered $3.5M ARR, a 42% close rate, and a 67% shorter sales cycle.
• Raised $15M in venture capital from 85+ investor pitches with a 12% conversion rate, securing founder-friendly terms and valuation multiples while also securing 2 Indian patents valued at $2.2M in IP.
• Launched a GenAI-powered whiteboarding tool aimed at improving productivity and collaboration, with the Interactive Flat Panel Display (IFPD) market as the initial use case.
• Successfully onboarded 17 customers including brands, OEMs, and distributors within the first 10 months of launch.
• Implemented AI-driven learning features, improving student concept retention by 85%, while navigating COVID-19 disruptions with a 14-day pivot to virtual delivery and growing users by 63% during lockdown.
• Sustained business continuity during BYJU’s market collapse by diversifying revenue and executing a 30% cost optimization strategy without layoffs.
• Led cloud-based infrastructure migration from AWS to Microsoft Azure, resulting in a 20% drop in infrastructure costs.

Apr 2014 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater St. Louis · On-site

• Directed a 38-member offshore engineering team, achieving a 92% retention rate and boosting productivity by 27% through streamlined collaboration between onshore and offshore teams.
• Hired and onboarded over 45 technical professionals, reaching a 95% retention rate at 6 months by collaborating with HR on scalable talent acquisition strategies.
• Played a pivotal role in a 5-person leadership team that ideated and launched the ACT platform, driving $12M in new business during its first year.
• Oversaw a $4M innovation portfolio across 7 concurrent high-impact projects, delivering 100% on-time completion by aligning cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders.
• Delivered $1.4M in cost savings by optimizing offshore development workflows and negotiating improved vendor terms through rigorous performance and contract analysis.
• Led technical diligence for 25+ healthcare IT companies, resulting in 4 high-value platform integrations that unlocked $3.2M in new recurring revenue.
• Reduced enterprise licensing expenses by 22% through effective negotiations with SaaS vendors including Auth0, SauceLabs, and Blazemeter.
• Served as a key advisor to the executive team, developing strategic innovation plans, evaluating delivery models, and executing roadmap milestones aligned with long-term organizational impact.

Jan 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater St. Louis · On-site

• Partnered with the CTO to lead strategic planning and execution for a 350+ employee technology division with a $42M annual budget, overseeing multi-domain initiatives and organizational structure design.
• Led 40-person global QA team across 3 locations, enhancing product quality by 35% through process improvements and end-to-end quality governance.
• Created and managed the full lifecycle of prototype development for high-impact innovation projects, including telemedicine integrations with MD Live and Teladoc that generated $1.8M in first-year revenue.
• Drove the adoption of Agile practices across engineering teams and improving cross-functional collaboration.
• Developed scalable technology team frameworks and transitioned new teams to director-level leadership, aligning structure with long-term growth and innovation strategy.

Apr 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 10 mos · India · Hybrid

• Spearheaded the launch of an interactive, AI-powered learning platform designed to streamline test preparation and academic performance tracking for students, parents, and institutions, securing 20K+ users and $7M in contracted revenue via institutional partnerships.
• Secured $500K in early-stage funding from High-Net-Worth Individuals, preserving 70% ownership to ensure strategic and operational control.
• Rapidly expanded the company workforce from 3 to 32 team members within one year, building specialized departments across engineering (16), content creation (6), sales (5), and operations (5) to support platform development and scalability.
• Engineered a unique adaptive learning engine that personalized user pathways and led to a measurable 27% increase in student test performance across multiple difficulty tiers.
• Developed sales funnel and Go-To-Market strategy to grow revenue from zero to $600k making the company self-sustainable.
• Designed and launched a highly rated Android application, achieving over 15K downloads and a 4.6/5 average rating, providing mobile access to educational tools and features.
• Drove a 42% decrease in user acquisition expenses through refined digital marketing tactics and analytics-driven campaign adjustments.
• Led cloud-based infrastructure migration to an AWS-hosted LAMP stack, resulting in a 28% drop in backend costs while tripling user capacity with no compromise on speed or uptime.

Aug 2011 – Dec 2011 · 4 mos · Champaign, IL

Aug 2011 – Sep 2011 · 1 mo · Champaign, IL

May 2011 – Aug 2011 · 3 mos · Urbana, Illinois

• Formulated and presented a strategic business proposal to the senior leadership to provide emergency medicine services to a critical access hospital which had an increased revenue potential of $1.7 million
• Spearheaded an audit to validate an image transfer technology setup connecting regional hospitals with Carle; Identified key issues and provided recommendations to reduce cost and radiation exposure by 8%
• Conceptualized and implemented a standardized protocol for business partnerships with regional hospitals reducing manual dependency by 100%; Developed all templates for affiliation/integration building process
• Identified opportunities to improve the scheduling process for radiology outpatients which reduced operating cost to the organization and lowered wait time for customers by 3 days

Jan 2011 – Dec 2011 · 11 mos

• Manage short-term, part-time consulting projects related to marketing, business planning/operations, and strategic planning
• Improved the process flow and overall efficiency of the shipping process for EnvirOx.

Aug 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr · Champaign, IL

Aug 2007 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Managed a team of 20 employees, coordinating fundraising, education and healthcare initiatives
• Led a team of 8 members and coordinated an effort to raise funds through a Greeting Card Drive for Gerizim Rehabilitation Trust which made it a self-sustainable organization with perennial revenues
• Promoted education by organizing a notebook drive across 52 villages in southern India
• Raised funds to build a water filtration system to provide safe drinking water to 500 children in a Sri Lankan refugee camp
• Communicated with the local authority to allow the installation of a bio-gas plant in Geetha Ashram which is home to more than 300 orphans

Jul 2007 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos · On-site

• Engineered shell scripts that enhanced mobile handset codebase efficiency by 30%, positively impacting performance across 8M+ devices worldwide.
• Led e2e interoperability browser testing for Samsung mobile handset R560 in client network area (Dallas, Texas) for 4 regional customers including Alltel Wireless, Metro by T-Mobile (formerly known as MetroPCS), Cricket Wireless, and US Cellular.
• Led a 6-member cross functional team to successfully deliver all development and testing milestones for the Samsung R100 browser application on schedule, ensuring timely product launch.
• Designed and implemented an Openwave dual browser solution, achieving a 22% reduction in memory usage on low-resource devices.
• Developed a Threaded Messaging Application deployed on 8 Samsung handset models, reaching over 25M global users and earning recognition for high-impact technical innovation.

Jun 2007 – Present · 18 yrs 11 mos

• Advise on all areas of business including marketing, business development, business operations, outreach and corporate social responsibility.