Jun 2024 – Jan 2025 · 7 mos

• Consulting consumer internet startups in travel, D2C and fintech domain on 0-1, 10-1000 product and growth charters

Mar 2024 – May 2024 · 2 mos

• Took some time off to travel and spend time with family

Jul 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading the product, design and SEO functions for Mosaic Wellness. Mosaic Wellness is on the mission to enable digitally native health platforms which will assist users in the journey of elective health.
• Launched and scaled react native based android and ios apps and react based web platforms for manmatters.com (3M+ MAU), bebodywise.com (2M+ MAU) and ourlittlejoys.com (1M+ MAU)
• Optimized platform checkout experience by leveraging address pre-fill, reducing RTO risk, driving payment affordability and personalizing the checkout flows
• Scaled a diagnosis led personalized health journey experience across mobileweb, android and ios platforms for manmatters.com, bebodywise.com and ourlittlejoys.com
• Led teams on various 0-1 pilot ideas as well as scaled products

Oct 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Launched India's first ever app based BNPL program for blue collar workforce
• Scaled the product to over 250K active user base in 3 months
• Enabled first in industry products relevant for the segment - UPI autopay, scan & pay over credit line, voice audio and language support on every screen and more
• Launched and scaled Financial Literacy and Awareness products like PF Balance Check, Credit Bureau Report, Bank Balance Check, Gamified Fin Quizzes and more
• Piloted a full fledged Neo Banking product for blue collar workforce

Jun 2020 – Oct 2020 · 4 mos

• Scaling up rPool, the intracity and intercity carpool offering from redBus

Jul 2015 – Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Business & Product Head for Hotels, Activities & Holidays
• Launched redBus Hotels, Activities & Holidays on desktop, progressive mobile web app, Android and iOS apps of redBus
• Scaled up redBus hotels business by 25X in 3 years
• Launched red:Hotels, a unique offering for bus travelers, that provides guaranteed early checkin with clean rooms near to bus pick up / drop points
• Launched MVPs and evaluated new growth categories like weekend getaways, bus + hotels
• Rich experience in cross-selling, retention campaigns, growth hacking and digital marketing strategies
• Expertise in driving cross-functional projects and ensuring feature completion by targeted timelines
• Other Initiatives
• Launched a redBus Chatbot on WhatsApp that resolved various user queries automatically by fetching contextual information realtime
• Launched Food, Darshan, Self Driver Bikes, Sightseeing and Insurance Addons, that can be bought along with bus tickets
• Launched redBus.com portal enabling travellers to book bus tickets from all countries

Nov 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Conceptualize, design and build next-gen graphic and visualization experience on Microsoft Office experiences on Android
• Product owner for widely used MS-Office features like Pictures, SmartArts, Equations and Ink on Android Office apps
• Prepared product requirements, assisted in prototyping and UX, identified acceptance criteria and built roadmap for various visualization features
• Constantly striving to deliver the project which is highly cross-functional and time-bound

May 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

• Product owner for Recommendations, Personalization, User Generated Content and other Website Engage features
• Developed product vision and roadmap for key areas of website
• Prepared product requirements, roadmap and acceptance criteria for various website features
• Achieved over 50% jump in order contribution from recommendations
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams and worked on horizontal business initiatives

Apr 2011 – May 2011 · 1 mo · Hong Kong

• Responsibilities
• Studied the arbitrage opportunities available in warrants, depository receipts and equities across asian exchanges
• Developed a model to identify ‘Arbitrage Opportunities in Fungible Equities’
• Attended the Annual Asia-Pac Hedge Fund Conference
• Prepared a report on Short selling rules of Asian Stock Exchanges;
• Achievements
• Received Pre-Placement Interview offer based on internship performance
• Awarded the Highest rating – AAA during performance appraisal
• Initiated Asian daily stock coverage report and short selling report for team

Jul 2007 – May 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Responsibilities
• Led a team of 7 to perform sanity testing for a network design tool; Identified 22% of product defects
• Improved the testing efficiency by 200% by designing test automation framework for the product
• Worked independently on developing product’s reports & user interface; Contributed to 25% of its value
• Achievements
• PRE-PLACEMENT OFFER based on performance during internship
• 400% reduction in test execution time by developing a test automation tool at Cisco Systems
• CISCO ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Among Top 9%, awarded for developing product’s user interface
• Automated the code commit process improving operational efficiency by 20 fold
• Cisco Spark: Awarded twice for improving process efficiency & shouldering additional responsibilities
• Initiatives
• Mentored new recruits and conducted training sessions for different teams
• Established an interface between client & design team for support; handled over 65% of client cases