Sep 2024 – Mar 2025 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Member of the 1st India cohort of South Park Commons. Exploring few ideas from -1 to 0 at South Park Commons.
• I’m looking to collaborate with motivated interns/engineers proficient in iPhone app development or expert UI engineers who can quickly prototype iPad applications. Reach out if you want hands-on experience building innovative products!

Jun 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Responsible for all things tech at udaan - Product, Engineering, data science, design and IT infrastructure

Jun 2021 – May 2022 · 11 mos

• Partnering in the mission to empower India's small business owners, building cloud infrastructure for commerce in India.
• > Hiring Product Leaders, Architects, Designers, Data Scientists

Oct 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Remote online inner health assessment, Ayurveda way using selfie analysis. Custom built supplements, single pill with herbs uniquely suitable to individuals health

Dec 2017 – Aug 2018 · 8 mos · Vietnam

• Helped build the vision and initial product and technology roadmap for the consumer platform, giving borrowers greater control and leverage of their credit scores online using mobile devices. Setup development centers in Bangalore and Pune (hiring and acquisition of senior leadership)
• Trusting social delivers financial inclusion through its intelligent credit scoring platform. We apply our algorithms to petabytes of data to identify credit worthiness of individuals, this while protecting their privacy through encrypted and anonymised data exchange on our platform.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• HooLiv (premium shared living, https://hooliv.com)
• Biryani by Kilo (organic dum cooking, https://biryanibykilo.com)
• Galaxeye (future of earth observation, https://galaxeye.space)
• Vibecity (artisan marketplace, https://www.vibecity.com/)
• Wetrade (crypto with best rewards, https://www.wetrade.app)
• Neuu (Automated Micro Stores, https://neuu.in/)
• Upwardly (Design a Better Life, http://www.upwardly.in)
• Docwise (Health conversations made easy, https://www.kyroshealth.com/)
• StayAbode (Eat, stay, love, http://stayabode.com/)
• Rupeek (Online Gold Loans at your doorstep, https://rupeek.com/)
• Makkajai (Math Learning made Fun, http://www.makkajai.com/)
• Twigly (Delivering Global cuisines to your doorstep, https://www.twigly.in/)
• AyurvedaExperience (All things Ayurveda, https://www.theayurvedaexperience.com/)
• Evibe Technologies (A platform for event and party planning, http://Evibe.in)
• Your D.O.S.T (A platform to access support for emotional well being, https://yourdost.com/)
• Turnaround Systems Pvt Ltd (Image technology solutions for ecommerce, http://goturnaround.com/)
• Jiyo Natural Pvt Ltd (Healthy food, homestyle, calorie monitored and nutritionally balanced food)

Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 · 6 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Strategy, big data, machine learning, information retrieval, organisation strategy and design
• Some notable engagements
• BIMA: Prepaid micro-insurance for bottom of the pyramid. Helping with Technology strategy, ORG design and CTO hiring.
• HyperTrack: Help with architecture review and recommendation.
• Diduce: Search for email. Helping with overall product roadmap and ORG design/strategy
• Jabong: India's leading online fashion retailer. Help in design and setup of Bangalore R&D Labs

Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

• Data Platform
• > Scalable infrastructure for storing/ingesting data and building data applications
• > Machine Learning Platform
• > Hiring Senior Engineers (Architects, SDE3) and Engineering Leaders (Director, Engineering Managers)
• Relevance Platform
• > Bootstrapping the relevance function in Flipkart
• > Bootstrapped product recommendations and visually similar products.
• > Semantic Product Search Engine
• > Promotions Engine, Santa (deals, offers and merchandising)
• Marketing Platform
• > Automating digital marketing, integrations between internal events and external stack (Google, FB, etc)
• > Automated targeting engine for email and other push campaigns
• > Notifications platform (scalable and relevant push notifications on site, email and apps)
• Website Engineering
• > Frontend and backend including the core platforms (MVC, caching, session, notifications...)
• > Scaling to match up with exponential growth in traffic, build out a systems ORG
• > Automating the category launches, enabling self serve for business
• > Bootstrapped the User insight engine (user identity and insights aimed at targeting and personalisation for various channels)

Oct 2008 – Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Responsible for set-up and operation of Offshore Development Center (ODC) in Pune, India. Guide and drive the development and QA of software development efforts in the India Development Center. Also build and drive a highly productive data management team that delivers high quality data.
• Retrevo Inc is building innovating consumer electronic search engine, with a goal to make buying CE an informative and fun experience.

Jun 2005 – Aug 2008 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Mountain View, California

• Director of Engineering (Jun 2007 - Aug 2008)
• > Architect and lead the development of next generation of search, publish and share platform
• > Lead a multidisciplinary engineering and product team to build a local search product
• > Dabbled with large scale distributed systems, machine learning and information retrieval algorithms
• Technical Lead (Jun 2006 - May 2007)
• > Architecting and coordinating search frontend system (4B documents)
• > Cool ranking and classification algorithms, dealing with large data sets.
• > Wrote the first version of Kosmix Categorisation Engine
• Member of Technical Staff (Jun 2005 - May 2006)
• > Near Duplicate detection at webscale
• > Query Processing Engine written in C++
• > Categorized search - ranking algorithms, query lemmatization, etc.
• > Performance Optimization - scheduling, scaling, latency tuning

Aug 2003 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Worked in the Database Technology Group.