Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

Jun 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 mo

• Participated in the Founder Fellowship in Cohort 4.

Jan 2022 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Singapore, San Francisco

• I started this lab to explore the future of AI and product development. We tested a bunch of product directions with real customers, learned a ton, and one kept showing promise. Eventually we spun it out as its own company: onBeacon.

Jan 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Singapore

• Building a platform for micro-mobility services and electric vehicles grown to 20+ cities worldwide. Responsible for product for riders, operators and cities and built a team of 9 product managers and designers.

Apr 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore, New York

• Building an AI-driven recruiter inside WhatsApp. Responsibilities include product vision and direction, fundraising and GTM for customers.
• Backed by Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures.

Aug 2015 – May 2016 · 9 mos · Manhattan, New York

• Launched an AI-driven concierge service for food delivery and travel on SMS/messaging servicing over a million users. Responsible for user app, NLP/ML features and conversational UX.

Jan 2013 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Launched a smartwatch for a community of 100K users for fitness. Responsible for product design and strategy and building the product and design team.
• Acquired by Fossil, IP acquired by Google in 2019.

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 5 mos

• Product strategy and design advisor to several startups across Wavemaker Impact Fund, OnDeck, Google Startup Accelerator, INSEAD and Antler.

May 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for integrating Siri with Apple iOS, Apple Maps & iPhone hardware and supporting speech recognition and server engineering teams.
• Launched Siri on the iPhone 4S.

May 2008 – May 2010 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for integrating NLP and speech recognition technology across 12 verticals including Movies, Reservations, Restaurants, Events and Local Businesses. Managed the native app engineering team and helped drive data & API integrations, personalization features and conversational UX.
• Acquired by Apple.

Aug 2004 – Mar 2008 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for Google Desktop, Google Widgets, AdSense and AdWords for small businesses. Co-Founder of the Google Trusted Tester program, a tool that became the standard for user feedback and usability testing across Google's consumer products.
• Co-recipient of Google Founder's Award for Google Desktop.
• Listed as inventor of patent for increasing mobile ads quality.

Sep 2003 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Product co-founder for Bookbox, a low cost educational service to address literacy by integrating Same Language Subtitling in Bollywood music videos.
• Winner of the Stanford BASES Entrepreneurship award in 2004 and the South Asian Manthan Awards in 2005.