Jan 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• dubbz was a 2 sided managed marketplace addressing the underserved market of working professionals seeking affordable home-cooked meals by connecting them to local home cooks
• Solo founded and bootstrapped GMV to $20k annualised, followed by raising $250k from Titan Capital & other prominent angels
• Built a team of 8 comprised of engineers, sales & support
• Grew GMV to $150k annualised, acquired 400+ home cooks & 10,000+ customers
• Built unique product features: daily revolving menu, pre-ordering system (key to working with home cooks), flexible subscription plans (accounted for 30% of GMV)
• Shut down in September '23 due to a lack of growth

Jul 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• PaySense (acquired by PayU) provided unsecured personal loans to credit underserved Indians, primarily first-time borrowers & those with a limited credit history through an Android app. 100k+ customers & $35M+ in AUM
• Owned end-to-end customer onboarding experience from app install to loan disbursal across Android app and website
• Led development of an in-house SMS parsing engine with the data science team to automate income estimation, reducing manual document requirements through data ingestion pipeline and template creation tool and estimation rules
• Increased user-to-customer conversion by 5% by replacing required documents like the salary payslip & current address proof with digital proxies using SMS & geolocation data

Dec 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Owned end-to-end customer onboarding experience from app install to loan disbursal across Android app and website
• Led delivery of 'Instant Loans' which enabled an entirely automated & paperless loan application experience reducing the time taken to disburse a loan to a net new user from 3 days to 2 hours

Jun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Led 3X growth in transaction volumes and 20% reduction in CAC in 6 months for the ‘Physiotherapy at Home’ category by optimising lead generation using platforms like Google Adwords, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & LinkedIn and development of blogs & social media posts to drive organic user acquisition
• Responsible for collaborations with 10+ hospitals across Mumbai becoming their home care partner for nursing & physiotherapy services for patients post-discharge
• Led development of analytics dashboards monitoring key metrics informing the success of the category

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Developed a fixed-point math library for a new generation of DSPs
• Implemented fundamental algebraic and transcendental functions along
• with several signal processing algorithms essential for audio and image
• processing

Jul 2014 – Dec 2014 · 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Was part of a team working on the development of a proof-of-concept
• continuous, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring system based on
• photoplethysmography & ECG signals
• Developed and built the analog signal acquisition, filtering and
• transmission circuit and using the TI MSP430
• Developed a prototype Android application that connects with the
• monitor over Bluetooth and displays the captured vital signs instantaneously

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Greater Aarhus Area

• Tested the efficacy of a novel protease biosensor using dynamic DNA Origami nano structures and FRET readings so as to determine protease presence and concentration