Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Boston

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• An exciting journey in the world of Agentic AI, Future of the Internet and the Emerging markets. Technologies for the world in 2030 and beyond.
• Collaborating on Project NANDA (Networked Agents and Decentralized AI): The infrastructure needed for AI agents to collaborate at scale. Designed for the future internet of the Agentic AI. NANDA makes it possible for distributed intelligence to truly work across a decentralized network.
• Research in Large Population Models which enables us to model the world of billions of people and their interactions to predict outcomes. This has led to Project Iceberg which focuses on job transitions and human potential in a post-AI world.
• Besides research, I'm co-teaching at ''AI for Ventures'' Class (MAS 664/665) and mentoring students who are building some of world's most exciting startups in health, fintech and e-commerce.

Dec 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• On to a new journey to help create a bank for the 21st century - Environmentally Sensitive, Customer Centric and Digital. Ran enterprise data platforms, architecture, and Generative AI innovation with a 220 people engineering team
• Restructured org to start developing an engineering culture, stabilized tech platforms (outages down 95% y-on-y) and renegotiated contracts, freeing up money for innovation and growth
• Led all engineering efforts for GenAI – technology choices, product development, Risk mitigation

Sep 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Drones, 5G, Smart City, IoT - all the fun stuff at the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Security

Jul 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Helping build next generation of aerial mobility

Oct 2018 – Oct 2021 · 3 yrs · London Area, United Kingdom

• Helping build the next generation of 100 year companies

Mar 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Driving transformation and business impact world's second largest telco with ~400 million subscribers through digital products, data science and AI. Led data science, data products and digital innovation across organization
• Innovative AI models for customer acquisition, retention and marketing campaigns led to conversion/ engagement metrics growth of 22-45% and revenue growth of 6-14% in a very competitive market
• Created new Network Deployment algorithm from Google satellite imagery and NASA’s night time illumination data, reducing CapEx by $1B

Dec 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

• Vision AI for solving industrial problems at scale

Jan 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• India’s fastest growing $100M+ eCommerce logistics start-up, solving cutting edge problems to generate revenue, build efficiency and improve margins. Artificial Intelligence Technology + 100's of millions of Consumer, Geo, Product Data + World's leading team = Significant efficiency and revenue gain. Read the article below..

Jan 2014 – Dec 2014 · 11 mos · Menlo Park, CA

• Lead mobile products in emerging markets like India, Brazil, Indonesia etc. Generated $300M+ additional new revenue from product and partnership
• Drove key product engagement and content production metrics 2-3X and localized with contents, languages, working closely with global Telco and Content parters
• Designed/ran 100s of tests on content, UI, access, latency, etc. to increase user retention, engagement and revenue

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 · 4 yrs · Santa Clara, CA and Bangalore, India

• World's first real-time cross channel social media engagement platform. Enabled global brands and agencies to scale social media campaigns by analyzing millions of real-time social/mobile conversations & targeting the most active audiences, creating large ROI for our clients.
• Conceptualized idea, evangelized with global brands and agencies, raised $5MM, built world-class engineering team and created a well-recognized product and company with multi-million $ revenue stream from scratch.
• Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) named us technology leader, along with IBM
• Marquee clients: Brands- Berkshire Hathaway, Microsoft, Godiva etc., Agencies - Mediacom, Universal McCan etc. Partnerships - ComScore, IRI
• Featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Mashable etc.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 · 4 yrs · Greater New York City Area and Bangalore, India

• Headed global analytics for three important functions: Sales Ops, Ad Products and Marketing.
• Member of AOL Ads Leadership Team
• Led the marketing analytics team which drove growth, retention and LTV for AOL's user base that was key input to drive efficiency and effectiveness of AOL's 800M marketing budget
• Built key forecasting tools into sales, sales management, and executive reporting views to improve revenue planning. Led sales and operations organizational efforts and restructurings
• Increased $150M+ topline from new ad products: real-time ad pricing engine, ad demand predictor, CTR/ Yield optimization and attribution modeling for key brand advertisers and agencies