Career

  1. Jan 2026 – present

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Effimal

    B2B decision intelligence platform applying AI agents and agentic workflows to operational and strategic supply chain planning.

  2. Jan 2022 – Dec 2025

    Head of Engineering

    Ormae

    Built a supply chain planning platform on Spark, Kafka, ClickHouse and event-driven microservices processing billions of simulated data points. Grew the team of scientists, PMs and engineers to 45+, added reasoning agents and an MCP server, and led a five-year, $5MN project that delivered $400MN in savings.

  3. Sep 2019 – Mar 2022

    Chief Technology Officer

    Samai

    Built a general-purpose business workflow platform with case processing and critical communication, launched first for tax return preparers in India.

  4. Oct 2018 – Aug 2019

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Nexi

    With a team of three, built a microservices platform for dynamic cab routing, ride scheduling and rider-driver matching, along with driver and customer apps.

  5. Jun 2017 – Sep 2018

    Technology Lead

    Exponential Machines

    Joined as a machine learning engineer and moved into the leadership team. Led 40+ engineers building a B2B platform for US BFSI clients covering claim processing, medical encoding and invoice reconciliation.

  6. 2016 – present

    Founder

    Bestinhere

    Built the first version, a social travel network, on web, native Android and React Native; early user feedback was weak. With the problem still unresolved, a new version built for current needs is now live at bestinhere.com.

  7. 2013

    Founder

    eattt

    Built eattt to enhance dining experiences, with mobile ordering for diners and a cloud POS for restaurants, and sold it to several restaurants in Hyderabad. Shut down as customer acquisition cost was too high to scale.

  8. 2012

    Engineer

    futurebazaar

    Phone commerce startup founded by IIT Bombay alumni and acquired by Future Group; later shut due to group-level losses.

  9. 2011

    Founder

    Education startup

    Education startup, shut down due to a chicken-and-egg problem.

  10. Until 2012

    Developer

    Vakow, PagalGuy, Qureka

    Built websites and web applications for artists and businesses while at IIT Bombay.

Skills

AI and data

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Reasoning agents with RLHF
  • AI agents
  • OpenMetadata
  • MCP servers
  • Apache Spark
  • Kafka
  • ClickHouse

Platforms and architecture

  • Microservices
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Software Architecture
  • Scalability
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB

Product engineering

  • Python
  • Django
  • Node.js
  • ReactJS
  • React Native
  • Kotlin (Android)
  • AngularJS

Leadership

  • Building, managing and scaling teams
  • Client delivery across time zones
  • Code quality through integration testing and coverage

Education

  • Dual degree (Bachelors and Masters), Computer Science and Engineering
    IIT Bombay
    2012