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Focused on funding early-stage entrepreneurs taking on real-world computer vision applications

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Dragonfruit AI is the trusted partner of the world’s largest brands and retailers, delivering “Simply Meaningful Video” with our unified vision platform. Exclusively tailored for multi-location enterprises, our suite, powered by Apple M1 and Generative AI, includes top-tier apps from VMS and burglar alarms to retail insights, shelf inventory management, and pioneering self-checkout fraud detection. Engineered to excel in bandwidth-constrained environments, our global presence and robust patent portfolio underscore our commitment to transforming how enterprises leverage video data for actionable intelligence.

New Delhi, In

Organizing, evangelizing, cheerleading.

San Francisco, California, Us

Product responsibility for the broad member experience on Nextdoor, including growth and engagement initiatives. Also responsible for product rollout across 8 countries around the world, and counting.

Trimian built over 40,000 community networks, 150 of which had companion apps on iOS and Android. These networks powered regional interest groups, company networking groups and school alumni groups.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

P&L responsibility for Yahoo Small Business - a $50mil EBITDA line - helping people, worldwide, start, build and grow their businesses. Responsible for execution and leadership across product, engineering, marketing, business development, account management, sales and support.The product portfolio includes Domains, Websites, Ecommerce, Local Listings, Cross-channel Marketing Apps (Advertising on Autopilot), App Platform for SMB products and services (Commerce Central)Within one years of taking reins, kicked off, built and launched the first major product introduction in 10 years, and achieved the first quarter/quarter revenue growth in 6 years.

San Francisco, California, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

Lexity is the one-stop-shop of Ecommerce services for SMBs.Lexity Commerce Central is the PaaS cloud platform for Ecommerce, and comes with its own App Store that makes it easy for online retailers to add apps that range from Analytics to Pinterest management, with a single click.Commerce Central supports millions of merchants hosted on all commerce platforms including Magento, Etsy, Ebay, Yahoo!, BigCommerce and Shopify. Launched in January 2013 with apps for Desk.com (Salesforce.com), Optimizely, Olark and many others, the platform now provide merchants access to Pinterest, Google Ads, Amazon Ads, Facebook, Twitter, theFind, Constant Contact, MailChimp and hundreds more.Lexity has offices in Mountain View and Bangalore, with executives from Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Amazon and Intuit.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

(acquired by Yahoo)Conceived, articulated and re-architected engineering and product roadmaps, converting a technology centric core to a well-reasoned product strategy and a quarterly/yearly roadmap, now cornerstone to the company’s road to profitability.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Conceived and directed Yahoo! Search’s Open strategy – including Yahoo! SearchMonkey, an industry-leading Search innovation. SearchMonkey transforms Search into a platform – bringing together publisher content and developer talent, to build demonstrably more productive search for end users.Conceived and directed Yahoo! Search’s Semantic Web strategy – a multi-pronged effort to kickstart the semantic web and leverage semantics in Web Search. Laid foundation for use of Semantics in Web Search by acquiring high-quality structured content from partners, and driving adoption of semantic web standards for the long tail.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Developed groundbreaking ideas, built productive teams, shipped multiple internal and external products.• Structured Web Search - New group to leverage structured information on the Web. Conceived project – devised strategy for building defensible capability around Structured content, secured funding, hired new team. Recognized as cornerstone to future direction for Web Search.• Publisher Products - New group to build products that interact with Webmasters and publishers. Formed group – evangelized ‘Webmaster Relations’, secured funding, hired new team. Products included Site Search, Search Builder, Site Explorer, Syndication Platform.• Metrics & Analysis - New group to measure, monitor and analyze Content system. Defined charter, built project plan, consolidated products, hired new team. Architected and delivered new products and productized old projects

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

• Business User Console for Verity Search - New simple but powerful tools for business users to create, monitor and configure Verity Search.• Collaborative Classifier (VCC) for Verity Search - Award-winning, visual collaborative Taxonomy management tool.

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B.Tech, Computer Science

M.S., Computer Science