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Mountain View, California, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

CMU Student Lab Capstone ProjectReceived the 'Best Team Award' among 20+ teams.Developed a strategy to reduce environmental impact and improve the sustainability of plant operations for a $1.2bn energy company by increasing the proportion of electricity consumption from renewable energy sources, with a long-term goal of 100% renewable energy sources.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Product Development and Partner Strategy: Defined success criteria for ‘Subscribe with Google’. Collaborated with cross-functional teams and analyzed data to create dashboards measuring user adoption, trends and baselines. Recommended new product enhancements to meet goal of 30% acquisition. Several recommendations accepted into product timeline.• Strategic Analysis: Identified lengthy QA process as deterrent to seamless partner onboarding. Delivered strategy to automate partner integration process, reducing the testing time required per partner significantly. Enabled savings, achieving team’s goal of reducing reliance on external vendors. Received peer bonus for going above and beyond to assist the team.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Worked as a consultant in a team of five for a local non-profit Youth Places on an assignment to help scale the business outside of Pittsburgh and lay down the strategy for future business partnerships.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Product Manager of CMU finalists 20+ member Hyperloop team comprised of students from all across CMU (Engineering, Design, and Business)

Bengaluru Area, India

• Product Development: Led development of a new framework to introduce Oracle’s Packaged Apps (E-Business Suite) in the cloud in an accelerated timeline of three months. Collaborated with Product Managers and senior leadership to onboard new functionality.• Strategic Planning and Innovation: Proactively recognized customer need to move from on-premise platform services to cloud services. Worked on integrating on-prem features to the cloud, moving data for our existing internal and external customers, generating revenue through extension of business contracts.• Communication: Gained buy-in from global teams to use in-house developed Synthetic Monitoring functionality to track the health of development systems, significantly reducing repair and rework costs.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Leadership: Recognized the need to modernize the patching process of Oracle’s software solutions. Collaborated with development team and product teams to create a single automated patching process for the product line. Reduced time required for each upgrade by 8 hours, eliminating several hours of manual effort annually.• Ownership: Identified performance issues in client setups. Created performance test suites, conducted defect remediation for large-scale integration projects, resulting in a 30% increase in client satisfaction.• Teamwork: Organized tech crunches, outings for 80+ members including team building initiatives. Conducted weekly sessions for team members to share the latest technologies and best practices in the industry.

Bangalore, India

• Customer Focus: Made sure all the efforts were directed to address the pain-points of the customers and their families. Leveraged technology to curate job opportunities for veterans and used donations to provide free education to their children.• Leadership: Motivated a team of five to work on a vision of assisting veterans and their families with psychological and monetary needs. Connected volunteer psychologists to 21 families, significantly reducing the barriers to re-entering civilian life.• Bias for Action and Results-Driven: Interviewed and identified the needs of 25+ veterans. Co-created a platform to connect civilians to army veterans. Raised $4000 to help three families in monetary need.

Guwahati Area, India

Worked under Dr. Partha Sarathi Mandal, Associate Professor (Dept. of Mathematics) and co-proposed a unique localization technique for finding position of other sensor nodes, a technique that guarantees an average of 67% reduction in the area of the zone in which the sensor node is bound to reside. • Analytical Problem Solving: Designed and implemented software translation of a thesis. Determined technology, and testing frameworks for product development, reducing time to publication from two years to four months.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Association Representative, Business and Technology Club Member Taking Machine Learning courses.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Score: 9.34/10

Activities and Societies: Organized several tech crunches and fests as part of the CEG Tech Forum Among the top 4 students in my batch..

Senior Secondary School, Engineering Stream, Computer Science, Score: 91.2%

Activities and Societies: Second rank holder in class, part of the extended merit list IIT-JEE exam - among 3% top ranked students in India

High School, Score: 92.8%

Activities and Societies: Class Captain for 8th Standard, Part of the debate team