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New York, NY, US

New York, New York, US

At Nayya our vision is to bring peace and confidence to American families in how they interact with their health and wealth benefits. We do this by building the world’s first data-driven, AI-enabled adviser to personalize and automate employee benefits. Our current product suite includes- Choose (which helps you choose your benefits during Open Enrollment.

New York, NY, US

- Own the P&L for all of VTS’s strategic partnerships, with CBRE being the first and the most important one- Own the delivery of customer value for all real estate asset classes and all global regions as it pertains to the strategic partners (CBRE)- Lead the cross-functional teams that include Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering

New York, NY, US

- Grew the Engineering team 4x to be a 200-person world-class team known for Engineering Excellence.- Reported to the CEO and acted as the CTO for a year overseeing all aspects of Engineering, Information Security, and Global Information Technology.- Architected a 4x growth of the revenue to well over $100M while keeping the core business segment.

New York, New York, US

Advised the company and the executive team (CEO, CTO, and CPO) on key business decisions, including technical architecture, executive leadership, and product and GTM strategy. Helped them raise a successful Series A round with $13.5m funding from top VC firms.

Boston, MA, US

New York, NY, US

- A vital member of the Executive Management Team which makes all the critical decisions for the company- Doubled the engineering team to approximately 50 engineers in less than a year- Created a well-regarded internship program (both summer & winter) by partnering with organizations like Pursuit & CUNYTech to find talent from non-traditional sources..

Hackensack, NJ, US

- Led company's new generation of cloud service offerings: VidyoConnect & VidyoEngage- Built & hired a 60 person global engineering team, motivating them to dream big- Led the creation of offshore Ukrainian & Indian dev centers, while leading a global team based out of three different timezones - US, Europe & India- Implemented CI & CD- Created and.

Hackensack, NJ, US

- Managed the entire endpoint product portfolio, which included desktop, web, mobile apps, and room systems- Revitalized the company’s endpoint apps, which were languishing in UX and tech debt. Performed a top-to-bottom rewrite of all the apps, codenamed as Neo- Recruited and built the UX design team- Based on "write once; run everywhere" concept, I built.

Hackensack, NJ, US

- Managed group video conferencing product team, transforming it from a loss-making business to a profitable business with 100% year-over-year growth- Unified the software architecture across VidyoRoom and VidyoPanorama product lines, basing it on a modern tech stack with web apps built within Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)- Launched world's smallest.

Hackensack, NJ, US

- Hired as one of the first ten employees- Lead Developer of Technology/SDK team-Co-invented key patents in Bandwidth Management and Conference Management & Control Protocols- Designed and developed multiple key algorithms on both client and server, such as Direct Media Routing, Automatic Bandwidth Adjustment, Signaling Plug-in etc.- Release Manager for.

San Jose, California, US

- Led team that built Access Network (iAN-2000), VoIP soft switch (mSwitch) and IP based Telephony system (IPTS)- Designed & implemented in C, various VoIP & Routing protocols like MGCP, Megaco/H.248 in a real-time operating system called RTEMS- Release Manager for various products, managing & tracking their deployment- Technical consultant on embedded.

Teaneck, New Jersey, US

- Lead Engineer of satellite communication & Bluetooth technologies products- Worked with Ericsson to port one of the first implementation of Bluetooth stack in Windows CE- Worked with Nortel Networks on location based services- Designed and developed communication protocols in VRTX

Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, IN

- Selected by university to work on a highly confidential (back then) drone project, which tracked military targets from the air- Designed a real-time Image Processing algorithm, intended for target tracking application and implemented using DirectX on Windows

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing And Entrepreneurship

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics And Communication