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Seattle, WA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Work with finance and accounting teams to help scale lending products by selling loans to investors faster and by automating month-end close processes

San Francisco, CA, US

Getting an exposure to Angel Investing. My first investment is an African Fintech called LemFi.Note: Not writing any new checks right now.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

Part of a team that builds platforms to experiment with different content ranking models and identify models that best serve the needs of the Grab consumer.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

Part of the core Transport team, building features that show vaccination status, render color on car icons and data infra platform.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

- An integral member of the GrabShare team, where I most recently worked on a company MOAT project called ShareWait. In ShareWait, we optimize the system to make use of the waiting time to find better matches for both drivers and passengers.- Currently mentoring one FTE, and have mentored two interns in the past.- Conducted about 48 engineering interviews.

Seattle, WA, US

Worked as a Research Assistant with Prof. Richard Anderson and Prof. Kurtis Heimerl during my Masters program at University of Washington.Year 1: Published an ICTD paper to evaluate smartphone adoption in rural Indonesia and PhilippinesYear 2: Published an ICTD short paper to understand grievances shared by Twitter users on using several Mobile Financial.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

Worked on predicting pickup and dropoff hotspots from historical GrabShare data

Worked with the Infrastructure Strategy team as a Data Science Intern. I primarily worked on Spatial Computing Projects to detect coverage of all cell-towers across the world.

Doha, QA

Worked on Urban Computing project to understand traffic patterns from road traffic data.

San Francisco, California, US

Wrote an algorithm to digitize scanned documents such as Ration Cards.

Columbia, South Carolina, US

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN

Researched extensively and developed a functional approach to utilize Double Fortified Salt (DFS) as a CSR initiative. The project was run in collaboration with J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel, Poverty Action Lab ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, IFMR (Institute of Financial Management and Research), Chennai, Ministry of health, women and child.

Vienna, AT

1) Concluded market opportunity analysis, to understand challenges faced by various client segments, as defined by Ennovent2) Undertook competitive analysis, to interpret research and advisory services offered in the market3) Defined value proposition, to help Ennovent diversify to provide research and advisory services for the low income market

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

- Assisted in preparing reports for Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives by Ambuja Cement Foundation and developed a Theory of Change Model to evaluate impact.- Field Research work at Coastal Gujarat Power Plant (Tata Power) at Mundra port.

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN

1) Initiated and managed a Google Adwords campaign worth $13,1602) Managed the logistics for iAccelerator open house session at four different cities 3) Worked with 14 final startups of Tech4Impact program to collaborate with industry experts, investors and probable partners

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN

Developed a tool to communicate between USB GSM modems, which was improvised and used by the Indian Armed Forces

San Jose, California, US

Got my first corporate exposure, and worked on a simple Java problem.

Master'S Degree, Information Management

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science