Prastut Kumar Email & Phone Number

Delhi, India

Built an angel investment firm around sweat equity model (https://www.sweatequity.vc/) Thesis: ● Crypto opens up very large markets as soon as a new tech efficiency drops. ● Saw potential in creating and scaling small sass businesses that can churn out free cashflow ($10k MRR - $100k MRR) < 1 year. ● Incubated 2 ventures and scaled the portfolio to $100k AUM from $20k investment.

Launched web3 dev shop. Scaled it from 0 to $500k total revenue. Built projects in Zcash, Polkadot, Livepeer, Tezos, Filecoin, Celo, ecosystems.

New Delhi Area, India

When the world is moving towards idea meritocracy then the only thing that matters is having vantage. Vantage is nothing without execution hence building the operating principles of the 21'st century organization. Read more here: https://www.thevantageproject.com/playbook/Always looking for A Players. Join us :)

New Delhi Area, India

Reducing the cost of education to ₹1 a day for every student in the country. At a valuation of $8 million, GoodEd is the biggest player in the Indian medical ed-tech industry. ● Was instrumental in scaling GoodEd's flagship product: NEETPrep. Utility player from finding early product-market fit, to engineering to design. Built the tech team from scratch. ● Integrated Amplitude SDK's and defined data taxonomy to get insights about user behaviour. ● Increased overall retention by working on core product themes: Social, Doubts, Marketing. Led to an increase in D1 retention from 9% to 38%, DAU 2k to 4.5k (+125%) and MAU from 13k users to 28k users (+115%) across all users (free/paid).

India

Audience Engagement tools which enable digital media platforms to integrate social reactions with video or textual content.Selected in YC Startup School '18. Shelved this project as acquiring distribution became exponentially hard as we iterated over initial customer feedback. Should have thought about it before building 😅.

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

● Worked inside CHILI Lab on Project FROG.● Led the design process of the FROG platform. Crafted the new design system for the same. ● Accounted for complex data communication and UI interaction requirements by developing case studies, low fidelity to high fidelity prototypes. ● Proposed the technical framework in order to integrate the new design system.+ Ate a lot of good food exploring around Switzerland, France & Madrid

Noida Area, India

Mainly worked on 2 projects:Help Center Revamp on Paytm:● Led UX to simplify help across all 20 (product+transactional) verticals. ● Researched on user's intent for help by analysing data. Used data to influence design. ● Worked with business analysts & customer support team to account for their experiences. ● ⬇️ cognitive load by grouping verticals & reducing the no. of steps in order to get help. ● Met business goals of reducing no. of help tickets/calls by humanising system design. Revamping CX of onboarding users to Paytm's ecosystem:● Heuristic analysis of Login, Logout, Password (change, forgot), Signup etc. ● Data validated presumptions of above analysis. ● Ongoing work is to simplify/revamp these experiences.

Mumbai Area, India

Worked on Bubble, a data visualization research project.● Led product strategy and execution of deliverables.● Conducted contextual inquiries & created affinity maps to analyze user needs & behaviour. ● Designed the interactive consumable framework experience with fellow graduate students.● Developed systems that incorporate the framework: messenger bot, web & mobile app.● Project Mentor: Professor Ventakesh Rajamanickam in IDC, IIT Bombay.

● Selected for Teem, a P2P Value Collaboration Project. ● Worked with research team's at UCM & Harvard.● Optimized UX for matchmaking newcomers with communities appealing to them.● Developed an automatic keyphrase extraction system to auto-tag communities.● The keyphrase extraction system was connected with the new on-boarding experience.

Member of the Stanford HCI Crowd Research Collective, a worldwide group of researchers led by Michael Bernstein in Stanford CS. Work Details:● Mentor: Snehil Gaikwad● Focused on issues concerning open governance in crowdsourcing.● Identified Holacracy as a viable structure to infuse the idea of open governance in Daemo.● Presented preliminary research to improve reputation of workers through the use of Glicko rating.Crowd Research initiative: crowdresearch.stanford.edu

New Delhi Area, India

● Created functionality for the current user interface for B2B, B2C clients. ● Closed Parse API by assigning ACL. ● Moved code server side using Express to increase SEO.● Technical Lead for new interns. ● Assisted in managing the code-base and delegating issues on Github.Technical Stack: Parse, Jekyll, Express.

New Delhi Area, India

My responsibilities included designing the current homepage of the website, a number of inner pages, as well as key launch marketing collaterals for social media and email distribution. The user experience (UX) was improved also.The process of design started first with creating wireframes in photoshop which after approval were HTML-ised. The Bootstrap framework was used to make the designs responsive.

Master'S Degree, Human Computer Interaction

I got accepted into the program, though didn't go. At the time, I had started building Centify and decided to go all-in on it. Technically.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 9.1

Activities and Societies: Programming Club, Model United Nations, Quiz Club, Awarded best outgoing student for exemplary performance.

Cbse, Class 12 And Class 10, Science (With Computer Science)

Activities and Societies: Student's Executive Held 2 positions in the student council: - Secretary, Scientific Affairs- September 2012.