Smart Productivity software: The next stage of teamwork, powered by AI.Think Asana, Basecamp, Microsoft Projects, with added smartness.Plato learns the rhythm of your team and shoulders the burden of keeping the beat going. It gets smarter and acquires newer skills every day to serve you even better.Overall responsibility for the company, including:* Product Mangement and design direction for this product on a hands-on basis* Defining Machine Learning use cases: Innovated to make real everyday workflows smart, beyond the hype. * Machine Learning areas: User modelling, Topic modelling, Search and similarity, milestone/phase -change identification.Technology: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Tensorflow, React.

150+ projects across Android, iOS and web. * Built a global network of 1000+ top designers, developers and technologists in 25+ countries across North America, South America, Europe and Asia. * Scaled to a profitable business with multi-million dollar revenues * Responsible for all aspects of this company: from recruiting, sales, marketing, product management to fund-raising, finance and legal matters. * Raised venture capital rounds from Accel PartnersProduct Innovation Examples: * Experimental, eager to conceptualize new products with emerging technologies. Ran product management first hand including for the following: * Apple Watch App Maker with zero coding: http://thinkapps.com/watch-apps . Apple Watch work featured in 150+ publications worldwide. * Speech assistant during audio conferences, using deep learning for speech-to-text * Image analysis of maps and multi-spectral satellite data, using deep learning for multi-band input models * Created a book: How to Start a Startup: The Silicon Valley Playbook for Entrepreneurs, which was Top 5 Books of the Year on Product Hunt (https://www.amazon.com/How-Start-Startup-Playbook-Entrepreneurs/)---ThinkApps is an on-demand service for designing and building stunning apps for web, mobile and wearables. The ThinkApps experience incorporates your immediate start date with our relentless drive to deliver results with transparency, efficiency, and collaboration.Based out of San Francisco, ThinkApps powers top Silicon Valley startups and enterprise companies exploring the cutting edge. At its core, ThinkApps is a network of 1000+ top designers, developers and technologists in 25+ countries across North America, South America, Europe and Asia. The network includes experts who are in the top 5% for any design, product or technology sub-area.

Accel Partners is a leading Venture Capital firm that has backed many well known companies such as Facebook, Spotify and Dropbox. As an Entrepreneur-in-residence, I had the opportunity to meet and support the founders of the firm's portfolio companies while developing my startup ideas.* Developed a granular point of view on mobile sector opportunities and investment potential for the firm* Advised a few early stage portfolio companies in areas of business development, marketing and finance.

Advised Executive teams at clients across technology and traditional business sectors. Some examples:* Sales growth for the Asia business for a leading enterprise networking technology company* Strategy to grow the India business for a European Specialty Chemicals player* Improve Return on Capital for a Power Transmission Infrastructure player

Served as a management consultant during a summer stint with McKinsey & Co during my MBA program* Operational improvement at a real sector company* Invited back for a full time position upon graduation

Engineer on the BitLocker Drive Encryption team that created a successful v1 security product from scratch. BitLocker was the primary differentiator of the top tier Windows version at its release. Today, BitLocker has permeated into all Windows platforms where it is automatically enabled on many phones and tablets.

Summer intern in the Security Group at Microsoft, during my graduate studies. * Created a novel visualization tool for analyzing dependencies among software components to track security boundaries.* Invited back for a full time position upon graduation

Performed research at the Algorithms and Complexity Group during the summer of 2002. Our work resulted in a publication at the EuroPar 2003 conference.