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Bangalore, India

- PracticeNow is a business accelerator for online teachers. Key components include an e-commerce platform, a lead nurturing and a practice gamification system working seamlessly together with each other.- Key responsibilities: Strategy, Product, Talent- PraciceNow was launched at the start of the pandemic. In a span of 15 months, we're at ~$1M teacher income and 16+ Million practice minutes across students in 77 countries.

Bangalore

- Yoga Tree is studio management software for offline yoga studios- Key responsibilities: Product- Successful pilots: Whatsapp based Lead nurturing system, Practice gamification system, Student retention system

Bangalore

- High end software consulting - Built Multunus from the ground up serving customers across the India, US, UK, Canada, Australia and Singapore. - Key responsiblities: Led Product management, Product design, Hiring, Marketing and Sales- Key clients: mGage [now Kaleyra], Aconex [now part of Oracle], Caprock [now part of Speedcast]

While at Core, I worked with 5 different startup clients - helping them build their products (mostly from scratch). The domains spanned across SemiConductor Device Testing, Peer-to-Peer finance, Online Social Shopping, the Beauty Products space and Online Video Advertising.My role in all of the above cases included all phases of the SDLC cycle. Specifically I was involved in the following: - Helping the clients translate their ideas into written specs- Architecting the technology solution- Interviewing and getting the team of Developers and Testers together- Planning and scheduling the various phases of the product and its releases, - Playing the role of the Project Coordinator and getting the development plan executed [including some development of some of the key parts of the application], and - Finally, getting the application deployed on the production servers.In summary, I had extensive experience of working with multiple early stage startups in a span of 3 years.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

- Senior engineer- Worked on and deployed multiple credit risk systems while working for Citibank's software division.- Key contribution: Designed and re-architected a credit approval workflow system from the group up. This was later deployed to 7+ countries across Citibank branches of South America. Saved the bank over $250K / year in license fees - by successfully replacing a legacy workflow system