Experience
Where I’ve worked.
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– Present
Co-Founder & Product Lead Meridian Data Labs
Hyderabad, India / Guelph, ON (remote)
- Lead product strategy for Honeycomb, the company’s industrial IoT platform: market analysis, pricing and the V2 roadmap, reviewed weekly with leadership.
- Mapped a utility’s operations into 15 AI use cases ranked by value and ease, and anchored the roadmap on one high-value win.
- Ran engagements from discovery workshops to commercial terms, including RFI, RFP and GeM responses and a full defence bid with a compliance matrix and dependency plan. Built the pricing, business cases and scenario models behind bids across five clients.
- Took Buzz AI from prototype to production at the Indian Navy and DRDO, embedded on-site at defence facilities, and secured MoD clearance for every deployment.
- Hired and coached engineers, designers and commercial staff, and led the team’s adoption of AI tools across engineering, commercial and operations work.
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– Present
Teaching Assistant University of Waterloo
BET 405, Digital Leadership & Transformation
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– Mar 2024
Techno-Commercial Manager, Asia Optiply
Hyderabad, India
- Led India market entry for a Dutch inventory and purchasing SaaS from zero: go-to-market, segmentation, positioning and pricing. Grew the team from 2 to 15 and built a US$100k ARR pipeline.
- Built the business cases for expansion, including competitive analysis and pricing for new verticals, and reported recommendations to leadership in Amsterdam.
- Ran discovery with client procurement and inventory teams, delivered Zoho and Odoo ERP integrations through go-live, built ops tooling in Retool, and managed pipeline in HubSpot.
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– Jan 2022
Software Engineer Vassar Labs
Hyderabad, India
- Cut media-sync latency from 83,750 ms to 408 ms, a 200× improvement, by tracing N+1 queries and uncached API calls in New Relic, and documented the diagnosis for the team.
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– Dec 2021
Teaching Assistant, Cloud Computing Coding Dojo
Remote, part-time
- Co-developed the GCP curriculum, led a live session on APIs and cloud integration, and wrote guides learners used after the course.
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– Jan 2021
Software Architecture Intern Estatetial
Markham, ON (remote)
- Built the production backend for a real-estate platform: GraphQL and Node.js services, a JavaScript-to-TypeScript migration, Docker and Kubernetes. Ran two zero-downtime cloud migrations, planning cutover and stakeholder communication.
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– Aug 2020
Cloud Deployment Intern Indian Institute of Technology
Hyderabad, India
- Deployed private cloud infrastructure on OpenStack with Ansible, and built software-defined networking for routing, segmentation and access control.
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– Jun 2019
Academic Intern National University of Singapore
Singapore
- Built secure IoT applications on Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP32 and micro:bit boards talking to Microsoft Azure over CoAP, MQTT and HTTP.
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– Jul 2018
Software Development Intern TrackIT Solutions
Dubai, UAE
- Trained in full-stack web development and the software development life cycle, from requirements through testing and deployment.