Resume

AVP of Product @ fluffbotics

Jun 2023 – Apr 2026 · Bengaluru · Conversational AI, Consumer, Hardware

Led product, engineering, and growth with a 10-person team, taking the company from early LLM research through mass-market conversational AI and into hardware.

• Built the early product and MVPs that got the company a $3M raise through a Google-backed fund, then turned that work into AI companions for Josh that reached 25M users with ~30 minutes of daily use and 45% D30 retention.
• Built the AI stack in-house across datasets, fine-tuning, and RAG, and scaled the infrastructure to sustain ~178K POST requests per minute.
• Evolved the product into creator AIs, then pivoted into conversational AI toys with on-device interactive AI.
• Reduced inference costs from roughly $45 to $5 per user per month and filed multiple patents around the underlying technology.
• Exhibited at the Nuremberg and New York Toy Fairs and secured a deal worth roughly $1M.

Staff Product Manager @ CareStack

Nov 2022 – Jun 2023 · Bengaluru · Healthcare SaaS, Payments

Owned payments, patient-facing products, international localisation, and strategic integrations across a mature dental SaaS platform.

• Owned the operation and growth of CareStack’s payments offering across product development, issue resolution, compliance, regulation, and adoption; grew payment volume roughly 50–70% month on month to around $5M per month.
• Owned the patient portal and improved booking, increasing clients’ self-booked appointments by around 30%.
• Localised the core platform for ANZ and UK markets around differences in health systems, clinical workflows, treatments, payments, and regulation.
• Built strategic partnerships with inventory-management and medical-procurement providers to deeply integrate their products and operations with CareStack in cross-business collaborations.
• Built the internal product documentation and knowledge base, reducing employee onboarding from around six weeks to two.

Senior Product Manager @ Revenoid (Evabot)

Aug 2021 – Oct 2022 · AI SaaS, Sales Intelligence

Joined as the first PM and became the liaison between business and delivery, with all seven engineers mapped to me while also acting as the sole designer.

• Rapidly shipped features and fixed core product issues after joining, improving the pace and efficiency of delivery.
• Introduced stronger product processes across requirements, sprint planning, grooming, retrospectives, analytics, and releases; engineering consistently ran at around 97% sprint efficiency.
• Was mentored by a senior product leader from a FAANG company, learning how mature product and engineering teams operate at significantly higher standards of scale and execution.
• Ran monthly product town halls for the whole company, sharing roadmaps, product updates, usage statistics, and findings while collecting feedback from across the organisation.
• Built one of the early AI sales-intelligence products using GPT-3 during its private beta.
• Built product analytics and PLG systems, including referral and adoption work that drove roughly 20% growth in the highest subscription tier.

Founding Product Manager @ Koo

Jan 2021 – Aug 2021 · Bengaluru · Consumer Social, Growth

Ran the product function solo as Koo grew from roughly 40K to 10M users in six months, reporting directly to the COO and setting requirements and priorities for 15+ engineers.

• Personally handled product management, frontend development, and UI/UX design during the early hypergrowth phase, then hired and trained the frontend and design teams.
• Ran weekly Android, iOS, and web releases, handling sprint planning, grooming, testing, and coordination across 15+ engineers.
• Ran 20+ product experiments per month, driving D2 retention up around 50%, engagement around 20%, and early network size around 100% over roughly three months.
• Built the core social-ranking machinery behind the feed, including tagging, recommendations, content ranking, and virality detection.
• Personally designed Koo’s full UI overhaul and built the design system, component libraries, and icon library that the product continued using for years.
• Shipped bulk follow lists and profile-page follow suggestions, ideas that later appeared on Twitter and Instagram.

Founder @ Openly

Jul 2018 – Dec 2020 · Bengaluru · Hyperlocal Commerce, Consumer

Founded and built a hyperlocal marketplace for neighbourhood businesses, growing it into an 11-person company with consumer apps, a merchant product, and local delivery operations.

• Financed the company initially through roughly €50K of product and development work for European clients, then won a ₹50 lakh Startup Karnataka ELEVATE grant and raised a similar amount from angels.
• Built the consumer and merchant apps hands-on as the primary full-stack developer.
• Grew the marketplace to around 10,000 users and 200+ stores across HSR, Whitefield, and Hennur.
• Rebuilt merchant onboarding, increasing successful completion from roughly 3% to 28% within two months.
• Ran the marketplace through COVID while competing locally with Swiggy and Dunzo, working directly with merchants, riders, and customers, and occasionally making deliveries myself.

Co-founded Urban X and took a helicopter-taxi service from early demand validation to live operations between Electronic City and Bengaluru airport.

• Validated demand, partnered with an existing helicopter charter operator, and worked through operational flight planning and regulatory clearances involving DGCA, KIAL, HAL, DRDO, and Yelahanka Air Force Base.
• Secured access to roughly 50 helipads, developed two heliport lounges and seven additional helipads, and launched the Electronic City–airport route at roughly ₹12,000 per flight.
• Took Urban X to an investor valuation of around $8M before regulatory changes made the business unworkable.

Completed 10+ client projects across e-commerce, ERP systems, Salesforce integrations, product management, development, UX, and business operations.

• Led a five-person team for OohMyGift and took the product from concept to Android, iOS, and web apps in roughly two months, while also handling visual design, information architecture, and promotional motion graphics.
• Turned Bathline Studio into a pan-India digital business by restructuring the supply chain, launching on Amazon and Flipkart, and building its D2C site; doubled sales, cut warehousing costs by around 80%, and grew the website to roughly ₹5 lakh per month.
• Worked with an organic, vegan, and gluten-free food manufacturer on market research, positioning, online sales, and distribution, closing 15 B2B distribution clients.

Started exploring how digital information could be attached to real-world locations and used across AR and hyperlocal products.

• Reached the final round of the Thiel Fellowship in San Francisco immediately after school, placing in the top eight internationally.
• Developed the idea into an AR platform for standardising digital advertising, signage, and other content tied to physical spaces.
• Worked with investors through the Thiel Fellowship process while developing the early product direction.

Mentored the founders from an initial idea around AI exam evaluation into a defined product and business, while also taking on hands-on product and technical delivery. Took the product through pilots, won customers, and got the business off the ground.

• Defined the product specifications, design, technical architecture, and AI strategy, including evaluation workflows, production reliability, and cost optimisation.
• Delivered the V1 in roughly two months with a two-person team, compressing work that would previously have taken around eight months with a five-person team.
• This was my first end-to-end product built primarily with AI and deployed to production, and taught me how to make AI-built systems stable beyond the prototype stage.

Mentored the founder of a drone-propulsion startup on the practical problems of building a high-tech manufacturing company producing propellers and motors.

• Led B2B outreach and sales, winning customers and contracts.
• Set up core factory processes across manufacturing, packaging, inventory, and day-to-day operations.
• Represented the company at defence fairs and in high-level meetings with senior Army officials, government organisations, and defence contractors.

Mentored the founders of an early prediction-market startup on company strategy and go-to-market.

• Researched the market and competitive landscape and defined positioning, target audience, and product direction.
• Built the go-to-market strategy, including launch sequencing, early distribution, and the revenue model.

Moved to Dubai to co-found a blockchain and Web3 advisory firm, advising banks and governments on where blockchain was useful and turning those opportunities into working systems.

• Won and delivered work for more than 15 clients in the first year.
• Grew contracted recurring business to roughly USD 100K ARR within the first six months.
• After working in the space directly, concluded that the promised benefits of decentralisation and removing trusted intermediaries rarely justified the added complexity, and chose to leave the industry.

Engaged with the university as an external mentor for startups in its incubation ecosystem.

• Delivered guest lectures to MBA students on AI/ML, AI in business, and entrepreneurship.
• Delivered a keynote at the university’s international startup event and moderated panel discussions with founders and industry leaders.

Planned and developed a private social platform for a professional footballer client.

Planned and developed an event-ticketing website and app.