In my career so far, I’ve had the privilege of working on a diverse range of projects. Here, I’ve outlined my different roles in reverse chronological order, providing additional context to connect the dots in my journey and highlighting my key contributions in grey. For details on individual projects, please visit the project links below. Alternatively, a concise summary can be found in the 'About' section here.

Product Management Projects

Fintech Projects

Technical Projects


Gaining Depth In Product Strategy & Growth (2024—Present)

Based on my experience helping design network effects at Amazon Explore and Niantic, and working on onboarding at Finicast, I feel particularly drawn to growth-related problems that involve designing product loops and growth loops. My ability to think holistically, combined with my background in financial modeling, equips me well to build growth-models for tackling problems like acquisition, onboarding and monetization. I also enjoy tackling broader product strategy-related problems given my inclination towards systems thinking and tendency to look at the big picture.

Product & Growth Consultant (Aug 2024—Present)
► Working as a fractional product resource for early-stage startups
► Helping with customer discovery and pricing-related problems
► Related Artifacts: The Shape Of Product Work, Decision Making in Early Stage Teams

Stealth Startup (Mar 2024—Present)
► Working on something at the intersection of FinTech, AI and SaaS
► Feel free to reach out if you’re a developer and exploring early stage opportunities


Finding My Niche in Product Management (2020—23)

I came to Berkeley with the goal of deepening my expertise as a Product Manager. Recognizing that the role of a PM is shaped by three key factors—the stage of the company, the nature of the underlying business, and PM specialization—I deliberately optimized for breadth across these dimensions. This approach allowed me to get familiar with the challenges in Web3, Consumer Marketplaces, Gaming, and B2B SaaS. Importantly, it helped me to identify contexts that align with my core strengths.

Product Manager, Finicast (Sep 2022—Nov 2023)
SaaS start-up building a collaborative planning software for FP&A teams; raised $12.8M in seed funding by Celesta Capital to commercialize a patented database technology.

► Created a data pipeline feature for importing multi-dimensional data to save time on user onboarding
► Reduced avg. time to value from. ~4 hours to 15 minutes, resulting in increased customer activation
► Built product tours and campaigns in Intercom to surface context-relevant content during onboarding
► Reduced user onboarding time from 3 days to ~90 min
► Designed stress testing to eliminate bugs from high-frequency user journeys
► Proactively initiated performance benchmarking to identify target use cases and inform our ICP
► Related Artifacts: Vertical Software in FinTech, Lessons from Early Stage SaaS

Product Strategy—Consultant, Niantic (Dec 2021—Feb 2022)
Niantic enables augmented reality experiences through geospatial technology and casual games. The company is best known for Pokémon Go—a game that has surpassed $6 billion in cumulative revenue.

► Conducted market analysis to identify opportunities presented by web3 in gaming
► Presented findings to CXOs and senior leaders during quarterly Engg, Product & Design meeting
► Related Artifacts: The Case For Blockchain In Gaming

Sr. Product Manager-Technical, Amazon (May 2021—Aug 2021)
Worked as a Growth PM at Amazon Explore, a marketplace for virtual tours and online experiences. Explore was part of AWS Grand Challenge, a corporate innovation lab at Amazon.

► Identified product gaps by doing a benchmarking analysis
► Estimated growth potential to inform semi-annual planning exercise
► Conceptualized a new product to drive retention and used growth loops to drive network effects
► Related Artifacts: Looking Back at Amazon Explore, Growth Artifact on Reforge

Full-Time MBA at University of California, Berkeley (Aug 2020—May 2022)
► Focus: Product Management
► Lean Startup—Customer Development & Business Model Canvas, Business of AI, Building with Web3
► Other Electives: Pricing, Strategy, Social Psychology and IT, ISEL—Berkeley’s Touchy Feely course, etc.
► Related Artifacts: Gamification To Tackle Echo Chambers, Axie Infinity


Gaining Depth in Fintech (2016—20)

Northern Arc Capital is an impact-focused investment banking firm in India. Backed by LeapFrog Investments and Fidelity's Eight Roads, the company played a leadership role in enabling growth of the microfinance sector in India. I joined the company in the CFO office to understand more about running a lending business and, over the next four years, had a phenomenal exposure to the workings of private credit markets.

Associate VP—Investment & Product Management, Northern Arc Capital (Apr 2019—Apr 2020)
► Managed $175M+ in private debt funds at Northern Arc Investments
► Designed an innovative short-term credit fund that is now the flagship product with $200M+ in AUM
► Related Artifacts: NBx—Tracking Indian Debt Markets

Senior Associate—Investments & Products, Northern Arc Capital (Aug 2017—Mar 2019)
► Developed a Bloomberg-Terminal-like product for asset managers, bankers, & corporate treasuries
► Created an innovative financial product (MLDs) for high-growth firms wanting to manage cashflows
► Managed investment funds and supported business operations to enable firm’s growth

Associate—Treasury & CFO Office, Northern Arc Capital (Jun 2016—Jul 2017)
► Managed credit & interest rate risks by sell-down of assets, generating $900k in profits
► Created an interactive FP&A tool to simulate fund-raising scenarios on our $400M balance sheet
► FP&A tool used by two CFOs to raise $100+ million in fresh equity across two private equity rounds
► Supported research that reduced interest rate risk on $400 million balance sheet by 60% in 2 years


Finding My Niche With Fintech (2009—16)

During my undergrad, I explored various career paths and had my first 'aha' moment in the summer of 2012 while at RBI, where I encountered the concept of m-pesa or mobile money in Kenya. That experience shaped the rest of my college journey and set me on a path now known as 'Fintech.'

Co-Founder, Hedwic (Oct 2015—May 2016)
► Worked on a social lending platform that made it easy to borrow from friends and family
► Product aimed to meet working capital needs of self-employed millennials using India Stack APIs

Business Associate, ZS (Sep 2014—Sep 2015)
► Consulted with a Danish MNC on incentive compenesation for their 3000+ salesforce
► Analyzed 500M+ rows of data in SQL & Excel to administer $60M+ in annual incentives

MSc. Economics + B.E. Mechanical Engineering at BITS, Pilani (Aug 2009—July 2014)
► Published a paper examining the use of migrant remittances to accelerate financial inclusion
► Worked at ANZ in the Trade Finance (Jan 2014—Jun 2014)
► Worked at EY in the Risk Advisory division (July 2013—Dec 2013)
► Traveled across India on 2-week train journey as part of Jagriti Yatra (Dec 2012—Jan 2013)
► Worked at India’s Central Bank—The Reserve Bank of India— as a Young Scholar 2012 (Summer 2012)