Summary
Engineer and founder strongest at the intersection of product goals, partner/customer needs, developer experience, and deeply practical engineering — prototyping, building the first useful version, creating internal platforms, helping teams ship, and turning repeated work into tools.
Currently leading a 15-person internal products team at OneCard, and running AI Grants India — a non-profit serving 500+ startups and 10,000+ developers with free AI model access, credits, and developer tooling so builders can ship without procurement friction.
Highlights
- →Co-founded AI Grants India — 500+ startups, 10,000+ developers, ~3B tokens/month at peak.
- →Negotiated 25,000+ GPU hours of compute for Indian AI startups via NVIDIA Inception and ecosystem partners.
- →Leads a 15-person internal products team at OneCard; systems handle 100M–150M events/day.
- →Prolific international speaker — 20+ talks across India (Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi), USA (New York, San Francisco, Boston), UK (London), and Europe at Fifth Elephant, GopherCon India, FunctionalConf, FOSS.IN, Erlang Factory London, CUFP, CB Insights Future of Fintech NY, Apache meetups, and Docker HQ.
- →CTO at API platform "Kudos" - Built embedded-finance platform powering ~$200M in lending across 150 products.
- →Founded Bon Credit — neobank for 50,000+ gig workers, 800,000+ micro-credit loans.
- →Earlier: Product Engineering Lead at Helpshift (mobile support SaaS, Series B), Engineering Manager at Spotzot, Director of Engineering at June Software (YC-backed), and Co-founder/CTO of Hover.in — a Pune-based Erlang startup (spoke at CUFP 2009 and Erlang Factory London).
- →Started out as a Microsoft Student Ambassador — evangelizing Visual Studio and Visual Studio across colleges, institutes, and developer events in India.
Experience
- 2022-present OneCard — Head of Internal Products
- 2024-present AI Grants India — Co-founder
- 2024-present Angel Investor — 10+ startups
- 2022-2022 FairMoney — Associate Director, Cards
- 2020-2022 Kudos Finance — CTO
- 2016-2020 Bon Credit — Founder
- 2014-2016 Helpshift — Product Engineering Lead
- 2013-2014 Spotzot — Engineering Manager
- 2011-2012 June Software (YC) — Director of Engineering
- 2007-2011 Hover Technologies — CTO / Founder
- 2006-2007 TutorVista — Software Engineer
Principles
- · Small teams can do great things.
- · Treat teammates like customers.
- · Invest in internal tools, docs, adoption, onboarding.
- · Start small, ship, measure, iterate.
- · Strong opinions, loosely held.
- · Measure success by how others benefit.
Angel investments
Angel investor in 10+ startups since 2024 — many sourced through the AI Grants India builder ecosystem. First two AI checks went on to raise institutional rounds. Invest across applied AI, dev tools, vertical AI, voice, hardware, education, design, and creator infrastructure. Help founders with product narrative, DX, credits/compute access, early users, investor intros, and pitch feedback.
- → agentic WhatsApp automation
- → AI-powered film & video production
- → AI companions for Bharat
- → AI-native embedded hardware workflows
- → cross-platform AI dictation & transcription
- → AI jewellery design
- → searchable memory across Claude Code / Codex / Gemini
- → interactive animated learning
- → AI television startup
- → turn idea into mvp with marketing agents