Experience

N5 Technologies, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development

• COO

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  N5 offers an enterprise data product targeted towards customer facing transactional systems. It combines big data storage, fast data streaming and real time data processing in a single offering that enables enterprises to embed rich, real-time data processing directly in their transactional systems. This allows enterprises to serve their customers in a highly contextual, relevant, personalized and timely manner, a key capability for the modern enterprise.



Uvaca, Inc.

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• COO

  • 2016 - 2019

  Uvaca was founded with the singular goal of providing wired and wireless broadband, as well as digital media to the unserved and underserved masses in developing economies. For this Uvaca pioneered Software Defined Access Network (SDAN) and Software Defined Digital Headend (SDDH) technologies and operationalized its solution to provide broadband and digital TV to a primarily rural population of over 200,000 people.



Adobe Systems

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering

  • 2004 - 2016

  • Delivered six versions of Adobe License Management (ALM) technology, from ALM 1.7 to ALM 3.0, which were used by more than 30 Adobe products to prevent casual software piracy worth $1 Billion annually. • Managed a large international team of engineers across US, India and China. • Managed technical relationship with Macrovision, our 3rd party technology vendor. • Delivered a new revenue stream of about $25 million by developing Try-and-Buy technology. • Architected and developed… Show more • Delivered six versions of Adobe License Management (ALM) technology, from ALM 1.7 to ALM 3.0, which were used by more than 30 Adobe products to prevent casual software piracy worth $1 Billion annually. • Managed a large international team of engineers across US, India and China. • Managed technical relationship with Macrovision, our 3rd party technology vendor. • Delivered a new revenue stream of about $25 million by developing Try-and-Buy technology. • Architected and developed core parts of Digital Publishing Suite (DPS), which helped DPS to scale to over 80% market share and millions of downloads. • Maintained close partnership with Intel, including representing Adobe in Intel’s technical conferences. • Initiated a seed project to create new revenue streams for Adobe by leading development of a cross syndicated marketplace for Adobe AIR applications. Show less



uniconn – The University-Startup Connection (www.uniconn.co)

• Founder & CEO

  • 2012 - 2014

  uniconn connects entrepreneurial students & alumni with their university network to found, join or fund startups • Leveraged my experiences and pain points experienced during co-founding of Blizini.com and GetOrGone.com to envision and launch uniconn.co as the solo founder. • Played all roles including CEO, CTO, PM and marketeer. • Singlehandedly engaged with hundreds of users across multiple customer segments, developed the entire web-site which was hosted on AWS, and iterated upon… Show more uniconn connects entrepreneurial students & alumni with their university network to found, join or fund startups • Leveraged my experiences and pain points experienced during co-founding of Blizini.com and GetOrGone.com to envision and launch uniconn.co as the solo founder. • Played all roles including CEO, CTO, PM and marketeer. • Singlehandedly engaged with hundreds of users across multiple customer segments, developed the entire web-site which was hosted on AWS, and iterated upon user feedback, pitched at U.C. Berkeley events and leveraged social media groups to gain traction. • Developed and refined business models, financial model and investor pitch deck, and pitched to investors. • Hired and trained a team of 4 undergrad students at U.C. Berkeley • Launched a fork of the website targeted at military veterans at www.vetconn.com Show less



AEST Inc.

• Advisor

  • Sep 2011 - Jun 2012

  AEST is an alternate energy startup developing patented renewable energy generation technology • Advised AEST in refining and developing new business models, as well as evaluating total market size. • Developed formal business plan and financial model, with 5 year projections, and investor pitch deck.



Blizini.com

• Pakistan
• Hospitality

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2012 - May 2012

  Blizini aimed to provide better recommendations to consumers by leveraging peer group • Ideated the original concept, created original business models, market sizing and financial model. • Adopted Steve Blank’s Lean Launchpad customer development methodology to iterate business model, and actively blogged our progress at blizini.wordpress.com • Developed website, hosted on AWS, ran surveys, google ads and campaigns in wedding and pregnancy forums • Ran Google analytics to measure… Show more Blizini aimed to provide better recommendations to consumers by leveraging peer group • Ideated the original concept, created original business models, market sizing and financial model. • Adopted Steve Blank’s Lean Launchpad customer development methodology to iterate business model, and actively blogged our progress at blizini.wordpress.com • Developed website, hosted on AWS, ran surveys, google ads and campaigns in wedding and pregnancy forums • Ran Google analytics to measure impact of various iterations to refine business models, customer segments and product. Show less



GetOrGone.com

• Leisure, Travel & Tourism

• Co-Founder

  • May 2011 - Dec 2011

  GetOrGone connected users in real-time with deep discounted goods and services with soon-expiring shelf life • Ideated the original concept, created business models, market sizing and financial model. • Did market research, including interviewing retailers and service providers, as well as users to refine product vision and business models, and iterate website. • Worked with engineers to develop web-site, create awareness, A/B testing and ran Google analytics.



Fujitsu Softek

• Staff Software Engineer

  • 2002 - 2004

  • Architected and developed parts of storage virtualization software, called Softek Storage Provisioner, which enabled large enterprises to centrally manage storage resulting in approximately 25% better storage utilization.



Intertrust

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 2000 - 2002

  • Developed digital rights management (DRM) technology that was used by Universal Music and BMG to deliver protected digital music to combat music piracy and create a new revenue stream. • Developed direct relationships with Compaq and Rio to enable support for DRM music on their MP3 players.



Adaptec

• Germany

• Software Engineer

  • 1999 - 2000

  • Led development of new user interface for Easy CD Creator 5.0, resulting in over 95% market share. • Co-Founded an Internet media startup called BurningPoint.com, within Adaptec, with 5 other co-founders.



Interra Corporation

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 1996 - 1999

  • Built software for a data-warehousing joint venture between Interra and Data General, which helped customers analyze various business trends including sales and run forecasts based on historical data. • Worked on development of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Electronics Design Automation (EDA) industry. This included a Schematic Generator, a syntax-coloring editor for Verilog and VHDL and other integrated tools.



Infosys

• India
• IT System Custom Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 1995 - 1996

  Developed user-interface, ActiveX and Win32 controls, for NCR Corporation’s point of sales (POS) terminals.