Experience

BlockPunk

• Singapore
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder & CTO

  • 2018 - 2021

  Singapore Raised S$1.3M from SeedPlus, SGInnovate & Dai Nippon Printing to build a NFTs for top Japanese anime studios. Hired and managed a team of 6+ engineers based in Singapore, Japan & India. Product Launches ◦ Built & launched anime non-fungible tokens (NFTs) marketplace in partnership with top Japanese anime studios. ◦ Built world’s first blockchain art, SmartPrints with NFC chips, in partnership with Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd (Japan’s largest printing company) with over S$250K in… Show more Raised S$1.3M from SeedPlus, SGInnovate & Dai Nippon Printing to build a NFTs for top Japanese anime studios. Hired and managed a team of 6+ engineers based in Singapore, Japan & India. Product Launches ◦ Built & launched anime non-fungible tokens (NFTs) marketplace in partnership with top Japanese anime studios. ◦ Built world’s first blockchain art, SmartPrints with NFC chips, in partnership with Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd (Japan’s largest printing company) with over S$250K in total sales. Each print comes with NFC chip linked to an Ethereum ERC-721 token establishing authenticity, provenance and proof of ownership. ◦ Developed platform for creators to crowd-fund original video by issuing limited quantity blockchain tokens. Token holders have the right to stream and watch DRM-protected video and sell tokens in secondary markets to profit from upside. ◦ Created MerchPunk, largest search engine and cross-border store for anime merchandise with 2.2M+ items from over 67 official Japanese stores and global shipping. Engineering ◦ Hire & manage a team of full-stack, front-end & blockchain engineers. Designed overall system architecture, including core block-chain smart contracts. ◦ Built micro-services based architecture with Kong API Gateway and React-based front-end hosted on AWS. ◦ Built ERC-721 smart contracts with real-time monitoring of token transfers on blockchain & integration with main website. ◦ Setup DRM-enabled video streaming solution in partnership with Brightcove and access control based on blockchain ownership of ERC-721 tokens associated with the video. ◦ Built web-crawler backend for aggregating anime merchandise sale & pricing data from over 60+ Japanese anime stores. Daily crawling implemented as Dockerized-containers running on AWS Elastic Container Service. Show less



Entrepreneur First

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Fellow

  • 2018 - 2018



Quikr

• India
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Vice President, Monetization Products

  • 2014 - 2017

  Bengaluru Area, India Led product management for Quikr's monetization products with ownership of online revenue targets. Managed a team of product managers, engineers & data scientists. Highlights: * Led several product enhancements to premium listing & pricing algorithm – leading to over 2x increase in premium ad revenue over past 12 months through various initiatives. * Led Quikr's third-party advertising strategy in close partnership with Google & Facebook's teams leading to 6x increase in revenue… Show more Led product management for Quikr's monetization products with ownership of online revenue targets. Managed a team of product managers, engineers & data scientists. Highlights: * Led several product enhancements to premium listing & pricing algorithm – leading to over 2x increase in premium ad revenue over past 12 months through various initiatives. * Led Quikr's third-party advertising strategy in close partnership with Google & Facebook's teams leading to 6x increase in revenue over 12 months through initiatives such as DFP/AdX integration, native ads and creating new interactive ad formats for direct ad sales teams. * Led Quikr's central payments platform. Product launches include payments user experience improvements, extensive A/B testing, escrow service for peer to peer payments, Quikr wallet and UPI integrations. Show less



InMobi

• Singapore
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Product Manager

  • 2011 - 2013

  Bengaluru Area, India * Define and execute product strategy/roadmap for InMobi’s self-service developer portal, developer registration flow and app on-boarding experience. * Led a product & design team to redesign App Publish product. App Publish is a platform to enable app developers to submit apps to hundreds of app stores globally. * Launch supply quality scoring methodology for app developers who use InMobi’s ad network to monetize their apps.



LinkedIn

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Manager / Data Scientist

  • 2009 - 2011

  Mountain View, California Product manager for LinkedIn Contacts & Addressbook Importer. Highlights: * Launched multiple releases for the contact importer, the most important driver of LinkedIn’s viral growth. Increased member growth by 20-30% overall & up to 30-50% in key international markets like Brazil, Italy, China, Germany and France * Design, launch and analyze performance of multiple A/B tests to improve conversions of LinkedIn contact importer & growth related marketing campaigns * Monitor &… Show more Product manager for LinkedIn Contacts & Addressbook Importer. Highlights: * Launched multiple releases for the contact importer, the most important driver of LinkedIn’s viral growth. Increased member growth by 20-30% overall & up to 30-50% in key international markets like Brazil, Italy, China, Germany and France * Design, launch and analyze performance of multiple A/B tests to improve conversions of LinkedIn contact importer & growth related marketing campaigns * Monitor & track rollout of membership growth related product launches by building business intelligence reports using SQL, Microstrategy & Excel to track viral metrics & conversion funnels. Show less



Yahoo

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Manager (Yahoo Advertiser Analytics)

  • 2008 - 2009

  Sunnyvale, California Product management lead in the Targeting and Monetization Team, within Strategic Data Solutions Group for Yahoo Advertiser Analytics, an analytics tool for top Yahoo advertisers. Launched collaborative filtering models for advertiser analytics & recommendations platform based through requirements gathering, product specification, user testing & release deployment.



Gupshup

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Scientist

  • 2006 - 2008

  San Francisco Bay Area Founding team member of GupShup (www.gupshup.io) backed by Tiger Global, Charles River Ventures, Helion Ventures & Globespan Capital. Launched multiple releases for SMS GupShup from ideation. Projects included writing product specs, designing wire-frames, & coordinating releases with cross-functional team. Built GupShup's SMS advertising system and internal tools for managing, monitoring and reporting ad campaigns.