Product Lead · Founder · AI · Fintech · Healthcare
Product leader with 9+ years building and shipping market-first products across AI, fintech, blockchain, and healthcare. Track record of owning the full product lifecycle — from zero-to-one discovery through commercial adoption — across venture-backed startups and as a founder.
Work Experience
Aug 2025 — Now
PlanMyRounds ↗
Founder
Bangalore, India · Healthcare Operations SaaS
- Founded and led a healthcare workforce management platform solving doctor scheduling, roster optimization, and workforce planning for hospitals and medical groups.
- Positioned scheduling as an entry point — not the destination — to build toward solving larger, systemic problems in healthcare operations.
- Onboarded 10+ hospitals including Christian Medical College Vellore, validating demand across diverse clinical environments.
- Reduced monthly roster creation from hours of manual coordination to minutes — cutting scheduling effort by 70–90% through workflow automation and intelligent scheduling.
- Designed a rule-based scheduling engine balancing doctor availability, leave management, staffing ratios, workload fairness, and burnout prevention.
- Led end-to-end product strategy, UX design, customer onboarding, and implementation from concept to live deployment.
Sep 2025 — Jan 2026
Kiki ↗
Co-founder
Bangalore, India · Celebrations & Event Commerce
Built and operated a technology-enabled celebrations ($50B+ market) platform serving milestone events — baby showers, decorations, catering, and gifting.
- Scaled event-services revenue to ₹2L/month through direct fulfillment and vendor partnerships.
- Launched a digital gift registry platform that scaled to ₹20L/month GMV, enabling friends and families to contribute toward curated gifts and experiences.
- Led product development, growth experiments, and business operations as a founder.
Jun 2023 — Jul 2025
Xalts ↗
Bengaluru & Hong Kong · Accel & Citi Ventures Backed
Product Lead — Vertical AI Agents & Banking Infrastructure
Nov 2024 – Jul 2025
- Built an Agentic AI platform to automate $500M+ in trade and treasury transactions and enterprise workflows for Fortune 500 clients including Tata and AM/NS.
- Designed a unified bank connectivity layer integrating 7 global banks (HSBC, DBS, MUFG, and others), reducing integration time by 83% — from 18 months to 3 months.
Product & Design Lead — Digital Assets Studio
Jun 2023 – Nov 2024
- Led design and development of a multi-chain tokenization and orchestration platform for financial institutions, automating on-chain and off-chain workflows for trade finance and bond tokenization.
- Deployed Turkey's first bank-secured tokenization in 3 weeks; completed 2 POCs with global banks.
- Spearheaded Blockchain Console and IAM Wallet apps on ERC-4337 (Account Abstraction) for institutional custody, including Fireblocks integration.
- Founding PM; built and led a 7-member global Product and Design team.
Oct 2022 — Jun 2023
Spydra ↗
Senior PM — Blockchain Platforms
Bangalore, India · Graviton Backed · Enterprise Blockchain
- Built and launched a low-code asset tokenization platform on Hyperledger Fabric from the ground up, enabling Raymond Retail's $121M/year supply chain savings and counterfeit reduction.
- Designed on-chain event listeners for real-time blockchain event streaming and enterprise integrations.
Feb 2020 — Mar 2022
Klub ↗
Founding Product Manager / Senior PM
Bangalore, India · Sequoia & Antler Backed · Revenue-Based Financing
- First product hire at pre-seed; led all aspects of Product and Design and built a 10-member team.
- Built a marketplace from the ground up, facilitating $4M in investments in year one and scaling to 500+ funded brands within two years.
- Engineered 10+ data integrations with banking, revenue, and payment APIs, automating 85% of underwriting workflows.
- Launched the investor-facing Patrons app, increasing transaction velocity by 60% with 700+ investments across 300+ rounds and 5,000+ active investors.
- Built an internal investment operations portal managing $10M+ across 2 financial products, cutting approval cycles by 40%.
Aug 2017 — Feb 2020
TeamWave
Product Manager
Bangalore, India · B2B SaaS · Project Management, CRM, HR
- Single-handedly led all product modules — Projects, CRM, and HR — growing the user base by 120%.
- Revamped onboarding and core modules; built 2 accounting integrations; raised activation rate to 30%.
- Led customer success, increasing happiness score by 40%; conducted demos and webinars for resellers and prospects.
Jan–Aug 2017
Drone Tech Startup
Co-founder
India
Explored autonomous drone applications for industrial and agricultural sectors. Product did not launch.
Education
2012 — 2016
NIT Calicut
B.Tech — National Institute of Technology, Calicut
Skills
Product
0→1 product development, roadmap ownership, customer discovery, market validation, go-to-market, OKR-driven prioritization
Design
UX design, scheduling and rule engines, workflow automation, agentic AI systems, tokenization platforms, design systems
Domains
AI/ML products, fintech, blockchain (EVM, Hyperledger Fabric, ERC-4337), healthcare operations, marketplace platforms
Technical
API integrations, on-chain/off-chain systems, data pipelines, low-code platforms, AI agent architecture