Delhi, India
I've always been someone who builds things. Every company I started and every community I grew kept pointing me toward the same place: Thrivia. It began in my first year of college with GigBix, connecting live artists and comedians to cafe and hotel chains, with Radisson as our first client. Around then I picked up coding, started working with US clients, and saw a massive gap between what colleges taught and what the industry actually needed. So we built CodeAsylums, India's first co-living coding bootcamp, and bootstrapped it to a 15,000-student community and $500K ARR, all while I was still finishing college. Then Covid hit. An offline bootcamp couldn't survive it, and going online meant fighting Byju's and Whitehat Jr in an edtech bloodbath, so I shut it down. I spent 2.5 years at Walmart as a Software Engineer, and later worked at Apollo.io (YC-backed) and Rockefeller PA. But living in Bangalore, I missed the community I'd had at CodeAsylums, so I started House of Utopia on the side, themed events and house parties that grew to around 1,000 members. When my job went remote, I started backpacking across the Himalayas and Southeast Asia, and noticed something shifting. Post-Covid travelers no longer wanted the tourist checklist. They wanted real experiences: small treks, waterfall walks, off-the-grid trips. I started organizing exactly that under Zoo Retreat, treks and trips to Pushkar and Spiti. People kept showing up. That's when Thrivia clicked. Thrivia is an AI-powered booking platform for independent travel organizers running treks, trips, and retreats across India. Today 80% of travel plans start on Instagram and most die in the DMs, while organizers juggle five tools to run one trip: WhatsApp, Google Forms, UPI screenshots, spreadsheets. Thrivia replaces all of it with one link. Our AI replies to every DM in seconds, qualifies and captures the lead in a built-in CRM, takes payment, and sends instant confirmation, with a live funnel of visits, drop-offs, and conversions. As each organizer brings their own audience, Thrivia becomes where travelers discover and book experiences. Come for the tool, stay for the marketplace. First 90 days, zero ad spend: 110 organizers, 12,000+ travelers, 16,000+ bookings, ~₹20L GMV, 540K+ organic reach. I thrive-via (thrivia) intersection of Product, Vision and Communities. Currently on a mission to change how people experience the world.
Thrivia is where independent travel organizers run and sell their trips. It gives them one link to sell their treks, trips, and retreats, with AI that replies to every DM, captures the lead, and takes the payment. Website: https://thrivia.io • Building Thrivia from zero into a booking engine that turns an organizer's Instagram post into a one-link booking flow, replacing the 5–7 tools they juggle today. • Built an AI layer that replies to every Instagram and WhatsApp DM in seconds, qualifies high-intent leads using an in-house activity-scoring algorithm, and captures every lead in a built-in CRM. • Shipped instant payments, automated booking confirmations and refunds, and a live analytics funnel (visits, drop-offs, conversions) so organizers run their entire operation on autopilot. • Drove early traction with zero ad spend: 110 organizers, 12,000+ travelers, 16,000+ bookings, ~₹20L GMV, and 540K+ organic reach in the first 90 days. • Leading a lean, cross-functional team of 15 across product, engineering, AI, design, marketing, and sales. • Own fundraising, product strategy, GTM, and supply-side growth; currently raising a pre-seed round. Recognized externally: • Part of Sine Start Cohort 6 from Incubator by IIT Bombay • Won $10K AWS credits in the AWS Campus Fund Grand Challenge 2024. • Interviewed with the South Park Commons Fellowship team.
⬩ Led LLM-based Intent Data project, boosting prospecting success by 17% through high-intent lead recommendations aligned with client ICPs. ⬩ Led a 3-engineer team to scale third-party intent data coverage 9x, built first-party intent signals capture, & automated ICP mapping. ⬩ Optimized Elasticsearch indexer flows with Search team, reducing indexing time by 22% improving freshness and saving ~900$ in ES infra costs/week. ⬩ Mentored 6 engineers, drove best practices via reviews and one-on-one sessions; 1 promoted to L4. ⬩ Built and launched Natural Language Filters, letting users search in plain English, adoption grew 32% in the first release. ⬩ Operated with a founder’s mindset, spotting gaps, shaping strategy, and ensuring execution tied to customer value. Tech Stack - LLM, LangChain, Pinecone, Ruby, Rails, Python, Flask, GCP ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Docker, SideKiq, Sentry, NewRelic, OpenAI Models.
The Spark in Bir (Dec 2023): Traveling through Bir, Himachal, identified a gap for immersive, creator-led experiences blending adventure, culture, and community. Pushkar Retreat (March 2024): Hosted 25 guests at a culturally rich Holi retreat (Revenue - 9Lacs). The overwhelming response confirmed demand for niche, experiential travel. Spiti Overlanding (June 2024): Ran an overlanding trip for 25 explorers (Revenue - 11Lacs), validating the vision of delivering raw, authentic adventures. Ideating Thrivia.io: Positive feedback from creators and travelers inspired the ideation of Thrivia, a platform for discovering and hosting unique experiences.
⬩Built a community of 1,000+ members in Bangalore, centered around experiential social events and creative gatherings. ⬩Organized 30+ themed house parties at our residential villa in HSR, including Halloween, treasure hunts, and music jam nights. ⬩Designed and executed end-to-end event operations, from concept, theme, and logistics to marketing and guest experience. ⬩Achieved consistent revenue growth through weekly events, demonstrating demand for curated, community-driven experiences. ⬩Fostered a vibrant, engaged community, turning the space into a hub for creativity, networking, and social discovery.
⬩Partnered with product managers to evolve Cashi Wallet (similar to Paytm), Walmart’s LATAM payments app with 10M+ MAUs. ⬩Led migration from monolith to microservices, improving uptime by 35% and cutting release cycles from 3 weeks → 5 days, enabling faster feature delivery. ⬩Designed and launched cashback & payments services, directly driving a 3% lift in retention and 12% increase in new sign-ups during campaigns. ⬩Acted as a bridge between product and engineering, ensuring features shipped with measurable business outcomes. ⬩Mentored 2 junior engineers enabling them to ship production features within a quarter. Tech: Java, SpringBoot, HDFS, Kafka, Looker, Hive, Microservices, JS, NodeJS, Informatica
Worked with ASDA e-commerce data engineering team under International pillar on Informatica, Looker, Hive, SQL, Spark, and Kafka for Data Warehousing, creating ETL pipelines, powering 20+ critical dashboards across finance, product, and growth teams.