New Delhi, Delhi, India
Founding PM at Zylabs, building AI agents for B2B sales. I'm a technical product manager who builds AI systems end-to-end and cares most about the unglamorous part. Making them correct, grounded, and accountable, not just demo-impressive. I came to product via science (Kyoto University, IISc) and public health (led a national TB-diagnosis programme at CHAI that reached 15,000+ patients), then built a conversational-commerce platform as a contracted PM at Sinch. The constant: I like building things from nothing and making them actually work. Off the clock: NixOS maintainer, and I build open-source systems software (currently a GTK4/Rust email client). Happy to talk AI products, evaluation, or trustworthy software anytime.
- Provide product leadership and direction for a 5-person engineering team, overseeing development across a portfolio of new and existing products. - Define the product vision and strategy for 'Build your Store,' a new Shopify-like e-commerce platform for Indian SMEs, designed as an integral part of Sinch's core messaging product. - Author foundational product and technical specifications for key initiatives, translating strategic goals into detailed, actionable roadmaps for the engineering team.
- Authored the core research and implementation protocol to implement a $15.1 million grant from GiveWell, creating the strategic framework to scale TB prevention for children across UP and Bihar. - Architected & Scaled National Health Programs: Led an end-to-end operational pilot that screened 15,000+ high-risk patients for TB, directly resulting in its adoption into India's national public health programme for country-wide scale-up, impacting 70 million chronic kidney patients.
- Shaped Public Health Strategy with Big Data: Informed and optimized state-level public health planning by analyzing over 5.5 million patient records to model and map TB risk populations. - Directed AI Technology Evaluation & Policy: Directed comprehensive validation studies for an AI-based diagnostic tool across multiple sites. Leveraged the data-driven insights to shape national screening protocols and policy recommendations for public health interventions. - Secured Stakeholder Buy-In for New Ventures: Developed strategic project proposals and detailed implementation roadmaps across multiple health portfolios, successfully engaging with government and private stakeholders to secure buy-in for new initiatives. - Led scientific and ethical reviews for new projects by CHAI, ensuring that they conformed to the highest standards of ethical research and healthcare delivery
Taught behavioural biology, science and technology policy and designed courses for the same.
I worked as a journalist and wrote articles and features for IISc's flagship publications Kernel and Connect, and press releases for the Office of Communications
I worked as a Junior Research Fellow here working on a project titled the "Structural and Functional characterisation of Metagenome of extreme niches and fermented foods of high altitude region of Sikkim Himalaya". The work involved was mostly genetic in nature: consisting mostly of genome extraction, sequencing and analysis.