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@12
Sourced and sold Pokémon card and Beyblades at 200% mark-up
@14
Wrote first C program and got first 100 users
@17
Self-taught in AI/ML (CV, CNNs, SLAM), from first principles
@19
Research intern @ team competing DARPA robotics challenge
@22
Exited AI startup to Sequoia portfolio, beat 2 competing Stanford PhDs in benchmarks, delivered water gallons door-to-door to pay server bills
@23
Enabled tech-moat for $20 Million Series B round
@25
Left 6 figure salary offers and raised seed at a 7 figure valuation with a cold email and 30min
@26
Built India’s largest Algo-trading platform, reaching 1million users organically within 6 months of launch
@29
Scaled startup profitably to over $21 Billion in transactions
Living to make a dent in the universe
Side missions: I declined two offers from Stanford to join their graduate program, lived in metal sheet houses, grew up fetching water from wells, filed patents, youngest speaker at International AI conferences, coded in COBOL...
Founder Journey
Founder & CTO • 2017–2024
Streak AI — no‑code algorithmic trading & investing
Bootstrapped to profitability, scaled to millions; raised $1.5M (Rainmatter, 3one4).
- Reached 4M+ users and facilitated $21 Billion+ in total transactions with a lean team.
- Built scalable, cost‑efficient architecture; grew org to 45 with a 15‑person tech/product core.
- Expanded to Singapore; opened relationships with US brokers and crypto exchanges.
Founder & CTO • 2015
Trialkart — AI virtual try‑on & image search (exited to Sequoia portfolio)
Exited for $250K(30X ROI). Novel DNN + distributed inference across device & cloud.
- Real‑time virtual try‑on on low‑cost mobile devices.
- Patent filed: Virtual Trial on Mobile Devices (acquired).
Operator Experience
Summer 2025 • New York
Town Lane Management LP — AI Strategy Associate (Intern)
$1.5 BillionAUM real estate PE firm
- Drove AI strategy across investment, asset management, and operations, identifying high-impact use cases.
- Designed multi‑modal data pipelines & multi‑agent workflows to accelerate insights & reporting.
- Saved ~4 hours/day for associates by automating ingestion and analysis.
2015–2017 • Bangalore
Voonik — AVP (R&D)
Sequoia‑backed e‑commerce platform (acquired by ShopUp)
- Architected DNNs enabling a $20M Series B; 5× better performance with 85% less training data.
- Hired and led a 20‑person R&D team; 25% conversion lift and ~15% opex reduction.
- ~$3 Million savings via 30% returns reduction; +~$5 Million ARR via AI‑powered upsell.
Community, Talks & Press
Select Talks
- Digital Pioneer Club — Google Cloud × YourStory
- Thomson Reuters — Future of Algo Trading
- Economic Times CIO — Fast‑tracking Innovation & Growth (2022)
- Fintech Underground Podcast (Alpaca, 2021)
- Deep Learning Summit Asia — Singapore (2016)
Social Impact
Built Quriosity — a non‑profit ed‑tech platform offering free courses in native languages on practical skills, from starting small businesses to coding.
100K users in 2022.
Recognition
- Top 50 Disruptive Startups (YourStory, 2019)
- Top 30 Startups (YourStory, 2018)
- Best AI Fintech Startup (Amazon AI Conclave, 2018)
- Distinguished Alumnus — VTU
Patents & IP
2017
Trading System with Natural Strategy Processing (filed)
Algorithmic trading workflows, natural‑language strategy authoring
2015
Virtual Trial on Mobile Devices (filed, acquired by Voonik)
Computer vision for real‑time try‑on on constrained devices
Education
2024–2026
Harvard Business School — MBA (Candidate)
Rocks Summer Fellow; VP, Entrepreneurship Summit & West Coast Club
2010–2014
VTU — Bachelor of Engineering
Recognized as Distinguished Alumnus for building transformative tech ventures