1997
Born
Grew up in Mumbai 🇮🇳
Founded my first company, Ayudar, in high school
Moved to Toronto 🇨🇦
Went to UofT
Studied computer engineering
Built AI prototypes at IBM
Secured a $XXM contract from a proof of concept I developed
Interned at Setter
Learnt all about retention & scaling marketplaces
thank you, Jamie
Moved to Vancouver ⛰️
Joined Microsoft. Made Azure Storage faster
thank you, Ciprian
Met a west coast girlie
Love you, Becca ❤️
Joined Slack, made it safer
thank you, Tania
Was hungry to join an early stage startup
took risks, made mistakes
Lead a team of 10
fired myself
Became a Canadian 🇨🇦
Discovered LLMs
Learned to juggle product, engineering, and sales at a tiny team
beginning again, but not from scratch