Work Experience

From a Fortune-100 floor to scrappy startup rooms.

Enterprise AI and strategy at HPE, a founder's office, venture deals, and the early sales roles where it all started.

  1. Feb 2024 — Present Enterprise · AI

    Strategic Development Analyst · AI Champion

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    • Led the UAT Masking & Commit project in Singapore for the Global Supply Chain team.
    • AI Champion for the team — created its AI knowledge repository on the Hippo One AI platform.
    • Currently working on automating the order-creation process.
    • Contributed to the adoption and standardisation of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) processes, enhancing efficiency and consistency across global operations for the Make in India project and the S4 Upgrade — and served as UAT Lead for the ASD project.
  2. Jan 2025 — Aug 2025 Founder · alongside HPE

    Founder — Screen-Free Kids' Play Startup

    Built in parallel with my full-time role at HPE

    • Interviewed close to 75 parents and developed two product concepts — a responsive play mat and smart story blocks.
    • Took both concepts through manufacturer conversations to the prototyping stage, with a co-founder met through Y Combinator's co-founder matching.
    • Wound the venture down in August 2025 — the full story.
  3. Jan 2024 — May 2024 Founder's Office

    Founder's Office Intern

    Kniru — AI-Powered Financial Advisor

    • Built a six-month sales strategy and viral Instagram scripts; grew an organic Product Hunt following of 100+.
    • Grew the AI & finance space's largest Discord — 500+ members — driving acquisition.
  4. Nov 2023 — Jan 2024 Venture

    Investment Strategist

    Logissy — B2B logistics & payments for SMEs

    • Built pitch, carrier & supplier decks; applied to top UAE accelerators and strengthened investor relations.
  5. Feb 2023 — May 2023 Venture

    Investments Fellow

    888VC — cross-border pre-seed & seed accelerator

    • Sourced the FinFloh deal (Kunal-Shah-backed) in my first week.
    • Repped 888VC at 40+ events — met founders & HNIs incl. the founders of Licious and Trxn.
    • Raised $60K from angels for Soptle, a B2B SaaS logistics platform.
  6. Oct 2022 — Dec 2022 Growth · Content

    Business Development & Copywriter

    Formi — SaaS event ticketing platform

    • As Copywriter, curated customer-focused articles for the blog and experimented with different sales strategies.
    • Moved into Business Development & Growth, running sales and marketing experiments across channels.
  7. Nov 2022 — Dec 2022 Sales

    Sales Intern

    Paint My Walls — professional painting service

    • Worked end-to-end on Zoho CRM to optimise sales and lead management.
    • As the first point of contact, engaged 500+ customers — introducing timed batch calling and follow-ups that minimised lead drop-offs.
    • Partnered with the logistics team to improve last-mile connectivity.
Leadership

Leadership roles in college.

✦ 2021 — 2023

Head of Finance & Management

Entrepreneurship Cell, RVCE

Ran finances for ₹10L+ events, secured sponsorships, and led workshops with the Department of Startups & Innovation.

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Content Curator, TEDxRVCE

Speaker selection & scripting

Helped choose speakers and shape the scripting of TEDx talks for the campus stage.

Toolkit

What I bring to the table.

Strategy & Analysis

  • Critical Analysis
  • Market Strategy
  • Go-to-Market
  • Process Standardisation

Investments & Venture

  • Deal Sourcing
  • Fundraising
  • Pitch & Decks
  • Investor Relations

Building with AI

  • Vibe Coding
  • Shipped Web Apps
  • Hippo One AI
  • AI Enablement

Growth & Sales

  • Negotiation
  • Community
  • Copywriting
  • CRM (Zoho)

Communication

  • Public Speaking
  • Storytelling
  • Leadership
  • Networking
Contact

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