Builder / Founder / Community Architect
I build products, communities, and connections that matter. Currently making hiring human again at Cruitical.
CMU '26 · ex-Zenduty · 99 Tartans
Experience
From founding startups to scaling SaaS platforms, consulting for banks, and scouting for VCs — I tend to keep my hands full.
Cruitical
Building AI-native hiring infrastructure that replaces keyword-driven resume screening with evidence-based capability assessment. Discovering talent, not just filtering it.
GoodFutures Venture Studio
AI-powered venture studio helping humans navigate workforce disruption and unlock their full potential. Building the studio OS and supporting mission-driven founders.
99 Tartans — CMU Angel Network
Sourced deals, conducted due diligence, organized pitch nights, and connected CMU founders with early-stage investors across emerging markets.
BNY × Tepper School of Business
Explored externalizing BNY's internal AI platform as an AI-as-a-service offering for smaller financial institutions. Presented to CIOs and senior executives at BNY HQ.
Peekly.tech
Built an AI Marketing Consultant for lean teams — analyze multi-channel data through conversation instead of dashboards. 20+ design partners, now in new hands.
Zenduty
Founding product manager at a seed-stage incident response platform. Drove the platform from $200K to $2M ARR in 18 months. Built partnerships with Datadog and Grafana, architected AI features, and created The Incidentally Reliable Podcast.
Ahsaas
Founded a virtual group therapy platform during the COVID pandemic in India, focused on anonymity and security. 120+ therapy sessions for 250+ users. Attracted $125K in angel interest.
Talks & Publications
20+ global tech conferences, published in The New Stack, CNCF, and more. I believe the best way to learn is to teach.
KubeCon Europe 2024
Conference TalkThe New Stack
Published ArticleCNCF Blog
Published InterviewCivo Navigate Austin
Conference TalkYouTube / Zenduty
Talk Recordingdev.to / Middleware
Technical BlogZenduty Blog
Published GuideYouTube / Zenduty
Talk RecordingYouTube / Zenduty
WorkshopOpen Source India
ConferenceWritings
A collection of reflections on building, community, hiring, and the messy beautiful journey of figuring it all out.
Why I'll always choose purposeful chaos over comfortable stillness
After graduating from CMU, someone asked me what I'd do with all my "free time." I laughed. My calendar had never looked so full during grad school, and somehow I'd loved every second of it — building...
How a microphone became Zenduty's most powerful growth engine
When Zenduty was fighting for attention in the crowded incident response space, I knew we wouldn't be able to outspend the competition. But we could outposition them. Instead of cold outreach or paid...
The gap between what we measure and what actually predicts success
I've spent the last year watching hiring play out across dozens of companies and hundreds of candidates. The gap between what hiring measures and what actually predicts success has never been wider. ...
From 16-year-old moderator to 3,000-member meetup organizer
I've been building tech communities since I was 16. From small Discord servers to India's largest SRE meetup group, from an AWS re:Invent Slack community to a 2,000+ member offline network of CTOs and...
Community
Building communities has been the throughline of my career — from podcasts to meetups to angel networks. The magic is always in the hallway conversations.
monthly listeners
Conceptualized, designed, scripted, recorded, and edited one of the world's biggest SRE and DevOps podcasts. Featured Solomon Hykes (Docker), Niall Murphy (SRE Book author), and more. 10,000+ monthly listeners at peak across 34 countries.
Listen on Spotifymembers
Inherited and grew India's largest SRE community from 800 to 2,600 members. Organized 12 meetups in 12 different office locations with 80-100 members each. Handled everything from speakers to sponsors to venues.
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Created and grew the unofficial community for AWS re:Invent attendees to 1,200+ members as sole moderator. Buzzing alive every year from September through December.
Read the guidemembers
Built a 2,000+ member offline meetup community of CTOs, VCs, and engineering leaders focused on Site Reliability innovations. Expanded Zenduty's reach 17x through deep technical content.
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Podcast with Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker
Pitching 4thChapter at CMU's Heinz College
Gallery
A few moments worth remembering — from stages to studios, classrooms to coffee shops.
Recording with Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker
Pitching Peekly at Tepper's AI Venture Studio Demo Day
Pitching 4thChapter at CMU's Heinz College
With the team, consulting for BNY as part of Tepper's CSL
Life in frames