I find the problem, build the product, and close the deal. Usually in that order.
Every wave of automation before this one simply moved people from one kind of job to another. This one may not, and I help build the technology that's doing it. So I think just as much about the other side of it: what a good life looks like when work becomes a choice rather than a necessity.
The best way to predict the future, Alan Kay said, is to invent it. That is the plan: a venture for a post-work world. For now I run the business at Cenizas Labs, where we build products like SLX, Orion and StableCore, and before it I started companies in education and agriculture. Have a look around.
Trains won't replace us. A horse who rides one just might.
Full P&L and a 7-person team – enterprise revenue across 3 markets, $500K+ pipeline, and ISO 27001 / GDPR / SOC certification.
Product & Strategy Lead
Feb 2025
Took SLX and Orion BRD to market (adopted by $10M+ enterprises) and secured $50K in pre-orders before MVP.
Executive, Product & Partnerships
Jul 2024
Closed 20+ partnerships at global trade shows for $500K in early revenue; built the GTM and onboarding playbook.
Where it began
Technical Sales Representative
Jan 2024
Ran live hardware-and-software demos at trade shows; bridged product and engineering into client-facing narratives.
Expedia Group – Gurgaon
Data Analyst Intern
May 2023 – Jul 2023
Defined success metrics for the One Key rewards program, impacting 168M users across Expedia's platform.
Proposed a sustainability-focused expansion projecting a 4% ($400M) revenue boost; greenlit by the India Operations Head.
Earlier Experience
Engineering
JSW Energy – Summer InternThermal power · 2022
TVS Motor – Lean Mfg Trainee2022
TTK Prestige – Industrial Trainee2022
Marketing & Growth
Sapientury – Business Dev2022
GagaHealth – Social Media2022
IIM A & C – Campus Ambassador2020
Operations & People
BITS Pilani – Workshop Admin2023
Aashman Foundation – HR Manager2021
Growth Central VC – HR Specialist2021
Academic
BITS Pilani – Teaching Assistant2022
Chegg – Subject Matter Expert2021–22
Hashlearning – Math Tutor2020–21
03 – Entrepreneurial & Social Impact
Ventures & Impact
The 0 → 1. Starting things from nothing, and the impact along the way.
Thara Local – Food-Tech
Dec 2024 – Dec 2025
Founder
Founded a food-aggregator platform giving Greater Chennai's street-food hawkers visibility and sales through partnerships with major delivery startups.
Reached 39% ROI in year one at a 34% operating profit.
Caesura – EdTech
Jul 2021 – Dec 2023
Founder
Built to ease the school-to-college transition for students, growing to 55,000+ readers across 1,500+ school partnerships through content and mentoring.
Earned incubation at PIEDS, BITS Pilani's startup incubation centre, following demonstrated traction.
Nutshell – AgriTech
Sep 2022 – Jul 2023
Founder
Built to put fairer prices and post-harvest tools directly in farmers' hands; piloted an ML-driven loss-reduction solution with 50 farmers, cutting losses 15%.
Raised INR 20M via SAFE; presented at CII Expo; at 19, the youngest founder selected for IGKV R-ABI central-government incubation – 1 of 42 startups nationally.
Runner-Up at Desert Hack 2022, a multi-campus entrepreneurial pitching competition.
04 – Projects, Research & Patents
Projects
Research, products and patents.
Products & Builds
SLX
A universal application layer on top of foundational LLMs that turns natural-language commands into real-time action across a company's tools, automating workflows end to end.
An AI-powered home fitness device built around a balance board: it sets training goals, runs guided sessions, and monitors form and progress to support recovery.
Cenizas Labs · Consumer hardware · For US homes
Patent
Smart Load Protection Apparatus
A current-limiting, constant-current and voltage-regulation system that safeguards connected loads against overvoltage, undervoltage and load variation.
Patent No. 573902 · Filed Nov 2023 · Granted Nov 2025 · Patentee: Cenizas Labs
Publications
INBUSH ERA National Conference
Peer-reviewed research paper presented and published in the conference proceedings.
ICRTETBM 2023 · Peer-reviewed · Published by Springer
ICEBM 2023 – Accepted Abstract
Peer-reviewed abstract accepted; full paper selected for the edited conference publication.
ICEBM 2023 · Peer-reviewed · Full paper selected
Research Projects
Comparative LCA – Wheat vs. Millet
2023
A cradle-to-farm-gate life-cycle assessment quantifying the emissions, water and energy footprint of wheat versus millet across the full growing cycle, building the case for millet as the climate-smarter staple.
Government-funded · LCA · 25% lower GHG for millet
Millet Distribution Supply Chain
2023
Designed the farm-to-kitchen distribution network for millet in Rajasthan's mid-day-meal program, modelling routing and storage to cut spoilage and delay across the state.
Named in the top 4 of 165+ Mechanical Engineering students for overall outstanding performance, weighed across academics (60%), leadership (20%) and social impact (20%).
03
Runner-Up, APOGEE Prototype Presentation
Runner-up in the project and prototype event at APOGEE, BITS Pilani's annual technical festival and one of India's largest student-run tech fests.
04
Runner-Up, Desert Hack
Runner-up at BITS Pilani's largest startup pitching competition, taking a problem, solution and business plan before a jury of founders and investors from the Indian startup ecosystem.
07 – Standardised Scores
Benchmarked.
695
GMAT · Focus Edition
Quantitative, verbal & data-insight reasoning.
99.2
CAT 2025 · Percentile
India's most competitive management entrance exam.
99th
JEE Main 2020 · Percentile
India's premier engineering entrance, 1M+ candidates.
~7,000
JEE Advanced 2020 · AIR
Top ~2% of national aspirants; India's toughest STEM exam.
