PRODUCT · DESIGN · TECHNOLOGY · 2005 – 2026

NILGIRIS STUDIO·2,240m · OOTY IST

Making ideas happen across AI agents, video automation, and travel.

Building products and businesses inside one living portfolio — designed as an interactive pass wallet you can pull, inspect, and query in real time.

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Current products across AI infrastructure, media automation, local commerce, and hospitality.

CARD 01 / 06 · PINGBOX.IO

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AI AGENT INFRA#V-01

pingbox.io

· Conversational AI Agents & Live Operational Bridge

MCP · LIVE AGENT BRIDGE

LLM ⇄ ping.query() ⇄ ERPpingbox.io · Agent Infra

2025 – Present · Founder & ArchitectSERIAL · #V-01

Live operational bridge connecting customer AI agents directly to business backend systems.

Enables customer-facing LLMs to execute deterministic live availability queries, pricing checks, and bookings.
Sub-120ms schema-guarded tool dispatch built natively for Model Context Protocol (MCP) and OpenAPI.
Eliminates agent hallucination on transactional workflows with zero-trust merchant state verification.

TypeScriptMCP ProtocolEdge WorkersDeterministic SchemasWebhooks

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AI VIDEO AUTOMATION#V-02

suupe.com

· Autonomous Video Creation & Programmatic Rendering

60FPS · AI STORY ENGINE

RAW CLIPS → AUTO BEAT CUTsuupe.com · Video AI

2024 – Present · Creator & ArchitectSERIAL · #V-02

AI-powered video engine turning raw camera footage into rhythm-synced stories, reels, and shorts.

Multimodal frame + speech cadence scoring automatically strips dead air, filler pauses, and shaky takes.
Synthesizes vertical 9:16 narrative cuts synced to audio beats with dynamic kinetic typography.
Cuts creator and brand post-production editing time by over 80%.

Multimodal LLMsWebCodecs / FFmpegScene Vision ScorerGPU Render Pipeline

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BOUTIQUE TRAVEL#V-03

allto.in

· Hyper-Local Travel & Nilgiri Mountain Stays Discovery

2,240m · MOUNTAIN CIRCUIT

OOTY · COONOOR · KOTAGIRIallto.in · Travel & Stays

2024 – Present · Co-FounderSERIAL · #V-03

Thoughtful travel, heritage tea bungalows, and boutique stays discovery starting from Ooty across India.

Curates architectural stays, colonial planters’ bungalows, and slow-travel mountain circuits at 2,240m.
Replaces noisy OTA discount dark-patterns with micro-climate telemetry, elevation context, and direct host booking.
Powered by pingbox.io agent hooks for instant conversational itinerary planning.

Next.jsSpatial Elevation GISPingbox Agent BookingTailwind CSS

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AGRITECH · 2,240m#V-04

heyfresh.in

· Farm-to-Table Fresh Produce from 2,240m Nilgiri Hills

2,240m · FRESH HARVEST

NILGIRI HIGHLAND GROWERS · DIRECTheyfresh.in · Fresh Produce

2023 – Present · FounderSERIAL · #V-04

Traceable farm-to-door fresh produce harvested at 2,240m in the Nilgiris and delivered within 18 hours.

Direct high-altitude grower network harvesting exotic greens, heirloom carrots, and mountain avocados the same morning.
Zero-middleman cold-chain logistics with plot-level QR harvest timestamps and fair farmer payouts.
Preserves crispness and nutritional density lost in traditional multi-tier commodity mandis.

Supply Chain TelemetryDemand ForecastingQR Batch LedgerDirect D2C Commerce

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ON-DEVICE GEMMA AI#V-05

itsmo.app

· Private On-Device Android AI Companion & Call Memory

GEMMA NPU · ZERO CLOUD

LOCAL ANDROID NPU · AIR-GAPPEDitsmo.app · Private AI

2024 – Present · BuilderSERIAL · #V-05

100% private on-device AI phone and call reminder assistant powered by Google Gemma.

Runs quantized Google Gemma models directly on Android NPU/GPU silicon via MediaPipe LLM Inference API.
Extracts call follow-ups, personal context, and timely reminders with zero cloud uploads and zero user accounts.
Proves that high-utility personal memory AI can be completely air-gapped and sovereign.

KotlinJetpack ComposeGoogle Gemma On-DeviceMediaPipe LLM RuntimeEncrypted SQLite

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BEAN-TO-BAR · OOTY#V-06

chocolab.in

· Artisanal Bean-to-Bar Nilgiri Craft Chocolate & Cafe

72% CACAO · OOTY ATELIER

BREW & BONBON · 2,240mchocolab.in · Craft Cacao

2022 – Present · Co-CreatorSERIAL · #V-06

Single-origin bean-to-bar craft chocolate atelier and specialty pour-over cafe in Ooty.

Small-batch stone-melangeur refining using fermented single-estate cacao from Idukki and Anamalai foothills.
Precision roast and tempering telemetry paired with an experiential mountain tasting room at 2,240m.
Replaces commercial compound chocolates with authentic South Indian cacao terroir.

Bean-to-Bar TelemetrySingle-Estate SourcingExperiential RetailDirect D2C

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Career Leadership

Two decades across hyper-growth startups, AI product leadership, and institutional quantitative engineering.

CARD 01 / 05 · FLYHOMES

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2024 – JUNE 2025 · PM#C-01

Flyhomes

· Product Manager (Ooty, India, Remote)

2024 to June 2025 · Ooty, India (Remote)SERIAL · #C-01

Explored and built AI agents to automate parts of the real estate journey and applied generative AI to product workflows.

Explored and built AI agents to automate parts of the real estate journey, along with marketing automation tools for campaigns and content generation.
Applied generative AI to product workflows and worked on Junior AI, a project focused on smart email replies and assisted communication.
Partnered with engineers to test OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic APIs in product prototypes.

AI AgentsGenerative AI WorkflowsJunior AIOpenAI / Gemini / AnthropicMarketing Automation

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2020 – 2024 · YC W19, ACQUIRED#C-02

ZeroDown

· Product Manager, (YC W19, Acquired) · Full-time

2020 – 2024 · Ooty, India (Remote)SERIAL · #C-02

Built AI-first products for home search, Drive TV video exploration, and new product experiments.

Part of a team that built AI-first products for home search, including an early AI-powered platform that ranked homes based on schools, risks, amenities, and lifestyle factors (early RAG implementation in consumer real estate).
Built/worked to make Drive TV for virtual neighborhood exploration and prototyped video-first ideas like TikTok-style home experiences using automated AI video generation.
New product experiments including renters earning reward points from rent payments, redeemable toward future down payments.

AI-First Home SearchEarly RAG PlatformDrive TVAI Video GenerationRent Rewards Fintech

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2019 – 2020 · UX & MARKETING#C-03

Wonder.com & Crio.do

· Design & UX Consultant (Wonder) · Marketing (Crio)

2019 – 2020 · Wonder.com & Crio.doSERIAL · #C-03

Early UI for chef workflows and schedule tracking at Wonder.com, alongside brief marketing support for Crio.do.

Worked on early UI for chef workflows, including the chef screen and schedule tracker.
Improved user flows and layouts during the platform's rapid growth phase.
Helped the growth team at Crio.do with marketing (brief engagement).

Chef WorkflowsSchedule TrackerUser Flows & LayoutsGrowth Marketing

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2016 – 2020 · FOUNDER#C-04

TrendArrow Technologies / Fronthaul

· Founder (Bangalore, India)

2016 – 2020 · Bangalore, IndiaSERIAL · #C-04

Founded an AI-powered retail marketplace and launched a Digital Out-of-Home advertising platform.

Built an AI-powered marketplace connecting fashion retailers with consumer trends and inventory data.
Started a Digital Out-of-Home advertising platform. Built and prototyped the product, got some initial traction before COVID hit.
Handled product, design, and business development in a small team.

AI MarketplaceConsumer Trends DataDOOH PlatformProduct & Business Dev

2005 – 2015 · ASSOCIATE → MANAGER#C-05

D.E. Shaw Group / Arcesium

· Associate → Manager, Design & User Experience

2005 – 2015, consulted through 2016 · Hyderabad, IndiaSERIAL · #C-05

Over a decade progressing from creative work to UX leadership and setting up design practices during Arcesium's spinoff.

Spent over a decade in different roles, moving from creative and marketing work to UX and product design.
Early years shaped by mentorship from art directors in New York, working on campaigns and digital experiences. Later worked with corporate development teams on internal and client-facing products.
Part of the team that set up design and UX practices during Arcesium’s spinoff launch.
Built strong foundation in systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration that carried into later ventures.

UX & Product DesignDesign Practice SetupSpinoff LaunchSystems Thinking

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Principles & Convictions

Core operating beliefs shaped over twenty years of building products and leading teams.

01 · CRAFT & CONVICTION

Software is a medium of thought.

Software with lasting impact is built with a high density of thought. When every edge case, interaction cadence, and response delay is considered, the product stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling natural.

pingbox.io · suupe.comHIGH-DENSITY CRAFT

02 · THE AI PARADIGM

Product judgment is the scarce bottleneck.

AI enables small, focused teams to ship complete systems at unprecedented speed. When code generation is abundant, the scarce bottleneck shifts entirely to product taste, domain empathy, and clear judgment.

itsmo.app · Flyhomes AITASTE > BOILERPLATE

03 · THE FOCUSED STUDIO

Global products from the hills.

Building global technology products from the Nilgiri mountains while grounding physical ventures in the local community. Deep focus, low noise, and continuous shipping beat performative busywork.

heyfresh.in · allto.in · chocolab.in2,240m · OOTY HQ

04 · QUIET CONFIDENCE

Brief by default, deep on demand.

One clear answer, one useful next step; detail expands on demand. Avoid noisy badges for ordinary headings, skip decorative charts that carry no signal, and keep the human in calm control.

D. E. Shaw · Arcesium · ZeroDownSIGNAL OVER NOISE

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