Companies & Ventures

Two different things, kept clearly apart: companies where I led engineering, and companies I founded and built.

Led & worked at

Employee

Companies where I was on the team — leading engineering or building product.

Racanaa EnergyWorked

2023 — Present
VP, Data & EngineeringBengaluru, India

End-to-end engineering for an energy-tech platform — the full software lifecycle, data, QA, security, DevOps, product support, and the IT and infrastructure it runs on. Cut infrastructure cost 50%+ while expanding environments within the same budget, and introduced an AI-first development approach across the team.

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Komli MediaWorkedShut down

2012 — 2014
Senior Software Engineer · ConsultantBengaluru, India & Sydney, Australia

Adtech engineering at scale — Senior Software Engineer in Bengaluru, India, then Consultant in Sydney, Australia. Judges' Choice Award for the Android Alert Notifier at the Komli Hackathon. Komli has since shut down.

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Founded & built

Founder

Companies I started or co-founded.

Hurreh Technologies(Thruskills)FoundedSold

2015 — 2019 · exited 2023
Founder & DirectorBengaluru, India

An EdTech platform for project-based learning in full-stack development, cloud computing and DevOps. Moneyview offered to acqui-hire us; I chose to keep Hurreh independent and joined Moneyview to lead engineering instead. Fully exited — stake and directorship — on the company's sale in 2023.

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HometriangleFounded

2014 — 2015 · exited 2021
Co-FounderBengaluru, India

A hyperlocal home-services marketplace based in Bangalore, serving tier-1 and tier-2 cities across India. Raised funding from TLabs and joined its accelerator while I led the company. Best Site for Interior & Painting, awarded by Asian Paints. I left in 2015 and fully exited my stake in 2021; the company still operates today.

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Matrix AIFounded

2014 · exited
Co-FounderSydney, Australia

An early-stage venture in Australia built around cloud, orchestration & IoT. We were experimenting with CoreOS — back when running containers was still new — as the base for building our own “Matrix OS”. Nominated Best Startup in the Cloud category at the Hills iAwards. I exited in 2014 when I moved back from Australia to India; years later at Racanaa — working closely with the hardware team and finally seeing how it all fits — the whole idea clicked into place.

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