Field Digital Transformation
Led an HQ-sponsored digital transformation across the India business unit — 50+ user interviews shaping product and process changes.
95TH PERCENTILE ACROSS 100+ COUNTRIES · $1M SAVED + $10M REVENUE IMPACT01
Why the Mountain Words
THE APPROACH — READ THIS FIRSTTwo things have pulled at me for as long as I can remember: big mountains and building things that change how people work. Twelve-plus expeditions across the Himalayas and Andes taught me the same lessons a decade of operating did — pick an honest objective, respect the conditions, move deliberately, and never confuse motion with progress. Building a product, transforming an organization, summiting a peak: it's the same discipline wearing different boots.
That's why everything here speaks mountain. This page is Home Base — where every route starts. The projects are ascents, logged newest-first. The career is the journey so far, drawn as a ridge line. And the Trail Guide — the AI assistant in the bottom-right corner — knows the whole mountain. Ask it anything.
HOME BASE this page — start hereASCENTS projects, current & previousTHE JOURNEY SO FAR the career routeTRAIL GUIDE AI assistant, bottom right
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Current & Previous Projects
EVERY PROJECT IS AN ASCENT — NEWEST FIRST0042026
In progress
In progress
Win-Loss Agent
An agent that interrogates the deal record — win-loss calls, CRM notes, email threads — and explains why deals close or die, turning post-mortems from a quarterly ritual into a living playbook that updates with every closed deal.
STATUS: ACTIVE ASCENTCASE STUDY —›
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Shipped
Shipped
Startup Job Finder & Matcher
An always-on discovery pipeline that crawls newsletters, startup boards, and LinkedIn every two hours, has Claude score every posting against a versioned fit profile, and runs an enrichment agent that hunts down the real job behind thin mentions — 1,000+ postings triaged for ~$15/month.
STATUS: RUNNING DAILY1,000+ POSTINGS TRIAGED AUTONOMOUSLY FOR ~$15/MONTHCASE STUDY —›
0022026
Shipped
Shipped
AI GTM Operating System
A closed-loop blueprint that turns raw sales-call transcripts into structured deal signals, CRM truth, and forecasts — designed from 18 real deal transcripts for an AI-native GTM startup's leadership team, deployable on their existing stack in 90 days.
STATUS: BLUEPRINT DELIVERED18 TRANSCRIPTS AUDITED, EVERY CLAIM TRACEABLE TO A QUOTECASE STUDY —›
0012026
Shipped
Shipped
Personalized Task Tracker
An n8n WhatsApp assistant that turns anything I send it — a text, a voice note, a screenshot — into a filed task, calendar event, or saved link. Zero new apps, zero commands to learn; the tracker lives where the tasks actually arrive — my phone.
STATUS: IN MY POCKETTEXT, VOICE, AND SCREENSHOTS ALL LAND AS STRUCTURED ROWSCASE STUDY —›
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Transformation & Growth
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION · POSITIONING · GROWTH STRATEGYBuilding is half the story. The other half is changing how organizations work — digital transformation, product positioning, and growth strategy delivered inside large, skeptical systems.
Operating-Model Transformation
Built and led a $10M operating-model transformation for a global research firm — program design, interviews, scaling, and rebuilt onboarding.
ATTRITION CUT 25% · DELIVERED END-TO-ENDGenAI Adoption & Growth
Designed the adoption and engagement OKRs for Lilli, the firm's internal GenAI tool, mapping user journeys into targeted product changes.
USER ACTIVATION UP 30%Portfolio Positioning & GTM
Repositioned three enterprise products in a $1B portfolio to stop cannibalization, and own the 3-year product and GTM roadmap for a $4B portfolio.
$50M ANNUAL LOSSES AVOIDED · 5-POINT SHARE GAIN IN A YEAR04
The Journey So Far
WHERE THE PATH HAS LED — RIDGE LINE BELOW
2024 — NOWNetApp · Product Strategy & Ops, AI Initiatives
Built and shipped an agentic AI PM platform (Snowflake Cortex + Azure AI Foundry) now used by 100+ PMs and AEs, saving 15 hours a week — and own the 3-year roadmap for a $4B product portfolio that gained 5 points of market share in a year.
2023 — 24McKinsey & Company · Product & Growth Strategy
Led a $10M operating-model transformation end-to-end and lifted user activation 30% on Lilli, the firm's internal GenAI tool.
2015 — 23Schlumberger → Wharton MBA
Top 1% of SLB field engineers worldwide, then its youngest product & service delivery manager in the India BU — followed by a Wharton MBA in entrepreneurship and operations.
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Off the Clock
THE PARTS THAT DON'T FIT ON A RESUMEALTMountaineer
12+ high-altitude treks across the Himalayas and Andes. The same discipline that gets a summit gets a system shipped: plan the route, respect the conditions, keep moving.
RUNRunner
Miles are where the thinking happens. Ex-athlete, now racing Hyrox and logging long climbs between builds.
TREKS · 12+ high-altitude — Himalayas & Andes
RACING · Hyrox
PEDIGREE · Institute Blue — 30+ collegiate medals
RACING · Hyrox
PEDIGREE · Institute Blue — 30+ collegiate medals
FUELNutrition & Recovery
Performance doesn't end when the run does. Healthy, whole-food eating, weekly meal prep, and a lifestyle built around recovery — treating sleep, heart-rate variability, and resting heart rate as inputs to train, not scores to admire. Long-term health is the longest climb.
EATING · whole-food, home-cooked, meal-prepped
RECOVERY · HRV, resting HR & sleep as training inputs
HORIZON · holistic living for the long game
RECOVERY · HRV, resting HR & sleep as training inputs
HORIZON · holistic living for the long game
Rope up.
Let's build something.
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