Experience

Entrepreneur, data scientist and developer.

Nine years across a family business, startups and data science. One thread: building things that ship and move a number.

Roles

  1. Nov 2024 – present

    Owner-Operator

    Puranmal Sons & Ceramix Syndicate, Indore

    • Run a 40+ year wholesale building-materials distribution business: pipes, tiles, sanitaryware and water tanks, with 80+ employees.
    • Modernising operations end to end with self-built software: a live SQL-fed ledger and stock explorer, ERP analytics dashboards, an AI-assisted WhatsApp CRM, a plumber loyalty app and the company website.
    • See the systems in detail: Operations & Analytics Suite and the Plumbing Network app.
  2. Dec 2019 – present

    Founder & Developer

    YourTechConsultants

    • One-person software practice that ships production systems solo, from specification to deployment.
    • ArPar Private Browser, a ~10MB Android browser live on Google Play; Declare, a card game in development for web and Android.
    • Earlier: customer loyalty platforms, GIS dashboards and automation bots for corporate clients; independent ML projects.
  3. Apr 2021 – Jul 2024

    Manager, Data Scientist L3

    MoneyView (Whizdm Innovations Pvt Ltd)

    • Built machine-learning models for credit underwriting and led a three-person team.
    • SMS-data pipeline processing 200 million SMS a day.
    • Risk model with 72%+ AUC that cut cohort risk by 16%; fraud-detection improvements exceeding 450%.
    • More on data science and ML work.
    • Python
    • SQL
    • Pandas
    • Scikit-learn
    • Flask
    • Plotly
    • AWS
    • Metabase
  4. Jul 2017 – Mar 2019

    Co-founder & Director

    DronaMaps Pvt Ltd

    • Built a drone-based 3D mapping company to ₹1.2 crore+ turnover, mapping more than 7 billion square feet of infrastructure.
    • Named Best Startup by the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Most Innovative Startup at the NASSCOM Product Conclave.
  5. Apr – Jul 2017

    Management Trainee

    VF Corp

    • Doubled average basket size during a pilot programme.
  6. Oct – Dec 2016

    Consultant

    Aquor

  7. Apr – Jun 2016

    Summer Intern

    OYO Rooms

    • Generated $10,000+ in revenue at a 14.3% conversion rate.
  8. Apr – Jun 2015

    Intern

    Lok Vikas Sansthan (NGO)

    • The summer of fieldwork that led directly to Swachhalaya.

Skills

Tools of the trade.

  • Core
    • Python
    • SQL
    • HTML
    • CSS
  • Machine learning
    • scikit-learn
    • NumPy
    • pandas
    • Matplotlib
  • Apps & dashboards
    • Flask
    • FastAPI
    • Plotly
    • Dash
    • Jupyter
  • Front end & mobile
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Vite
    • Capacitor
  • Data
    • Postgres (Supabase)
    • SQL Server (T-SQL, pyodbc)
    • Metabase
  • AI
    • Gemini
    • Claude
    • LLM-integrated apps
  • Cloud & tools
    • AWS (S3, EC2, Athena, SageMaker, Glue)
    • Cloudflare Workers & Pages
    • Render
    • Git
    • Playwright
  • Working knowledge
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
    • Java
    • C
    • R
    • Octave
    • Google Apps Script
    • Excel macros
  • Design & modelling
    • Autodesk
    • Adobe suite
    • Blender
    • SketchUp
    • ArcGIS
    • Pix4D
  • Languages
    • Hindi (fluent)
    • English (fluent)
    • Spanish (basic)
    • German (basic)

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