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
- 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.
- Dec 2019 – present
Founder & Developer
- 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.
- 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
- Jul 2017 – Mar 2019
Co-founder & Director
- 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.
- Apr – Jul 2017
Management Trainee
VF Corp
- Doubled average basket size during a pilot programme.
- Oct – Dec 2016
Consultant
Aquor
- Apr – Jun 2016
Summer Intern
OYO Rooms
- Generated $10,000+ in revenue at a 14.3% conversion rate.
- Apr – Jun 2015
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)