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Work

Build the team,
fix the machine

Five years of process and operations leadership in hyper-growth environments — quick commerce, consulting, analytics. Scaling teams, standing up verticals that didn't exist, and pushing AI and product-led change through organisations moving too fast to stop.

By the numbers

  • 75+Team built and led at Zepto
  • ₹1.2Cr+Revenue from B2B monetisation
  • 50+Projects undertaken and completed
  • $1.1B+Client revenue delivered at ZS

Experience

  1. Mar 2026 – Jul 2026

    Associate Director — Growth

    Trans-Fi India · Product Business Head · Remote

    • Developed and executed GTM, owning product strategy, launch, and marketing operations across Vietnam, Indonesia, and Philippines.
    • Head of new vertical, “Solutioning”, at the cusp of Treasury & Pricing, managing deal flows, customer go-lives and internal ops.
  2. Oct 2025 – Mar 2026

    Consultant - Head of Product Strategy & Ops

    Terrabase · Consultant · Remote

    • Strategized and successfully launched the first MVP, leading competitive benchmarking and owning end-to-end product design execution.
    • Led end-to-end client discovery, outreach, onboarding, operations and maintenance for Indian government and private enterprises.
    • Owned and secured SOC1/2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA certifications; created automated structures for compliance and periodic tracking.
    • Collaborated directly with founders on fundraising, VC liaisoning, and investor presentations, driving seed funding and investor relations.
    • Implemented and maintained ‘Linear’ task management tool for org-wide execution; owned HR, global tech recruitment, and IT functions.
  3. May 2024 – Aug 2025

    Senior Manager 2 — Business Excellence

    Zepto · Bangalore · Revenue, Head of Catalog & B2B Sales

    B2B Sales (Apr – Aug 2025), Head of Catalog (Jul 2024 – Mar 2025), Revenue (May – Jun 2024). Built and led a 45+ member team of managers and associates to establish and scale Zepto’s catalog vertical, managing a portfolio of 3.5L+ SKUs. Spearheaded high-revenue-impact micro-projects and endemic sales that directly contributed to the company’s bottom-line.

    • Scaled and led a 45+ member team and managed 3 vendors, creating Zepto’s Catalog vertical, managing 3.5L+ SKUs.
    • Drove a 90%+ reduction in manual effort, TAT and cost via generative AI-led automation, scraping and enriching data for 2L+ products.
    • Generated revenue of INR 1.2+ Cr by spearheading monetization for catalog services: pitched and worked with 120+ brands in 4 weeks.
    • Revamped Product Detail Page and Product Listing Page, improving ATC conversion by 13.5% via UX redesign and content optimization.
    • Defined Zepto’s first catalog taxonomy: a 4-level hierarchy (Category - Subcategory - Class - Attributes), improving search and merch ops.
    • Product managed 6+ internal tools across new product onboarding, catalog ops, filters, search, returns & replacements, and brand portals.
    • Drafted BRDs and aligned founders, CXOs and product teams on a 6-month roadmap for catalog & monetization, scaling inventory to 2x.
    • Hired and onboarded 50+ managers and associates, 32+ interns, and 2 directors; led org-wide BU and tools training and documentations.
    • Promoted inside first six months
    • First-ever Zepto Aces award from the CBO for ‘Big picture clarity’, Feb 2025
    • 5★ Far Exceeds Expectations rating, consecutive cycles
  4. Dec 2020 – Jul 2023

    Decision Analytics Associate

    ZS Associates · Pune · Decision Analytics 2022–23, Business Operations 2020–22

    Led a team of 3 associates on client-facing data-driven consulting projects primarily for a Big Pharma involving customer segmentation, targeting, sales force sizing, territory alignment design and maintenance, and field call planning and refinement.

    • Delivered $1.1B+ (25% increased revenue) by resizing sales force to 136% via localization and placement projects, impacting 400+ reps.
    • Increased market share from 73% to 94% by optimizing zip alignment, call planning and geographic coverage of 1550+ sales representatives.
    • Increased coverage by ~18% and 1.25X area expansion for the client in the US geography by strategically designing layouts of territories.
    • Aided 1300+ field users to refine sales plans using pivotal key metrics by singlehandedly developing a dashboard on proprietary platform.
    • Top 2%ile two cycles running
    • 1st place Business Operations boot camp, over 250 associates
  5. Aug – Dec 2020

    Analyst — Business Consulting (Risk)

    Ernst & Young · Mumbai

    Executed Concurrent Audit for a leading private sector bank, covering the Treasury operations – Bullion and SWIFT functions.

    • Slashed daily task efforts by 50% and reduced monthly compliance reporting efforts by 90% by spearheading process automation initiatives.
    • Drove a 75% meeting time reduction for client and company by streamlining and automating requirements gathering and documentation.
  6. May – Sep 2019

    Intern, Analyst (Trainee) — Tax & Regulatory Services

    PricewaterhouseCoopers · Mumbai · Foreign Institutional Investors

    Revamped FII tax software as Database Administrator, and tested its integration with an AI-driven slab-based billing mechanism.

Leadership

  1. 2020

    Covid India Taskforce

    Co-lead, PPE operations

    Ran PPE supply during the first wave, managing ₹1.2 Cr+ and reaching 3,750+ healthcare professionals across 250+ hospitals.

  2. 2019

    ISRO × NMIMS Satellite Programme

    Core member

    Raised ₹6 lakhs and contributed to payload design for Terfenol-D material testing on a satellite that reached polar orbit.

  3. 2018 – 2020

    Earth Appreciation Society

    Co-founder, then president · NMIMS

    Mobilised 2,500+ volunteers for environmental drives across Mumbai.

Education

  1. 2023 – 2024

    PGP, Technology & Business Management

    The Masters' Union · Gurugram

    • Dean's list — 4th in cohort, 3.68 GPA.
    • Merit scholarship awarded to the top 2%; 100th percentile in MUBAAT.
    • R-Champion for mentoring the student cohort. Teaching assistant for statistics and programming, UG class of 2027.
  2. 2016 – 2020

    B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering

    MPSTME, NMIMS University · Mumbai

    Student Ambassador Award, top 1 percentile.

  3. 2011 – 2015

    School

    Abhinav Public School, Delhi · Cambridge School, Noida

    POSH committee core team and school volleyball at Abhinav. Junior house vice-captain of Vindhya and school swimming at Cambridge.

Skills & certifications

Certifications. IBM Data Science Professional, AWS Cloud Practitioner, McKinsey–Tsinghua Leadership Program.

Programming. Advanced R. Intermediate Python, SQL, Java, VBA.

Data. AWS Cloud, Oracle MySQL, SAS, Tableau, Power BI.

Product & design. Figma, Linear, Jira, sprint planning, Scrum, BRDs, roadmapping.

Web. HTML5, CSS, Cursor, Hostinger, WordPress. This site is hand-written — no CMS, no framework.

The rest. Prompt engineering and gen-AI coding, client relationship management, strategy formulation, vendor and people management, Canva.

Community

  1. 2022

    Teach for India

    Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj English Medium School · Pune

    Taught English, mathematics and life skills to two classes of 50+ students. Also the corporate liaison for ZS Associates.

  2. 2021 – 2023

    ZScholars & CSR

    ZS Associates · Pune

    Head panelist for the ZScholars programme. Led CSR initiatives including tree plantations and donation drives.

Outside work

Mobile photographer at @kashishjain_photography, 11k+ followers, urban cityscapes and nature. Food blogger at @kashishjain_foodblog, 5k+ followers.

Content partner with Galleri5 since March 2020, Firework TV 2019–20, ShareChat 2019–20. Held executive and leadership roles on the organising committees for Sattva '17 and Taqneeq '17, and the college cultural committee.

References available on request. Email me and I'll make an introduction.

Let's talk

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