Technology for Social Good

I believe that technology and data can help us solve some of the most pressing problems that we face as a society.

I am a technology for development professional with 8 years of work experience with various non-profits in India. I have supported more than 30 non-profit organizations with their technology requirements such as Donor management, Program management and Monitoring & Evaluation systems. I have helped them visualize their data to make important strategic decisions. Currently, I am part of a team that is building an AI and augmented reality enabled mobile phone based application to detect the malnutrition of kids under age 5.

Things I Can Do

For past 8 years, I have worked across different roles such as product development, product management, scrum management, business analysis and technology consulting.

  • Write all the code
  • Diagramming
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Science
  • Build ERP Applications
  • Scrum Management
  • Web-scrape any data
  • Product Wireframes

Work Experience

HEAD OF PRODUCT, TECH AND AI JUL 2022 - PRESENT

CHILD GROWTH MONITOR, WELTHUNGERHILFE, MUMBAI, INDIA (REMOTE)

Child Growth Monitor (CGM), a comprehensive solution based on a mobile app using augmented reality in combination with artificial intelligence to instantly detect malnutrition, is WHH’s India- based digital innovation project. My responsibilities are as follows:

  • Heading Product, Tech and AI teams to build child anthropometry and malnutrition detection tools for screening and regular growth monitoring
CHIEF OF STAFF, PRODUCT STRATEGY JUL 2020 - JUN 2022

CHILD GROWTH MONITOR, WELTHUNGERHILFE, MUMBAI, INDIA (REMOTE)

  • Core leadership team member actively developing the company strategy, and product strategy for our portfolio of products
  • Heading Agile Product Delivery using Scrum framework across 3 teams
  • Setting and tracking company wide yearly and quarterly objectives and key results (OKRs), and overall company health
  • Led and set up the Quality Assurance (QA) process for all products
  • Leading Key Partnerships to manage the requirements and delivery
  • Heading Operations Team including People & Culture, Finance and IT Operations
  • Built a 15-member global distributed remote team between GMT +1 to GMT +5:30 timezones
SCRUM MASTER APR 2019 - JUN 2020

CHILD GROWTH MONITOR, WELTHUNGERHILFE, MUMBAI, INDIA

  • Heading Agile Product Delivery using Scrum framework
  • Set Product Vision, OKRs
  • Developed personas and led user research
  • Conducted Product Workshops
  • Worked with Head of Product to set internal Product Management Frameworks
  • Building a Globally Distributed Remote Team
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CONSULTANT AUG 2019 - PRESENT

ANTARANG FOUNDATION, MUMBAI, INDIA

Antarang assists youth (in the age group of 14-25 years) from disadvantaged backgrounds to bridge the gap between education to employability and launch themselves on the path to a fulfilling career. My responsibilities are as follows:

  • Analysis and visualization of their Career Aware and Career Ready programs’ data
  • Developing insights based on 40 key metrics such as the number of students who need employment, percentage of youth with increased income from employment, key reasons why young people leave jobs, etc.
  • Helping build monitoring and evaluation frameworks based on insights from the data
TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATE JAN 2014 - FEB 2019

DASRA, MUMBAI, INDIA

Dasra is India’s premier strategic philanthropy foundation that nurtures powerful partnerships to create massive social change.My responsibilities were as follows:

  • Managing and building scalable SAAS based data systems on NetSuite and Salesforce
  • Building technology capacity of 30+ partner organizations
  • Data analysis & visualization to consolidate tracking of org wide metrics
IDEX ACCELERATOR FELLOW AUG 2013 - DEC 2013

MIRAKLE COURIERS, MUMBAI, INDIA

The IDEX Accelerator Fellowship is a 6-month long program designed to give aspiring social intrapreneurs and leaders a launchpad into the development sector. As an IDEX Accelerator Fellow, I worked at Mirakle Couriers - an Indian social enterprise courier service that creates employment opportunities for hearing and speaking impaired people from low-income backgrounds.

  • Worked with founder on business development
  • Developed and managed systems and processes on Salesforce
  • Managed monthly newsletter using MailChimp; Subscriber based increased by 2X
  • Led website redevelopment project
EDUCATIONAL SPECIALIST JUNE 2011 - JUNE 2013

EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES, AHMEDABAD, INDIA

Educational Initiatives (EI) is an organization helping children learn better by harnessing the power of technology to make learning personalised and experiential. At EI, I Worked on its MINDSPARK Product as the Product Developer.

  • Led full life-cycle product development (requirements gathering, strategy/concept development, designing, deployment, & UAT)
  • Worked cross functionally with project managers, engineers, and designers to specify and deploy new features
  • Participated in the product roadmap based on the market research of all the competitive products
  • Used quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to improve the product

VOLUNTEERING

SHARANAM GIRLS, MUMBAI, INDIA MAR 2015 - JUN 2016

Taught how to build enterprise web & mobile apps using point and click app development on force.com

DBS-NUS SOCIAL VENTURE CHALLENGE ASIA, SINGAPORE MAY 2018 - JUN 2018

1st round judge for the DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia, Asia’s largest startup competition for social enterprises