A very wise person once noted: the purpose of life is a life of purpose. Mine has always been to build — to make something out of a bunch of nothing, and to understand how it all works. From Lego bricks to steel and concrete to code, that's been the one constant.
The arc
I trained as a structural engineer and started at Larsen & Toubro, designing a luxury high-rise and — more formatively — driving an org-wide shift to BIM. That's where I first learned that the tooling is often the real product.
At the Government of India's NICDC, I ran national infrastructure: a $3.5Bn+ convention complex delivered in 14 months, and a portfolio of industrial-corridor contracts. Megaprojects taught me that speed comes from removing decision latency and owning the interfaces between everyone who can say no.
After an MBA at ISB, I moved into product and operations — first at Myntra (IoT and RFID systems on the ops floor), then at Flipkart, where I now direct a $20M+ automation and AI charter: agentic engines, cold-chain monitoring, and a hardware-integration platform.
Underneath all of it is the same structural instinct — hold weight, remove friction, transfer force — and an inventor's habit that's produced seven patents in intralogistics and robotics.
Give the ambiguous, physical problem to the person who's shipped both concrete and code.
How I work
Find the real constraint — not the loudest symptom — then build past it. Treat integration as a platform problem, keep humans where judgment matters, and measure leverage rather than activity. I write about all of this in Field Notes.