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Building Your AI Fashion Companion | Co-Founder, Monova AI | Ex-Amazon | Thapar’20

About

Ever felt you aren't sure about what to wear or what to shop for? Billions of options (literally) to choose from but not sure what really works? Hey, my name is Bhaskar and I'm the founder and CEO of Monova. Monova is just not an app, not a platform, but an ecosystem which takes care of your existing and new clothes. It leverages AI and human intelligence to optimise your wardrobe, to help you save time to solve for daily dilemmas like what to wear and also saves you from decision paralysis while shopping for clothes. At Monova, we are working with the industry best stylists to curate this ecosystem from ground up. Before Monova, I spent my career working at Amazon, joining as a Software Intern, to SDE-1 to SDE-2 and was on a path to become a Product guy! Was grateful getting a chance to spend my summer'19 working with JBoss as part of Google Summer of Code. Ran SABFit for a while - a platform to help users find the right personal fitness trainer and help trainers find and manage clients! Left it to continue working at Amazon to gain more experience first. During college, I explored my hobby as a photographer and started @Convex View, a 360 media company covering musical concerts pan India! Covid made me shut it. Did 2L/m revenue for 6 months consistently. Feel free to DM me to talk about tech/entrepreneurship/fashion or just for a chai!

Location

Chandigarh

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Work experience

Co-Founder and CEO at Monova, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Chandigarh, India, We have built Nova - an AI fashion agent, which acts as your fashion companion, who guides you with what to wear, be it from your own clothes, or shoppable links from the internet. It understands who you are, your style, preferences and also remembers your clothes. The more you interact, the better Nova gets.

Travel at Career Break, Oct 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Chandigarh, India, After delivering a big project for Amazon that unlocked B€ worth of GMV, felt like taking a break - moved back to Chd to be with parents - attended GrowthX to understand how other business functions work - went on a brain vacation to Bali with Beachhouse Project (BHX) to explore spirituality and meaning of life - trained in mma at kings academy, broke my nose, left it :p - helped my dad build a recruitment process for Srishti - built a few automation systems for my dad's co to ease their HQ ops - travelled through eu with family - took my first styling session - eventually ran my own personal styling services for a while to understand users; had over 200 clients (ofc paid, thanks GX xD) - decided to build something in fashion x ai

Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, Oct 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Software Development Engineer at Amazon, Mar 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, International Expansion - Small Business Solutions Sales - Amazon VAT Transaction Report • Working as a part of VISA, on developing the platform to manage billions of transactions of Amazon EU7 sellers and provide a consolidated VAT report and file automated tax returns • Working on developing the system to extend beyond EU marketplaces to India and Middle-East North Africa (MENA) and Mexico marketplaces

Software Development Engineer at Amazon, Jul 2020 - Mar 2021 · 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Alexa Data Services Product and Tech • Building tools for automating the internal business/operations process of Alexa Data Services • Using ReactJS, REST/Java and NoSQL Databases

Student Developer at Red Hat, May 2019 - Aug 2019 · 4 mos, Script Engine Integration for Elytron (Google Summer of Code 2019) For more details, https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/6324732998189056

Founder at The Convex View, Jul 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos, Chandigarh, India

Education

Product & Growth Program, Business Administration and Management, General, GrowthX®

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/bhaskargupta98