About
I started my career trying to understand how things work. Mechanical engineering gave me that , the discipline of systems, the satisfaction of something running exactly as it should. Then I discovered businesses are just more interesting machines. The pivot wasn't planned. But six years later, I've been the first hire at a healthtech startup that got into YCombinator and raised from Tiger Global. I've built B2B commercial pipelines across the US and Europe from nothing. I've run operations for a founder's portfolio of businesses simultaneously, owned the P&L, hired the team, and been the person the founder calls when something needs to get done and there's no playbook for it. That's the thread. Not a sector. Not a title. The ability to walk into ambiguity and install order without losing the founder's original energy in the process. I spent four and a half deliberate years in the UK: a Global MBA, operational leadership across regulated high-volume environments, and the kind of execution discipline you only build when you're accountable for 300 people and a cost centre that has to perform. I came back to India in 2026 because the next decade of ambitious company building is happening here. I wanted to be part of it, not watching from London. Outside work I shoot aviation. There's something about capturing a machine doing exactly what it was built to do, at the precise moment it matters, that never gets old. Same instinct, honestly. I am easy to reach. 📩 devjoshi.sn@gmail.com
Work experience
Independent Strategy & Operations Consultant | Fractional Chief of Staff at Self-Employed, Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Mumbai, India
Chief of Staff at Sway Group, Jun 2025 - Feb 2026 · 9 mos, Sway, England, United Kingdom
Duty Manager - Large Format Retail at Tesco, Feb 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, Southampton
Business Support Manager at BECK CONROY CONSULTING LIMITED, Oct 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Founders Office at Stealth Startup, Sep 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, London, England, United Kingdom
