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title: "Dev J. - Independent Strategy & Operations Consultant | Fractional Chief of Staff in Mumbai | Tal"
description: "Meet Dev J., Operator · Strategist · I build the foundations that make businesses run without you in every room. based in Mumbai."
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# Dev J\. on Tal

## Headline

Operator · Strategist · I build the foundations that make businesses run without you in every room\.

## 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

## Location

Mumbai

## 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

## Education

Global MBA, Sheffield Hallam University

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Mechanical Engineering, SRM IST Chennai

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