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AI, Consumer & Fintech | 0→1 Founder (YC ’23) | Staff PM @ Ethos | Ex-Cheq, Zeta, iSPIRT

About

I use LinkedIn to gather customer insights and share my observations/ notes. Critical thinking, business strategy, and product management are recurrent themes, I write about.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

claude code

gemini

openclaw

Work experience

Staff Product Manager at Ethos, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 y 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, On the side : Building PMFast, an AI coach that runs your mock interviews and prepares you for PM interviews. If you are a PM earning 20L+ looking to switch your job in the next 3 months, and willing to put in 4-5 hours of training time per week , reach out. I have only 5 slots available.

Co-Founder & CEO at CheqUPI (YC S23), Jul 2021 - Oct 2025 · 4 y 3 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, The Cheq app helps international citizens use UPI services via a prepaid wallet. We accept most international visa and mastercards

Fellow at ProductNation/iSPIRT, Nov 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, - Helped improve UPI (Autopay, E-vouchers) by working with varied stakeholders across the industry. - Was working on building alternative business models for UPI (network of networks strategy). - Helped write the OCEN technical specification specs - Contributed to DPGA as one of the iSPIRT representatives - Small contribution to Healthstack, Livestock stack and other Ispirt Initiatives.

Product Manager at Zeta India, Jun 2019 - Dec 2019 · 7 mos, Bangalore, Worked on the Zeta core platform. Contributed to creation of multiple products targetted towards the fintech industry: * Cipher: Zeta's next generation ACS solution * Fusion: Neobanking as a service [for fintech startups] * Tachiyon: Platform which enables banks to provide fusion & other financial products to startups.

Associate Product Manager at Zeta India, Oct 2017 - Jun 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Software Engineer at Headout, Mar 2017 - Oct 2017 · 8 mos, Bangalore, Working as a full stack dev. Till date projects include: - Writing a unified user management system capable of supporting multiple user profiles, authentication backends and permissions system. Migrating older users to the newer flow. - Rewriting our payment processing pipeline to support multiple payment gateways (stripe/checkout.com) - Building inventory and booking api integrations with software providers of attractions & museums in Amsterdam (PrioTicket) & Dubai (DTCM).

Education

Y Combinator

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Software Engineering, IIIT Hyderabad