Chapter 02 / Experience

Building from scratch

Past experience as a blueprint for future impact. A track record of building solutions designed to drive meaningful change and improve quality of life.

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2021 — 2025
Founder & CEO
Bengaluru, India

DORK Company

Bootstrapped Business Development Agency · India · USA · Middle East

Established alongside my M.Tech — converting freelance work into a structured agency, learning the startup ecosystem from the inside, and building the entrepreneurial foundation for everything since.

4+
Years operating
3
Regions served
4
Sectors covered
  • Founded and scaled a bootstrapped agency to a multi-sector client base across India, the USA and the Middle East — serving early-stage startups end-to-end.
  • Operated as de facto product manager across engagements: discovery, roadmaps, feature prioritisation against measurable goals, and stakeholder alignment from ideation to launch.
  • Led full-cycle business development: market research, go-to-market strategy, client acquisition, and operations setup.
  • Recruited a Co-Founder in 2022 and a flexible bench of freelance specialists — scaling capacity without external funding.
  • Owned all stakeholder communication, contract negotiation, project delivery and client retention across three regions and multiple time zones.
  • Executed a structured leadership transition in 2025, transferring ownership and all active accounts to a trained successor before relocating to Europe.
Bootstrapped Product GTM India · USA · ME Team building Multi-region
2024 — 2025
Co-Founder
Bengaluru, India

Board Games Archive

Community event series · 20+ paid events

Co-founded with my DORK Company co-founder to deepen our presence in Bengaluru's tech and startup community — community-first, with targeted client and talent acquisition as a designed side-effect.

  • Designed and ran 20+ paid, premium board-game events at cafés and pubs across Bengaluru, averaging ~10 paid participants per event with consistent retention.
  • Owned event operations end-to-end: venue, ticketing, pricing strategy, partnerships, promotion and on-site delivery.
  • Built a repeatable engagement playbook that doubled as a brand-building motion and a measurable inbound pipeline of agency leads and freelance talent.
Community Events GTM side-channel
2021 — 2022
TPR
Prayagraj, India

Training & Placement Representative

MNNIT Allahabad · Applied Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering Departments

A student role with the scope of a corporate HR + business-development function: company outreach, recruiter relationships, drive logistics and student support — for an entire academic year, across nine branches and two departments.

  • Owned the end-to-end campus placement process: company outreach, recruiter coordination, drive logistics and student onboarding.
  • Improved overall postgraduate placement rate from 25% (2021) to 49% (2022) — nearly doubling outcomes in a single year.
  • Voluntarily took over Mechanical Engineering placements after that representative withdrew mid-year, single-handedly managing nine branches across two departments.
  • Placed 17 students from Applied Mechanics (up from 9 the prior year) and 38 from Mechanical Engineering.
  • Recruited and trained 5 successor representatives and institutionalised a two-representative-per-department model that sustained the improvement.
Placements Recruiter relations Talent acquisition Operations
2020 — 2023
Tutor
Remote · International

International Academic Consultant — STEM & Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering & Chemistry · 3 universities

Delivered structured, multi-year academic instruction to graduate and undergraduate STEM students at three internationally recognised universities — a continuous-learner identity committed to clear knowledge transfer.

  • University of Melbourne — M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Biomedical Instrumentation).
  • SUNY Binghamton — B.S. Biomedical Engineering & B.A. Chemistry (multi-year).
  • Oregon State University — Organic & Inorganic Chemistry.
Biomed Chemistry Cross-cultural Long-form tutoring
2019
Intern
Nagpur, India

Technical Internship — Robotics & Product Development

Makxenia Engineering · Maharashtra

A 30-day product-development internship that became a litmus test for entrepreneurial output — and a fork in the road.

  • Delivered three complete engineering projects in a single 30-day period — consistently ahead of schedule.
  • Only intern offered a full-time Product Development role from the cohort, on the basis of output quality.
  • Declined the offer to pursue postgraduate studies at MNNIT — a decision that shaped everything since.
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Technical internship certificate — Makxenia Engineering
Technical internship · Makxenia Engineering · click to enlarge
Robotics Product dev