Age: 25

Location: London

Professional experience:
1. Software engineer at one of the most renowned travel companies.

Duration: 1yr
Location: London

My day to day activities involve translating product requirements into a technical design, scoping and prioritizing tasks, managing the team towards a goal, etc

Contributions:
1. Led a team of 4 to deliver a feature that was recognised by the CTO. The impact is still being evaluated.
2. Helped the team (and overall, the company) save 7M$ in cost annually.
3. Mentoring new joinees.

Extracurriculars:
1. Currently working with an NGO to improve their website and social media reach.
2. Led a team of 25 people to help improve a Primary School’s playground.
3. I love playing football and to promote team building, I arrange football games time to time. Apart from this I also arrange other team building activities like Pictionary, quiz, etc

2. Associate at a Multinational tech consulting firm:

Duration: 8 months
Location: London

Contributions:
I worked as a project lead for an Australian client to deliver a website for one of their events.

I wore multiple hats for this project. I was the project manager making sure the project goes smoothly and is delivered on time.
I was managing the team, resolving any conflicts, scoping and prioritising tasks, coordinating with the relevant stakeholders.
I was also the lead developer converting tasks to implementation, coming up with cost effective solutions, etc.

I had to leave the company after a short stint, due to its toxic culture.


3. Software engineer at a company that rivals Zoom.

Duration: 2-2.5 yrs
Location: India

This is the company I started my career with.
I started as an intern and was converted to a full time role.
Shortly after a year I was promoted to the next level.
I was up for a promotion after 8 months or so but I decided to leave for a better opportunity.

Contributions:
1. I was one of the 5 people invited to pitch my idea at the headquarters. This was made available last year. At this point I don’t have the numbers.
2. Led a team of 4 in the company’s hackathon to improve one of the product.
3. As pointed out earlier, I’m a football fan and I organised games as part of team building activities.

Education:
1. Undergraduate:

University: PES University
Major: computer science
Grade: 8.83 / 10

Academics:
1. I was granted the Founder’s Scholarship for placing in top 15% of the batch in my 3rd year.
2. Published a research paper


Extracurriculars:
1. I was part of the University football team.
2. Placed 3rd in a bot racing competition.
3. I was part of the organising committee of the college fest. Prior to this I was an organiser for one of the events at the fest.
4. I completed a 2 month internship from National University of Singapore in my 3rd year of engineering.
5. I completed a 2 month internship at a startup in my 2nd year of engineering.
6. Part of the Cloud Computing club at the university.



Apart from this, I was part of a football club in London and also started a street football community. I have been less active lately due to an injury.

I have travelled solo to 6 countries.

I occasionally mentor juniors from my college.

Post MBA short term goal: Getting into Tech product management

Post long term mba goal: Working for startups and eventually leading one