Grew up in Haryana. Engineering at PEC Chandigarh. Joined Cisco in 2008. Spent sixteen years across Bengaluru, Raleigh, and back home to Gurgaon, before founding InnovRent. My favourite work sits at the seam between product and process design, where someone has to decide what the system should actually do.
InnovRent
Gurgaon
First time I've answered only to customers.
InfoCzar
Gurgaon
Cisco
Gurgaon
End-to-end audit automation for hardware and software compliance across 1,200 sites. Audit cycle eight months to three. Effort halved.
Owned three products end-to-end: Digital Twin, Branch Upgrade Automation, Endpoint Classifier. Built the AFM framework. Lead outcome: Branch Upgrade Automation, with 80% manual reduction and $15M+ in service revenue.
Five years building products at Cisco. Two distinct mandates.
Cisco
Raleigh, USA
Seven years learning to translate between engineers and procurement.
Cisco
Bengaluru
The first chapter. Learning what enterprise actually means.
Data Science Programme, Level 1
B.E. (Hons.), Electronics & Electrical Communication.
Schooling
Panchkula → Chandigarh → Bengaluru → Raleigh → Gurgaon. Arrows draw in chronological order.
Plumbers of the internet, plus a few extra hats.
A B2B leasing model where employees pick devices through their company's benefits portal and the company handles deduction through payroll. Capex purchases turn into op-ex subscriptions.
Cisco's network Digital Twin product. End-to-end product ownership from MVP through to customer delivery.
An automation framework (AFM) and its lead outcome (Branch Upgrade Automation): a 1,200-branch upgrade programme transformed from a six-month war room into a four-week pipeline.
An Excel-based scoping tool for presales services that compressed weeks of estimating into hours.
Space for the ideas, predictions, and policy thinking I'm working through. Looking for collaborators, comments, and feedback. Read the Latest
Predicted civilian drone surveillance would become standard for border, infrastructure, and large-event monitoring within five years. Three Indian states had operational programmes by 2024.
Wrote an internal Cisco proposal for a network reference architecture for an online pharmacy. Was told the regulatory environment would never allow it. India's online pharmacy market crossed ₹10,000 crore in 2024.
Built the first SMS-based marketing system at PECFEST. By 2009, every Indian bank, telco, and pizza chain was doing the same thing.
For job opportunities, consulting work, or thoughts on the ideas. I respond to thoughtful messages within a few days. Solicitations get ignored.
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