A short biography, told plainly.

The career.

I joined Cisco in 2008 as an engineer in Bengaluru and left in 2024 as a product manager in Gurgaon. Sixteen years. Four cities. Three continents of customers.

The first chapter was solution architecture — mapping a customer's network to a bill of materials. In Raleigh, I did presales for North American carriers. I learned to translate between the engineer who built the thing and the procurement officer who had to sign for it.

The last Cisco chapter was product management for the customer-experience business. I turned operational work into automation customers could actually use. I started InnovRent at the end of 2024 — a small B2B device-leasing operation for Indian SMBs, run from Gurgaon and Panchkula.

“I find the shape of problems before I find solutions.”

How I think and what I'm doing now.

I'm a systems thinker by temperament. I make diagrams before decks. The questions I return to are infrastructural: what is the slowest layer of the stack? Which single change would compound the most? Where does friction hide?

Education reform interests me because India's bottleneck is not capital — it's functional secondary schooling. AI infrastructure interests me because the bottleneck of usefulness is integration, not the model. I write to clarify my own thinking. I publish when it's useful to someone else.

Right now: building InnovRent into a sustainable book of business; writing a weekly essay (publishing starts July 2026); taking on one or two consulting engagements per quarter at the intersection of product, AI, and Indian markets. I split my week between Gurgaon and Panchkula. Get in touch.