Hello-world !
TEch advisory & Growth
I love creating new things, pushing the envelope, solving difficult puzzles and challenging the world and the greater system at large to question their own fundamentals. If you have a problem you want to solve together - reach out to me.
WHAT TAKES UP 150%
CEO & COFOUNDER OF SamudraOceans
I am the CEO & Co-Founder of Samudra Oceans where we build Ai&Robotics to scale ocean forestation and farming. I was CEO of Gyana and Superpitch before this.
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WHAT I DO NOT DO
Avoid 'getting-drunk-parties', not much of a negativity-enjoyer, don't join "hatred chats"(adds no value-why spend time hating when you can make something).
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SOME BRAGS & SHAMELESSNESS
AWARDS
This list is big...yes what a shameless thing to say !
EG TECH RISING STAR 2019
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TOP 100 ASIAN in UK TECH- 2018/2019
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AMBASSADOR for INNOVATE UK WOMEN IN TECH
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MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN UK TECH- 2018, 2019,2020
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MIT SHORTLIST for 35 under 35-2018
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MSDUK top 3 - 2017
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The list is very long- I apologise I could pick a few for lack of digital real estate. I value every single recognition that has been shared with me!
MY CAREER STORY
Trained as an engineer ->hired as a programmer
Trained as an engineer ->hired as a programmer
Trained as an engineer ->hired as a programmer
Worked in Cisco - have a bunch of networking certifications like CCNA, CCNP, CCIP and 2 CCIE (theory only!)
Became product/program manager
Trained as an engineer ->hired as a programmer
Trained as an engineer ->hired as a programmer
Started managing things fairly early, have PMI-PMP and Agile certifications. Like to listen to people.
Joined startups
Constantly learning
Constantly learning
Built for profit and non profits- raised over £20mn overall across multiple startup endeavours
Constantly learning
Constantly learning
Constantly learning
Indian Engineer. Oxford MBA.Have coursera certifications in R, Rstudio, Machine Learning,Statistics, Deep Learning, Statistics, Epidemiology, Business and Financial modelling in addition to A Physics Bachelors, an exec degree at Dartmouth(Tuck School of Business)and a diploma at University of Copenhagen on UN policies, a diploma from Cambridge on sustainability
SOME OF MY FAVOURITE BOOKS
Sci-Fi
Anything by Ted Chiang, Arthur C Clarke, lately Liu Cixin and of course! The God... Isaac Asimov. Love all the movies, the shows - The Expanse, Tales from the Loop etc etc
Metaphysics
The Third Eye by Lopsang Rampa, Life and Death in 1 breath- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Inner Engineering - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev , Autobiography of a Yogi- Paramahansa Yogananda, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, Manuscript found in Accra by Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho, Many Lives Many Masters by Brian L Weiss, RUMI 's poetry
Short stories
Anything by O. Henry, the Russians- from Chekhov to Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Nabokov, Gogol, also Murakami is a top favourite, Jhumpa Lahiri for a short time was a favourite, Discovering Guy De Mapussant in a library at the age of 12 changed my life
Novels
All the usual classics like Oscar Wilde, Tolstoy ,Kafka, Mishima, Ishiguro, Khalid Hosseini, Isabella Yende, GGM,Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad + customary Ayn Rand (around teenage), lately loving Javier Marias, always a big fan of the Bronte sisters..
Others
I love all of Yuval Noah Harari's work, Thinking fast Thinking slow by Daniel Kahnemann, Flow by Mihail, Freakonomics, Social life of Money , Wordsworth- everything he ever wrote, Robert Frost -all his poetry, Sylvia Plath...
VORACIOUS READER SINCE THE AGE OF 3
I read a lot whenever I can- and occasionally catch up on disciplines/coursework on subject matters that I have never trained in. Commute/flight/toilet times are 50% work and 50% books.