Learning how physical systems fail, tolerate stress and get designed for real operating conditions.
Career arc
Systems, scale, infrastructure, nature.
The common thread has been operating systems under pressure: factories, infrastructure, marketplaces, large teams and now landscapes. I have mostly worked on the hidden machinery that decides whether a system actually works.
Through-line
The work has mostly been about systems that look simple from far away.
A motor looks like a product until you enter the factory. A road, airport or bus concession looks like infrastructure until you see the contracts. A marketplace looks like an app until you meet the people earning through it. A landscape looks like scenery until water, soil, heat or biodiversity changes the economics.
Seeing how policy, contracts, finance and incentives decide whether infrastructure actually gets built.
Running marketplace operations where small decisions compound across drivers, cities, payments and compliance.
Bringing the same operating and financing lens to the living systems that companies depend on but rarely count.
Sep 2024 - present
Founder, Urvara.Life
Building Urvara around a simple problem: companies depend on nature, but most financial and operating systems notice that dependence too late.
The public mission is to conserve and restore 16 million acres in India by 2050. Initial artifacts include the Nature Impact Index and the Nature Value at Risk framework.
Sep 2025 - present
Fellow, Rainmatter Foundation
Rainmatter funded my time to explore the natural-capital universe and turn it from a broad research question into a concrete, executable company thesis.
Aug 2024 - Nov 2024
Entrepreneur in Residence, Antler
Used the residency period to sharpen the Urvara thesis, test the talent search, and turn a research-heavy idea into a venture-building path.
Recent
Permaculture course
Spent time learning from land, water, soil and ecological design more directly. The important lesson was fair share: humans are one part of a wider ecology, not the only claimant on it. That made the natural-capital question less abstract and more moral.
Jan 2019 - Aug 2024
Uber, Driver Operations and Earner Growth
Led supply strategy, planning, driver retention and winback, payments and compliance for IndiaSA functions. Learned how operating decisions compound across large teams, high-frequency marketplaces and messy real-world constraints.
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
KPMG India, Infrastructure and PPP Advisory
Worked on aviation policy, airport transactions, logistics market infrastructure, PPP frameworks, electric bus concessions and financial models for large public-private assets. Awarded "Super Employee" for 2017-18.
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Urban Ladder, West Operations
Ran last-mile delivery operations in West India, managing a 100-person team, five location-manager reports and thousands of monthly shipments while leading development and market-expansion projects.
MBA
IIM Bangalore
Used business school to move from engineering into the operating, financial and institutional questions that later showed up in startups, consulting and Urvara.
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Wipro, Global 100 Program
Assessed 500+ global medical-device startups, developed connected-healthcare use cases and built a maturity index for connected healthcare readiness among medical-device firms in India.
Jun 2011 - Oct 2013
ABB, Design Engineer
Designed industrial motors, helped enable entry into an approximately Rs 800 crore premium-efficiency motor market, and engineered motor-system solutions for greenfield projects worldwide.