Work history
The arc
From a December 2005 Microsoft internship in Hyderabad, to Office 365 and Outlook at planet scale in the US, to an ISB MBA, to building AI companies solo. Roughly in the shape of a career, imported from the record.
2022 — Present
Founder & CEO
Hyperleap AI · Hyderabad, India
- AI chatbots and automation platform - 200+ active clients across 35+ industries.
- Run as a one-engineer company: me, a few interns, and AI agents as the team.
- Backed by Microsoft for Startups; empaneled with the Government of Karnataka.
- Enterprise customers including Jungle Lodges & Resorts and Deloitte.
- Rebuilt the entire go-to-market as code: site, content, SEO, ads, analytics - all agent-operated.
2017 — 2018
MBA
Indian School of Business (ISB) · Hyderabad, India
- One of Asia’s top business schools - the business half of the toolkit.
- Returned to India in 2017 to build from India for the world.
2005 — 2017
Software Engineer → Senior Engineer
Microsoft · India & United States
- Joined as an intern in Microsoft Hyderabad in December 2005.
- 11+ years across India and the US building Office 365 and Outlook at planet scale.
- Shipped core surfaces used daily by hundreds of millions of people.
- December 2025: returned to the same Microsoft Hyderabad MPR as a speaker, 20 years after interviewing there as an intern.
Age 12 — 2005
Writing code
Self-taught
- Started writing code at twelve. Two decades and counting - software is still the only thing that holds my attention the same way.
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Full history on LinkedIn
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