Engineering years.
Mechanical Engineering at MIT Manipal, with international academic exposure including work connected to TU Munich. Foundations of analytical and industrial thinking.
Journey
A public timeline of the work, the ventures, and the writing thread that has run alongside them.
- 2004–2008
- 2008
First corporate milestone.
Joined Ashok Leyland and received early recognition for marketing project excellence.
- 2008–2013
Energia Trading and early entrepreneurship.
Part-time association with Energia Trading and Consulting Company across industrial products, sales, operations, and cross-border transaction advisory. The first visible entrepreneurial layer.
- 2011–2012
International business education.
MBA / PGCIM path through ESB Business School, Reutlingen, and SPJIMR, Mumbai.
- 2013–2017
Commercial and market-facing leadership.
Roles across market research, CRM, loyalty, and competitive intelligence at organizations including Integreon, Capillary Technologies, and DataWeave.
- 2017 onward
Business development and scale-building.
Leadership and growth roles including work with GGK / Innova and other growth-oriented environments.
- 2018
Co-founded Bridgentech.
A talent and staffing company built around speed, trust, evidence-based hiring, and international delivery. Bootstrapped and global from early on.
- 2022
Co-founded HirePlusPlus.
An AI-led recruitment technology company modernizing how organizations source, screen, and evaluate talent.
- 2024
Recognition for Maya and international structuring.
HirePlusPlus and its AI recruiter Maya received public recognition in the AI/SaaS ecosystem, alongside international corporate structuring for the business.
- Parallel thread
Writing, essays, and public thought.
Across all of these years, a quieter thread has remained active: personal essays, Hindi poetry, and reflective writing that began long before the founder identity became public.