Building isn't the hard partKnowing what's worth building is.
Seven years at an options broker. The tools change every year. Working out what is worth building does not.
Where I'd add value
Three things I'd own
Your line back to the users
You knew your users better than anyone, until the company outgrew it. I rebuild that as channels the whole company can read, and set the roadmap from them.
80% OF THE ROADMAP, DECIDED IN THE OPEN
One number, not a backlog
Give me the step in the funnel that is quietly costing you growth. I work better held to a number than handed a feature list.
+26% REVENUE · 40% OF PAID ACQUISITION
The call on what not to build
The expensive mistakes are the things that get built. Punch Journal exists because I stopped a one week feature request and went after the question underneath it instead, with one engineer.
100+ METRICS · 26 WIDGET FAMILIES
Selected work
Punch Journal
Zero to one, AI-native
A one week feature request I stopped, took back to first principles, and rebuilt as a platform. I owned the development end to end: the direction, the design system, and the frontend, built with Claude Code.
26 WIDGET FAMILIES · 2,000 TRADERS · 100+ METRICS
Builder's Lab
The core arc of the organic flywheel
Punch switched off paid acquisition and bet on word of mouth. That only turns if the asking is real and visible, so I founded and ran the board that closed the loop: traders asked, we shipped against it weekly, and they saw it land.
80% OF THE MOBILE AND DESKTOP ROADMAP
Also owned at Punch
LossLimit and SmartSL
Two industry-first risk features. 40% of paid acquisition.
Onboarding and KYC
Download to activation. Activation rate was my number.
Creator channel
Influencers selling their own strategies in-product.
Market Pulse pricing
Paywall and pricing re-work. +26% subscription revenue.
Solo Builds
Keeping the craft current
Exoplanet Universe
A NASA spreadsheet turned into an interactive 3D map of 6,150 exoplanets. Built by a Driver and Navigator agent pair against a spec I wrote, with an eval that checks all 137 featured planets against their catalogue rows.
Condukt
A macOS menu bar app that turns hand gestures into media controls. The judgement calls were four tuning constants, so I built an eval that replays recorded sessions and scores them.
What I want next
AI-native product work, and a place where I can build products the users enjoy using.
Education
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MS, Cognitive Science
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar2015 to 2017
Thesis on the cognitive system of musical improvisation, read through phenomenology.
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BS, Life Science and Biochemistry
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai2012 to 2015