Work Experience

Harvey

June 2026-now

Joined Harvey as part of their founding GTM team in India.

Independent Consulting

Nov 2024 – June 2026

Spent time learning the LLM tech stack. Experimented with projects:

  1. Aanae (EdTech): RAG-based study copilot, originally built for UPSC prep. Validated a thesis on SLMs for democratised education access: a Qwen 2.5 2B model cleared the UPSC Prelims 2025 pass threshold.
  2. Babel (LegalTech): Negotiation engine for VC transactions, with persona modelling, document decomposition, VC ontology, and deterministic leverage scoring fed to an LLM to drive consensus outcomes.

Translated learnings from the above into consulting work:

  1. Worked with a private credit start-up to finesse its RAG pipeline.
  2. Designed workflows for an AI-native law firm looking to automate transactions.

Sequoia Capital (India & SEA)

March 2021 – October 2024

  • 2021: Selected from ~2,000 applicants into Sequoia Capital’s parallel analyst program for the Legal/Operations team; offered a 2-year contract. Joined immediately after the firm raised a $2.8B fund.
  • 2021–2022: Supported execution for ~100 deals across IN/SEA/MENA during ZIRP-era peak deployment velocity.
  • 2023: Retained in a full-time role as my focus shifted to portfolio management. Completed CFA Level I around this time.
  • 2024: Transitioned to internal systems, data, and process design. Built end-to-end deal-operations and reporting infrastructure using Power Query, Power BI, and Python; consolidated fragmented data into a single source of truth covering 100+ live deals, enabling:
    • real-time visibility
    • cycle-time diagnostics
    • bottleneck prediction for investors and internal stakeholders
  • Late 2024: After seeing a fund through its full lifecycle (raise → deploy → manage → harvest), took a leap of faith and quit to continue learning about tech as a labour of love.

AZB & Partners

November 2019 – February 2021

  • A running refrain throughout law school / my early career was that I had no idea what the inside of a Tier-1 law firm looks like. My time at AZB & Partners settled that score.
  • Worked in the general corporate & transactions team, with exposure to big-ticket M&A/PE transactions. Crucially, I saw how billion-dollar deals could be abstracted into nuts-and-bolts workflows.
  • A memorable detour involved helping set up a ~200 MW power plant in Rajasthan — at the time, one of the largest solar facilities in the country. To do my job well, I had to learn how a solar facility actually operates, from how solar panels are made to supply-chain hijinks.

Lexygen

November 2017 – October 2019

  • Lexygen is a boutique firm specialising in venture capital transactions. I had patient mentors who taught me how to execute deals.
  • The firm works with leading consumer VCs, and it’s always gratifying to walk down a supermarket aisle knowing I helped with funding rounds for Epigamia and Veeba.

Zehn

July 2016 – October 2017

  • Zehn was a boutique law firm set up by WBNUJS alumni. When I joined, it functioned as a captive unit for Uber, handling public policy and government engagement as Uber launched operations in South India.
  • I also worked with the Government of Karnataka on implementing its Start-up Policy 2015–20, and helped operationalise its investment platform, Idea2PoC.

College

I graduated from WBNUJS in 2016. Some tidbits:

  • I was the last person on the general merit list. I’d already booked my tickeds to NLIU Bhopal when the final merit list released placing me in NUJS.
  • I was debarred from my first law school exam (Contracts I). We were given the option of skipping classes and meeting the teacher later to adjust our attendance. It felt weird to get attendance this way and I missed the attendance requirement by one class.
  • I signed up for the internal moots twice but couldn’t bring myself to go through the rigor and dropped out each time. I enjoyed parliamentary debates however and managed to get on the University’s B team.
  • I was the first person in my batch to land a job. A firm run by alumni showed up for campus placement before Day Zero, and I cracked the interview.