Professional experience
Roles and timeline
Co-manager of the Vijay Uttarwar Family Office
Supporting the family office with investment and operations; helping deploy capital and resources toward the goal of helping others live well.
Co-founder & CIO, MindLight Technology Inc. Dissolved
Led technical operations; secured $500K pre-seed from UpScaleX. Architected end-to-end AI system for 2×–4× ROAS via Meta Ads analysis and automated recommendations. Engineered deep-integration software for Meta's data ecosystem; scaled distributed technical team.
Founder & CEO, Sudokra Inc. Dissolved
Media automation with AI at scale. Enterprise accounts including The Hacksmith (YouTube); video localization SaaS—translation into 30+ languages and distribution across 30 social channels. Automated media (RTCL TV, BKWTCH)—100 original videos weekly; developed automated trading bot for IPO signals.
DevOps Engineer & Technical Project Manager, Qventus Inc.
Managed secure AWS infrastructure and Agile workflows; saved $800K monthly. DevSecOps: secure data transfer, hardened AWS, Docker for Django production. CI/CD with Ansible and Terraform. Scrum Master; operationalized guild initiatives and cross-team healthcare infrastructure projects. Quit intentionally to begin Sudokra.
Product Manager & Advisory Board Member, Oodles Inc. Dissolved
Restaurant discounting app—aligned C-suite business goals with technical milestones. Built PM pipelines with agile practices for test, release, and lean development; tracked KPIs for product growth and strategy.
To date, every independent venture has ended in a failure. The learnings from these experiences have been invaluable, and has given me a stringent bar for new ventures. Today, I help others maintain and enforce the same level of expectations to ensure their vision survives the transition from a bold idea to a sustainable reality.