My Story
From Pune to Amsterdam, via a cafe in the Himalayas.
Born in Delhi, grew up in Pune, studied finance in Mumbai, and ended up in Amsterdam building automation tools at Nike. That's the LinkedIn version. The real version is messier. And more interesting.
The accidental analyst
My first job out of college was at a retail analytics firm in Delhi. I was supposed to be a business analyst: attending meetings, writing reports, the usual. But I kept noticing that half my time was spent doing things a script could do. So I started automating myself out of tasks.
That pattern repeated at every job since. At Shiprocket, I automated an 8-hour billing process down to 15 minutes. At Shipbob, I built a margin monitoring system that caught over $1M in leakage. Each time, I'd start with a spreadsheet problem and end up building something much bigger.
The cafe in the Himalayas
Somewhere in the middle of all this, I co-founded a cafe. Shantiniketan Cafe, in the Himalayas. I was still working full-time, keeping the books and making sure guests were happy from a laptop while holding down a corporate analytics job.
Shantiniketan Cafe, Himalayas
Running a cafe taught me more about operations than any MBA case study ever could.
It was chaotic, rewarding, and probably the most entrepreneurial thing I've done. The cafe is still there. I'm not. But the experience stuck.
Amsterdam
In 2023, I moved to Amsterdam for an MBA at the University of Amsterdam. The plan was to pivot into product management. What actually happened surprised me. I did consulting projects in Cape Town (improving customer retention by 15% for a startup called Meerkat) and Berlin (advising Detecon on product innovation), and realized I didn't want to stop building things.
UvA graduation & Cape Town consulting trip
After the MBA, I joined HousingAnywhere as a Senior Data Analyst, building out their reporting pipelines and data infrastructure. A year later, Nike. I'm there now as a Senior Supply Chain Analyst, working on the SAP S/4HANA migration. The short version: making sure data doesn't break as an entire supply chain switches systems.
I also got picked for the MSC AI Accelerator, which meant prototyping tools with senior leaders across the business. The biggest thing I took away wasn't technical — it was learning to push back. Everyone wanted AI. But half the time, a Python script and an API call would do. Knowing when not to use a shiny tool turned out to be more valuable than knowing how to use one.
Presenting my thesis to first-year International Business students at UvA
Dancing
I've been dancing for 14 years. It started with hip-hop in college. Battle cyphers, crew competitions, the whole thing. Somewhere along the way I fell in love with Latin dance and ended up on two show teams in Amsterdam: a semi-professional Bachata team and a Men's Salsa Shines group.
These days I've gone back to my roots, dancing hip-hop and modern jazz. Still show up for the occasional bachata and salsa social though. I'm also a certified Bachata instructor.
Hip-hop in Pune → Salsa Fest in Romania → Bachata in Amsterdam
In 2023, I won first prize in a Jack & Jill social dancing competition at a dance festival in India. Before that, I was a 2x intra-college talent hunt winner during my undergrad.
Dancing has nothing to do with data. But it has everything to do with how I think.
Building things
Outside of work, I build apps. Tippin' Monk is a personal finance app that connects to 600+ EU banks and helps people run spending experiments. Built it end-to-end: React, TypeScript, Supabase, Tink banking API. Used Claude and n8n to sort the messy bank transaction data.
I'm always working on something. Pick a real problem, build a real solution, ship it. That's how I learn best.
Every job I've had follows the same pattern. I show up, find the manual process everyone's accepted as normal, and replace it with a system.
The cafe had it. Shiprocket had it. Nike has it. I don't think I'll ever stop doing this — it's just how I see work.
If any of this sounds interesting, say hello.