👶 I was born in Kolkata, India

📍I currently live in San Francisco, CA

🌍 I’ve grown up all over the world: Kolkata (India) → Bangalore (India) → Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) → Dubai (UAE) → Singapore (Singapore lol) → Indiana → Nevada → California

My hobbies: 🎾 🏓 🚴‍♂️ 📖 🎥 🍺

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Life highlights:

1. Met my girlfriend (we’ve been dating 5 years now) at a coffee shop. I walked up to her and asked her about what book she was reading
2. Started a student accelerator program in college. Probably my proudest accomplishment (after the one above 😉)
3. Worked at Microsoft on their data ingestion platform for XBOX, Data Center, and Windows data. I built a compression algorithm from scratch.
4. Joined Ridgeline as their 5th employee, I helped grow it to 300 and then tried to start my own companies (and failed miserably)
5. Joined Atomic last year, I’ve launched over 8 companies so far

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• Evaluating working at a big company vs. startup
• How to make networking a habit
• How to progress as an engineer at a startup and take on leadership responsibilities
• How to surround yourself with people who inspire you
• How to evaluate startups in terms of joining as an employee. Factors include: Funding stage, team, domain, founder pedigree, employees, etc.
• How to go from 0 to 1 on a startup idea from an engineering perspective. What's the quickest way to build an MVP (no-code/ low-code/ etc.)

• How to build confidence and why you should believe in yourself
• How to automate personal finances and set purchase/ investment goals
• Navigating being an outsider. I grew up all over the world and never felt like I fit in anywhere.

Listener: I’ll be spending most of my time understanding who you are!

Motivator: I truly believe that cultivating self-belief is the first step to doing something great. I want to be your champion!

Curious: Having someone ask “Why?” can be game changing. I actively practice the art of asking good questions.