Where I’m from

I was born and raised in Indore, India—a city I still associate with poha, kachori, long conversations and the belief that there is always a practical way to solve a problem.

My parents are teachers. Like many parents, they regularly told me to get off the computer and go outside. I usually ignored that advice. I got my first computer when I was ten and spent years building things inside digital worlds, starting with an unnecessarily ambitious Minecraft house.

That computer became my second classroom. It taught me that software could turn imagination into something other people could see, use and care about.

Before I knew the word entrepreneur

I was entrepreneurial long before I knew what the word meant.

As a teenager, I was constantly testing ways to turn curiosity into income. Some early experiments were clever, some were questionable in hindsight, and all of them taught me something about incentives, distribution, trust and consequences.

The first durable business I built was a small design agency for YouTubers. I ran it from my bedroom while my parents assumed I was working on school projects. That experience taught me how to speak with customers, understand what they actually wanted, deliver creative work and survive the difference between an idea and a business.

More importantly, it showed me that the internet could give someone in Indore access to a global market.

Finding startups

My first proper startup opportunity came from an unlikely conversation on Bumble.

It was not a conventional recruitment process, but it taught me a principle that has stayed with me: meaningful opportunities often appear outside formal channels. The important part is being curious enough to recognize them and prepared enough to act.

I entered crypto in 2019 and moved through community, content, design, growth and ecosystem roles. I worked with WazirX NFT, CoinDCX and Shardeum, learning how technology communities form, how products earn trust and how difficult it is to translate attention into lasting usage.

At BITS Pilani, I was part of the Computer Science 2023 cohort. The degree gave me technical foundations; startups gave me the operating education.

From community building to company building

Over time, I became less interested in promoting products built by other people and more interested in building the products themselves.

I co-founded DotNames, a multichain Web3 identity and naming platform. DotNames recorded more than one million domain mints, generated more than US$500,000 in revenue, built a combined community of more than 600,000 and deployed across more than five blockchains.

I later co-founded Puffy Games, an on-chain strategy game for Telegram on TON. In four months, the product onboarded more than 100,000 users across over 160 countries and reached 4,500 peak daily active users. The project eventually concluded, but building it taught me more about consumer behavior, monetization, timing and platform risk than a successful launch alone could have.

Today, I am a co-founder of Brightside, a zero-fee, non-custodial and mobile-first perpetuals trading product. Brightside has processed more than US$5 million in trading volume, served more than 500 active users across more than 20 countries and launched its iOS app in three weeks.

What I do now

I think of myself as a technology entrepreneur and product builder.

My work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, product strategy, growth, design, brand, partnerships and execution. I enjoy the zero-to-one stage: finding a real problem, turning it into a product, getting the first users, learning what breaks and building the systems that allow a company to move forward.

I was born in India and work internationally, with professional activity across India and the United Kingdom. I am interested in building products for global markets without losing the speed, resourcefulness and practical thinking that shaped me in India.

What I’m looking for

I want to build useful, ambitious technology with small teams of people who care deeply about the work.

The best teams I have worked with are not the loudest or the largest. They are clear about the problem, honest about what is not working and willing to move quickly without confusing movement with progress.

That is the kind of entrepreneurship I want to keep practicing: curious, practical, global and grounded in the work of actually building.