Program Manager in the Founder's Office at Quad AI, opening the new Mangaluru campus. Before this I ran a kitchen.
I'm a Program Manager in the Founder's Office at Quad AI — a tech and management school trying to fix how college works in India. Less theory, more doing. I manage the newly launched Mangaluru campus, working directly with the founders.
Before this I built LiftBites, a cloud kitchen delivering protein-rich meals to gym-goers in Jamshedpur. I designed the logo, wrote the menu, counted the macros, bought the groceries, cooked, packed, delivered, and talked every trainer in the city into recommending us. Ten months of that teaches you things a classroom can't.
My degree is in human resource management, with an early internship split across HR and finance. That mix is how I read a room and a spreadsheet at the same time.
Still my favourite question: what's actually stopping this from working?The parts a résumé flattens out.
Sourcing raw material at 6am, then cooking, packing and delivering it myself. Operations stops being abstract once you've carried it.
Took a startup idea to a stage called Shark Tank at YUVA 2022 and walked off with first place.
HR by training, finance by internship. I keep asking both what they think — they rarely agree, which is the useful part.
New kitchen, new campus. Nothing exists yet, everything's a decision. That's the part I enjoy most.
A tech and management school rebuilding Indian college education around practical, hands-on skills that make students job-ready.
Built and ran a food venture delivering protein-rich meals to gym-goers and health-conscious customers.
Programs, people, or what it actually takes to run a kitchen — I'm happy to talk about any of it.