MBA Candidate · UC Berkeley Haas
Building for access,
at the edge of tech and ops.
I build the products, programs, and supply chains that put real things into people's hands. My background spans food, supply chains, and global health, and I am increasingly pulled into the technology side, AI, data, and software, as the lever that makes any of it work at scale.
Who I am
About
I grew up in Hosur, a small industrial town near Bangalore, surrounded by factories and naturally curious about how things work. That curiosity took me to IIT Bombay for mechanical engineering, and then through three very different worlds: a Series B food startup in Mumbai, a global supply chain consulting firm, and a global health organization working in over 20 countries.
The thread connecting all of it is access. How does a product, a service, or a piece of care actually reach the person who needs it, and how do you make that work sustainably? At Open Secret I helped take a healthy cookie from the lab to the production line. At Miebach I redesigned the networks that move everyday goods. At Sight and Life I built programs that reached hundreds of thousands of women a year.
Some of this is heritage. My grandparents had farming roots, and my mother lives by a Tamil saying, Unave Marunthu, food is medicine. During college I helped her set up a traditional food store in our hometown. Its products helped about 100 families, but could not compete with big consumer brands on price or appeal. That gap, between something good and what is actually affordable or convenient, is the problem I keep coming back to. I am increasingly interested in how technology, AI, data, and the right tools, can help close it.
I am an MBA student at UC Berkeley Haas, building and shipping side projects at the intersection of tech and access.
public/portrait.jpg Where I have worked
Experience
Three roles across food, supply chain, and global health. Open one to see the detail and photos.
SA Sight and Life A global health organization advising governments and social businesses across 20+ countries.
Dec 2022 – Aug 2025 Rwanda & India
A global health organization advising governments and social businesses across 20+ countries.
After difficult personal experiences during COVID, including my own illness and my father’s hospitalization, I joined a global health organization to bring my supply chain skills to healthcare access. I worked mostly on improving access to maternal nutrition supplements across South Asia and East Africa.
In Bangladesh I helped scale a market-based program reaching about 350,000 pregnant women a year, roughly 15% of all pregnancies in the country, and built the digital counseling and monitoring platform behind it. In Nepal I worked with the government and drug regulator to bring better supplements into the public system. Over three years I was promoted from Senior Associate to Manager.
- 1 Led a 6-member team to redesign demand forecasting and distribution for Nepal's national anemia program serving 3.4M+ people, cutting over-procurement by $200K/year.
- 2 Built a 5-year strategic roadmap for Rwanda's maternal health program that mobilized $4M in donor funding.
- 3 Built the investment case that secured a $12M grant for a private-sector nutrition program in Bangladesh.
- 4 Led a 5,000-participant behavioral study with UNICEF that improved supplement uptake by 30%.
- 5 Built a digital outreach and monitoring platform reaching 24,000+ women a year, with data tools that cut evaluation costs by $80K/year.
- 6 Deployed a 3,000-member door-to-door sales network generating $0.5M/year in revenue.
- 7 Influenced Nepal's drug regulator to exempt import duties on 3 essential health products, cutting procurement costs by 23%.
MC Miebach Consulting A global supply chain consulting firm, 500+ employees across 22 countries.
Dec 2020 – Nov 2022 Delhi, India
A global supply chain consulting firm, 500+ employees across 22 countries.
I joined a German supply chain consulting firm that works with large consumer goods companies, hired as one of two candidates from IIT in the firm’s first campus visit there. Working in small teams meant I dealt directly with clients and often ran both the analysis and the stakeholder management. I came away with a close, practical view of how the supply chains that make everyday life possible actually function.
- 1 Optimized a $3B global production network across 27 plants serving 75+ countries, recommending closures that cut costs by $25M/year.
- 2 Built an Excel-VBA inventory tool that optimized $71M in inventory across South Asia and freed $13M in working capital.
- 3 Ran a sourcing risk assessment for a raw material transition, navigating supply concentration risk.
- 4 Designed a $1M central distribution hub for a fashion retailer serving 800+ outlets.
- 5 Built and delivered a 2-day supply chain modeling workshop, upskilling 20+ consultants.
OS Open Secret A Series B Indian food startup making healthy snacks.
May 2019 – Dec 2020 Mumbai, India
A Series B Indian food startup making healthy snacks.
I started here as an operations intern and returned as a project lead reporting directly to the CEO. I helped bring a nut-based cookie from the lab to the production line and set up the company’s first production site.
The most formative challenge was figuring out how to cut a cookie mix made mostly of whole nuts into clean circles when no equipment on the market could do it. After several failed prototypes, I stepped back from treating it as an engineering problem and worked with the food R&D team to adjust an ingredient in the recipe. That taught me to question the constraints I assume are fixed.
- 1 Managed R&D, design, and production teams to launch the startup's second product line, reporting to the CEO.
- 2 Established the first production site with $4M+ annual output, cutting raw material waste by 11%.
Training
Education
Things I built
Projects
Built to learn the tools, or to fix something that annoyed me. Click any card for a closer look.
Off the clock
Beyond work
I hike a lot, six-plus treks in the Himalayas, and I lead monsoon treks in the Western Ghats. I play chess (rated around 1698 online, top 2%), I am quietly competitive about world capitals, and long road trips are how I reset. I speak English, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada.
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