TL;DR Tech startup entrepreneur at heart. Crossed the startup – government chasm! Now working with the Indian Government, building tech centric e-governance platforms under its Digital India program.
SlideShare:
I co-founded SlideShare in 2006 and was its COO. SlideShare is like ‘Wikipedia for Professionals‘ – its mission is to empower the world’s professionals through knowledge centric content. 
With 100+ million monthly users (in 2011), SlideShare is counted amongst the most impactful social media platforms on the web. It’s vibrant community consists of professionals, teachers, students, startups, non-profits, governments etc. Businesses use it as a content marketing platform. SlideShare was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012. Post M&A, I continued running it as a LinkedIn company, eventually exiting in Dec’14. Through the SlideShare journey, I was based out of New Delhi, but traveled frequently back & forth to our San Francisco office. And while I’ve had to don various functional hats: product, technology, marketing, content, HR, M&A, finance – my core skillset is product mgmt.
IndiaStack / Digital India:
After SlideShare, I joined the Govt of India’s Digital India program, which is run by the National eGovernance Division, Ministry of Electronics & IT. Digital India is the govt’s flagship technology program for transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. I’m working as the Architect for Digital Locker & OpenForge – two key egovernance projects under Digital India. Digital Locker, a key component of IndiaStack, is a national federated document network for India’s 1.3 billion citizens. Targeted at the idea of paperless governance, this aims to digitize citizen records and enable their digital usage. OpenForge is the government’s open source initiative, aimed at building a national software source code sharing platform for collaborative development of egovernance applications. This will promote archiving, reuse, sharing and remixing of government source code.
Beyond my day job:
I’m passionate about all things internet & startups. I speak frequently at conferences, tech events, startup accelerators etc to share my learnings. And volunteer for mentoring budding founders at industry bodies like iSpirt, Nasscom, TiE. In general, I try to share whatever I’ve learnt. For someone who founded a company with “share” in its name, I’m a big believer in the sharing credo – the more you share your learnings, the more it helps others, the ecosystem grows… and (hopefully) some of that karma flows back to you.
Also involved in startups as an angel/seed investor. More on that here.
My early startup evangelism efforts:
I was an early instigator on the Indian startup scene. Starting in 2006, this blog Webyantra (in its previous avataar of showcasing Indian Web2.0 products) was one of the most widely read Indian technology blogs then. Though the demands of my day job forced me to abandon that mission, and now it has metamorphosed into my personal blog. For more on that story, go here.
I was actively involved in organizing technology & innovation focused events in India. I played a lead role in kick-starting the cult of technology ‘unconferences’ called BarCamps by organising India & Asia’s first such event in New Delhi in Mar’06. BarCamps went on to become hugely popular, with dozens of them getting organized across Indian cities. They were regarded as a rallying force in stimulating grassroots level tech entrepreneurship in India.
I ran a podcasting show ‘India Technology 2.0’ for a US based media company called Podtech, where I interviewed Indian startup founders about their experiences.
My previous career:
Before starting SlideShare, I had a career in consumer goods marketing & sales, having worked for Pepsico, Asian Paints & Godrej. I did my MBA from FMS, Delhi University (’99 batch) & a Mechanical Engineering degree from NIT Jaipur (’95 batch).