Curiosity is the whole job.

I grew up in Mumbai and moved to Gurugram for work. My first real product job was in supply chain at Ula, untangling warehouses, procurement, and last mile delivery. Messy, physical, unglamorous problems. I loved it because the feedback was instant. If a decision was wrong, a truck showed up empty.

At Sprinklr I moved into Insights, the part of the business that helps large brands understand what the world is saying about them. Different surface, same instinct. I am still chasing one question. What do people actually want, and how do we know we are right before we spend six months building it.

I would rather find out than guess.

Most product debates are really just opinions wearing confidence. I try to replace them with evidence.

Every project starts with a hypothesis and the smallest test that could prove it wrong. I would rather kill an idea in a week than defend it for a quarter. I read support tickets, sales calls, and social chatter the way some people read the news.

The point is not the data itself. It is refusing to guess when I could just go and find out. That obsession with customer signal is the most useful thing I bring to a team.

How I stay sharp.

I treat AI as a thinking partner, not a search box. I use it to pressure test arguments, draft fast, and find the holes in my own logic before someone else does.

I keep a small set of mental frameworks I actually use, for product decisions, finance, and how I judge a company before I join it. Frameworks beat memory.

And I keep listening. Social listening tools, market signal, and a lot of reading. The market tells you what it wants if you bother to pay attention.

The rest of me.

I am deep into story driven single player games. Give me a long campaign with a real ending over multiplayer any day. Recently finished God of War Ragnarok and the first Last of Us. I also play co-op with my wife Ayushi, which is its own kind of marriage counseling.

I lift four mornings a week, currently chasing a clean set of pull-ups. We have a rescued cat named Spot who runs the house. He is also the unofficial mascot of a small side project I am building, custom apparel printed with people's pets' faces.

When we travel, we keep it slow. Good food, a beach or a quiet town, no forced itineraries. Greece this year was a highlight.