Hello, I am Taranjeet 👋

Currently building embedchain.ai
Writing keepingupwith.ai - AI newsletter which covers coding & growth related insights from popular AI projects. 1000+ subscribers across Substack, LinkedIn, WhatsApp.
Built cookup.ai - AI App Store; 400K+ users monthly with zero marketing spend (via SEO)
Worked as a Senior Product Manager at Khatabook (YC & Sequoia backed, valued at $600M)
Worked as a software engineer at Gradeup (acquired by Byju’s, valued at ~$23B) and Paytm (Indian Stock Exchange listed, ~$6B market cap)
Worked remotely as a software engineer at Inclusys and OpenCraft
Created an android app marketplace (3 million organic users and 1.9 million app downloads)
Co-developed open source ML competition platform (~42K monthly users, 1.4K+ stars on GitHub); helped develop doubt resolution app (1M+ installs) featured at Google I/O 2019 and educational product (~3K users) for people with Autism
Co-authored a chapter for a book on NLP in collaboration with authors from Google AI, CMU

Professional Experience

Oct 2019 - Oct 2022

Working as a Senior Product Manager at Khatabook
Hired as the first growth engineer at Khatabook. Transitioned into Product Management by acquiring the fundamentals at Reforge 2020

(Remote Work) Nov 2018 - Oct 2019

Helped develop an educational product for people with autism. Callaghan Innovation (a crown entity of New Zealand) backed it
~3K users worldwide

(Remote Work) July 2018 - Oct 2018

May 2017 - July 2018

Built and scaled a doubt resolution app for K-12 students, featured at Google I/O 2019. The app lets students point their phone’s camera at a problem and get an instant answer
App has 1M+ installs

June 2015 - April 2017

Developed systems to facilitate re-routing of recharges to different gateways, courier partners’ onboarding, run time courier allocation and reducing error rates while interacting with third-party courier systems

Nov 2016 - Oct 2017

Co-developed EvalAI from scratch
Implemented parallelised backend which reduced the submission evaluation time by 80% compared to Microsoft Codalab
Mentored students during Google Summer of Code 2017, attended GSOC Mentor Summit 2017 held at Google US office (invited by Google)
~42K monthly users worldwide; 1.4K stars and 600+ forks on GitHub; popular amongst CMU, Stanford, Facebook, Google

Dec 2014 - May 2015

Aug 2016 - Aug 2016

Refactored code linting pipeline for Dropbox’s Zulip (16.2K+ stars on GitHub)
Created dashboards for tutors for PythonIndia’s Wye
Improved test cases for Mozilla’s Fjord
Open sourced several packages at Paytm and Gradeup

2013 - 2021

[2020 - 2021] Developed an android app marketplace which provides developers with an alternate distribution platform
3 million organic users and 1.9 million app downloads
[2018 - 2019] Created a platform for Edtech YouTube creators to connect with the audience on their own platform
Onboarded a YouTuber with 150K subscribers; sunsetted as couldn't figure out the right GTM strategy
[2017] Launched an insight-based SAAS platform for restaurants to improve the customer dining experience
Onboarded 2 restaurants; sunsetted as failed to raise funds
[2014 - 2015] Set up an E-commerce Store for laptop stickers during the 3rd year of engg
300 orders were placed in 2 months; discontinued as it involved upfront investment
[2013] Developed a Hyperlocal Discount Discovery Platform during the 2nd year of engg
Onboarded 40 merchants from 5 malls of Delhi NCR; didn't continue as it involved a lot of sales intervention

Mar 2018 - Oct 2019

Co-authored a chapter on Industrial Applications of NLP in Search for Practical Natural Language Processing, published by O’Reilly along with authors from Google AI, CMU, MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research

Conceptualized and organized a hackathon at Gradeup in 2018
Reduced the creation timeline of internal tools by ~80%; was awarded by the CEO
Acted as a mentor and judge at Smart India Hackathon 2017, at my alma mater

I love connecting with people. You can reach out to me via email.