InnovRent — first cohort.
First three SMB customers on active leases.
Timeline2025 2026 2024 2022 2024 2014 2018 2010 2011
The journey, in six chapters.
Sixteen years at Cisco, then InnovRent. Newest first.
Where I've livedPanchkula→Chandigarh→Bengaluru→Raleigh→Gurgaon
2024–now
Founder era — InnovRent.
Gurgaon & PanchkulaB2B device leasing for Indian SMBs. Building from two cities. The first time I've answered to no one but customers.
Lessor portal.
Customer-facing portal in private beta.
2024
Cisco — Compliance.
GurgaonThe final Cisco chapter. One year. Closing the loop on six years of internal-process work.
Compliance audit automation.
Cut a four-week manual review cycle to two days across 1,200 sites.
2019–2024
Cisco — Customer Experience.
GurgaonProduct management for the customer-experience business. Five years turning operational work into automation.
CX renewals dashboard.
First system to surface contract gaps before customers saw them.
Branch upgrade automation.
1,200 branches, four-week pipeline, three regions.
2012–2019
Cisco Raleigh.
Raleigh, USAPresales engineering for North American carriers. Seven years learning to translate between engineers and procurement.
Solution-architecture toolkit.
Adopted by ~80 architects across two regions.
Carrier presales playbook.
Cut presales response from twelve to three days.
2008–2012
Cisco Bengaluru.
BengaluruSolution architecture for the South Asian carrier business. The first chapter — learning what enterprise actually means.
Tier-2 carrier playbook.
First reusable architecture pattern — used by ~12 architects.
Branch BoM templates.
Cut RFP response time by half.
2004–2008
Education — Haryana.
ChandigarhYears at PEC Chandigarh — engineering, early projects, formative experiments. Content coming soon.