Contact

Aalekh Sharan
www.linkedin.com/in/aalekh- Sarvam AI | BCG (Bay Area) | Eightfold | Aarogya Setu | CoS @ NITI
sharan-b1050330 (LinkedIn) AAYOG | IIT Delhi | Chicago Booth
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Top Skills
Agile Methodologies Summary
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Track record of rapid delivery of products at scale and career focus
Data Analysis
on implementing the technical (technical product management
of national scale products) and qualitative (federal policymaking
Languages
including responsible AI) aspects of AI and data solutions.
English (Native or Bilingual)
Hindi (Native or Bilingual)
Experienced in algorithm design for fast paced greenfield projects,
AI solution delivery, federal policy making, client engagement with
Honors-Awards
VP+ level of US Fortune 50 & growth stage cos., B2B SaaS buying
Delegate, United Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and behaviors and collaboration with researchers.
the Pacific
Ramakrishnan Family Merit Results-driven professional with 10+ years of experience managing
Scholarship ($50K)
multi-disciplinary teams of 5-10 people across the private, public,
Member, UN Task Force on Privacy
Preserving Computation
and social sector on national-scale technology projects.
Member, The Aspen Institute's Next
Gen Network
Experience
Publications
Sarvam
National Strategy for Artificial
Intelligence Head, Sarvam Enterprise & Strategy @ Founders’ Office
October 2024 - Present (2 months)
Valuing Society First: An
Assessment of the Potential for a Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Feebate Policy in India -Working with founders on defining overall product strategy
Data Markets to support AI for All:
-Heading Enterprise AI business including workflow automation/augmentation
Pricing, Valuation and Governance
products and population scale AI
UN Handbook on Privacy Preserving
Computation Techniques -Heading government engagement function for company and public sector
projects

Eightfold
Product Delivery
August 2023 - July 2024 (1 year)
San Francisco Bay Area

Led product delivery engagements with Fortune 50 clients to implement,

ensure success, and enable cross-sell of Eightfold products.

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Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Consultant (focused on AI solution delivery; B2B SaaS – pricing &
packaging, strategy & diligences)
August 2021 - August 2023 (2 years 1 month)
Analytics engine development and solution application project delivery:
• Led team of data scientists to deliver AI-based network optimization engine
(including working with a GPT-4 plugin) and continuous optimization strategy
to a Fortune 500 company with ~50 warehouses and ~$200M of logistics costs
• Designed and facilitated ~5 agile data baselining and hypothesis testing
workshops with Directors and VP level stakeholders, leading to alignment on
implementation plan for ~$30M worth of identified annual savings

B2B SaaS Pricing & Packaging:

• Optimized list prices and redefined good, better, best packaging structure for
a $10B+ SaaS co. aimed at realizing revenue uplift of ~3-7% and increased
upsell / cross-sell across product suite, leveraging interviews, surveys, and
internal sales data
• Collaborated with C-suite (Chief Technology Officer, Chief Transformation
Officer) of a $30B+ health software co. designing hybrid subscription +
consumption model by benchmarking against competitive price-to-value for
improved price realization

B2B SaaS – strategy & diligences (spanning DevOps / DevSecOps, Payments,

Data platforms) for early / growth deals worth ~$10B, conducting 300+
interviews, 3 B2B surveys, and utilizing novel sources of data such as scraping
open source repositories:
• Assessed expansion potential for a ~$3B DevSecOps company; articulating
right to win with enterprise customers due to ability to manage env.
fragmentation at scale across deployment environments, different micro-
services, and programming languages
• Quantified ‘network effect’ for a two-sided vendor security assessment
startup by customer archetype by surveying ~500 customers; lauded by CEO
in strategy workshop with company post close of Series ‘B’ funding
• Assessed robustness of real estate data platform to different recession
scenarios by conducting interviews with 50 customers, ~15 economic experts;
resulting in quantified customer spend deltas w.r.t. different interest rate
regimes

Foundation Capital
MBA Associate
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January 2021 - March 2021 (3 months)
Palo Alto, California, United States

• Developed investment thesis in the MLOps space; Added 5 Fortune 500

CxOs to Foundation Capital’s G2000 network; resulting in 7 enterprise deals
under consideration; Led due diligence for potential series A investment

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Sr. Product Manager (Technical)
July 2020 - October 2020 (4 months)
Seattle, Washington, United States

• Defined features, roadmap and incentives for a proposed product to increase

utilization rates of compute infrastructure by AWS services by conducting 20+
customer and participant interviews to synthesize user needs
• Prototyped Automated Supportability Check feature for dependent services –
reducing cycle time from 24 hours to ~ 15 minutes

Government of India (GoI)

Technical Product Lead - Tracing solution, Aarogya Setu (India's official
Covid-19 tracing app)
March 2020 - July 2020 (5 months)
India

• Led algorithm and data science vertical of startup/government consortium

HQed in Prime Minister’s Office; Designed risk propagation algorithm for 170M
+ users collaborating with global experts; Deployed algorithm within 3 weeks of
conceptualization
• Managed data science professionals from leading startups (MakeMyTrip and
1mg) to identify contacts at risk daily and anonymously notify ~8M citizens to
enable them to take action to protect others around them
• Facilitated technical decisions with engineering to increase privacy while
preserving efficacy and computability, e.g., Gaussian smoothing for location
data (privacy vs efficacy) and homomorphic encryption for risk prop. (privacy
vs efficacy vs computability)
• Collaborated with designers to iterate wireframes and UX for notifying
citizens of their risk level – balancing simplicity and actionability of risk signals;
Deployed 4 level risk signal communicated to users via different colors with
accompanying suggestions
• Collaborated with distinguished global experts in epidemiology and applied
mathematics including Dean, MIT and Ronald Rivest (Turing awardee) to
evaluate and update contact tracing approach

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• Featured on Booth website; World’s fastest app to reach 50M downloads (13
days, beating Pokemon Go); Awarded Digital India 2020 award by President of
India

Government of India (GoI)

Chief of Staff (Officer on Special Duty) to CEO, NITI Aayog
March 2017 - July 2019 (2 years 5 months)
New Delhi Area, India

NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) is India's federal

ministry chaired by the Prime Minister tasked with policymaking and promotion
of innovation.

Worked as chief of staff to CEO, NITI Aayog, primarily driving national

technology strategy and projects involving frontier technologies.

Large scale technology projects on AI and intuitive data access for citizens:

• Co-developed India’s national strategy on AI aimed at unlocking $1T+ of

GDP by 2030 by proposing actionable steps to revamp the research and data
ecosystems as well as responsible AI; Announced by Prime Minister with initial
outlay of ~ $1B
• Defined product requirements and managed vendor for a $8M National Data
and Analytics Platform (with NLP based contextual search) aimed at being a
consolidated platform for government data in all major economic sectors
• Led team of 5 to create ‘Indic NLP Stack’ to democratize access to
vernacular content and empower 500M+ internet users; facilitated multiple
workshops of Microsoft, startups and academia; project selected in 100-day
plan of 2nd ministry of PM Modi
• Pioneered execution of India’s first distributed ledger project to reduce
incidence of fraudulent drugs with estimated annual savings of $4.25B and 50k
+ lives; coordinated with CxOs of 7 participating manufacturers, distributors,
retailers to drive execution
• Led development of event app for PM-POTUS co-hosted 5k delegate Global
Entrepreneurship Summit; developed novel features such as P2P wearable
networking by coordinating efforts of engineering teams across 3 startups
(Wearables, app, BT location)

Represented India at international fora and influenced international

declarations on data and AI:

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• Selected to represent India at the UN 6th Committee on Statistics– youngest
Indian to ever deliver country policy statement – led to inclusion of clause on
utilizing granular data and advanced analytics/AI in official statement (Points
93, 97)

10xFitness
Co Founder
September 2015 - February 2017 (1 year 6 months)
New Delhi Area, India

Co-founded company and built product aiming to provide a pervasive fitness

experience to customers by tracking activities both within and outside the gym
and enabling new formats of buying access to gyms through flexible, social,
and gamefied membership models.

Secured in-principle buy in to invest $220k+ from 3 angel investors for venture.

Developed new product to address tracking of fitness data seamlessly both

within and outside gyms.

International Innovation Corps, Harris School of Public Policy,

University of Chicago
Fellow
July 2014 - August 2015 (1 year 2 months)
New Delhi

The International Innovation Corps.(IIC) places flat teams of five fellows with a
government institution in India for a one-year period to work on an ambitious
goal with the potential for scalable social impact. Each team is comprised of
graduates from a variety of disciplines who are trained in the US and India in
innovative design, social entrepreneurship, management consulting skills, and
leadership and the work involved is a mix of strategy consulting and product
development.

Worked on turnaround strategy for public sector renewable energy company,

targeting new markets and building new relationships with state governments
and public sector clients.

Empowered 2000+ households in rural Rajasthan and Bihar by designing and

implementing solar microgrids.

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Co-authored and presented sustainability plan for a greenfield smart city to
save $410mn, 2.6mn tonnes of CO2 and 13mn gallons of water to CEO and
board of city; 7 out of 8 interventions accepted by board and included in city
master plan.

Crafted new product – the “Smart Solar Tree” – a new layer of infrastructure
for smart cities; Marketed prototype to 5 states and 10 companies leading to
deployment in two company campuses and incorporation in master plan.

Nissan Motor Corporation

Software Engineering Intern, Nissan Advanced Technology Centre
(NATC)
June 2013 - July 2013 (2 months)
Kanagawa, Japan

Assigned to increase efficiency of DC-DC converter control system for Nissan

electric vehicles.

Designed multi-parameter control method with potential energy savings of 27

Giga Watt-Hour annually by increasing efficiency by 8 percent at ~ 0 additional
hardware cost.

Nissan Motor Corporation

Software Engineering Intern, Nissan Advanced Technology Centre
(NATC)
May 2012 - July 2012 (3 months)
Kanagawa, Japan

Implemented computer vision algorithm utilising Gabor filters to detect the

vanishing point of unstructured roads from a single, noisy image.

Developed and tested novel method for algorithm to self assess accuracy of its
prediction.

Improved performance of implementation by ~500% by parallelizing code and

using raster voting algorithm to find vanishing point rather than the traditional
method.

Extended assigned work - innovating and finding new method for mapping
road heights from a single image.

Asked to come back for second internship by NATC leadership based on

performance during internship.
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Education
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Master of Business Administration, Finance, Economics and
Entrepreneurship · (2019 - 2021)

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering · (2010 - 2014)

La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata

High school

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