I started my career as a consultant at First Manhattan Consulting Group (link). I sold strategy to financial services clients.

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I served as an advisor to US Senator Al Franken. I wrote speeches, crafted legislation, and organized hearings focused on technology policy. I also worked at Jones Day (link) on litigation.

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Next, I worked as a human rights activist in Pakistan. I led a team of Yale Law students and partnered with Justice Project Pakistan (link) to document human rights violations in Pakistani prisons. We convinced future Prime Minister Imran Khan to speak about our findings in front of thousands of people.

 

During the human rights work, I hacked together a website to share information on government spending in the Punjab Province. I modeled this on a website that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's team developed in Brazil (link).

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This evolved into a startup. I created a company to send remittances from the United States to Pakistan using Bitcoin. I started this company in 2014 when Bitcoin was new. I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to get the company off the ground.

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I noticed an adjacent startup called Plaid (link). I connected with CEO Zach Perret, joined as the 12th employee, and reported to Zach. I worked in many areas including Product, Business Development, Finance, Sales, and Marketing to find product-market fit and invent a business model. Plaid is now valued at $13 billion (link).

 

I left Plaid to co-found Mend with another early Plaid employee. We created "Venmo for healthcare". Unfortunately, the market dynamics did not work out and we shut down the company.

 

I then joined an email security startup named Area 1 (link). I worked as Product Manager and got promoted to Senior Product Manager. I worked on initiatives in Product, Sales, Business Development, Marketing, and Policy. I closed deals with multiple Fortune 500 clients. We grew the company to get acquired by Cloudflare (link) for $162 million.

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I worked as Product Manager at Cloudflare and made key contributions to invent Cloudflare's Zero Trust product. The Zero Trust is now a mainstream product offering at Cloudflare and serves millions of users.

I then joined Center (link) to work as Head of Business Operations.  See more on LinkedIn (link).