Indian Army

Commanding Officer, Infantry Battalion

• - Commanded an 850-person organisation as its head, owning operations, governance and a multi-crore budget
• - Designed and codified a reusable relocation operating model, moving a 12,000-person, 400-vehicle organisation 1,000 km, cutting planning lead time ~40%
• - Built out a ₹525M forward-area infrastructure portfolio through transparent e-tendering and audit-clean procurement
• - Architected an AI-enabled multi-sensor detection system on a serverless architecture to a 100% interception rate, taken up for procurement
• - Onboarded the first and largest Agniveer cohort across the three services, 100+ recruits, with an integration framework and onboarding SOP

Deputy General Manager, Operations, Procurement and Planning (Second-in-Command)

• - Re-engineered procurement and demand planning across ~₹20M annual spend, cutting costs 20%+ through competitive evaluation, demand aggregation and digital e-procurement
• - Grew a revenue generating retail operation's monthly revenue ~70%, from ₹2.5M to ₹4.2M
• - Planned and led a large scale air-deployment of 2,500+ personnel, 140 vehicles and ~430 tonnes of cargo, later adopted as organisational policy
• - Delivered a ₹200M headquarters complex as project lead, to specification and budget
• - Codified disaster-response plans across 18 districts of Uttar Pradesh.

Senior Manager, Operations, Risk and Logistics (Brigade GSO-1)

• Directed operations, risk and logistics for a 10,000+ strong formation deployed in extreme high altitude, owning induction, sustenance and infrastructure
• Orchestrated an integrated multimodal supply chain across helicopters, cableways and snowmobiles, sustaining 100+ forward outposts
• Managed ~₹1.1B of annual procurement and ran season-ahead replenishment controls across 2,000+ spares, cutting stock-outs ~30%
• Drove enterprise adoption of a GIS asset platform, digitising assets across ~10,000 sq km and shifting maintenance to predictive
• Pioneered a 1 MW solar plant with the Solar Energy Corporation of India, and inducted frontier technologies (radars, high-altitude UAVs, telemedicine)

Head, IT Infrastructure and Digital Systems (GSO-1, IT)

• - Directed a ~₹700M multi work stream technology programme (campus network, LMS, a auditorium and cyber hardening), authoring business cases and clearing sanctions
• - Migrated a 10+ km optical-fibre network, 500+ endpoints across 40+ managed switches, to a new campus with zero downtime for 2,000+ users
• - Automated the cyber-audit process, cutting per-system audit time 85% across 500+ endpoints
• - Rolled out a campus-wide learning-management platform to 2,000+ trainees at ~90% adoption, and managed ~₹200M of annual technology procurement

Founding Team, Zero-to-One Launch

• - Built a 1,000-person organisation from zero as part of the founding team, its operating model, systems and governance, to full capability as a permanent unit
• - Architected a GIS intelligence platform consolidating demographic, socio-economic and incident data into a single queryable system for planning
• - Delivered a ₹250M community-development portfolio across 40+ villages

Other Command and Field Leadership

• Director, National Cadet Corps: Grew the cohort ~57% to 1,657, drove a record 44% rise in armed-forces selections, and led the shift to a single-window digital operating platform across the UP Directorate.
• Field Operations Manager, Manipur: Directed flood relief for 2,000+ civilians and moved ~60% of unit procurement online via Government e-Marketplace, cutting cycle time ~40%.
• Chief of Staff : Executed a 2,500+ km relocation of 1,000+ personnel with zero loss and digitised ₹120 to 150M of assets, sustaining the vehicle fleet at 90%+ availability.
• Field Team Leader : Anchored the coordination cell for the 2007 Amarnath Yatra, a 300,000+ pilgrim event, directing airlift, medical evacuation and multi-agency security.

United Nations (UNMISS, UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan) | South Sudan

International Security and Multi-Agency Coordinator (UN Military Observer)

• - Headed a sector-level multi-agency coordination centre, aligning 2,000+ personnel and 10+ agencies to protect 120,000+ civilians in an active conflict zone
• - Secured the release of four NGO medical workers held by armed rebels, negotiating directly with local actors
• - Recovered a stranded UN logistics convoy in contested terrain, defusing a looting threat and securing safe transshipment
• - Authored mission-wide security SOPs, crisis-response frameworks and drills, adopted as the common operating standard

• - Chief of the Army Staff Commendation (2020) for operations and logistics leadership and redesigning casualty-evacuation protocols at the Siachen Brigade
• - Force Commander UNMISS Commendation (2017) for multi-agency coordination and a life-saving humanitarian evacuation in an active conflict zone
• - Governor of Manipur Citation (2018) for leading flood-relief operations for affected communities
• - GOC-in-C Northern Command (2023) and Southern Command (2009) Commendations, and multiple unit citations
• - Awarded the Entry Scholarship at IIM Ahmedabad for a distinguished professional profile and career achievements

• - MBA (PGPX), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
• - MSc, Defence and Strategic Studies, Defence Services Staff College, Wellington (University of Madras)
• - PG Diploma, Military Studies and Defence Management, Indian Military Academy (HNB Garhwal University)
• - BSc, Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry, National Defence Academy (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

• - Advanced Digital Transformation Specialization, IIM Ahmedabad
• - Advanced Specialisation in Automated Data Processing (IT), Military College of Telecommunications Engineering (Best Student)
• - Advanced Leadership and Strategic Management, Army War College, Mhow
• - Google AI Essentials, Google

• - Endurance athlete and ultramarathoner
• - Represented the Service Academies (NDA and IMA) in hockey and cross-country
• Languages: English, Hindi and French