Indian Army | Jammu & Kashmir

Commanding Officer, Infantry Battalion

• Commanded an 850+ person organisation, owning operations, governance and a multi-crore budget across every function in a high-stakes environment
• Designed and codified a reusable relocation operating model, moving a 12,000-person, 400-vehicle organisation 1,000 km on a 100 km supply chain, cutting planning lead time for later moves
• Built out a ₹525M forward-area infrastructure portfolio spanning defence structures, roads, water, solar and skilling facilities, 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 with the requirement projected to industry
• Onboarded the first and largest Agniveer cohort across the three services, 100+ recruits, building the integration framework and onboarding SOP for a nationally monitored flagship policy

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

• As second-in-command of an 850+ person organisation, deputised for the head on governance and talent, and ran the operations, procurement and infrastructure portfolios
• Re-engineered procurement and demand planning across ~₹20M annual spend, cutting costs 20%+ through competitive evaluation, demand aggregation and e-procurement
• Instituted category-level demand reviews, cutting emergency procurement ~30% and lifting forecast accuracy to ~90%
• Grew a retail operation's monthly revenue ~70%, ₹2.5M to ₹4.2M, through demand forecasting, inventory optimisation and assortment planning
• Planned and led an air-deployment of 2,500+ personnel, 140 vehicles and ~430 tonnes of cargo, later adopted as organisational policy

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

• Directed operations, risk and logistics for a 10,000+ strong formation on the Siachen Glacier, owning induction, sustenance and infrastructure in the world's highest operating environment
• Redesigned casualty-evacuation and forward-logistics protocols, a change directly credited with saving 50+ lives, and drove avalanche-related incidents to zero
• Orchestrated an integrated multimodal supply chain across helicopters, cableways and snowmobiles, sustaining 100+ forward outposts through a narrow resupply window
• 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 across ~10,000 sq km, building the predictive-maintenance layer that cut unplanned downtime ~30% and avoided ~₹50M in emergency movement cost
• Pioneered a 1 MW solar plant with the Solar Energy Corporation of India and inducted frontier technologies, avalanche-detection radars, high-altitude UAVs and telemedicine

Head, IT Infrastructure and Digital Systems , The Infantry School

• Directed a ~₹700M multi-workstream technology programme spanning campus network, a learning platform and a ₹500M digital auditorium, authoring the business cases, clearing sanctions and holding vendor and OEM governance to deliver ~5 months ahead of a multi-year schedule
• Migrated a 10+ km optical-fibre network, 500+ endpoints across 40+ managed Layer-2 switches and a server backbone, 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 and enforcing air-gap and incident-isolation controls
• Rolled out a campus-wide learning-management platform to 2,000+ trainees at ~90% adoption, and managed ~₹200M of annual technology tendering and OEM coordination

Founding Team and Company Commander, Zero-to-One Launch

• Built a 1,000-person organisation from zero as part of the founding team, designing its operating model, systems and governance through to full capability as a permanent unit
• Architected a GIS intelligence platform consolidating demographic, socio-economic and incident data into a single queryable system that powered planning across the organisation
• 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 at 97% cadet retention, and led the shift to a single-window digital operating platform
• Field Operations Manager, Manipur: directed flood relief for 2,000+ civilians and moved ~60% of unit procurement online via the 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 ₹120–150M 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 | 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 to bring them out unharmed
• Recovered a stranded UN logistics convoy in contested terrain, defusing a looting threat and securing safe transshipment of its supplies
• Authored mission-wide security SOPs, crisis-response frameworks and drills, adopted across the mission as the common operating standard

• Chief of the Army Staff Commendation (2020) for operations and logistics leadership and redesigning casualty-evacuation protocols at Siachen
• 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

• 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)

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG
• 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