Praveen
Praveen
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Introducing Praveen, the Founder and CTO of Awign, India's leading enterprise gig work platform transforming the landscape of organized work execution. With over 15 years of dedicated experience, Praveen brings a wealth of expertise and insights to the forefront.
Under Praveen's visionary leadership, Awign has established itself as the preferred choice for large enterprises seeking efficient and results-oriented solutions. With a bold vision to create the next 100 million jobs in India, Praveen is committed to harnessing the power of the gig economy to redefine traditional workforce paradigms. Awign boasts a vast network of over 1 million gig workers and serves as a trusted partner to 100+ marquee enterprises, a testament to Praveen's unwavering dedication to driving impactful change at scale.
Prior to founding Awign, Praveen honed his skills as a Lead Developer at Ola, where he spearheaded the development of cutting-edge accounting and operations tracking platforms for Ola Shuttle. His tenure at LocalJini as a Founder and Engineer further solidified his expertise in building scalable and modular product solutions from the ground up, leveraging his learnings from industry giants like Flipkart.
As a seasoned entrepreneur and technology leader, Praveen is poised to offer invaluable guidance across various critical domains:
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Startups - Ideation, Growth, and Scaleup: Leveraging his vast experience at Awign, Praveen provides strategic counsel and practical insights to startups at all stages of their growth journey, from inception and expansion to operational scalability.
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Industry Insights - Gig, JobTech, and HR Space: With Awign's groundbreaking success in workforce organization, Praveen offers invaluable perspectives on emerging trends in the gig economy, job tech landscape, and HR strategies, empowering businesses to stay ahead in the dynamic market landscape.
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Fundraising Strategies: Drawing from his experience in securing substantial funding for Awign, Praveen provides strategic guidance on navigating the intricacies of fundraising, from crafting compelling pitches to building robust investor relations, enabling startups to secure vital financial resources for growth and expansion.
- Career Development in Tech: With a rich background in technology architecture and leadership, Praveen offers valuable insights and mentorship on career development paths, skill acquisition, and advancement opportunities in the tech industry, empowering professionals to navigate their career trajectories with confidence and purpose.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering
Aug 2008 - May 2012
Total work Experience: 15 Years
Professional Experience
Awign Enterprises
Founder and CTO | Dec 2016 - Present
Bengaluru Area, India
- Heading Technology and Product @ Awign
Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd)
Lead Developer | Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Bengaluru Area, India
- Worked in Ola Shuttle
- Developed Accounting Platform for shuttle team
- Also developed daily ops tracking Platform
LocalJini
Founder and Engineer | Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Mumbai Area, India
- Tech coÂ-founder of the company. Built a team of 4 people to develop the complete product from scratch. Used all my learning from Flipkart to build a highly scalable suite of independently deployable, small, modular services in which each service runs a unique process and communicates through a well defined, lightweight mechanism to serve the business goals.
Flipkart.com
Senior Software Development Engineer | Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Bengaluru Area, India
- Build a 3 way market place (Fquick) in a hyperlocal space for India. Launched the product (nearBy) in Bangalore in August.
- Managed a team to build, design and architecture of complete backend services. Also built an admin panel(UI) for hero onboarding, background verification and and their payment management.
Software Development Engineer | Jun 2013 - Nov 2014
Bengaluru Area, India
- Part of the initial flipkart’s supply chain team. We build the complete supply chain for flipkart which consisted of Order Management System, Fulfillment, Warehouse, Logistics, Returns, Payments. This system processes has the capability and has processed more than a 2.8 million orders one a single day (Big Billion Day).
Automation Engineer | Nov 2012 - May 2013
Bengaluru Area, India
- Quality assurance team in Supply chain management. Automated various manual tests to make the development and deployment cycle smooth and faster.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Summer Intern | Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Developed an open source web conferencing tool for distance education.
- Under the guidance of prof. D B Phatak, CSE IIT Bombay as an MHRD India project to enhance e-learning in India.
- Part of my summer internship. Contains "video conferencing", "whiteboard" and "Document sharing" modules. Also contains the "online chat" and "Doubt clearance with hand raise" modules.
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Summer Intern | Jun 2010 - Jul 2010
Ranchi Area, India
- Worked on a Network security Project Under the guidance of Prof. S. Dutta. First implemented various cryptographic algorithms, like DES, RSA MD5 e.t.c. Used those for finger print encoding and decoding. Worked on unique ID generation for the citizen of a country problem with the professor S.Dutta. Complete work was done in MATLAB.
Certifications
- Artificial Intelligence - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- Computer Architecture - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- Computer Graphics - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- Computer Networks - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- Data Structures and Algorithms - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- Database Systems - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- Digital Image Processing - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- Discrete Mathematical Structures - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- Introduction to Computers and Programming - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
- Logic and Computability - Associated with Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Our Offerings
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Consultation 1:1 / General Discussion:
During a one-on-one call, users have the opportunity to directly interact with a mentor of their choice.
This call is ideal for engaging in insightful discussions tailored to your industry insights, trends, general know-how on tasks related to your professions, and career guidance needs. -
Consultation - Specific Insights:
You can use this call to get your startup idea validated through an in-depth analysis, brainstorm on strategy related to business, go-to-market, and product placement, fundraising, find the valuation of your startup or prepare a pitch for investors together with our experts.