Utkarsh Shukla

Arrow AI is an Artificial Intelligence Platform

Barefoot Lightning is an Agri-Tech company, trying to bring an agricultural transformation using ICT and analytics tools. We worked in Soya, Paddy and Sugarcane, and created multiple ICT and Analytics tools to bring a change in Farming. Some of the projects: - Soya Yield Predictor : We worked with Solidaridad India to create a Soya Yield Predictor Mobile application to help the Farmers and Extension workers predict yields before the harvest and compare between varieties - Rice Expert : A Mobile based Application for Extension Workers to provide Package of Practice assistance to farmers in Field.

- Started the company during college as a Game Development Company, but later pivoted to Technology and Branding Consulting - At peak led a team of 45+ team and worked on some large mission critical project implementations alongside with some of the large companies likes BCG, McKinsey and Banks. Some of the Projects: # VijayPath implementation in SBI (State Bank Of India) along with BCG (Boston Consulting Group) - VijayPath was a lead management system developed by me in dot net framework - We worked along with BCG to implement it in SBI all over the country in all circles and branches - Our Efforts were quite appreciated by SBI as well as BCG # PradhanMantri Jan Dhan Yojna Rural Branding Animation with Indian Bank Association, Department of Financial Services (Govt of India) - Designed and Branded a Financial Literacy Animation Film, focused on rural areas, that explains the concepts of Opening a bank account easily. It was quite appreciated. # Financial Literacy Campaigns for Union Bank of India and Bank of Baroda - Created Financial Literacy Campaigns for targeting the rural and semi-urban people. - Created Series of Animated Content to communicate the idea in a better fashion # Sparsh : Manpower Optimisation tool for Bank Of Baroda - A Manpower Optimisation tool for restructuring the staff after promotions and transfers - Based on KPA/KRA and KPI for the staff using various metrics Other Projects: - Complete Platform Restructuring of IndiaPicture, an Image stocking platform with more than 10 million images, and implemented Real-Time Search in it - E-Commerce Product Crawler Engine, that crawls and collects Product Datas, groups them and provides recommended products to people. - An online Career Counselling Platform to recommend stream and courses to class 10 and 12, using various skill and psychometric tests.

School Bank Champs is a project to provide financial literacy to students in schools in India. Under this program, each bank branch in India, has adopted one school in their vicinity and provided financial literacy training there. More than 55,000 schools have been enrolled and total of 60,00,000 students are to be trained under this program in India.

Co-Founded and Invested in few products, with moderate successes. Some of them: # Traveloore (www.traveloore.com), Investor and Co-Founder: Travel Platform - Started as Travel Experience Sharing Platform and Travel Reviews - Pivoted to being a SAAS based ERP service as One-Stop Solution for Travel Agents - Successfully existed the product after acquisition # GiftUrFriend (www.gifturfriend.com), Co-Founder: Social Gift Recommendation - Started as a Gift Recommendation Platform for people, with along with social commerce. - Lack of Data for Recommendation, we pivoted as curated gifting recommendation platform. - Due to early stages of Indian E-Commerce, we had to do the Logistics and Supply Chain, hence burn rate becoming un-sustainable. - Closed it once Facebook Started with Facebook Gift #Medvizze (www.medvizze.com), Co-Founder: Online Communication between Doctor and Patient - Focused on providing an online communication between doctors and patients where doctors can provide basic advice to patients online. - Later on Pivoted to being a SAAS based Platform for Doctors to manage their practice online. - Revenue based business #ERP Lens (www.erplens.com), Founder: SAAS Based ERP for Mobile Age - A SAAS based ERP for Construction, Textiles and other domains. - Initially started for implementation in SME Businesses, but later turned to SAAS as the SME Lead time was more. #BuyNBrag (www.buynbrag.com), CTO: Social E-Commerce Marketplace - A Social E-Commerce Marketplace with focus on User Experience and User Engagement - Social Engagement and Impulse Shopping focused Engagement. - It was acquired by Urban Ladder

An Art-Based E-Commerce Marketplace in the Affordable Art Category. India Art Village was a platform to sell art and art prints, as well as merchandises based on the art design replicated over various surfaces. As a Technology Head, I developed and managed the consumer platform, and also created warehouse and inventory management system.

Worked on various projects with multiple startups, to get broad experience. Some Select Projects: # Platform Development of WebMurga - Webmurga was a platform trying to get the user's TV behavioural analytics in the Cable TV era. - Back in 2008 this platform helped the users to get reminder of their favourite shows with SMS. - I created the platform on LAMP Stack. - The rise of Digital TV, smartphones, coupled with cost of SMS killed it making platform obsolete. # Platform Development for Nomolisa - This was a startup trying to create a product for Indian Dating and Marriage Market in early 2008. - The market was a hard to break because of the social dynamics, and the startup was not success. - I did the technology platform development on Asp.net, and the complete platform implementation. # Platform Development for FusionCraft - FusionCraft was a social startup which helped artisans, provided them design and market support. - I did the technology platform development on Java Spring Stack. - The startup faced issues in delivery, cost and artisan management, since it was managing the artisans instead of being a marketplace. # Platform Development at Simplifix - Developed Evelta, an E-Commerce Marketplace for Electronic Components on Opencart - Understood the intricacies of E-Commerce Operations Management

Worked on Material Simulation, High Performance Computing using GPU Computing, and Simulation of Material Fibers.