04 · Writing

Writing

30 essays across product, payments, AI, data science, teaching, and life. The Stablecoin Atlas newsletter is where I write most consistently on fintech — everything else lives here.

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Books

Book Recommendation #2: The Money Trap

As an engineer turned startup founder, I've read my fair share of business books, but 'The Money Trap' by Alok Sama

Books

Book Recommendation #1: The Hard Thing About Hard Things

As an engineer turned startup founder, ' The Hard Thing About Hard Things ' by Ben Horowitz hit me like a freight train of raw, unfiltered truth about the entre

Product

Data Visualization for AI Prototyping: How Product Managers Validate Hypotheses Quickly

Namaste 🙏 and welcome to my blog

Product

Journey of Launching Cross Border Instant Payments

How I launched Cross Border Instant Payments at Citibank — covering product strategy, execution, failure handling, and the 'and then what?' thinking that shaped every decision.

Product

Navigating the Autonomy Landscape: A Comparative Look at Autonomy in Product Management

Navigating the challenges of autonomy at workplace As I have grown in my career, I have experienced different forms of autonomy

Product

Driving Revenue Growth: How to Estimate Projected Revenue for New Features

As a Product Manager, I am responsible for estimating the revenue for the features and capabilities that I propose to be built

Product

3 Months of Product Management - 7 Reflective Learnings!

In my last post reflecting on the year that went by, I shared that I got a new role of Data Product Manager in Citi

Personal

Reflecting on 2021 and What's new in 2022!

Well you know how much someone procrastinates, when that person writes a reflection of the past year in April of the following year

Technical

Re-Imagining Topic Modeling in NLP: A Break from Conventional Approach

I recently spoke about Contextual Topic Modeling in NLP, at Google's La Kopi event for developers

Personal

Become a Story Telling Ninja: Present Data Science Models to Stakeholders

A Data Science Ninja Over the last few years, I have presented a lot of projects involving Data Science models, Natural Language Processing to be more precise,

Technical

Machine Learning Roadmap: An Effective Guidebook for Learning Machine Learning

Sometime back, I wrote about why I have started mentoring and the scope of fields in which I am interested in mentoring

Personal

Evaluating Effectiveness of Mentorship: Open Sourcing My Framework

A while ago, I wrote about opening up my calendar for mentorship. Here I open-source the evaluation framework I use to measure my effectiveness as a mentor — and share the results transparently.

Personal

What's This About?

I have opened up my calendar for anyone to book mentoring hours for career, university applications and other guidance

Personal

Become a Web Analytics Ninja: Analyze Bounce Rate Across Different Visitor Segments

Web Analytics This post is a digression from the other data science blogs that I have written in the past and more so, from the work that I do in my day-to-day

Technical

Speed Up Pandas Dataframe Apply Function to Create a New Column

Pandas Library Data cleaning is an essential step to prepare your data for the analysis

Technical

Collocations in NLP using NLTK Library

Collocations are phrases or expressions containing multiple words, that are highly likely to co-occur

Food

Salads

Since quite sometime now, I have developed a new love for Salads

Personal

Saturday Kids: Code in the Community Experience

Kids of 8-10 years of age are incredibly smart who are treading high on the curve of curiosity and learning

Technical

Time Series Analysis using Pandas

Time series, a series of data points ordered in time

Technical

Handling Imbalanced Dataset with SMOTE in Python

Close your eyes and imagine that you live in a utopian world of perfect data

Technical

A Survey of API Management Platforms

In my previous blog , I discussed how I landed up interning at Dentsu

Personal

What am I doing right now? Internship.. Studies.. or Both?!

My experience of hunting for and landing an internship in Singapore

Technical

Multi Class Classification in Text using R: Predicting Ted Talk Ratings

This blog is in continuation to my NLP blog series

Technical

Emotions in Ted Talks: Text Analytics in R

This post is in continuation with my NLP blog series

Technical

Data Preprocessing in R

I have recently got my hands dirty with Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Personal

DataKind Singapore

I have recently shifted gears in my life

Technical

My learning experience with Google’s Machine Learning Crash Course

I came to know about Google’s Machine Learning Crash Course (MLCC) from Sundar Pichai’s tweet

Technical

Engineering challenges of streaming a million concurrent JSON data streams from product to CRM

At Truebil , I was fortunate enough to be given an opportunity to solve a unique engineering problem