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Ansh Babbar
Product Manager/Engineer in India, He/Him
About
engineer turned product designer turned entrepreneur. a nerd about web3, llms and fashion.
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Work Experience
Product Intern at CRON AI, worked on their 3D perception platform, SenseEDGE.
open source contributor at Microsoft/Autogen, mlpack/mlpack, and cpacker/MemGPT
Founded and working on [strift], a fashion-first social commerce marketplace, for giving new-age fashion labels an audience.
- Hult Prize '23 Global Semifinalist (Top 500 out of 10,000 fashion startups worldwide).
- Backed by Microsoft for Startups. (<1% acceptance rate)
I lead a team of 15 developers, designers and creatives. I lead the entire design direction.
Projects
designed the UI/UX, and led the design direction and a design and engineering team of 9 at my startup, [strift].
Ayre is a Visual Question Answering project using semantic, segmentation and sentiment analysis. This is primarily a research based project, since Visual Question Answering with Sentiment Analysis is a significant research gap.
Awards
my startup, [strift], cleared the global semifinals at Hult Prize '23 and ranked top 500 out of 10,000 fashion startups around the world.
my startup, [strift], got backed by Microsoft for Startups. (<1% acceptance rate)
Won 2nd prize for my blockchain project toknpass in University's project showcase — happened Dec 2022
Lead the team of 4 to build a grocery-subscription service for sustainable "ugly" fruits and veggies. Made the entire UI/UX, design direction and pitched it as a product launch. We came 2nd out of 50 teams in Bennett University.
Side Projects
a rough UI/UX mockup prototype for the vyap mobile app, it includes 6 core screens and a color pallette. Created using Figma, and Adobe Illustrator.
Built a Python based Chatbot using Kaggle and Django.
Volunteering
organised speaker sessions with various devs from Google, Microsoft and Adobe.
I was heavily involved in the design strategies for Etasa — an Enactus project, including the design document, color palette, logo, marketing material, social media posts as well as a ton of product design.
Education
CS Sophomore student at Bennett University.
- Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science Engineering
- 8.09 CGPA
- Specialization in Blockchain
- Entrepreneurship Minor