Ambitious Labs

Building the #1 app idea accelerator in the world.

- Raised mid 6-figure angel round
- 7-figure annual revenue 
- Built a high performing enrollments department 
- 4.9 star google reviews
- Developed cutting edge ai powered learning platform

Founder + CEO

Closercademy

CEO, Founder

University of California, Berkeley

Guest lecturer for the Product Launch class under the Sutardja center for entrepreneurship & technology.

Teaching full-stack no-code AI development to business students interested in launching app startups.

Guest Lecturer

FlutterFlow

Championing the FlutterFlow product for the USA market.

Content Creator & Ambassador

First Check Ventures

- Syndicate member of First Check Ventures. I write $2k-$5k checks to a handful of promising companies every year. 

- Invested in Everything Green Organics, a farm to table startup out of Windsor, California.

Angel Investor

Yummy 

Venezuela’s super app. Doordash + Uber. Invested very early alongside FCV syndicate.

Angel Investor via First Check Ventures

PrizePicks

- #1 App for Sports in the iOS App Store
- #1 Daily Fantasy Sports App in the Country 2022
- Senior Mobile Engineer owning CI/CD, release management and user acquisition engineering

Head of Mobile & Growth Engineering

- Lead product engineering of top a 10 Sports App in iOS App Store
- Day to day: React, CapacitorJS, Swift/Java, Growth Marketing, App Analytics, AdTech, Product Marketing, Re-engagement
- Achieved industry leading engagement rates by developing new features against KPI goals. (CAC, virality co-efficient, etc) 
- Built a world class marketing tech stack in close collaboration with Marketing and Data Science.

Head Mobile Engineer

Season Share

Co founded and led product and engineering. Worked closely with VPs at major league teams to earn buy in for our products. Responsible for deploying 50+ products in market generating 10s of millions of dollars of revenue for our partners. Architected a distributed system capable of supporting 500k MAUs & high traffic on-sale windows.

Co-founder + CTO 

Hourglass Education Technology Solutions, LLC

Worked on cutting edge institutional education software. Mentored on ReactJS best practices. Individual contributor in a disciplined agile/scrum environment.

Senior Mobile App Engineer (React Native) 

San Jose State University

Instructional Assistant 

Grew up in a small town and had to work extra hard to get my foot in the door working on cool tech startups. My first job at age 15 was fixing iPhone screens in the mall. Then I scooped ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery and bussed tables at a local airport restaurant to pay for college. 

After football practice in high school I'd be learning how to code on CodeAcademy. People thought I was a nerd. 

Fast forward 10 years -- I've built multiple apps, b2b SaaS, internet businesses, websites, and e-commerce businesses that have generated over $100m collectively. 

I got to work remotely, travel to 12+ countries, invest in real estate and stocks and built a fruitful living for myself. 

Learning how to build apps changed my life. Now I’m on a mission to teach 10,000 people how to build apps.

Alim Charaniya

Career Edge

• Recommended growth strategies for an ed-tech startup via market penetration and product development to increase revenues by 5X in 18 months
• Group Case Prep. Market Entry, Market sizing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Growth. Mentored by Management Consultants

Consulting Fellow

Motels

• Realized $81,000 of revenue- $1800/ room/ month for 5 rooms for 9 months by generating word-of-mouth referrals
• Attained 60%+ repeat rate by offering $1000+ worth of refunds for dissatisfied customers. Collected $8000 of delinquent rent
• Improved Average Daily Rate (ADR) by $2.5/day over 4 months by revoking 28-day max-stay policy to retain regular customers
• Resolved 100+ issues of confrontations/commotion between customers by intervening for distress calls, neighbour complaints

Manager of Operations

Days Inn by Wyndham

• Generated $87,360 worth of revenues- $480/ room/ week for 7 rooms for 6 months, by developing and nurturing relationships with 2 corporate customers, and offering 20% discount for extended patronage
• Shortened review response time from 'Poor' to 'Great' by promptly responding to negative reviews within 3 days; Increased
review response rate from 'Poor' to 'Great' by replying to 20+ past and current negative reviews
• Spearheaded the reintroduction of Breakfast, contactless key system by scrutinizing 100 reviews; introduced kiosk check-in
• Raised Booking.com customer experience score from 5.6 to 5.7 out of 10, by soliciting guest feedback upon checkout

Motel

• Secured referral of 24 clients over 6 months by maintaining cordial relationship with SF Pre-trial Diversion Project, leading to revenues $67,000+
• Reduced the annual cost of supplies by 15% through establishing a partnership with a new supplier
• Maintained consistent occupancy rates of over 80%, Allocated budgets, Instituted Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

Operations Specialist

🗹 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐞- Flag Football, Basketball, Soccer, and Volleyball; enforced rules and regulations of respective sport, clarified rules to players.

🗹 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 overall- Spring 2018 (out of 25); 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 appropriate Sportsmanship and spectator conduct during games.

🗹 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 a cordial working relationship with 24 Intramural teams, led to 50% 𝐟𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬.

🗹 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 to Flag Football Head Referee in 1 year, broke up 3 scuffles/ brawls during tenure.

🗹 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 to officiate Flag Football; one of the 2 non-Americans to officiate Basketball (out of 25).

🗹 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 at Flag Football NorCal Intramural Officials Clinics in Oct 2017 (out of 50), sharpened officiating skills.

🗹 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 at Basketball NorCal Intramural Officials Clinics in Mar 2018 & Feb 2019 (out of 50); solved 15 hypothetical tricky scenario plays.

Intramural Sports Referee

Streamlined procurement processes by configuring the Material and Vendor Master in SAP-Process Orchestration; achieved a 20% reduction in payment processing errors, enhancing overall operational efficiency and accuracy

Associate Systems Engineer

Cognizant

Graduate Engineering Trainee

🎓Recent MBA grad | 🎯Strategy consultant | 🎯Competitive analysis | 🎯Corporate Strategy | 💰Driving revenue growth, operational efficiency, cost optimization | 👑CSSGB | 👑TPM | 🏆I help with building long-term value

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