Journey
Timeline
From Kalahandi to global executive search to hiring infrastructure. The story in chapters.
Kalahandi, Odisha
Born and raised in Kalahandi, in the southwestern corner of Odisha — where the Eastern Ghats meet dense forest and rivers the rest of India rarely sees. The landscape, the people, the particular stubbornness required to operate there: these shaped the question I've spent my career on. What does it take to move from where you are to where you're capable of going?
Government School
Educated entirely in Odia — lessons in the language I dreamed in, teachers who showed up and treated the classroom as a serious place. The school had no computer lab, no library worth the name. What it built instead was a self-directed curiosity that did not wait for permission or infrastructure to operate. The habit of sitting with a question until you find the answer yourself. Those skills never left.
Engineering
Left Odisha for New Delhi to study engineering — the first step out, and proof that geography is not destiny. The move was disorienting and clarifying in equal measure. It confirmed what I had suspected: the world rewards people who show up prepared to learn.
Barclays · American Express · Synpulse
Built foundational experience across global financial institutions and management consulting. Barclays. American Express. Synpulse Management Consulting. Each role sharpened a different edge — systems thinking, client delivery, and how large organisations actually make decisions. The pattern I kept seeing: the best organisations win on people, and most organisations don't hire well enough to know it.
Majhi Group
Founded Majhi Group — a retained executive search firm built on a single thesis: the hiring system for senior leaders is broken in a specific, measurable way, and a better system is possible. Retained model. 20–25% of total CTC. Exclusivity. 90-day guarantee. Weekly status reports. 25+ C-suite and VP placements. 30–45 day average close versus a 65–90 day industry median. Quality over speed — every time.
Ithaca College Advisory Board
Appointed by invitation to the Advisory Board for the Customer Experience Certificate Program at Ithaca College, in partnership with Zschool. Board membership is by invitation only, based on personal and professional accomplishment. A recognition that the work being built at Majhi Group had earned a seat at the table with a diverse, senior network of executives linking industry with academia.
Majhi OS
Started building Majhi OS — autonomous hiring operations infrastructure. The insight: most recruiting software helps teams send outreach and track candidates. Nobody owns what happens when the hiring system fails. Majhi OS detects failing mandates before they collapse, launches recovery sequences autonomously, and gives leadership real-time visibility into hiring health. The category is new. The problem is not.
Writing
This site. A growing library of essays on opportunity, India, technology, and human potential. Writing is how I think out loud — and how I stay honest about what I actually believe. Every essay is written for the person I was at 22, in Kalahandi, looking for maps.
"The arc bends toward opportunity — if you're willing to look for it in the right places."