/// Chief of Staff · Programme architect · Chennai
Hi, I'm Monica
Nine industries. Fifteen products and programmes. One job I keep coming back to: take a leader's intent and give it structure, rhythm and follow-through, so the right things get done.
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(About)
Most of my career has been the work in between: between founders and engineers, researchers and leadership, a big vision and Monday morning's to-do list. I'm happiest when a messy, ambitious idea becomes something a team can actually run with.
(01) The 30-second read
Six things the role asks for, each matched to real work I've done. No translation needed.
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(02) The big picture
Scroll through nine years. Every point is a real role, project or outcome. Hover any dot to see what it was.
Enactus, TEDxChennai, Singularity University Chennai and INK. Years of building rooms, not just showing up in them.
Habit-formation research at Crayon'd. A gamified IKIGAI career platform at SPI EDGE. Cognitive science and neuromarketing study alongside.
Pixel And Mortar: an AR interior design platform and marketplace, built 0→1 with a cross-functional team of 30+.
My consulting practice. Founders, startups and SMEs at the problem-before-the-brief stage, when the question isn't clear yet.
The R&D and innovation vertical of India's largest cinema technology company. Seven workstreams, one operating rhythm across researchers, engineers, leadership and industry partners.
Implementing the Director's vision across all operational verticals, growing the brand's community, and building consumer education on clothing quality.
People skills from community work. Judgement from behavioural research. Delivery from product. Range from consulting. Scale from running a portfolio. All of it now pointed at one principal's agenda.
(03) How I work
Whether it's a research centre or a menswear label, the rhythm doesn't change much. Here's what working with me actually looks like.
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Diagnose before prescribing. I sit with the leader, the team and the data until the real problem is clear, which isn't always the one in the brief.
Turn intent into something people can hold: a PRD, a roadmap, an evaluation framework. One page everyone can point at.
Sprints, reviews, pitch sessions, dashboards. The cadence that keeps many moving parts pointed at one outcome without me chasing anyone.
Get it out the door, measure it, write it down, and leave the team running it better than before. Then on to the next thing.
(04) Experience
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Turning the Director's vision into execution across all operational verticals.
Ran the portfolio of the R&D vertical at India's largest cinema technology company.
My own practice for founders, startups and SMEs at the problem-before-the-brief stage.
Built the product and marketplace for an AR interior design platform, 0 to 1, with a team of 30+.
(Earlier chapters)
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Research on habit formation and the neuroscience behind it for a behaviour-based product; wireframes with gamification mechanics.
Launched "Get Shit Done", a gamified IKIGAI platform: 200+ users, 10+ partner companies. As intern, part of the INK Chennai team: INK Salon and experiences for INK Conference 2019.
TEDxChennai Partnerships Executive (Dec 2018 – Oct 2019): $75K+ from 99+ sponsors. Singularity U Chennai Global Ambassador (Mar 2019 – Sep 2023): 25+ meetups, 1,200+ attendees. Enactus Shasun Student President (2017 – 2019).
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Download the full CV ↓(05) Kind words
As a Program Manager, she has a rare knack for taking complex, high-level requirements and breaking them down into clear, actionable steps that the development team can actually run with. She doesn't just pass information along; she filters and refines it so everyone knows exactly what needs to be built and why. … If you need someone who can bridge the gap between business goals and engineering, Monica is exactly that person.
Not many managers will hand you a gaming console and call it research. Monica did… She tasked us with analysing haptic feedback technology using the PS5 as a reference point, mapping industry standards, identifying gaps, and building a picture of where haptics sits as a medium for storytelling and experience design. The brief was open-ended by design, and that was the point.
(06) Always learning
I studied business, not engineering, so I keep learning the systems I work alongside. In 2026 that meant security: risk is an operating concern, and a Chief of Staff should be able to ask the right questions about it.
Currently
Four courses done: security foundations, risk management with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, network security, and Linux & SQL.
Shasun College · Class of 2020
(07) Beyond the desk
I joined a scientific expedition across Ladakh as a participant alongside researchers: field lectures and sample collection at Tso Kar, Saboo, Hanle and Tso Moriri. Terrain close enough to Mars that scientists use it to prepare for planetary missions. I paid for it myself, because I couldn't stop being curious.
The same curiosity took me into nine industries. I follow questions until they become something useful.
"What makes people happy?" I asked it in a cold desert. I'm still asking it at work.
(08) Next chapter
I'm looking for a role at the centre of a scaling company, where the work is figuring out what the work should be, keeping the right things moving, and building the operating backbone that lets ambitious teams focus. Chennai-based, IST-aligned, open to global remote roles and travel.