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Garvika Bansal. COO of Bimi. Six years in e-commerce operations. Founder of Saaja Foods._

I build operations from scratch — supply chains, teams, systems, processes. Currently building Bimi, an AI kitchen manager for Indian households. Previously ran grocery and category operations at Meesho and udaan at scale. On the side, I founded Saaja Foods — ₹3L revenue and 500+ customers in 2 months. Live on Amazon.

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01WORK

E-commerce operations at scale

Six years across two of India's largest e-commerce platforms — running category operations, vendor management, program management, and grocery strategy.

Program Manager, Central Ops / Meesho Grocery
Sep 2023 → Present · Bengaluru

Spearheaded Meesho's grocery operations strategy — owning product, process, and performance across all categories.
- Designed and implemented a Just-in-Time (JIT) inventory model for Meesho's grocery business — improved platform availability OKRs from 70% to 90%.
- Led cross-functional teams across SCM, User Growth, and Categories to drive inventory health, vendor relationships, and capacity planning.
- Program-managed the rollout of Meesho's content management system (CMS) with product and tech teams — adopted across business units.
- Drove process optimisation achieving a 70% → 90% success rate in targeted operational areas over 4 months.
★ Pod of the Quarter ★ Problem First Mindset — both awarded by CEO Vidit Aatrey (JIT inventory · CMS rollout)
- Grocery
- JIT inventory
- CMS rollout
- Cross-functional
Category Manager, General Merchandise / udaan
Dec 2021 → Dec 2022 · Bengaluru
- Improved category margins by 2.5% within 2 months through correct portfolio selection.
- Built an Excel model to implement regional utilisation for the category — increased from 48% to 78%, reducing order-to-delivery by 2 days average and saving ₹5L in supply costs.
- Developed and executed category strategies including product cycles and launches aligned to market trends.
- B2B
- Category strategy
- Margin
- Regional utilisation
Program Manager, Category Operations / udaan
Aug 2020 → Dec 2021 · Bengaluru · Promoted to Category Manager in 7 months
- Achieved 98.5% Inbound Forward Flow; reduced dock-to-shelf from 1.5 days to 0.4 days.
- Increased PO fill rate from 40% to 88% — improved SKU availability by 30% for head SKUs.
- Reduced RTO% from 17% to 12% — saving ₹45L per month in supply chain costs.
- Reduced inward reject % by 65% (from 2.8% to 0.2%).
- Designed a buyer-flagging program with tech — moved high-risk buyers to prepayment to reduce RTO.
- Inbound
- Vendor management
- RTO
- Supply chain
Executive Member, Corporate Relations / IIM Raipur
Jul 2018 → May 2020 · Raipur

MBA leadership role. Acted as Protocol Officer and single point-of-contact for corporate delegates during industry interactions (incl. HR Summit 2018). Organised campus engagement and institution branding — Leadership Talks, Summits, Corporate Competitions, Workshops, Live Projects. Coordinated recruitment drives and the full Summer Internship and Final Placement processes.

Earlier internships

Apr 2019 – May 2019

Hero MotoCorp — Management Trainee, New Delhi
Customer experience and digital intervention research.
Jan 2017 – May 2017

ANDRITZ HYDRO — Engineering Intern, Bhopal
Hydro power plant project (Xayaburi HPP, Lao) — panel assembly, SCADA, cross-functional testing.
Feb 2017 – Mar 2017

India Smart Grid Forum — Intern, New Delhi
Organised Indian Smart Grid Week 2017 — international speakers, delegate scheduling, event calendar.

02VENTURES

Things I've built

Bimi / AI kitchen manager for the Indian household

● Currently building

Every Indian household makes 1,000+ meal decisions a year — with no system, no memory, and no plan. ₹15,000 in groceries wasted annually. ₹40,000+ spent on Swiggy and Zomato by default. One person carrying all of it.

Bimi coordinates with your cook, plans your meals, manages your groceries, and connects your family's health goals to what actually gets cooked — so the Indian kitchen finally has the infrastructure it's always needed.

MY ROLECOO — operations, go-to-market, growth, and everything that isn't code
CO-FOUNDERAnjan (CTO — full tech stack)
STAGEAndroid app shipped May 2026 · WhatsApp prototype Feb 2026

trybimi.in ↗ · Follow on LinkedIn ↗

Saaja Foods / GoodMatters Enterprises · D2C nut butter

◐ Winding down · Dec 2025 – present

100% pure nut butters — no palm oil, no sugar, no additives. Small-batch roasted, slow-ground fresh.

Founded GoodMatters Enterprises (brand: Saaja Foods) in December 2025. I built the full operations layer from scratch — sourcing, supplier relationships, FSSAI compliance, packaging, and last-mile fulfilment. My co-founder Anjan built and owns the entire tech stack — site, cart, payments, Amazon storefront, blog, recipes, reviews.

REVENUE₹3L in 2 months
CUSTOMERS500+ · 15% retention
LIVE ONsaajafoods.com · Amazon
COMPLIANCEFSSAI-certified

Also launched Cycle Sync under Saaja Foods — a nut butter line formulated for women's hormonal health. 150 pre-bookings within 2 weeks of an interest page going live.

Currently winding down operations to focus full-time on Bimi.

The lineup

Saaja smooth peanut butter, 200 g — PEANUT Smooth peanut butter · 200 g.

Saaja crunchy peanut butter, 500 g — PEANUT Crunchy peanut butter · 500 g.

Saaja silky cashew butter, 200 g — CASHEW Silky cashew butter · 200 g.

Saaja smooth almond butter, 200 g — ALMOND Smooth almond butter · 200 g.

Saaja trio pack — peanut, cashew, almond — TRIO PACK All three jars together.

On the ground

Saaja Foods promo at a gym — Activations at gyms — meeting the customer where they already are.

Saaja Foods promo at a cafe — Cafe placements — sampling, conversation, sale.

Available on

saajafoods.com

Amazon · Live

03EDUCATION

Where I trained

Indian Institute of Management, Raipur / MBA

2018 → 2020 · Raipur

Master of Business Administration. Majored in Strategy, Operations & Marketing — 6.34 CGPA. Executive Member, Corporate Relations team — protocol officer, placement committee, industry engagement.

IÉSEG School of Management / Exchange Semester

2019 · Lille, France

Final MBA semester as an exchange student. Majored in Strategy.

Manipal University Jaipur / B.Tech

2013 → 2017 · Jaipur

B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering — 8.33 CGPA.

Certifications & skills

Certification

Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma
Henry Harvin Education.
Toolkit

SQL · Tableau · Advanced Google Looker Studio
Analytics and reporting stack for operations.

Competitions & recognition

Meesho

Pod of the Quarter
Awarded by CEO Vidit Aatrey for JIT inventory implementation.
Meesho

Problem First Mindset Award
Awarded by CEO Vidit Aatrey for CMS rollout.
National

Finalist · Infosys Ingenious
National quizzing competition — top team among 1,000+ entries.
Manipal

Runner-up · DIGITRADE
Analytical and entrepreneurship competition, Manipal University.
Manipal

Best Committee · Head of Hospitality
Annual Tech Fest — managed an 84-person team for a 5,000-person event.

04MOUNTAINS

Mountains & travel

Outside work, I'm in the mountains — or planning to be in one.

I trek because the mountains are honest. The altitude doesn't care about your plan, the distance doesn't negotiate, and the only way through is to keep moving. I've brought that back into every operations role I've had. What started as curiosity on a solo trip to Kedarkantha turned into one of the most consistent parts of who I am.

Garvika at the Annapurna Base Camp signboard, 4,130 m — NEPAL · 4,130 M Annapurna Base Camp — DIY, no agency.

Garvika at sunset with Machapuchare in the background — NEPAL Sunset on the ridge — Machapuchare in the back.

Night at ABC under the moon — NEPAL Moonlit night at Annapurna Base Camp.

Khopra Ridge trek, Nepal — NEPAL · 3,660 M Khopra Ridge — 23 Himalayan peaks from one ridge.

Silhouette at sunset above the cloud line — HIMALAYA Above the cloud line.

Garvika with the ABC trekking group — NEPAL The troop — ABC. The people you choose to walk with matter.

Four completed, one next

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Kedarkantha / Uttarakhand, India

Summit 3,810 m (12,500 ft) · ~20 km

My first trek ever — and I did it solo. Didn't know what I was getting into. Fell completely in love with the mountains and never looked back. Everything that followed started here.

02

Tarsar Marsar / Kashmir, India

Max ~4,024 m (13,200 ft) · ~50 km

The most beautiful landscape I've ever walked through. Twin alpine lakes in the heart of Kashmir — every campsite looked fabricated. 50 km of trail that felt simultaneously brutal and surreal.

03

Annapurna Base Camp / Nepal

Base camp 4,130 m (13,549 ft) · ~110 km round trip

DIY with friends — no agency, no guide, planned everything ourselves. One of the best decisions I've made. Standing under Annapurna I at 4,130 m with people you chose to go with is a different experience entirely.

04

Khopra Ridge / Nepal

Ridge 3,660 m (12,008 ft) · optional Khayer Lake at 4,660 m

DIY with friends. Less crowded, more raw than ABC. Views of 23 Himalayan peaks from the ridge including Dhaulagiri and Annapurna South — one of the best sunrise moments I've had anywhere.

05

Kedarnath / Uttarakhand, India

Temple 3,583 m (11,755 ft) · 16 km one way from Gaurikund · with family

Officially a pilgrimage, personally a trek. The family came for darshan; I came for the mountain. Both things were true at the same time. The Mandakini river running alongside the trail the whole way up is something I won't forget.

▲ Next A 5,000 m+ peak trek. The altitude ceiling keeps moving — that's the point.

Travel

I love to travel — not as a tourist, but as someone who deliberately seeks new places. I hold myself to one rule: at least 5 new cities every year, anywhere in the world.

The semester at IÉSEG in Lille, France gave me my first deep European base. Since then travel has been deliberate — different regions, different cultures, different ways people organise their lives. It shapes how I think about building products for people I haven't met yet.