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Vinayak Agarwal

@vinayakagarwal

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I'm building sustainable luxury hospitality while driving strategy, marketing, and technology for education.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm interested in building innovative, sustainable ventures at the intersection of hospitality, education, product, strategy, and technology.

I'm building Checkmate, a sustainable luxury hospitality brand offering serviced apartments, villas, and homestays across Uttarakhand. I want to create earthy guest experiences while inspiring more eco-friendly practices.

Alongside this, I oversee strategy, marketing, and technology at Universal Academy Dehradun. I revamped social outreach to triple Instagram followers and reach approximately 1.5 million accounts, while improving parent communication, alumni engagement, and school technology infrastructure.

Previously at MakeMyTrip, I worked across data science and product management, launching Hold Booking (Book@0) for international flights and building dynamic discounting for domestic flights. My earlier work included chatbot automation, personalised search, web scraping, machine learning, and computer vision projects.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

CEO and Co-Founder

Current

Checkmate

Aug 2023 - Present (3 years 3 months)

Checkmate offers luxury serviced apartments, villas and home-stays in Uttarakhand. There is a keen focus on innovative and sustainable design and earthy experiences. The long term vision is to be a leader in sustainable luxury hospitality, inspiring and educating our guests to adopt eco-friendly practices and create a positive impact on society and the environment.

entrepreneurship

Current

Director of Strategy, Marketing and Technology

Current

Universal Academy Dehradun

Jun 2023 - Present (3 years 5 months)

• Revamped the social media outreach leading to 3x increase in followers on Instagram and a 5000% increase in accounts reached (approx 1.5M) through social media platforms
• Streamlined parental communication channels through automated flows
• Initiated the Alumni association with a long term of vision of building a stronger community
• Advancing the tech infrastructure for Smart classes, computer

Digital Strategy Team Building Strategic Thinking

Strategic Partner

Shoeon

Jun 2023 - Oct 2023 (4 months)

Worked as Strategic Partner at Shoeon.

entrepreneurship Manufacturing Process Optimization Strategic Thinking

Associate Product Manager - II

MakeMyTrip

Jan 2023 - May 2023 (4 months)

Pioneered a Hold Booking (Book@0) feature, enabling users to reserve flight bookings at zero cost; Led to a remarkable increase in International flight sales; Subsequently integrated by all other MakeMyTrip divisions; Awarded employee of the Month, Jan 2023 for my efforts

Product Strategy Product Management Data Science Strategic Thinking Problem Solving

Associate Product Manager - I

MakeMyTrip

Oct 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Reduced monthly net discounts by implementing a dynamic discounting mechanism to ensure price parity with competitors while preserving user booking conversion for domestic flights

Product Strategy Product Management Data Science Strategic Thinking Problem Solving

Data Scientist

MakeMyTrip

Dec 2019 - Sep 2021 (1 year 9 months)

Developed automated workflows in the chatbot and personalised the free text search bar. These efforts led to lower bounce rates and improved customer interactions.

Data Science Problem Solving

Data Science Intern

MakeMyTrip

Jul 2019 - Dec 2019 (5 months)

Worked as Data Science Intern at MakeMyTrip.

Data Science

Back End Intern

Staqu Technologies

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 (2 months)

• Ideated and developed a web scraping model for identification and extraction of newspaper content( title, body, image, publication date) based on CSS styles. Designed an xgboost classifier using python keras to obtain 87% accuracy.
• Implemented asynchronous multiprocessing to python scripts to increase data extraction efficiency by 4 times
• Created a word document generator for a Django applic

Data Science

Summer Intern

Instruments Research and Development Establishment

Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 (2 months)

• Designed a Convolutional Neural Network in MATLAB for classification of thermal images to track and identify objects as a part of Automatic Target Recognition.
• Achieved 90% accuracy in classification of 3 targets.
• Developed a Horizon detection model using opencv and MATLAB.

Data Science