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Performance Marketing & Growth

Akash
Chaurasia.

Building the growth engine at Housing.com. Previously co-founded Flex EV (0 → 500 vehicles). I work at the seam of paid media, measurement, and AI creative ops — as an operator & strategist.

Akash Chaurasia
0.0Cr / mo
Meta + Google spend managed
0 → 0
Vehicles scaled at Flex EV
IIT KGP'23
Where everything started
01 — Current

Housing.com — scaling the paid growth engine.

Growth Associate · Housing.com
Jan 2024 — Present
CASE 01 · PAID MEDIA

Scaled Meta + Google from ₹1.3Cr → ₹3Cr/mo across 36 cities.

Fragmented 180-campaign account starved of learning volume.

Restructured 180 → 100 campaigns into PAN-India / city-cluster / city tiers. Shifted bidding from Highest Volume to tCPA under SOP-led governance.

2.3× spend
flat CPV · CPL improved
CASE 02 · AI CREATIVE

Real-time creative scoring ML model, with the DS team.

Bad property images slipping into paid campaigns.

Shipped an AI creative engine — 15K videos via Kling + Veo 3, ~30K images enhanced. Real-time scoring model filters non-marketable creative pre-auction.

0escalations
bad images eliminated
CASE 03 · LEAD QUALITY

CAPI + CRM integration for lead-quality optimisation.

No per-channel × campaign view of lead quality.

Wired CAPI for Leadgen with CRM + dialer signals. Bids now optimise toward qualified leads, not raw submits.

₹2L/ month
wasted spend killed
CASE 04 · MEASUREMENT

Cross-city incrementality testing across 12 markets.

Budget allocation on last-click & gut calls.

Built the measurement framework Housing.com now uses to evaluate true campaign lift and cost per incremental lead.

12markets
framework in production
★ ★
2× SPOTLIGHT Quarterly Award — for AI & process-automation work. Martech AI Awards Winner with the Housing.com team.
Martech AI Awards
Martech AI Awards · Winner
Housing.com team
The team
Housing.com team
The team
02 — Operator

Flex EV — co-founded, scaled, exited.

Co-Founder · Flex EV · B2B2C EV rental, Delhi NCR
Dec 2023 — Jan 2025

Co-founded a B2B2C EV rental business in Delhi NCR. Scaled to 500 vehicles and ₹40L/month topline in 12 months, while holding a full-time role at Housing.com. Exited in early 2025.

0
Vehicles on road
0L/mo
Monthly topline
1 → 0
Operational hubs
2 → 0
Team, in 12 months
OPS

End-to-end ops from scratch.

Rider onboarding, collections, recovery, maintenance. 1 → 3 hubs, 2 → 30 team.

FINANCE

Payment automation on Easebuzz.

Replaced manual QR collections with Easebuzz bulk payment links. Cleaned up reconciliation, cut leakage.

PRODUCT

In-house Fleet & Rider platform.

Built a Fleet Management Platform + Rider App in-house for rent tracking, dues, and asset visibility.

TELEMATICS

Ola fleet telematics integration.

Integrated telematics for remote immobilisation & theft prevention on the Ola fleet.

3PL · GTM

3PL partnerships with Uber, Zepto, Porter, Ola.

Cold outreach → commercial close across four logistics platforms.

LEADERSHIP

Built the operating layer.

Hired the first hub managers. Wrote the SOPs for collections, recovery, redeployment.

On the exit

Exited in early 2025 after a structural disagreement on operating discipline with my co-founder. Took the lessons; took the operator scars.

With co-founder at the fleet hub
With co-founder · fleet hub
Flex EV fleet
On the ground
Flex EV operations
Ops
Flex EV fleet
The fleet
03 — Foundations

Pinnacle Infotech — where I learned to build with data.

Product Manager · Pinnacle Infotech · R&D · Jaipur
Jun 2023 — Dec 2023

My first role out of IIT KGP. Joined a 6-person BI team that was new to the cloud — helped take it from Excel reports to a production data platform powering 500+ users.

CASE 01 · DATA PLATFORM

Co-built Pinnacle's BI strategy on AWS, from zero.

Dashboards built on live production DBs — 12 hrs of dev time per dashboard, slow loads.

Shipped a cloud BI stack on AWS S3 + Glue + Athena + QuickSight. Dev time dropped 12 hrs → 3 hrs, loads near-instant.

Co-authored the AWS guest blog on this work.

75% ↓
dashboard dev time
CASE 02 · TALENT INTELLIGENCE

Talent Tracking System for 3,000+ engineers.

Project staffing made on tribal knowledge across a global engineering org.

Built a feature store and shipped a Talent Tracking System to match engineers to projects, surface hiring gaps, plan training.

3K+engineers
6+ BI dashboards live
CASE 03 · CLIENT DESK GROWTH

Drove 70%+ DAU lift on the client portal.

Client Desk had low adoption among 400 named accounts.

Led the activation campaign, reworked onboarding. DAU grew 70%+ QoQ; onboarded 98 of 400 clients in a single month.

70%+DAU
QoQ growth
AWS Recognition — Co-authored the official AWS Business Intelligence blog on Pinnacle's QuickSight rollout (Dec 2023).
Pinnacle Infotech team
Pinnacle Infotech · Jaipur
04 — Views

How I think about growth.

On measurement vs. attribution

Attribution tells you which pipe the water came out of. Incrementality tells you if you needed the pipe. Once you've run a geo-holdout across 12 cities and watched a channel vanish without the topline moving, you stop arguing about last-click.

On AI in performance marketing

Most "AI in marketing" posts are prompt libraries. The real wins are boring: scoring creative before it ships, generating 15K variants when you'd previously brief 15. Hype is on image generation; leverage is on the filter that runs after.

On scope vs. depth

The trap for technical growth folks is becoming the one pulled into every cross-team thing — CAPI wiring, dashboard fixes, Zapier flows — instead of compounding in one channel. I've done the cross-team work; I'm deliberate now about owning a channel's P&L.

05 — Writing

Thinking out loud on LinkedIn.

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06 — Side work

Case studies & decks.

P · 01Product Case

Flipkart APM Deck

A structured product case on a real Flipkart problem — retention, growth, user-journey diagnosis.

View deck
P · 02Social Impact

Hult Prize Submission

A social-impact startup idea — solution model, GTM, and scalability approach.

View submission
P · 03Case · Open IIT

Open IIT Case Study

Competitive case-solving under time pressure — ambiguous problem, data-backed recommendation, tight clock.

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P · 04National Case Comp

Indian Case Challenge 2021

National-level case competition — market research, strategy, and a business-grade solution end-to-end.

View entry
07 — Stack

Tools I actually use.

Channels
Meta · Google · Criteo · Taboola · RTB · Branch · Appsflyer
Measurement
GA4 · Tableau · GTM · MoEngage · CAPI · AEM
Data
SQL · PySpark · Postgres · AWS Glue / Athena · Quicksight
AI & Automation
Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini · Kling · Veo 3 · Zapier · Apps Script
Languages
Python · SQL · C++

If you're hiring for senior performance or growth — let's talk.

Currently at Housing.com. Open to senior performance / growth roles at consumer-tech companies in India. Delhi NCR, open to relocation.

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