Experimenting with AI. Two-time founder, currently building Sakshya to help victims of cybercrime in India.
Contact meRight now I'm obsessed with AI. I'm an AI Business Strategy Apprentice at Gilson, where I'm building an internal CRM for lead generation and outreach.
I also co-founded NoJobNoLife, an AI product that helps international job seekers find hiring managers, create tailored applications, and apply faster. I'm also building Sakshya, a nonprofit project helping cybercrime victims in India create clearer complaints and preserve evidence. I also build AI-native websites, like the one I built for Neev.
I'm a builder-operator working across AI, business development, product, and marketing. I moved from India to Paris to study at ESSEC, and since then I've worked across e-commerce, skincare, biotechnology, sales, and AI. Along the way, I've built marketing and sales systems, automated workflows, and learned by working closely with customers and teams.
My approach is simple: find a real problem, speak to the people experiencing it, build quickly, and share early. Outside work, I enjoy deep travel, cultural immersion, diving, and adventures that carry a slightly stupid level of risk.
Six things I shipped with AI coding tools, from the first sketch to the live site.
My studio building AI-native websites that evolve with time. People used to ask Google; now they ask ChatGPT. Our storefronts are beautiful and interactive for shoppers, and ChatGPT and Google can understand, quote and recommend them.
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Co-founded in 2026. It finds the hiring manager behind a role, writes an application that fits it, and gets international job seekers applying faster than they could by hand. Live and taking users.
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Founded in 2026. A nonprofit project for people in India who have just lost money online. It turns what they can say about what happened into the complaint and the evidence record the system needs, in plain language, on a phone.
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Concept site for Neev Herbal Handmade Soaps, the Jharkhand brand whose marketing I ran for two years. One eight-second film scrubs with the scroll and stops on its last frame. No hero copy, no carousel: the site is the film.
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What a marine-lubricants sales team could have on one screen: a world map where every market lights up on hover with what matters there. Pre-rendered, so it stays fast on any laptop.
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Landing page for a coffee brand that does not exist, taken from brief to live site in one sitting. It ships two full image sets you can switch between, to show how much the photography changes the page.
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Jun 2026 - present
Gilson Paris Apprenticeship
I'm building Gilson's internal CRM, the one the team runs lead generation and outreach on. It's an apprenticeship, so it goes alongside the ESSEC Master in Management rather than after it.
Mar 2026 - present
NoJobNoLife Paris Self-employed
I co-founded NoJobNoLife, an AI product for international job seekers. It finds the hiring manager behind a role, puts together an application tailored to it, and gets people applying faster. It's live.
Mar - May 2026
ORA Paris Internship
Three months at ORA on AI adoption for the sales side, working in HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Claude.
Sep - Dec 2025
Blue Skincare Paris Apprenticeship
Four months helping a French skincare brand leave France, with launches in Dubai, Japan and China. I worked with 80 French creators and TikTok engagement went up 40%, put the brand on Amazon, and got it Leaping Bunny cruelty-free certified.
Jan - Jun 2025
Gilson Paris Internship
My first run at Gilson, on the sales desk. I automated the reporting in Power BI and Salesforce and accuracy went up 25%, found 600+ B2B leads across 13 countries, and turned around 150+ quotes, 20% faster than before, with €500K of revenue behind them.
Aug 2022 - Jul 2024
Neev Herbal Handmade Soaps Jamshedpur Permanent
Two years running marketing for a handmade soap brand in Jamshedpur. I learned e-commerce, influencer marketing and exhibition selling by doing them: 250+ SKUs onto Amazon and Flipkart, 200+ influencers, and $70k sold face to face at exhibitions across India, Dubai and Singapore. Revenue ended up 4x where it started, at $100k ARR.
Jan - Jun 2022
Varun Engineers Pune Permanent
Six months on a factory floor in Pune, before any of the AI work. Excel and root cause analysis: manufacturing efficiency up 4%, resource utilisation up 8%, and dashboards that tracked the operational KPIs and the downtime.
Masters in Management, Paris, 2024 to 2027.
B.E. Mechanical Engineering, Pune, 2019 to 2023.
Secondary school, graduated 2017.
Two kinds of message reach me. Teams who want something built with AI and would rather see it working than read a proposal about it. And hiring managers looking for someone who ships.
If you have a process that runs on someone's patience and a spreadsheet, I would like to see it. I read every message myself.
Or write to varun.gawade@essec.edu, or call and message on +33 7 69 31 95 52
