About

I'm a mechanical engineer who never stopped building.

I started on the factory floor — refrigerators at LG, water purifiers at Eureka Forbes — and never put the tools down. Twenty years on, I still take products from the first sketch to the production line, and I build the software and AI that run them. I've worn most of the hats a product needs: design, manufacturing, product planning, marketing and strategy. That full span is the whole point — it's how an idea actually becomes a thing people can buy.

Ashish Sharma
Ashish Sharma
Pune & Delhi NCR · India
The full span

Six disciplines, one product brain.

Design
ID + engineering
Manufacturing
DFM to the line
Product
planning + NPD
Marketing
positioning + GTM
Strategy
P&L + roadmap
0 → 1 → scale
build to grow
The journey

From the drawing board to AI.

2024 — now

SFHL Innovations — Founder & Director

Nasscom Emerge 50 shortlisted. AiTrack RTLS, agentic AI, Vision-AI QC, InfraOS — hardware + software stacks for enterprises.

2019 — 2023

FirstCry — Business Lead, IoT & New Business (GM)

Owned the IoT P&L from inception across India & GCC: smart speakers and edge-AI monitors — smart apps & devices for kids.

2012 — 2019

mPossible Consulting — Founder

SecureMe, the world's-first $10 safety device (patented); tracking and civic-tech for enterprise & government.

2006 — 2013

LG · Eureka Forbes · Videocon — R&D & Product

40+ refrigerator launches, the Geneus & Pay-Per-Use IoT purifiers, the Kenstar portfolio. The manufacturing grounding.

2005

Godrej & Boyce — Graduate Engineer

Where the factory floor first taught me how a product really gets made.

Why it's different

A rare full-stack — mechanical to AI.

The whole product

Mechanics, electronics, firmware, full-stack and AI in one head. I don't hand a problem across five vendors — I can take it end to end.

Design → factory → market

I've shipped on real production lines and owned a P&L. I know what survives DFM, costing and a GTM — not just what looks good in CAD.

Still hands-on

At 20 years I still write the firmware and the AI agents myself. That's why my products leave the slide deck and reach the shelf.

Recognition & credentials

Backed by the work.

Nasscom Emerge 50 2025 Enterprise Tech finalists — SFHL Innovations
Nasscom Emerge 50 Awards 2025 — SFHL Innovations, Enterprise Tech finalist.
Nasscom Emerge 50 — shortlisted, Enterprise Tech (SFHL Innovations, 2025)
TED India — special recognition for Chakshu, TED Mumbai
Core77 / Microsoft — international finalist, App to the Future
IIGP Top-50 · 10K Startups · ACE Alumnus Award, SVNIT
Patent 2814/DEL/2013 — ERRS, BLE mesh positioning
Education

NIT Surat (SVNIT) — B.E. Mechanical Engineering

IIT Madras — Adv. Certification, Software Engineering for Cloud, Blockchain & IoT

Stanford d.school — Design Thinking Action Lab (Team Lead)

Let's build something that ships.

Tell me what you're making. I reply within 48–72 hours.