The evidence behind every stage of a home

I lead product at Mukilvanam Homes, a family-promoted residential developer based in Chennai. We build mid-income apartments in the city's southern and western suburbs and in Coimbatore. In the year ended March 2026 we recorded ₹1,180 crore of sales bookings and handed over 1,240 homes, and about 4,900 more are under construction across thirteen RERA-registered projects. My remit covers the buyer app, the owners' app and the possession programme, through five leads and 69 colleagues. Structural approvals, construction quality and pricing stay with the projects director, the architects and the sales head. My part is the journey a buyer lives through between booking and the end of the first year in the flat.

I trained as a civil engineer and spent eight years on Coimbatore and Chennai sites, first checking reinforcement before a pour and later preparing schedules for a contractor. I then moved into product work at a Bengaluru listings start-up and a housing finance company. I know what a stage certificate records and what it omits, and I have watched the same stage from the lender's desk, where one missing page can hold a disbursement for weeks. Most of my product reviews still begin with a plain question: which record could the buyer check for themselves?

Three decisions on this site show the approach and its price. We replaced a completion percentage with dated stage evidence, which made two late towers visibly late. We stopped sending payment demands before the lender's paperwork was ready, which pushed collections into later months. And we closed a resident marketplace that earned commissions, so that its people could fix how snags were recorded and closed. Each change asked the projects, finance or sales leadership to accept something they would rather have avoided, and I set out their objections as carefully as my own reasons.

Current focus

I am working with the projects team on how a buyer learns of a revised possession date: what evidence supports it, who explains it, and how the payment schedule and the buyer's lender learn of it in the same week.

Conversations I welcome

I am open to one independent directorship in a consumer business whose customers pay in stages for something they receive later. Twenty-two days a year are available, subject to employer consent and a review of our lender, contractor and supplier relationships.