Industry arcs
Institution scale
Research-adjacent

Work across the stack, the lab, and the institution.

✈️ From flight hardware and software to country-scale digital programs, from graph algorithms to peer-reviewed systems work: I like to map the whole system, cut the risk, and ship something you can measure and defend. 📊

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Tesla

Incoming · Finance, AI, & large-scale systems

2026

Joining the finance and AI interface where models meet capital, controls, and real-world operations. Expectations are simple on paper and exacting in production, which is the kind of constraint set I like to grow inside.

Entrepreneurs First

Entrepreneur in Residence

Feb 2026 to Present

Residency focused on company formation under tight feedback loops with investors and operators. Most of the work is picking problems that deserve a company, then proving the wedge with data and early systems rather than slides alone.

Skyroot Aerospace

Avionics Intern

May 2025 to Present

Hyderabad · on-site

Signal-path validation and module-level checks on the path toward autonomous flight software readiness. Recent work centers on AI-assisted compliance across the SDLC: agentic RAG with human feedback first, then a pivot toward Graph RAG when artifact size and cross-document relationships overwhelmed flat retrieval. The aim is tighter feedback loops for developers and auditors, not a replacement for human judgment.

SRDC, IIT Kharagpur

Executive Head

Jan 2025 to Present

Leading SRDC means shaping research culture, matching mentors to serious projects, and running industry-facing programs students can carry into careers. The goal is fewer performative initiatives and more cohorts that ship measurable outcomes.

Solvable

Co-founder

Jun 2021 to Present

Early-stage venture work across problem discovery, first product shapes, and the systems that let a small team iterate quickly. The through-line is choosing constraints deliberately so the company learns before it scales its assumptions.

Samagra | Transforming Governance

DevOps Intern (Kubernetes)

May 2024 to Jul 2024

Migrated core services to Kubernetes for scale and availability, then ran POCs across HA, Patroni, Pgpool-II, Redis clusters, and database load testing. Automation work spanned K8s scripting, Kong, Kaniko, and monitoring with KeepHQ so operators could trust the cluster.

Scale AI

Backend & AI Engineer

Mar 2024 to Jul 2024 · full-time

Backend and AI engineering on systems where throughput, evaluation quality, and human-in-the-loop workflows interact daily. Work on code-generation tracks sharpened rubric design, reviewer agreement, and how you judge a model when the task is inherently partial. Shipping meant owning reliability, not only model calls, and documenting behavior so downstream teams could depend on the service.

Mitacs

Research & Development Intern

Jul 2023 to Oct 2023 · Ontario

Built and extended a collaborative platform for misinformation research with literature databases at 10k+ resources scale, so scientists could share and query agri-food misinformation sources without fighting the tooling. Refactors targeted site UX, SEO, structure, and user management so the research surface stayed fast, legible, and trustworthy enough for partner teams to rely on daily.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Winter Intern, transit network simulation

Nov 2023 to Jan 2024 · Bengaluru

Graph-heavy transit simulation in C/C++ with parallel and concurrent components, including HYPERPATH and RAPTOR-style routing ideas executed on the IISc HPC cluster. Work included many-to-many queries, refactors, testing, and documentation so the codebase could survive beyond a single intern season and support serious research throughput.

LinkedIn

Software Development Intern, StoreOps

May 2023 to Jul 2023 · Bengaluru

Internal tooling for infrastructure monitoring and observability at petabyte scale, with reliability improvements, tests, and documentation alongside senior mentorship. The internship emphasized how operational metrics become product decisions when the data plane is honest.

SamagraX

Software Development Intern, WFC 2022

Sep 2022 to Mar 2023

Open-source ODK manager work plus education platforms for Uttar Pradesh government schools, alongside SQL analytics on farmer databases in Odisha. The stint blended classic GovTech pragmatism with the politics of shipping inside large programs.

Code for GovTech (C4GT)

Research & Development Engineer, NFT accreditation

Jun 2022 to Sep 2022

Led an NFT-based accreditation experiment that matured into W3C Verifiable Credentials architecture and generalized pieces toward open, auditable credentials. Integrated flows with ULP and National Sunbird ED so rewards and attestations could scale without losing traceability, grounded in distributed-systems thinking and GovTech delivery pressure.

Chronological
Same weight
Prose, not résumé

Same structure as the public record, written as short prose so every chapter carries similar weight on the page.

IIT Kharagpur

Department Placement Coordinator (SCSQR)

Jul 2024 to Present

Coordinates placement operations for the department, aligning student preparation with recruiter expectations and timelines. Most weeks blend policy clarity, student communication, and the unglamorous logistics that keep offer cycles humane.

National Health Authority

Angel Mentor, Dedicated Mentoring Program (DMP 2025)

Jun 2025 to Oct 2025 · part-time

Mentored teams building in the GovTech and health stack with an emphasis on delivery realism inside public systems. Sessions tended toward architecture choices, stakeholder language, and how to keep scope honest when incentives push the opposite.

Devine Group

Quant & Backend Intern

Mar 2025 to Jun 2025

Backend and quantitative work where pipelines, correctness, and latency trade-offs show up in the same day. Useful practice for translating messy market or risk questions into code that can be tested, replayed, and reasoned about.

Stealth AI startup

Full Stack AI Engineer

Feb 2025 to May 2025 · part-time

Full-stack AI product work under confidentiality, mostly shipping features end-to-end with tight iteration cycles. The role reinforced how much product quality still lives in evaluation harnesses, data contracts, and operator-grade UX.

PPGS, IIT Kharagpur

Executive Member

Sep 2024 to May 2025

Policy and governance society work bridging student research energy with questions that actually touch institutions. Events and writing leaned on primary sources and guest practitioners rather than generic debate formats.

Mitacs

Globalink Ambassador

Oct 2023 to Jun 2024

Ambassador work for incoming Globalink cohorts: orientation design, community events, and practical onboarding so researchers land productive faster. The role is equal parts logistics and culture, with attention to students arriving from very different contexts.

CNCF

Zero To Merge (mentee)

Aug 2023 to Sep 2023

Short mentee track focused on upstream contribution habits, review etiquette, and navigating large OSS repositories. Good compression course on how maintainers signal trust and how newcomers earn merge rights without burning mentors out.

buildspace

Student Fellow, House Alterok

Apr 2023 to May 2023

Rapid product experiments on blockchain-adjacent ideas with a shipping cadence measured in days rather than quarters. The fellowship rewarded demos that worked in the wild, not decks that only worked in demo mode.

UniFarm

DeFi Research Fellow

Jun 2022 to Sep 2022

Research fellowship in DeFi mechanics with emphasis on protocol risk, incentive design, and how token surfaces map to real user behavior. Useful grounding in why financial primitives on chain still need controls and monitoring.

KaroStartup

Project Manager

Feb 2022 to Jun 2022

Project management across early-stage initiatives where scope, vendors, and founders all moved weekly. The job was translating intent into milestones other people could execute without constant renegotiation.

Digital Junction

Software Solutions Architect

Nov 2021 to Jun 2022

Built an MVP platform for SaaS discovery and delivery with recommendation algorithms that produced measurable lift in trials. Architecture work stayed close to customer interviews so technical choices did not drift from what buyers actually valued.

CloverBuddies

Co-founder

Sep 2021 to Jun 2022

Co-founded a venture focused on community and education tooling with an emphasis on retention loops that did not feel extractive. Early growth work mixed product, partnerships, and the unromantic ops that keep a young team solvent.

MBrace

Co-founder

Mar 2021 to Feb 2022

Privacy-preserving data tooling with accelerator support from Machenn Innovations, including a win at Startup India Tech Summit against 50+ teams. The chapter taught how privacy narratives have to meet implementation detail or they collapse under scrutiny.