journey
from writing hello world to building agents that talk to customers on whatsapp — a few years of shipping things, breaking things, and learning what problems are actually worth solving.
nov 2025 — present · delhi, india
iit delhi — data analytics & intelligence research group (dair)
research assistant · advised by dr parag singla (hod cse-ai) & dr rohan paul
research topic: text2games. building a text2game pipeline for educational conditions, benchmarking llms like gemini series (2, 2.5, 3) and open-source diffusion models. using rl (rmdp, mdp) to guide the process. making game environments with diffusion-based models — feedback, inpainting, segmentation, world models, rl. reading the latest research papers on vision-action models and rl.
jul 2025 — nov 2025 · bengaluru, india
cofounder & ml engineer · also part of residency delta
understood the ai market, how to talk to customers, how to look for deeper problems. built two products — arya (network os): a search agent to find the right people in your social connections and contact list. tara: an accounting support agent that talks to your customers on whatsapp and queries your data locally or via cloud.
dec 2024 — jul 2025 · bengaluru, india
thena.ai (firstround vc, lightspeed)
ml engineer 1 · working directly with the ceo
working on making a native agent platform for the b2b tickets product. built agent studio from the ground up — hire agents into your team, upload docs/urls as knowledge, 20+ tools, universal chat to perform any platform action. automated workflows: ticket summariser, ticket deflection, and more. built each with langgraph, pydantic, supabase, fastapi, async python. added an in-house memory layer for agents to remember facts across conversations. ai logs for transparency. observability via grafana, aws cloudwatch, zenduty.
jul 2024 — dec 2024 · bengaluru, india
figr design (kalaari, antler, google)
machine learning engineer r&d
increasing productivity by 10-20% through internal tools and figrai: text2ui using open-source llms, vlms, lvms (git, blip, llava) and closed-source (gemini, openai). handled backend with fastapi, mongodb, gcp, aws. developed lld for user registration, component search, model router, caching, and ai generation for the plugin. implemented mlops via w&b, multi-route llm selection, rag with vectordbs, pydantic guardrailing and grounding to mitigate hallucination.
apr 2024 — jul 2024 · remote, san francisco
writesonic (yc s21)
ml research intern
shipped "answer the public" — shows which words, phrases, and sentences were used per search engine, autofilling phrases from keywords to boost seo. drove 10% user growth. used openai, claude, and other sota models to improve accuracy across features. researched prompting techniques to reduce cost and latency. did sprints with linear, cross-team meetings with product and customers. was offered a ppo.
dec 2023 — jul 2024 · delhi, india
iiit delhi — advanced data science lab
ug research associate · supervisor: dr vikram goyal
worked under dr vikram goyal, collaborated with phd students and ihub anubhuti on government projects. built for the indian navy and meity. researched text2sql and rag agents. built multilingual chatbots to address maternity issues in indian villages.
aug 2023 — oct 2023 · remote, san francisco
buildspace — nights & weekends s4
builder · part-time
selected for buildspace's nights & weekends season 4 — an intensive 6-week program for people building their own ideas, run by the biggest school in the world for founders. built an llm + portfolio management tool integrated with the yahoo finance api.
sep 2023 — dec 2023 · gurgaon, india
software engineer intern (devops)
engineered a hardware fault dashboard with an intuitive design. implemented multithreading to cut api runtimes from 3 minutes to 10 seconds. stack: google cloud, network automation, python, websockets, sql, html, css, flask.
may 2023 — jul 2023 · gurugram, india
summer intern — data science
one of the big four global professional services firms. worked on object detection of car dashboard symbols to enhance user interaction with vehicle manuals, using yolo family models.
jan 2023 — may 2023 · remote, london
unify (yc w23)
ml contributor · freelance
open-source contributions to unify — a yc-backed platform (w23) that lets you route llm calls across any model and provider from a single api. backed by yc, microsoft m12, signalfire, and others.
jan 2023 — apr 2023 · delhi, india
calibre dtu — computational analytics & learning intelligence based research exploration
undergraduate research assistant · dtu cse department
research group at delhi technological university focused on ml, nlp, computer vision, and generative ai. worked on toxic hate speech detection using small word2vec models.
nov 2022 — jan 2023 · delhi, india
data scientist (business)
ai × medical admission counselling platform. analyzes 776 medical colleges to generate personalized mbbs admission reports, helping neet ug/pg students secure seats. worked on the data and business side — rank prediction, college matching, counselling analytics.
2020 — 2025
education
manipal university jaipur · iit madras
b.tech in computer science & engineering, minor in data analytics — manipal university jaipur (cgpa 8.0).
dual diploma in data science & programming — iit madras bs degree (cgpa 8.0).
12th cbse: 94% · 10th cbse: 92%.