I love traveling to beautiful cities and taking the long way home. This website is a reflection of who I am, what I do in my spare time, and how I got here.
I grew up with my mom, sister and dad. They taught me to slow down and actually pay attention. To ask questions. To care about the things most people gloss over. That stuck with me.
Math got me when I was a kid and never really let go. I competed for India at the International Mathematical Olympiad, something that sounds more impressive than it felt at the time. I was mostly just a nervous kid who liked numbers. I came home with a Gold Medal in Mathematics and a Silver in Informatics. What those competitions actually taught me was how to sit with a problem and not panic.
I studied Computer Science and AI at Georgia Tech, then did a Master's at Stanford. I worked on ML research while I was there, mostly the unglamorous stuff like making research reproducible. Some of that work was later acquired by Microsoft and became part of the foundation that OpenAI was built on. I got lucky that some of it turned out to matter.
From there I joined Facebook, early on the team that built Stories. I wrote ML ranking systems, the code that decides what content surfaces and when. It ran at large scale. I learned a lot, mostly about what breaks when you're not looking and how much of engineering is just damage control.
In 2023 I left to start Kintsugi AI with my co-founder. We build software that handles sales tax compliance for internet businesses automatically. It's not a glamorous problem, but it's a real one. A lot of founders find out too late that they owe significant back taxes across dozens of states. We're trying to make that not happen.
Looking back, I've been in a lot of places at the right time. The honest version is that luck played a big role. I just tried to take it seriously when it showed up.
When I'm not working, I'm usually wandering some neighborhood with a camera, riding my bike across the Golden Gate, cooking something that takes too long, or going down a rabbit hole on mechanical keyboards and fountain pens.
Still figuring most of it out, honestly.
