About

I think a lot about a lot of things and try not to think at all at times. I build AI systems that operate on messy, real-world data - the kind that doesn’t fit neatly into a demo. My expertise lies in shipping LLM-powered features into production, building software products from scratch and researching things for no good reason.

Before being enamored by technology, I’d aspired to be a full-time writer. I continue to write on this blog - mostly about AI progress, shipping AI features in production, and founder lessons - and shit-post on X. Some of my older pieces can be found on Tech and Mortals and my Instagram. These days I try to read a lot when I’m not running long distances or in the gym.

I’ve also co-authored Advanced Analytics with PySpark (O’Reilly), a practitioner’s guide to building large-scale machine learning and analytics pipelines with Apache Spark.

I was the co-founder and CTO of Looppanel (since acquired), an AI-native UX research analysis platform used by enterprise teams across the US, Europe and India. We helped product and design teams turn unstructured research data - interview recordings, transcripts, surveys, documents - into structured, actionable insights.

I built and led the team behind it. My work sat where LLMs, product and customer-facing engineering met: making model output reliable enough to make decisions on, designing retrieval and context systems for messy qualitative data, building evaluation loops for the failure modes we kept finding and balancing latency against cost and quality. On any given day the rest of it was hiring and mentoring engineers, sitting in on customer calls, or doing support, ops and finance. Startup life.

Before Looppanel, I was part of Entrepreneur First Bangalore’s second cohort of 2020. Before that, I worked as a technology consultant with a consulting firm called Restat, where I was a founding partner. We worked with a diverse set of clients including academics and small Indian businesses. We also developed an invoicing and sales assistant app for small businesses.

I am a sucker for treks and backpacking trips.

Here’s a click from a hike along the chalk cliffs at Etretat on the Normandy coast in France.

And here’s a photograph I clicked after an exhilarating trek to Chandrashila peak in Uttarakhand, India.

I also love a good cup of coffee - drinking it as well as making it.

I graduated from National Institute of Technology, Surat in 2016. During my time there, I successfully completed the Google Summer of Code program twice. I still contribute to open source whenever possible. Some of my projects can be found on Github.
I also used to be a lot at conferences before starting up, occassionally blabbering on stage. This peculiar behaviour can also be traced back to my college days. The photograph below is from PyCon Italy a few years back.

I’ve been interested in entrepreneurship and startups for a long time now. Since graduating, I’ve worked at early-stage VC backed startups.

• I was the first member of the data team at Redcarpet, a YC-backed fintech startup, and developed software to improve the credit scoring process.

• At SocialCops, I learned the nitty-gritty of data engineering. I was the primary developer for the in-house entity management system which among other things, helped make sense of India’s geographic entities. I worked with a brilliant team comprised of engineers, economists and operators. Our clients ranged from governments and philanthropies to MNCs.

• Until December 2019, I worked as a senior data engineer with Atlan. Here, I was part of the team working on the company’s core offering, an on-premise enterprise data management, and governance platform.

If you’re building something ambitious and technically grounded - especially around AI infrastructure, RL environments or enterprise AI - I’d like to hear about it. Drop a line via mail, X or LinkedIn.