A bit about me.
Not a professional summary. Just how I'd present myself to someone worth talking to.
I grew up in Mumbai, spent two years in Raleigh getting a master's degree, and now live in Fremont building software for solar energy companies. Somewhere in there I also co-founded a digital agency, represented Maharashtra at the national volleyball championship, and nearly enrolled in a flying school in Delhi the week before my JEE Mains.
I played volleyball seriously enough to represent Maharashtra at the national level. Not India. One step below that, which is its own kind of serious. It's not something I lead with in technical conversations, but it shaped things that are hard to trace and easy to underestimate: how you perform when it matters, how you read a situation before it fully develops, when to take the point yourself and when to set someone else up.
The airplane thing started earlier. I was six when I noticed I couldn't hear a plane without tilting my head to find it in the sky. By the time I was a week out from JEE Mains, I had half-convinced myself I should be at a flying school in Delhi instead. My dad talked me out of it. His argument: set my foundation first, and if I was still this interested after my bachelor's, nothing would stop me.
He was right, though not for the reason he thought. During my bachelor's I found programming: the specific satisfaction of making a machine do something it couldn't do before. I got completely absorbed. That led to a master's. That led to here.
I haven't stopped wanting to fly. Maybe not professionally. But the dream hasn't gone anywhere.
I'm a Software Engineer at Nextpower LLC, working on the infrastructure that keeps utility-scale solar farms running when the weather doesn't cooperate. I play guitar and piano. I write occasionally. Music tells you immediately when you're wrong. Writing does it more slowly, but more thoroughly.
Right now
Last updated: April 2025
What I care about
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Building things that are actually useful
Not impressive. Useful. The difference matters.
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Performing under pressure
Something sport teaches that classrooms don't: the gap between knowing and doing when it counts.
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Systems that behave well when things go wrong
Whether it's a solar farm in a storm, a volleyball play breaking down, or a flight instrument reading unexpected.
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Music as practice, not hobby
I take it seriously without being precious about it.
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Writing as a way of thinking
If I can't write it clearly, I don't understand it yet.
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Problems that borrow from more than one field
The interesting ones usually do. Physics shows up in solar algorithms. Sport shows up in team dynamics. Flight shows up everywhere.
Some things I've done
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Represented Maharashtra at the national volleyball championship. It sounds glamorous until you remember what 5am practices feel like, but both things are true
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Architected a failover system in Go at Nextpower that keeps solar farms running during storms. The kind of work where "it works" means something tangible
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Co-founded Growth Heads Digital, grew it to six-figure revenue and a team of 30. Covered in Business Standard, The Print, and ANI
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Published an IEEE paper on species classification using LIME. It is about interpretability, which is really about trust in models
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Built a parallel quantum circuit in Python as a research assistant at NC State, which required understanding what "efficient" means for a machine that doesn't work like other machines
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Saved 4,000 work-hours at Barclays, mostly by asking why those hours existed in the first place
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Spoke at Mumbai University and Symbiosis Institute on web development. Probably shouldn't have been allowed to do it at that age, but here we are
Say hello
I'm generally happy to talk about engineering, music, ideas, or anything that doesn't fit into a neat category. If something on this site made you think of something, that's a good enough reason to reach out.