I'm from Srinagar Garhwal, in the hills of Uttarakhand, India. I've been fascinated by computers since I was eight and writing code since I was fourteen — and teaching it almost as long: my first classroom was a local computer centre where I taught C++ at sixteen.
Two months into my first semester at NIT Uttarakhand, I joined a 60-day student strike over our half-built temporary campus and ended up running its digital outreach. I worked with journalists and anchors at nearly every national media house in the country, and helped keep 900 students moving in one direction. Footage I helped create, some of it with me in the frame, ran on prime time: NDTV, Aaj Tak, Zee News, The Quint. It ended with a cabinet-level delegation and the institute's relocation. Those 60 days taught me more about distribution, narrative, and pressure than any class did. The next August I was in the NIT Uttarakhand delegation that won the 9th NIT Conclave at NIT Rourkela, where all 31 NITs face off.
Alongside college I freelanced: Top Rated Plus on Upwork (top 3% of freelancers), shipped at Koo — India's largest microblogging platform, 50M+ users — and collaborated with teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Amazon AGI.
When campus placements came around — Google, Amazon, Atlassian — I skipped them to join a ~10-person, pre-revenue startup as its first intern. That startup, Nirvana Insurance, is now valued at $1.5B after its $100M Series D. I joined as employee #14; today I'm a senior software engineer there, working in Go and Python across backend, distributed systems, and AI — most recently designing and building Nirvana AI, the company's internal AI platform, from scratch. It won me Nirvana's Pinnacle Award, one of six peer-nominated awards given across the company each year.
I live in New York, splitting time between there and Srinagar/Dehradun back home in Uttarakhand. Outside work I build a personal life-OS — this site is one small public corner of it — and I still love explaining things to anyone who'll listen.