đź“„ Resume

2025

Senior Software Engineer @ Planned, Montréal, QC

Oct 2024 – Present

  • Built multi-agent workflows in the supplier-sourcing platform using Temporal, supporting Planned’s $35M Series B.
  • Developed a multi-city travel cost optimization tool for global corporate events (Next.js, TypeScript/tRPC, React) with multiple third-party API integrations; served as domain owner from design through delivery.
  • Designed a prompt library (exposed via GitHub Models → later Latitude) enabling non-technical stakeholders to A/B test LLM prompts; exposed reusable agentic API clients for engineers to implement flexibly.
  • Migrated data collections from Firestore → Neon Postgres and delivered major Next.js/React upgrades with minimal downtime.

2024

Founding Engineer @ Howl, San Francisco, CA

Dec 2023 – Present

  • Lead engineer and product owner for a fundraising + CRM platform, responsible for design, architecture, and execution.
  • Shipped core features using Django REST, Node.js/TypeScript, React, and integrated key third-party services including Stripe (payments) and SendGrid (communications).
  • Built the platform’s AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS/Postgres, SES, Lambda, CloudWatch, Amplify) with strong observability and performance in mind.
  • Opened and scaled a consulting revenue stream, delivering client web products that helped grow company revenue from $0 → $300k+ and MRR from $0 → $3k+ in under 18 months.
  • Grew a small team of engineers and designers; defined engineering principles, ran interviews, and established a sustainable work culture.

2023

R&D Engineer @ Open Web Search (EU), Graz, Austria

Mar 2023 – Jul 2023

  • Engineered CIFF → Apache Lucene index conversion to unlock the OpenWebIndex for client development.
  • Built a Java Javelin Search API enabling customized index manipulation/retrieval for monetizable use cases.
  • Co-authored and presented at the 5th International Open Search Symposium (OSSYM), CERN; demoed a React prototype (“Tourism in Graz”) powered by the API.

Study Abroad @ Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Feb 2023 – Jun 2023
Courses: NLP, Recommender Systems, Social Media Technologies, Data Science & AI

2022

Software Engineer @ Parrot Finance (prev. Staax), San Francisco, CA

Jun 2022 – Jan 2023

  • Built Python metrics pipelines on Firebase data and generated Google Analytics reports used in fundraising decks, securing entry to TechCrunch Disrupt 2022.
  • Implemented AWS ElastiCache for stock data caching, reducing screen render time from 10s → 2s.
  • Developed an in-app feedback system (Node.js, React Native) integrated with Slack, enabling real-time alerts and driving 3Ă— WAUs.
  • Created AWS CloudWatch dashboards for monitoring environment health and key KPIs, improving resource allocation and incident response.
  • Shipped an end-to-end stock categorization feature (Node.js, React Native, AWS Lambda) that doubled user engagement by making stock exploration easier.

Software Engineer @ MealMe, San Francisco, CA

Jan 2022 – May 2022

  • Integrated data from 300,000+ stores across the US and Canada via Python crawlers, adding +1M orderable products.
  • Engineered Django endpoints to improve service interoperability, increasing a core Series A data-accuracy KPI by ~15%.
  • Created compound MongoDB indexes to accelerate search queries by ~10%.
  • Built Flask partner endpoints and onboarded new API clients, leading to ~20% monthly revenue growth.
  • Enforced strict data quality standards via Python scripts and Tableau monitoring, enabling approval for the Apple Maps integration.

2021

Product Manager / Software Developer Intern @ MTLight, Montreal, QC

Sep 2021 – Nov 2021
Owned a SvelteKit app turning city murals into AR assets for municipal upkeep; drove roadmap, spec, and deployment with the CEO.

DevOps Engineering Intern @ Lixar, Ottawa, ON

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021
Company-wide GitHub Actions templates for React/React Native; AWS CodeDeploy pipelines for a Spring Boot service; K8s PoCs for scale.

Opinions Editor @ Imprint, Waterloo, ON

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021
Coordinated writers and topics; edited and published weekly/bi-weekly columns.

2020

Software Engineering Intern @ Palomino, Toronto, ON

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020
Ticketing app (PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Vue.js) with Zendesk integration + cron refresh; legacy jQuery/Ajax migration.

News Writer @ Imprint, Waterloo, ON

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020
Wrote weekly opinion pieces for the student-run paper.

Full-Stack Development Intern @ IFDS, Toronto, ON

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020
Automated Selenium suites; refactored Java onboarding flows; expense app (Python + React); AWS Multipart Upload for large files (~30% faster).

2019

Biquadris @ CS246, Waterloo, ON

Nov 2019
Implemented a two-player Tetris (“Biquadris”) in C++ with classic OOP patterns.
GitHub

Full-Stack Development Intern @ Cannect, Toronto, ON

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019
Migrated React app (Bootstrap 3 → 4, mobile-first); maintained Vue.js + Rails; supported Docker → K8s migration.

ShortStock @ StarterHacks, Waterloo, ON

Jan 2019
Built a personalized stock-news feed with NLP categorization and an MLP classifier for relevance.
GitHub

2018

High School Graduation @ NPSk, Bangalore, KA

May 2018
CBSE Grade 12: 96.8%, CS: 100%, School Rank: #4

Scrabble @ NPSk, Bangalore, KA

Jan 2018
Re-created Scrabble in C++ with OOP principles.
GitHub

2017

Particle Physics Workshop @ CERN, Geneva, CH

Oct 2017
Ten-day workshop focused on CMS at the LHC; selected as one of ~20 participants from India. Attended sessions at the UN (Palais des Nations).