Software engineer turned MBA, building toward data engineering and applied AI.

Currently at the Indian School of Business (PGP YL, MBA Class of 2027). Before business school, I spent two years shipping production systems across the Indian fintech stack as a founding-team engineer at Saathi Money and on the Open Banking API platform at Standard Chartered.

Exploring data engineering and applied AI as the focus areas for what I build next.

• Saathi Money (Jun 2024 – May 2025) — Founding team engineer, 1 of 3 in tech
• Standard Chartered (Jul 2023 – May 2024) — Software Developer on the Open Banking API Gateway
• PwC India (Apr 2026 – Jun 2026) — Digital Strategy Consulting intern, AI strategy for enterprise clients
• Neosurge (Aug 2022 – Jan 2023) — Software Developer intern, built the Neobank MVP
• Standard Chartered (May – Jul 2022) — Software Developer intern, internal ops tooling
• StackGuardian (Nov 2021 – Apr 2022) — Software Developer intern, cloud orchestration platform

GenAI travel-planning chatbot at Saathi Built inside Xplor. Designed the conversational frontend, integrated OpenAI GPT-4 APIs for travel goal generation, and built Lambda CRUD APIs that captured structured travel demand signals into PostgreSQL for downstream analysis.

In-house UPI payment system at Saathi Replaced a third-party gateway. Built the frontend payment interface integrated with the banking partner's UPI intent flow. Eliminated ~99% of transaction fees.

API health-check service at Standard Chartered Automatically redirected traffic away from failing clusters in the Open Banking API Gateway. Reduced failed-request incidents by 45%.

Forex trade approvals platform at Standard Chartered Led a 5-member team at the internal bootcamp. Automated forex verification and approval workflows. Finished Rank 2 of 50+ teams.

Admin portal at Saathi Gave the customer support team direct CRUD access across 750+ products, 30+ merchants, and 500+ users, removing engineers from routine operational changes.

• Building depth in the modern data stack — PostgreSQL, Docker, Airflow, dbt, pipeline orchestration
• Hands-on with GenAI integration patterns: RAG, prompt design, structured data capture
• Side project: a Python ETL pipeline pulling exchange-rate data into PostgreSQL, transformed in SQL, running in Docker

• Languages — Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, C, C++
• Backend — Node.js, Spring Boot, serverless (AWS Lambda), REST APIs, Kong API Gateway, WSO2 IAM
• Frontend — React, Next.js
• Databases — PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL
• Cloud and Infra — AWS (Lambda, S3, Route 53, Amplify, Cognito, DynamoDB), Vercel, Docker
• AI and Data — OpenAI APIs, GenAI feature development, prompt design

• Indian School of Business | MBA (PGP YL), Strategy and Information Technology | 2025 – 2027
• NIT Trichy | B.Tech, Instrumentation and Control Engineering | 2019 – 2023

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