what i've worked on

• started working in tech at 16, and have worked as a product designer and full-stack engineer - my work, mostly with startups from bay area, banglore and europe.
• been a part of a startup from san francisco as an machine learning intern, and worked on training and fine-tuning large language models with custom data for many companies - post gpt era.
• got selected into lfx metorship program as a mentee, worked on a cncf open source project (managed by microsoft & aws employees) in summer 2023.
• built timestamper, a simple saas ai tool using gemini which could generate timestamps/chapter for youtube videos with just a link. with 80+ active paid users, ranked at #4 product of the day on product hunt. built it in 3 days (despite having a shoulder injury), acquired customers within a day after the launch.

about me

• born in chennai but brought up in mumbai, can speak 5 languages. played national football matches representing mumbai at the age of 13. always had an innate curiosity learning about human psychological behaviours, neuroscience, and greek & hindu mythology. during senior year of high school listened to many podcasts and got exposed to the world of business, venture capital, wealth creation, geo-politics, and building leverage ~ from naval.
• "breadth comes from reading and talking and seeing, depth comes from doing." — paul graham.
• as someone like me who grew up with internet, gave me the privilege to broaden my knowledge. at a young age i was fortunate enough to understand the importance of being a generalist. a broad knowledge base gives the ability to solve a problem or navigate something in the most creative and optimal way possible.

some things i believe

• people
• humans are inherently social creatures, and our need for social interaction is deeply rooted in our biology. choosing the right environment plays a huge role in one's life, as it directly defines our reality and us.
• be kind, humble, and be direct. life is short.
• don't put time and efforts into mediocrity, think big, and have a long term mindset.
• leverage
• "leverage is the strategic use of tools, resources, or the efforts of ours or others to multiply one's output without corresponding increases in input." — naval ravikant.
• to date, i consistently seek opportunities in terms of leverage. The ability to identify things that require relatively minimal input yet yield significantly higher output is a valuable skill in itself, especially considering we live in an age of abundance of information. building leverage requires adopting a long-term mindset, luck and wisdom.
• what motivates me?
• humans have been evolving for 55 million years, with our brain evolving from the brainstem, limbic system, cerebral cortex, to the frontal cortex. unlike any other era, we currently live in the era of technology. technology has the potential to significantly accelerate human evolution.
• there are things in the universe and in our world that are beyond our comprehension, including the functioning of our brain such as consciousness, emotions, brain disorders and ocean creatures. all my work is a series of dots that I aim to eventually connect and pursue out of curiosity.
• i like working with exceptional people who challenge and expand my worldviews.

"who am i? one name you might have for me is the world, or you might call me the universe, or perhaps god, or perhaps the truth. i am all and i am one, so of course this also means that i am you." — (hiromu arakawa) the truth, fullmetal alchemist brotherhood