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Experience
Industry first, then research. The production instincts stayed.
Microsoft
Applied Scientist Intern · Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 · Bengaluru
- Mapped the Power Pages maker journey across Studio, CLI, and VS Code. Isolated friction and drop-off, then turned those findings into action items for product and engineering.
- Built live dashboards so the intelligence team can see production numbers on performance and ease of use.
- Built a CatBoost model scoring Dynamics 365 customers for Power Pages adoption from revenue, industry, and usage. Recovered 88.5% of true natural adopters on a held-out set for sales outreach.
ShareChat
Software Development Engineer I · Jan 2022 to Aug 2023 · Bengaluru
- Built and ran backend systems (REST APIs, services, and job schedulers) for payments and gaming. Co-owned 6 to 8 production microservices.
- Cut infrastructure cost with a custom GCP Pub/Sub wrapper and compression on high-volume event streams.
- Used Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Cloud Scheduler, and the wider GCP stack to keep backend operations moving.
- Gave organization-wide engineering talks after finding high-leverage optimizations in web-service log streams.
PowerUp Money
Software Development Engineer I · formerly UniCards · May 2021 to Jan 2022 · Bengaluru
- Built backend systems on AWS (REST APIs, services, and schedulers) for core product features.
- Owned key microservices on credit-card decisioning and risk/fraud detection.
- Joined in a very early phase of the startup and often shipped several features in a day.