Fello is a game based investments and banking application that drives better financial habits for the youth of India.

Founded the company and scaled it to over 2 million users with 100k average daily sessions and processing over $3 million in annual investments across various financial assets.

Architected and developed a backend stack that managed over 16000 RPM at an average P99 of 130 ms. Developed a cross-platform asset rich frontend stack that averaged 60 FPS at <0.002% crash rate.

Single handedly built complex DevSecOps workflows, financial orchestrations and security protocols that allowed us to securely manage $100k+ weekly investments with thorough KYC verifications and stakeholder reporting.

Lead tech, product, financial operations and recruiting representing a 20 member team and secured funding of over $4.5 mn from leading global investors like Courtside Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Y Combinator and many others.

BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager where I worked on the Aladdin Client Invoicing solution.

Developed crucial modules for creating flexible invoicing solutions leveraging Spring IoC for container management and DAO patterns for data modeling.

Built frontend client dashboards using Angular framework following MVC patterns that supported multiple use cases.

Oversaw the migration of 2300 global institutional clients from an external invoicing provider to Aladdin which summed to over $150mn+ in transfer records.

A mobile app that enabled any smartphone to operate as a billing POS machine. It used a locally run CNN model that could identify grocery items and quantities. This allowed informal merchants to track sales, inventory and invoice products without a computer or barcode scanners. Currently used by select merchants.

A hyperlocal service for home assistance, CRYB connected residents of India to informal workers for daily household chores. The core USP was a universal SDK that enabled illiterate workers to use online services on their basic feature phones simply using voice. Tech was later acquired by a private party.

Periferi was a location based social networking platform intended to connect people in the same geography and act as a bulletin for local updates. It became a popular application in a number of colleges in India and reached over 10,000 users organically.

A women's safety application that used speech-to-text and sentiment analysis to identify when someone might be in danger and notify emergency contacts without requiring the user to interact with their phone or the app. Was featured in local media.

Was selected to be a part of the W22 batch of YCombinator, the world's leading startup accelerator with <2% acceptance rate and home to renowned companies including AirBnb, Reddit, Dropbox etc

One of 30 individuals selected out of 2000+ applicants at the world's leading talent incubator where multiple domain experts gathered together to build deep tech prototypes.

Have won several competitive regional and national hackathons across various tech enabled themes including Microsoft Build 2016, AngelHack 2017 and HackerEarth 2019.

Secured multiple awards during Fello which includes 'Best User Experience' at India DevOps Awards 2023, top 30 startups on the 2023 inc42 list and more

Worked on a Credit Card fraud detection project using Ensemble Neural Networks. Used multiple data balancing techniques over 240 datasets to build a comparison study b/w supervised and unsupervised results.

Built a full stack event management web portal that aggregated data from multiple vendor sources and compiled the best suited service offering based on user budget. Used by 50k+ users.

Manipal University
BS Computer Science