The best technology is the kind you stop noticing.
Not because it disappeared — but because it solved the problem so cleanly that the problem itself stops feeling like one. That is the standard I build toward. Clinical software that researchers just use. Drug discovery tools that pharmaceutical teams depend on. Systems deployed in the real world, doing the thing they were built to do, quietly.
I am interested in the gap between a hard problem and the person trying to solve it. Software, when it is built well, closes that gap. That is the whole job.
LithoMap — 3D visualization platform for FTIR spectroscopy data, used daily by researchers at Government Stanley Medical College. Interfaces with equipment valued at over ₹1 crore. Python 3D Visualization Clinical Research
Drug Explorer — One of five internal tools built at MedX AI, now outsourced to major pharmaceutical companies. Converts SMILES data into binding affinity and drug synergy insights. One candidate I helped identify targeting menopausal hot flashes has cleared wet-lab validation. Python Computational Chemistry Drug Discovery
Quantum Fraud Detection — Privacy-first fraud detection using quantum federated ML, built at Qinnovision 2025, NYU Abu Dhabi. The constraint was the interesting part. Quantum ML Federated Learning PyTorch
⚛️ IBM Qiskit Fall Fest — National Winner & International Judge
1st place nationally in 2024. Most people stop there. I was invited back in 2025 — not as a participant, but as an International Judge and Teaching Instructor. Delivered sessions to 100+ participants from 10+ countries. The room does not forgive approximation. Two years of that pressure built something specific.
Quantum Computing IBM Qiskit Teaching 2024–2025
🌍 Intel + Microsoft SAS Hackathon (HEC Montréal) — World Rank 19
Optimised business outcomes by analysing user flow data and applying mathematical models to maximise profits and minimise losses. World Rank 19. Not bad for a neighbourhood engineer.
Optimisation Mathematical Modelling HEC Montréal
📈 Goldman Sachs Quantitative Finance Hackathon — All India Rank 163
Built alpha-generating strategies by analysing portfolio data and applying quantitative models to optimise returns and risk.
Quantitative Finance Portfolio Modelling Goldman Sachs
📡 Nokia Campus Connect — 1 of 5 Selected from VIT Chennai
Selected as one of five students from VIT Chennai for Nokia's prestigious Campus Connect Program. Nokia is the present-day parent company of Bell Labs — the place where the transistor, Unix, C, and the laser were invented. Walking through that environment only sharpened what I already suspected about the kind of work I want to do.
Nokia Bell Labs Communication Systems ML
🇺🇳 United Nations Millennium Fellow (2025) — Top 4% of 60,000+ Applicants
Selected among the top 4% from over 60,000 applicants on the basis of project history and measurable social impact through technology. Led sustainability advocacy through talks, initiatives, and project development aligned with the UN SDGs.
UN Academic Impact SDGs Social Impact 2025
🏅 Best Startup Idea Award (2025)
Presented by Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, former Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization. That is a sentence I did not expect to write.
Startup Innovation WHO 2025
🔩 Top 3 Non-Startup Projects, VIT Chennai 2024 — iInventiv (IIT Madras)
Recognised among the Top 3 Non-Startup Projects at VIT Chennai 2024 for developing a Pothole Detection System at IIT Madras iInventiv.
Computer Vision IIT Madras iInventiv 2024
- ✏️ I draw cars — not traced, no reference. Just memory + instinct.
- 🔁 Current rotation:
HIMYM → Friends → Brooklyn Nine-Nine → Modern Family (on loop)
- The 4-Hour Work Week
- Atomic Habits
- Think and Grow Rich
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
- The Millionaire Fastlane
- Building a Second Brain
📖 Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
Golden rule: 10 pages reading per day, 10mins journaling per day, 10mins of meditation per day
There is a version of me that still hasn't given back that bricked Samsung Note 4 my uncle handed me in 4th standard. He said I could keep it if I fixed it. I had no idea what I was doing. Three forum threads and one firmware flash later, I had the coolest phone in my entire childhood gang. Nobody asked me to do it. That is still the most honest description of how I work. That same year, I put CyanogenMod on my Micromax phone, changed the boot animation, and replaced the boot sound with Rajini Murugan — which was, at the time, the only correct choice. In 8th grade, I built a smart speaker using the Amazon Alexa API. I made a projector out of a cardboard box. I built a rubber band gun from paper just to see if it would work. I hacked my Redmi fitness band and programmed custom animations on it because the default ones were boring and the hardware was just sitting there, asking to be opened. None of this was for a grade or a certificate. It was just the most natural thing in the world to do with technology — take it apart, understand it, make it do something it was not doing before. The problems are different now. The tools are heavier. The loop is identical.
What a thing it is, to get paid for what you could not stop doing for free.