About

I was born and raised in New Delhi, which fundamentally shaped my outlook on community, business, mehfil (there's no word quite like this in english), tradition and food (I'm always trying to find a butter chicken that's better than my favourite spot). Growing up, I spent hours sketching, playing cricket/squash/football/table tennis and reading everything from Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, JK Rowling and Ruskin Bond.

I try to design, research and code products people want to use and make films people want to see. A lot of my thought goes into storytelling, and broadly, how information is compressed or abstracted, whether in the form of code, a novel or language itself. Recently, my musings have been around the definition of creativity and whether LLMs are truly capable of it.

Although my formal background is in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics or HCI, given my sort of autodidact way of learning, I try to dive deep into anything that piques my curiosity. This has been trying (and failing) to learn German, making 2D shooter games, trying to fit a very rudimentary assistant on my forearm or charcoal art (my mom's a painter, so I guess I inherited some genes).

I love a good debate and conversations that flow seamlessly. One of the greatest pleasures I find in life is to talk about things like determinism, randomness, Celebrity PR, Antifragility or Messi in the same night (usually after a night out) with my friends.

Currently, I'm doing a semester abroad in Metz, France, which is about an hour away from Paris. Here, I'm trying to work on my French, a travel docuseries/video essays and some design projects. Before that I was in New York, where I interned at Arcesium, a DE Shaw spinoff, helping build products for Private Markets and Fixed-Income Trading on top of their data platform. At college, I do some research work at our Financial Services Lab, lead the product club and direct short films for our film club, Buzz Studios.