Founder at Epicenter Education (2026-04 – Present)
- Founded a college consulting firm, generating ∼$1,800 (1.5 Lakh INR) in revenue within one week by leveraging an existing high school network and forging strategic partnerships with regional academic centers (e.g., Willow Wind Education) and local MUNs (UWAMUN, GWHMUN, TISBMUN).
- Directed a 3-person team to mentor 5 students, providing end-to-end consultancy including customized per-student structured roadmaps, essay drafting, tuition services, and college list curation.
Founder at Epicenter Studios (2026-06 – Present)
- Launched a design consultancy firm, successfully closing ∼$2,400 (2 Lakh INR) in contracts and onboarding 7 clients within the first month of operations.
- Led a 3-person team to deliver custom backends, full-stack websites, brand packaging, and social media assets, utilizing Figma to accelerate UI/UX workflows.
- Implemented e-commerce SEO optimizations for D2C brands like Lemontini (handcrafted lifestyle goods), restructuring product metadata and backend architectures to drive a 40% average increase in organic traffic.
Founder's Associate at Edmo Education (2025-05 – 2026-07)
- Co-authored the pre-seed fundraising proposal that helped secure a company raise at a $3.4M+ valuation.
- Automation Engineering: Designed and deployed an agentic animation framework using Manim (Python), authoring 18 new library functions. Cut storyboard-to-publish time by ∼40%.
- LLM Optimization: Implemented an intermediary JSON schema and modular few-shot prompting to solve for LLM hallucinations in static image generation, boosting accuracy 5x. The final geometry solution outperformed flagship models including OpenAI O3 and Claude 4.
- Modeling: Modeled student confidence using Markov chains to personalize learning paths and question selection.
Research Scholar (ML Cohort) at Pioneer Research Program (2025-06 – 2026-07)
- With Prof. Scott Alfeld (Amherst College), conducted a "SOTA Brittleness Bake-Off" using a custom 20+ year IPUMS USA dataset to empirically prove AI fairness guarantees "shatter" over time.
- Key findings include a 2.06x Shattering Ratio and a +0.0028/year fairness decay rate, proving how biases compound for intersectional subgroups over time.
- Paper is currently under review for publication in the Pioneer Research Journal.
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Team Lead) at Guitcom Consulting (2025-05 – 2026-07)
- Led a team of 2 interns to architect a serverless (Azure Functions) HR pipeline, authoring 2,000+ lines of Python to automate resume processing.
- Achieved high throughput (143+/hr), processing 35,000+ resumes and saving 200+ HR hours and ∼$12k/yr through async API calls and cascading model strategies.
Founder at Unfiltered (2023-04 – 2025-06)
- Founded and scaled India's largest student-focused media outlet to 10M+ lifetime views (1M in the first week) with 5,000+ returning readers.
- Led a team of 154+ student writers, editors, video editors, graphic designers, and correspondents with active clubs at 27+ schools, publishing 470+ pieces.
- At the time of its shutdown, the venture was advised by Diwakar Goel (Global Head of Data) and was in the formal process of registering as an LLP with India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) and as a media outlet with the Press Registrar General (PRGI).
Research Author at Centre For Fundamental Research and Creative Education (2021-06 – 2023-12)
- With Rahul Balaji (Princeton PhD Cand.), conducted a head-to-head evaluation of 9 NLP architectures on the 1.6M tweet Sentiment140 dataset.
- Proposed a framework for NLP model selection that improved F1-score by 8%, published in the National High School Journal of Science (NHSJS).
Head Boy at Greenwood High Student Government (2025-01 – 2026-05)
- Chaired flagship events for 1,800+ attendees across 6 departments, leading a cabinet of 30 student leaders.
- Grew inter-school event participation from 12 to 33 schools and raised ∼$2300 to fund the education of 11 orphan girls.
Creator and Host at The SNC Podcast (2023-07 – 2026-07)
- Led a 9-person team to produce a podcast that scaled to 523k+ lifetime views and 10k+ monthly viewers.
- Produced 42+ episodes, totaling over 33+ hours of content on YouTube and Spotify.
Goalkeeper at School Football Team (2023 – 2024)
- Secured 3rd Place at ISSO National Games, earning the Silver Glove award for goalkeeping.
- Won 3x State Championships (Ignite '23/'24, Vivum '23), earning the Golden Glove award in each tournament.
- Achieved National Championship title in the Parikrama Champions League '24.
Research Author (2025-01 – 2026-07)
Independent History Research
- Authored a dissertation-level paper guided by Dr. Amna Sunmbul (PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University) addressing the question: "How far did weapons technology play a role in shifting World War I from a traditional conflict to a total war affecting all aspects of society?"
- Employed a neo-Clausewitzian framework to argue that technological mobilization fundamentally redefined the nature of warfare.
- Preparing manuscript for submission to journals such as The Concord Review and The Journal of Contemporary History.
