Engineer, researcher,
and musician.

I'm a Software Development Engineer II at AWS, currently based in Bengaluru, India, where I focus on engineering large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. While my recent work is heavily backend-focused, my roots lie in human-computer interaction and data-driven product design.

Before AWS I led the insights platform squad at UserTesting in San Francisco, taking data visualisations from whiteboard sketches to production. I also spent time as a financial engineer at Balyasny Asset Management in Chicago, and as a teaching assistant and HCI researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I earned my MS in Computer Science with a 4.0 GPA.

Outside of work I'm a Carnatic vocalist — you'll find videos of live performances on my YouTube channel.

3+
Years at AWS
30+
Research citations
4.0
MS GPA at UIUC
9+
Years of coding experience

Experience

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Development Engineer II
Feb 2025 – Present · Bengaluru, India
Engineering large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Development Engineer II
Oct 2022 – Jan 2025 · Seattle, WA
Engineered high-performance backend services and distributed systems.
UserTesting
Senior Software Engineer → Squad Lead
Jan 2020 – Sep 2022 · San Francisco, CA
Led the insights platform squad, building data-driven visualisations and products from prototypes to production. Acted as delivery lead.
Balyasny Asset Management
Financial Engineer
Jul 2019 – Jan 2020 · Chicago, IL
Financial engineering and front-end tooling for quantitative trading workflows.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Teaching Assistant
Aug 2017 – May 2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TA for computer science courses in parallel with MS research.

Academic background

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MS, Computer Science
Research focus: HCI · Advisor: Ranjitha Kumar
IIT Indore
BTech, Computer Science
Music Club Secretary · Fluxus fest organiser