Aug '22 - May '24

M.S. in Robotic Systems Development | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA — Awarded the prestigious J.N. Tata scholarship. Student representative of the MRSD cohort. Represented CMU at ICRA ‘23 in Quadruped Robot Challenge (3rd Prize).

Jun '19

Sakura Research Exchange | Hiroshima University, Japan — My visit was under the Sakura Research Exchange Programme spanning a week. I was among 15 students from India to be awarded the Sakura Science Plan scholarship ’19 from Japan Science & Technology Agency

Jul '17 - Aug '21

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering | IIT Bombay, India — Citation award for technical excellence. Department rank 5 in Mechanical Engineering. Founded and led a student technical quadruped robot team. Highest number of projects in the graduating batch. Achieved 99.7 percentile in JEE Advanced (All India Rank 698).

Jul '24 - Present

Robotics Machine Learning Engineer | Tesla — Motion Planning and Navigation Team in Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot

Jan '24 - May '24

Graduate Teaching Assistant | The Robotics Institute, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA — Planning Techniques for Robotics (Prof. Maxim Likhachev). This is my last semester at CMU. I took this course last semester and discovered my love for robot planning. I’m sharing my joy with students and helping them get better at it

May '23 - Aug '23

SDE Intern (C++ Specialist) | Amazon Robotics, Westborough, MA — I spent my first summer in the U.S. in the lovely city of Boston. The internship was off to a rough start. During the second week, I was at my competition in London when my manager informed that he was leaving. I turned things around and delivered a terrific project by the end of the internship

Jul '21 - Jul '22

Structuring Analyst | Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru — I returned to a full-time role in the Mortgage Structuring Strategies team, Global Markets Division until I left for my Master’s at CMU

Jun '21 - Aug '21

Student Developer | Google Summer of Code @JdeRobot — This was in the summer that I graduated from IITB. My project was titled ROS2-RADI and Amazon warehouse exercise in web-based template for ROS2. I learned about Docker, ROS2, and web servers. We deployed the project and I continued contributing till Aug ‘22

May '20 - Jun '20

Quantitative Summer Analyst | Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru — I interned in the Mortgage Structuring Strategies team, GMD. My project resulted in a sharp improvement in arbitrage by optimizing cash-flows through multiple derivative instruments

Jan '24 - May '24

Teaching Assistant | Department of Physics | IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India — Electricity and Magnetism (Prof. Mithun Mitra). This was in my third semester at IITB. This was a compulsory course for freshmen. I enjoyed Prof. Mithun’s teaching so much, that I was keen to give back. I conducted recitations for a batch of 52 students

Dec '18 - Feb '19

Developer Intern | Synergistic Financial Network Pvt Ltd, Mumbai — The firm offers payment solutions by providing EMV enabled mobile Point of Sale (POS) devices. My team delivered a Java platform to migrate existing Transaction Manager to Apache Kafka in order to process 100+ transaction requests/second

Apr '18 - May '18

Teaching Assistant | Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India — Physical Chemistry (Prof. Shobhna Kapoor). This was my first summer at IITB. I was the only student in freshmen year selected to serve as a teaching assistant. I guided a class of 15 students with problem-solving skills and concepts in physical chemistry