Open to founding / early engineer roles · SF Bay Area · Also building Folia

I build AI products in health — after 8 years shipping systems at Qualcomm and Microsoft scale.

At Microsoft I designed a more efficient logical pause/resume path for Azure SQL Serverless — infrastructure powering on the order of ~3.5 million serverless databases — improving login latency and reducing control-plane COGS (SIGMOD '24 co-author). I'm now solo-building Folia, a research-backed PCOS companion in private beta, and WhatIEatInADay, an AI meal tracker I use every day.

Ex-Microsoft · Azure SQL
Ex-Qualcomm
SIGMOD '24 co-author
2× founder
ICPC top 50 · IIIT Hyderabad

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Featured Work

Live products and systems I've built end-to-end — from a health AI beta to infrastructure running across Azure regions.

Live in private beta · Solo founder

Folia

Research-backed AI companion for PCOS — product, backend, and research pipeline, built solo.

Voice and text check-ins → structured daily diary across meals, mood, symptoms, and movement
Governed RAG: 35 hand-curated papers, pgvector in Postgres, every answer cited — refuses to guess outside the corpus
Live in private beta; interviewing women with PCOS to sharpen the core loop

Try the live beta → Project page → Why I'm building →

Shipped · In daily use

WhatIEatInADay

AI meal tracker I designed, built, and shipped — and use every day.

Log by photo, voice, text, or saved entries; AI tracks macros and writes descriptions
Daily analysis vs. your goals + one concrete tip for tomorrow
Wireframes → working app; open source on GitHub

Project page → GitHub →

Diagram: logical pause/resume redesign — database engine drives pause/resume state, control plane off the login hot path

2020–2025 · Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft / Azure SQL

Designed efficient logical pause/resume for Azure SQL Serverless — powering ~3.5M databases with better login latency and lower control-plane cost.

Redesigned logical pause/resume so the database engine owns its state — control plane off the login hot path; 60% workflow-latency cut across 60+ regions
Shipped Azure SQL Free offer and SQL in Microsoft Fabric end-to-end
Fastest promotion to Senior on my team; tech lead for 6 engineers; SIGMOD '24 team paper

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All building → · Full work history → · Qualcomm → · Fashion Galli →

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Highlights

Proof at a glance — scale systems, shipped products, and founder experience.

~3.5 million Azure SQL Serverless databases powered by the logical pause/resume infrastructure I redesigned — faster logins, lower control-plane COGS
60% workflow-latency reduction for customers waking paused databases; rolled out across 60+ regions
Netflix playback fix at Qualcomm — one-line platform change after tracing a green-screen bug across the secure playback stack; ~2% of affected users worldwide
Co-authored SIGMOD '24 team paper + ICDCN 2019 cryptography research at IIIT Hyderabad
Fastest promotion to Senior at Microsoft; led a group of 6 engineers
2× founder: Fashion Galli ('18) — 700+ garments, ~70 rentals; Folia ('26) — live in private beta

Why I'm building

Fifteen years of PCOS care gave me symptoms but no measurable root cause — until one blood panel showed insulin resistance that standard tests had missed for a decade. I'm building Folia because care navigation shouldn't depend on luck. Read the full story →

What I'm looking for

I'm looking to join an early-stage team as a founding or early engineer — owning product surface area end-to-end, close to users. My sweet spot is AI-native products in health, biology, and human wellbeing: messy domains, high trust requirements, real-world complexity.

I'm also building Folia independently. I'm open to joining a team, cofounding, or both — if the problem and people are right.

Building something ambitious? I'd love to hear about it.

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Contact

Email is the fastest way to reach me — I reply within a day. Happy to talk about what you're building.

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