Work
I grew up in a small town in India, and have been building my own projects since college — compilers, Android apps, a clothes-rental startup, cryptography research, and 6+ years shipping at scale at Qualcomm and Microsoft. I'm now looking to work with early-stage startups where I can own problems end-to-end.
Highlights
- Fastest promotion to Senior Software Engineer on Azure SQL, leading a team of 6
- Led logical pause/resume redesign for Azure SQL Serverless — ~3.5M databases, 60% workflow-latency reduction, control-plane COGS savings
- Co-authored SIGMOD 2024 team paper on proactive resource management for serverless databases
- Fixed Netflix green-screen playback bug at Qualcomm — one-line platform fix affecting ~2% of users worldwide — story
- Top 50 in South Asia at ACM-ICPC; finalist in National Programming League (7,500 participants)
- Founded Fashion Galli — 700+ item catalogue, ~70 rentals — project page
- Published cryptography research at ICDCN 2019; additional work on arXiv
Experience
Solo founder of a research-backed AI companion for PCOS — live in private beta.
- Built product, backend, governed RAG pipeline, and auth end-to-end — project page
- Shipped WhatIEatInADay — AI meal tracker with macro analysis and daily improvement tips (precursor product)
Primary stakeholder for Azure SQL DB Serverless — led end-to-end from design through rollout and on-call.
- Led logical pause/resume redesign: 60% reduction in workflow latency for serverless customers; improved login latency and control-plane efficiency
- Shipped SQL DB for Free and SQL in Microsoft Fabric integrations with Power BI
- Designed features end-to-end across modules; exposed APIs consumed by microservices
- Built observability and auto-mitigation runners for on-call; found and fixed billing bugs (under/over-billing)
- Drove COGS-saving projects through proactive resource pause/resume (SIGMOD 2024)
Azure SQL DB Hyperscale — storage and management at scale.
- Built auto-scaling storage for write-heavy customers migrating to Hyperscale
- Automated reliable rollouts to Hyperscale's storage engine; implemented billing logic to prevent incorrect charges during migration
- Management service committer; production incident mitigation and root-cause analysis
Hardware Digital Rights Management on Windows chipsets.
- Single-handedly enabled HWDRM on Qualcomm's newest chipsets — integrated Microsoft PlayReady Porting Kit 4.0
- Built Hardware Key Manager (HWKM) so keys are never stored in clear text, even inside the security chip
- Found and fixed a Netflix playback glitch affecting ~2% of chipsets worldwide — full story
Online clothes renting and lending platform for women.
- Built catalogue of 700+ items; onboarded 10+ women to rent their wardrobes
Research & publications
Masters thesis at IIIT Hyderabad on distributed cryptography — designed PSMT protocols in directed networks tolerating dual failures.
Earlier projects
- Compiler — Built a full compiler with a teammate; open-sourced on GitHub. Professor waived the final exam: "Good job."
- Fantastic Chat — Android storytelling app on Play Store; users co-create stories from two nouns
- Gravity — Android game inspired by the Gravity movie VFX
- Bluetooth messaging app — Peer-to-peer messaging over Bluetooth
- Internet for everyone — Innovation & Technology Management project (A grade)
Education
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
B.Tech and Masters by Research in Computer Science and Engineering · 2018
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