Payments Infrastructure/AI & LLM Systems/Voice AI/Backend Engineering
SDE at a YC-backed fintech, building payment APIs and settlement infrastructure — and the production voice agent that completes KYC end to end. I work on backend systems where correctness matters: money movement, reconciliation, and the pipelines around them.
Feb 2026 — Present
Y Combinator S20 · Full-time · Bengaluru, On-site
Feb 2025 — May 2025
Zidio Development
Internship · Remote
Production systems, research prototypes, and computer-vision work — built across the job, hackathons, and independent time.
Bio-signal controlled robotic arm
An assistive robotic arm driven directly by EOG (eye movement) and EMG (muscle) signals, translating human intent into robotic precision without a controller. Built for accessibility and healthcare use cases.
Production speech-to-speech verification
A production voice AI agent at Decentro that walks a customer through the entire KYC journey over a live call — holding a natural, context-aware conversation while pulling real-time verification status from backend APIs, with no human agent in the loop.
Smart bus surveillance & crowd monitoring
A computer-vision system estimating crowd density and passenger flow inside public buses, with an admin dashboard for real-time analytics, incident detection, and route optimization. Designed for smart-city deployment scenarios such as GIFT City, Gujarat.
Real-time network intrusion detection
A network intrusion detection system that analyzes live packet data rather than static datasets, using hop-based analysis to improve accuracy in identifying attack traffic as it happens.
iOS custom keyboard extension
A custom iOS keyboard extension using voice transcription as the primary input method — covering keyboard extension lifecycle, real-time audio processing, transcription API integration, and interface design.
Natural-language analytics over Indian agriculture data
An interactive question-answering and analytics tool that lets farmers, analysts, and students ask plain-English questions to compare state-wise rainfall and crop production across real government datasets.
Video detection + industrial OCR
Two coupled computer-vision systems: deep-learning detection and classification of humans and animals in video, and an OCR pipeline that extracts and structures text from stenciled industrial and military crates.
Awards, funding, and national-stage showcases.
Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India
Won the Pragati phase for NeuroNinja, a bio-signal controlled robotic arm, with ₹1,00,000 in funding awarded. Presented the working prototype at the evaluation round at IISc Bengaluru before DoT, NTI, and TCIL.
India Mobile Congress · COAI · Ministry of Communications
Recognized on the international stage at IMC'25 for driving innovation, alongside exhibitors from 150+ countries.
Yashobhoomi, New Delhi
Held a dedicated booth at Asia's largest telecom, media, and technology event, presenting the NeuroNinja prototype to 400+ global companies, 7,000+ delegates, VCs, and industry leaders across 150+ countries.
Student Startup & Innovation Policy, Government of Gujarat
Secured first place and seed funding in the state innovation policy funding round.
What I reach for, grouped by what it's for.
Sep 2022 — May 2026
G. H. Patel College of Engineering & Technology
CVM University, Gujarat
CGPA 8.23 / 10
Code Unnati Advance Course — Emerging Technologies
SAP · Edunet Foundation
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, IoT, and SAP ABAP on Business Technology Platform.
Core Java Specialization
Coursera · 4-course specialization
Introduction to Java, Object-Oriented Programming with Java, Object-Oriented Hierarchies, and the Java Class Library.
Communication Skills for Engineers
Rice University · Coursera · 3-course specialization
Oral, interpersonal, and written communication for engineering leaders.
Capstone: Retrieving, Processing & Visualizing Data with Python
University of Michigan · Coursera
Open to backend, AI/LLM, and voice-AI roles — and to interesting problems in payments infrastructure.
Based in
Bengaluru, India
