Experience
Software Engineer, Palantir Technologies
May 2024 - Present
I worked on the Application Frameworks team, building common frameworks for other applications and played a key role in the effort of enhancing interoperability between Palantir Gotham and Palantir Foundry.
Software Engineer, WHOOP
July 2023 - Jan 2024
I worked on the Notification Center, delivering personalized user updates. I also created the Year in Review 2023 feature to highlight personalized fitness achievements and expanded API functionality to improve third-party integrations.
Software Engineer, Goldman Sachs
July 2020 - June 2022
I played a pivotal role in transforming the Securitized Derivatives and Structured Products teams by developing high-performance solutions such as an RFQ system, streamlining document approvals, and implementing automated settlement processes.
Impactful Projects
Consumer Price Index, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
2018
I worked on the data collection system for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) at the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, which is now used by the Government of India for critical financial discussions and inflation calculations.
Export Quiz, Moodle
2019
I am the lead maintainer of the Export Quiz plugin for Moodle that can export quizzes in any given format, currently used by over 200 schools and colleges worldwide, automating the reporting flow to save faculty time.
Dev Utilities, Visual Studio Code
2024
I am the lead developer of Dev Utilities, an open-source VS Code extension that enhances development workflows by providing a variety of utilities directly within the code editor, all while ensuring data privacy with local processing.
Publications & Writing
Hackernoon (Chosen as Top Story)
Learn why GenAI models fail with new information, the 'One-Shot Generalization Paradox,' and what future AI research holds for overcoming this challenge.
Hackernoon (Chosen as Top Story)
Discover how AI assistants like Ella are transforming customer interactions with human-like precision, the tech behind them, and what we may lose in this shift.
Hackernoon (Chosen as Top Story)
Should AI-generated speech enjoy the same legal protections we extend to human expression? Or should AI-generated content fall into its own category altogether, with separate rules?
Hackernoon
As businesses recognize the value of optimized AI prompts, a new debate emerges: can prompts become trade secrets, and what does that mean for innovation?
VentureBeat
Let me break down why over-reliance on gen AI in R&D could be innovation’s Achilles’ heel.
Hackernoon
Transformers are limited by sequence length due to quadratic scaling. Explore solutions like sparse attention, low-rank approximations, and spectral methods.
AI Advances
Let’s face it — when it comes to AI, it often feels like small businesses are part of a lopsided fight. How can small business compete?
Hackernoon
Can we really quantify that bias? Is there some magic metric that can definitively tell us how biased an AI is?
TowardsAI.net
Why can’t we have one cohesive AI system that flips seamlessly between different modes of understanding and generation, like we humans do?
DZone
Mode collapse makes GANs produce repetitive outputs. Solutions exist, but none fully solve it. Curious how researchers are tackling this? Read on!
Medium
A nerdy debate between character-level and word-level RNNs.
Data Science Central
Explores the core principles, practical steps, and common pitfalls to watch out for when structuring large datasets to get the most out of RAG.
Medium
Delves into the differences between these methods and provides a concise answer to the question at hand with a comprehensive analysis.
Arxiv
This paper analyzes different acquistion functions like Maximum Probability of Improvement and Expected Improvement and various optimizers like L-BFGS and TNC to optimize the acquisitions functions for finding the next sampling point.
Arxiv
After studying and analyzing various previous works in automating the tuning of these parameters, this paper proposes two algorithms - Grid Search with Finer Tuning and Controlled Random Search.
Arxiv
This paper provides the conclusion that the proposed portfolio manager with actions centered on weight allocations can surpass the risk-adjusted returns of conventional portfolio managers.
Talks & Judging
Talk, Khoury Research Apprentice Showcase, Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Talk on "Can GPT Price Options?"
Paper Presentation, Future of Machine Learning And Data Science
Sydney, Australia
Paper: Can GPT Price Options?
Hackathon Judge, AI/ATL @ Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
Sponsors: Google Cloud, Anthropic, Microsoft, MongoDb, Databricks, Cloudflare, Figma, ...
Hackathon Judge, Hack This Fall
Virtual
Sponsors: Github, Devfolio, Postman, Google for Developers, MongoDb, Databricks, Okta, ...
Hackathon Judge, Hack OHI/O
Columbus, OH
Sponsors: Intel, Honda, Deloitte, First Energy, Union Home, ...
Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
Journal
Review submissions for the journal
Achievements
Khoury Research Apprenticeship
2024
I was awarded the prestigious Khoury Research Apprenticeship, with an acceptance rate of less than 1%, and received a scholarship covering full tuition for his research work.
Co-Founded Pune Startup Fest
2019
I co-founded Pune Startup Fest which attracts over 15,000 attendees, features 100+ startups, and hosts 20+ expert speakers every year to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in Pune's startup ecosystem.
Featured in Pune Mirror, India Times
2017
I was featured in Pune Mirror and India Times newspaper as a young and enthusiastic application developer at the age of 19, highlighting my innovation and contributions to the community.