I moved from IIT Kharagpur to New York, spent years in enterprise and Amazon-scale systems, and then stepped into a builder phase where product conviction and ownership matter more than looking conventionally impressive.
IIT Kharagpur Electrical Engineering, KVPY scholar. Then Loylty Rewardz in Mumbai, leading a batch→Kafka migration on a loyalty engine processing millions of transactions a day. First real production chops.
NYU Tandon MS. Then Amazon Ads — Java/Python microservices powering international marketplace expansion, multi-region AWS at 99.9%+ availability. Learned distributed-systems discipline. Learned advertising wasn't the product I wanted to build.
Walked away from comp. Two live freelance sites. Two AI products. Selective with what's next.
Start from problems, not tech stacks. Don't just write code — ship products.
Amazon-scale systems, enterprise backend foundations, and then a builder phase where product taste started to matter as much as technical depth.
ML, Deep Learning, Big Data coursework.
Computer Vision, IoT projects. KVPY scholar.
I like end-to-end ownership, products with a real point of view, and systems where the operational details are part of the product rather than hidden behind it.
It is owning enough of the product to make better decisions: backend systems, AI orchestration, interface quality, deployment, and the narrative layer people actually experience.