Given below is a list of my professional experience and significant projects that I've worked on sorted by the most recent start date. #### Ira Project Co-founder, CEO | Feb 2024 - Aug 2025 Ira Project uses AI to generate unique learning activities aligned to curriculum standards. - Design: Conceptualised and designed six unique first of its kind learning activities based on cutting edge research in learning sciences. - Engineering: Worked as a solo engineer to build the frontend and backend of a web application using NextJS, React, FastAPI, Postgres - Artificial Intelligence - Co-designed a multi-agent system that generated more than 1000 learning activities based on a lesson plan, topic, curriculum and grade level with almost no hallucinations - Created a Wolfram style reasoning engine using GPT and SymPy for our proprietary learn by teaching activity.  - Sales: Created a sales pipeline and launched in ten schools around the world with 200 students and 500 hours spent learning. Essays - [[On Education]], [[One year of Ira Project]] and [[Taking a break from Ira Project]] #### OpenOs Co-founder, CTO | Feb 2023 - Dec 2023 OpenOS is a tool that helps marketing, product and customer success teams in early stage companies to effectively model their data and predict outcomes without requiring coding knowledge. At OpenOS as a co-founder and solo engineer I contributed in various capacities: - Design: Designed and scoped out product features talking to users and understanding customer requirements. - Engineering: Worked as a solo engineer building both the frontend and backend of a platform that allows teams to perform predictive analytics, time series forecasting as well as query their data sources in natural language. - Artificial Intelligence: Trained AI models for five customers achieving 90%+ precision and recall with a not so large data set. Improved efficiency of sales and marketing teams using predictive modelling #### CraterClub Co-founder, CTO | October 2021 - Dec 2022 CraterClub is a live streaming and auctions platform for creators and educators. We raised $1.2 million and scaled the platform to 150k+ users, 1000+ creators who streamed 300,000 minutes of exclusive content. As CTO I lead the tech team of five engineers and built out web and mobile applications. We built the live stream web application using Django, PostgresQL, NextJS and TypeScript and deployed scalable infrastructure using AWS and Docker. I oversaw the development of Android and iOS applications built on Flutter. #### WorkNetwork Co-founder, CTO | Nov 2021 - October 2023 WorkNetwork was an earlier iteration of CraterClub. At the peak of the pandemic WorkNetwork aimed to be India's LunchClub allowing for curated 1:1 professional interactions. Though we eventually pivoted to CraterClub we facilitated 1000+ such meetings and enjoyed a highly positive feedback score from our users. Despite having limited data and struggling with a cold start problem, I helped design an AI matching algorithm that leveraged unique signatures that we were able to gauge from the devices. The tech stack was similar to that of Crater, however we used React Native to build out the mobile applications. #### Vismaya Kalike Co-Founder | Jun 2018 - Present Creating joyful, self-determined learning spaces for marginalised children to craft their own learning journeys. We currently run 50 learning centres across Karnataka catering to over 1000 children. - Program Development: Collaboratively shaped the program, philosophy, and vision, amalgamating inputs from communities, learners, facilitators, and field experts to create a community centric, sustainable model. - Community Engagement: Identified and forged key partnerships with other NGOs, local communities and enlisted local facilitators, culminating in the establishment of fifty learning spaces across Karnataka. - Learning Facilitation for Children: Developed child centric activities, games and learning material with sufficient scaffolding to aid self exploration. Directly worked with over five hundred children across various communities testing and iterating approaches. - Facilitator Training: Created peer circles for facilitator growth and support. Organised workshops for 30+ facilitators building perspective on how the current system fails to work for the marginalised and advocating for democratic, joyful learning spaces. - Fundraising & Communication: Successfully raised $25,000 through strategic fundraising efforts and maintained robust communication with donors through comprehensive reporting and consistent documentation of progress. #### Share Acre Lead Engineer | June 2019 - August 2020 I worked as a developer on contract for ShareAcre, a fractional ownership platform. As a solo developer I built out a website using ReactJS, Express, MongoDB and NodeJS. The ShareAcre website involved conforming to stringent design systems and guidelines and involved rendering the property pages, a property reservation system and admin dashboards for property managers. #### Tilt Software Engineering Intern | May 2016 to August 2016 I interned at Tilt in my Junior year of college predominantly working on their front end system using React and Redux. I spent a large part of my internship building a gif commenting feature and helping senior developers update the entire front end repository to the latest version of React. I also worked on a pilot project in React Native creating a demo of the Tilt mobile application in React Native a then new technology. #### Xnote Co-Founder | Jan 2015 - August 2015 Xnote was a social reading application where users could save, annotate and share articles that they read on the web. A web and mobile application Xnote aimed to create deep discussion through annotations and comment threads. At Xnote I worked on the frontend building out large parts of the web screens in ReactJS and also as an Android developer in Java building out many screens of the application and maintaining synchronisation between offline and online user activity.