Designing complex systems,
from first principles

Experience

1. 

   Co-Founder

   openfolie. · Part-time

   Apr 2026 — Present

   • Building an AI-native interaction platform combining voice, computer use, and autonomous background agents to operate digital services on behalf of users. I lead product and systems engineering across agent architecture, interaction design, memory, evaluation, and infrastructure.
   • Architected a decoupled agent system separating low-latency conversational interaction from asynchronous autonomous execution, enabling background agents to perform browser control, research, planning, and multi-step tasks without blocking the user experience.
   • Building the platform around persistent user context, shared agent state, computer-use tooling, and India-first voice interaction including Hinglish and code-switching.
2. 

   Systems Engineer

   PLEX — The Product Managers' Club · Apprenticeship

   Jan 2026 — Present

   • Designed a campus-wide bicycle sharing platform enabling students to unlock and return bicycles through a mobile app, with autonomous operation and real-time fleet monitoring.
   • Architected an end-to-end distributed system spanning ESP32 bicycle nodes, ESP-NOW communication, 4G/MQTT router nodes, Go real-time services, Hono/TypeScript APIs, Redis, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, and a Flutter mobile application.
   • Designed for unreliable connectivity and hardware failures using local bicycle state, offline event logs, cryptographically authenticated commands, asynchronous state synchronization, and server-side ride reconciliation; built observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
3. 

   AI Infrastructure & DevOps Intern

   Centre of Excellence | Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (TIET–UQ) · Internship · Hybrid

   Oct 2025 — Present

   • Engineer cloud-native infrastructure for AI-powered medical imaging as part of the TIET–University of Queensland collaboration, across medical imaging, AI inference, and distributed cloud infrastructure.
   • Integrated PACS, DICOMWeb, and Mercure into event-driven imaging workflows and deployed containerized NVIDIA MONAI inference pipelines on AWS for AI-assisted medical image processing.
   • Built Docker-based deployment and CI/CD infrastructure to make imaging services reproducible across local and cloud environments.
4. 

   Core Technical Team

   Saturnalia TIET · Full-time · On-site

   Sep 2025 — Dec 2025

   • Built the primary backend architecture using Firebase, Express, and Docker, handling 3,000+ requests with secure payment processing.
   • Worked on the official Saturnalia website to support 3,000+ users during peak event traffic.
   • Architected, developed, and scaled Mirage, an AR/VR-based treasure hunt with 1,900+ concurrent users.
5. 

   Executive Committee — Technical Operations

   Helix TIET

   Mar 2026 — Apr 2026

   • Lead backend and infrastructure engineering for Helix's technical systems, building real-time applications and AI-powered workflows used in large-scale student events and competitions.
   • Architected and operated PLEX, a live market simulation supporting 100+ concurrent players with 15-second market ticks, WebSockets, Redis Pub/Sub, asynchronous workers, and LLM-based strategy evaluation.
   • Led live incident response when upstream LLM rate limits created hidden backpressure — diagnosed the failure mode and stabilized the system with dead-letter queues, adaptive retries, and decoupled task execution.
6. 

   Core Member

   Creative Computing Society

   Jun 2025 — Apr 2026

   • Contributed to open-source software and engineering projects within Thapar's student computing community, across backend development, systems engineering, and applied machine learning.
   • Led projects and competed in hackathons resulting in multiple wins, including 1st place at IEEE BIOS Hackathon 2025 and 2nd place at SabkaAI Hackathon (India AI Impact Summit 2026).