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Resume

The short version lives on the homepage. This is everything else.

Experience

Work

1. Oct 2025 – now
   Member of Technical Staff, Security · Mercor

   Fraud engineering, ID verification, and an LLM resume-parsing pipeline for the talent marketplace.

2. Jan 2025 – Oct 2025
   SDE, Payments Core · PhonePe

   Backend for 90K+ TPS rails covering ~47% of India's UPI volume. Built Connchecker, a connectivity and anomaly monitor that brought outage detection down to minutes. Cut config parsing latency from 580ms to 3ms.

3. Dec 2023 – Dec 2025
   Project mentor, Pictopy · Google Summer of Code / AOSSIE

   Founded Pictopy, a privacy-first photo gallery with fully on-device face and object detection, now used by 30K+ students. Mentored GSoC contributors on architecture, CI, and the ONNX inference stack through Dec 2025.

Education

School

1. Dec 2021 – Jun 2025
   B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering · Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh

   GPA 7.79. Electives in data structures, algorithms, and AI/ML.

2. Apr 2020 – Mar 2021
   SDSenior Secondary (12th) · S.D. Public School, Jagadhri

   95.6%.

Toolbox

Skills

• Languages : Java, Python, C++
• Backend & APIs : Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Django, Flask, FastAPI, REST
• Databases & storage : PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Aerospike
• AI & data systems : LLMs, LLM-based pipelines, OCR, ONNX Runtime, TensorFlow
• Infrastructure & tools : Docker, Git, CI/CD, JUnit, Pytest, Swagger

Elsewhere

Coding profiles

• Codeforces: Candidate Master, top 0.5% globally. Rank 126 in Round 951.
• CodeChef: 5★. Global ranks 1, 14, 27, and 39 across contests.
• LeetCode: Guardian. Global ranks 39, 130, and 160 in weekly/biweekly contests.

Recognition

Achievements

• HSTSE Scholarship: ranked 131, awarded scholarship.
• Amazon ML Summer School: selected as a participant.