These days, I'm building Burst, background compute for developers. You push a long-running job from your machine, it runs in an isolated cloud VM, and you get results back, with nothing to provision or maintain. It came out of a frustration I kept hitting: getting from an idea to a running experiment shouldn't start with a day of infrastructure setup.
My background spans systems research and product. At Microsoft Research India I worked on renewable-cloud computing, where datacenters run on renewable energy by flexing compute to match a variable supply. Earlier, for my senior thesis, I built a key-value store inside an Intel SGX enclave. Yash More and I later built Index AI, a company-knowledge search tool that came out of Buildspace's third season in the Bay Area and drew interest from teams at Google, Meta, and others.
For four years I co-founded and ran a research and fabrication lab at Ashoka University. It grew from a few retrofitted classrooms into a 4,500 sqft facility serving close to 500 students from mathematics to creative writing, run on peer-to-peer learning with no prerequisites. Student work there reached international conferences including HCI International 2025 and ACM Compute 2025, and research partnerships, including work with the National Centre for Biological Sciences, contributed to a publication in the Royal Society's Proceedings B.
I'm still collaborating with Dr. Meghna Agarwala and Ananya Dinkar on microscopy automation, building accessible slide-agitation and focus-stacking systems for palynology labs. That work supported Dr. Agarwala's Oxford Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship and is an accepted technical workshop at INQUA 2027.
I'm always interested in discussing collaborative projects, research opportunities, or background compute. Feel free to reach out at [email protected].