Experience

  • April 2025 - Present
    Mercedes-Benz Group AG
    Final Thesis (MB.OS Delivery)
    • Topic: Radical standardisation in corporate software development via LLM-based similarity search.
    • Working with vector embeddings and databases, OpenAI and Gemini SDKs, BERTopic, HDBSCAN and TF-ID to accelerate planning cycles and reduce redundant app proposals via intelligent and more understandable artifact search.
  • October 2024 - March 2025
    Mercedes-Benz Group AG
    Intern (MB.OS Delivery)
    • Worked in the new MB.OS department to create a new dev-tracking dashboard system for 8000+ colleagues including executives, aimed at increasing bug-fixing and iteration speed by 30% over traditional AGILE.
    • Created a portal with 4+ aggregated data vendors including PowerBI, Jira and vehicular data with Grafana to monitor daily performance of different teams and departments under a new proprietary governance structure.
  • October 2023 - May 2024
    THWS
    Research Assistant
    • Overhauled e-learning UX to improve learning goal tracking; grounded in data with 75%+ positive user feedback.
    • Created 3 new authenticated data pipelines, combined performance graphs and personalised learning suggestions.
  • November 2020 - February 2021
    Zepto (Kiranakart, YC SS21)
    Product and Engineering Lead, Employee #1
    • Created the systems and front-facing apps for a Y-Combinator startup as the first employee of the founding team. Conducted 50+ field interviews with shopkeepers and residents to validate business plan and market fit.
    • Scaled the startup from 0 to 100K+ downloads; helped raise $60M in the process. Helped hire the executive team before leaving to finish my education. The startup later pivoted into a unicorn and scaled nationally as Zepto.
  • May 2020 - August 2022
    Flamecloud LLC
    Software Developer (Freelance)
    • Developed MERN and React Native applications over 2 years in project-based work for a boutique digital agency.
    • Designed and implemented systems and architectures for 5+ clients including a large Indian e-Bike manufacturer.
  • April 2020 - August 2020
    Google Summer of Code
    Mentor for SCoReLab
    • Mentored multiple university students on development projects related to the Bassa project, a network-limiter and download queueing system for companies with low-bandwidth in third-world countries.