Journey
From 650 meters underground to AI products for learning
I started as a mining engineer. Each job since has moved me closer to the people who use what I build. This is the short version; the product pages tell the rest.
2016 to 2019
Operations Manager · Tata Steel
I led 130 people in an underground coal mine about 650 meters deep, and commissioned a continuous miner, a machine that cuts and loads coal in one pass. The hard call was when to start it: the plant downstream needed the coal, and the crew was ready once the safety system was.
Systems fail at the human edge. Start where the work actually happens.
2019 to 2021
Senior Manager, Strategy · Tata Steel
I moved into strategy for the 6,000-person mining division and led an 18-person team that brought the five mines' data into one dashboard. A leader could start at the whole division and drill down to a single section of one mine, with output and cost at every level.
A number nobody can see changes nothing. Put the data in front of the person who decides.
2021
Why education
At Tata Steel I studied finance and data science on the side, and saw how much learning changed what I was trusted with. Volunteering on school programs, I saw how unevenly children get chances like that. So I left the mines to work on the system that decides who gets them.
2021 to 2025
Consultant, then Project Lead, EdTech and AI · Central Square Foundation
I worked with a state government on how it checks on its classrooms. Its 2,200 mentors were in training months before the state's app was due, so I shipped a simple offline tool in three weeks and they recorded observations from their first week. The system logged about 50,000 observations. I then set up the team's AI work, which built Sakhee, an AI coach for government school teachers.
Ship what people can use now. A simple tool on day one beats a better one months later.
2025 to 2026
Senior Program Officer, Education · Wadhwani AI
I owned SEAP, a spoken-English practice product for students at vocational institutes, and led its 2.0 redesign around a 25-lesson path once the pilot showed what learners came back for. I also worked on taking an AI reading assessment to more states.
Measure what people come back for, not what they sign up for.
2026 to now
MBA student · Yale School of Management
I'm in the class of 2028 and the Education Club's first-year lead. On the side I build AI practice simulations. The first is Abhyas Studio, where school mentors rehearse a classroom visit with an AI teacher who opens up only when they earn it.