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2024 — NowPillarFounding Product Engineer + Designer

2024 — Now

New York, NY

First full-time hire

Designing, building and redefining commodity and fx risk management for SMEs

Backed by a16Z, Crucible Cap, Neo, DST Global, Graph Ventures, CEO of Uber and more.

2024 — 2024CMU Human-Computer Interaction InstituteTeaching Assistant for 05-361 Advanced Interaction Design

2024 — 2024

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Teaching assistant for Advanced Interaction Design

2023 — 2023Automat AI (formerly Lasso)Product Intern

2023 — 2023

San Francisco, California, United States

Spearheaded the optimization of inbound and outbound sales processes, resulting in a ~17% increase in lead acquisition and a ~6% increase in lead conversion rate

Constructed a KPI-based reporting framework alongside CEO to closely track sales performance, product development, and project status

Served as primary implementation support to a web backend software engineering project utilizing Python and FastAPI, to implement new product capabilities and debug existing software

2022 — 2022AscendEXProduct Design and Dev Intern

2022 — 2022

New York, New York, United States

Engineered a 75-page web app in collaboration with the CEO, co- founders, and UX Head to incubate and accelerate blockchain projects&

Prototyped an educational interactive graphical modeling interface to depict the effects of liquidity management on prices and volumes"

Created working wireframes of the project’s website for upcoming investor pitches

2021 — 2021Human-Computer Interaction Institute - Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer ScienceResearch Assistant

2021 — 2021

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Researched under Dr.PaulPangaro, Head of American Society for Cybernetics, to find use cases

Cybernetic Systems to aid current A.I. Systems

Ideated on arguments on Universal Design and Inclusivity in relation to Today’s A.I. to provide strong

premises on utilizing the principles of Cybernetics in Human-Machine Interactions

Developed a comprehensive concept map that illustrated how Cybernetic Systems can act as an

alternative to Big Data A.I.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor of Arts - BA

Ahmedabad International School

IB Diploma

Columbia University

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Arts - BA

IB Diploma

Creative Writing