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Work

I'm a builder at heart, drawn to teams, products, and systems that scale. The work has grown more complex over the years, but the curiosity that started it all hasn't changed. Here's the path so far.

Pixxel

2022 – Present

VP Engineering

Leading product and engineering for Pixxel's geospatial platform, democratizing access to data from a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. This includes the automated image processing and machine learning systems that detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena in near real-time.

Raystack

2021 – Present

Founder

Founded Raystack Foundation, a non-profit building an open-source, self-service data platform. Raystack tools give teams a unified foundation for data lifecycle, management, and governance.

Gojek

2017 – 2022

VP Engineering

Built and led the teams behind Gojek's self-serve data platforms: enterprise data, experimentation, analytics, and customer data. These platforms processed billions of data points a day on infrastructure spanning Kafka, Flink, Spark, BigQuery, Airflow, and Kubernetes, and powered data-driven decisions across the company.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government

2014 – 2017

Engineering Lead

Led technology at the Center for International Development, building data interfaces for evidence-based policy decisions and accountability in public programs. Developed pilot projects that demonstrated the value of data to policy actors through hands-on capacity building.

Hindustan Times

2015 – 2016

Consultant, Data Journalism

Built the definitive online source for monitoring India's real-time air quality, combining sensor journalism, extensive web crawling, and a public exploration platform that helped citizens engage with government on pollution.

J-PAL

2015

Consultant, Data Interfaces

Built the data-exploration framework for an emissions trading system with J-PAL South Asia and the pollution control boards of Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, enabling regulators to cap emissions with greater transparency. The pilot became a model for expansion within India.

Infoclot

2010 – 2015

Founder

Founded a design-driven software company delivering products, tools, and consulting across commercial, social, educational, and government sectors, while giving back through events, conferences, and open-source contributions.

Info Assembly

2013 – 2014

Lead Architect

Designed the architecture for a big-data FinTech platform, applying machine learning and natural language processing to massive web data to simplify financial market research.

Full list of organisations is available on my LinkedIn profile.

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