About Me
From Hyderabad to Silicon Valley. Building things that work.
The Real Me
I've always been the person who takes things apart to see how they work. That turned into a career in wireless tech and indoor location, a music startup that didn't make it, and now building AI-driven networking at HPE. Somewhere along the way I filed a bunch of patents and published a few papers, but honestly the stuff that didn't work taught me the most.
When I'm not working, I play guitar, produce music, and released a song a while back. I'm into table tennis, chess, hiking, biking, and random side projects. Since our son arrived in 2025, free time looks a lot different, but I wouldn't trade it.
I think the best engineers stay curious about things that have nothing to do with engineering.
Life in Numbers
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
2016–2017
- •Graduated with Honors
- •Focus on wireless systems and networking
- •IEEE HKN Honor Society Member
- •Product Management Club
- •Published papers in IEEE JSAC, INFOCOM, and ITS World Congress
IIT Hyderabad
B.Tech Electrical Engineering
2012–2016
Career Journey
HPE Networking
CurrentPrincipal Systems Engineer
Self-driving networks that fix themselves
- •Working on Marvis, the AI-driven virtual network assistant
- •Building natural language interfaces for network operations
- •Contributing to the Large Experience Model (LEM) for predictive networking
- •Part of the team pushing self-driving network technology forward
Lune Acoustics
Co-Founder & COO
Juniper Networks
Software Engineer → Engineering Manager
Mist Systems
Member of Technical Staff
ISRO — Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
Research Intern
The Rules I Live By
Building > Talking
Plans are great, but you learn more from a rough prototype than a perfect spec. Ship something, then iterate.
Simple > Complex
The best solutions look obvious in hindsight. Getting to simple is hard, but it's worth the effort.
Together > Alone
The best things I've built were with great teams. Solo work has its place, but collaboration is where the magic happens.