USC GCSP · Backend & Cloud Pod Lead · 2026

• Led the backend and cloud pods for the GCSP Network Portal, a collaboration platform connecting Grand Challenge Scholars across 100+ institutions.
• Owned API scalability on a FastAPI and Supabase service, with real-time channel messaging as a target for 50+ concurrent users.
• Revamped and expanded the project site, adding forums, direct messaging and channel chat.

Stylebot · Software Engineering Intern · 2025

• Built the grammar and style enforcement engine from scratch: rules like "roundup" vs "round-up" vs "round up", where getting it wrong matters to publishers.
• Took detection coverage to 98% across edge cases by building a labeled test corpus and iterating rule by rule.
• Ran in real time on text coming from Google Docs for 20+ enterprise media clients.

Indian Institute of Science · AI Research Intern · 2023–24

• AI-assisted yoga coach for physical therapy recovery; pose estimation on patients doing prescribed movements.
• Defined a custom anatomical keypoint schema together with doctors, then built the 10,000+ image dataset around it.
• Wrote the annotation tooling and validation pipelines that kept labels consistent as the team scaled.

Google Summer of Code · Plone Foundation · 2022

• Selected for Google Summer of Code with the Plone Foundation, one of the largest open-source CMS ecosystems.
• Ported the recycle-bin add-on to Plone 6: new packaging, API changes, tests, and upstream review.
• First real experience with open-source process: proposals, mentors, code review, and shipping to strangers.