Moving to San Francisco
Relocated to a city I've long adored for its beautiful natural scenery and vibrant, diverse culture. San Francisco offered a fresh chapter — a place where technology, nature, and community converge in unique ways.
About Me
A dive through the experiences that shaped who I am
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Søren Kierkegaard
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2023
2021 – 2024
Data Scientist at NationBuilder
Served as the sole Data Scientist — the subject matter expert on modernizing data operations for both internal and external needs. Administered an ETL pipeline feeding an AWS-hosted Tableau deployment for external customers, while building custom dashboards to track internal KPIs in near real-time.
2019 – 2021
Data Scientist at Ford Motor Company
Worked full-time applying data science to improve business processes and analytics — designing data pipelines for GDPR & CCPA compliance, automating marketing data acquisition, and experimenting with ML-based vehicle trade-in value predictions.
Graduated 2019
Graduate Studies at UMSI
The idea for a crowd-sourced, map-based marketplace had taken root — but building it required skills I didn't yet have. After a Java bootcamp introduced me to programming, I enrolled in the University of Michigan's School of Information to get a holistic education on what makes a successful software product. Earning a Master of Science in Information with specializations in Data Science and Human-Computer Interaction, I explored the intersection of people and technology through coursework in ML, information visualization, and UX design.
Fall 2012
Detroit & Eastern Market
After graduating, I packed up and moved to Detroit — determined to live and work full-time in the urban agriculture movement. I took a job as a cashier at the beloved Russell Street Deli in the Eastern Market neighborhood, home to the Saturdays farmers market and a seasonal Tuesday craft market. On Saturdays I'd set up a soup stall and let me tell you — I was pretty popular in the cold winter months. It was there, hearing vendors talk about their struggle to reach customers across multiple markets and retail locations, that the seed of an idea began to sprout.
Summer 2011
Greening of Detroit Internship
Inspired by what I'd seen the previous summer, I interned with the Greening of Detroit's Urban Agriculture team. The internship allowed me to explore more of the city's beautiful community gardens, connect with the growers nurturing them, and begin introducing myself to a vibrant movement of Detroiters reclaiming their neighborhoods one plot at a time.
Summer 2010
Detroit Urban Farm Tour
Between my sophomore and junior year I took a DAN (Detroit Agricultural Network) tour of gardens and farms in the urban center of Detroit, capped off by a potluck made entirely from produce grown at the places we'd visited. It was a mind-blowing experience — watching residents combat the food desert narrative by growing their own food in vacant lots throughout their neighborhoods. Not everyone was doing it, but I was deeply inspired by the ones who were.
Matriculated 2008 - Graduated 2012
Undergrad at the University of Michigan
Studied Economics and Environmental Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor — entering college in the aftermath of the Great Recession and at a time when climate change was widely recognized by the scientific community yet seemingly ignored by the political elite. The interdisciplinary education fostered a systems-thinking perspective and a conviction that the most meaningful solutions often lie at the intersection of economic, social, and environmental forces.
the 90s & 00s
Early Years in SE Michigan
The second son of Indian immigrants, I grew up in the Metro Detroit area. Both of my parents worked full-time — my father as a Mechanical Engineer and my mother as a Project Manager. They fostered within me an early interest in technology and an appreciation for community.
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