Experience
Thank God It's Friday Hacks is a sub club under NTU's Open Source Society. It explores hackathon, hardware building, software projects and workshops as well as several different competitions.
Sentinels is a flagship club focused around cybersecurity and CTFs.
At NTU's Office of Data and Analytics, I build automated data-harvesting, identity-resolution, and ETL pipelines that link fragmented academic records across bibliometric sources. The work handles API rate limits, inconsistent schemas, author disambiguation, and standardized SQL and flat-file delivery at scale.
- Pipeline & tooling: Developed 241 modular Python scripts and integrated 11 open-source repositories, custom tools, and MCP servers to orchestrate ingestion across 8+ APIs and public knowledge graphs, including SciVal, Scopus, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, ROR, and Wikidata.
- Entity resolution & enrichment: Matched approximately 50,000 UBC researcher profiles and linked 45,801 Stanford Top 2% researchers with Scopus IDs, classifications, h-indices, ranks, and institutional metadata.
- Large-scale delivery: Processed 5.2 million researcher records across 127 universities, delivered as six spreadsheet volumes, clean CSVs, and indexed SQL database dumps with technical documentation.
Buildabot Labs is a technology subsidiary of First Step Innovations (FSTI), focused on building cutting-edge software infrastructure and interactive digital solutions. Promoted to CTIO after my initial tenure as an R&D Intern at FSTI, I led all technology strategy and engineering at the subsidiary level.
My work encompassed maintaining and building their database systems and backend servers, developing and managing the company website, and integrating a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) AI assistant directly into the web platform. I also designed and implemented interactive elements and bespoke web-based solutions, and architected an emulation playground that enabled users to virtually test and validate their projects to a meaningful extent before physical deployment.
First Step Innovations is an Edu-Tech startup based in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, focused on STEAM education, coding, AI, and robotics for school students. As an R&D Intern, I worked on three full-stack projects: an e-commerce web application, an AI-powered career counselling platform, and an interactive drone assembly simulator web app. I was also responsible for technical documentation, daily progress reporting, and QA testing across all deliverables.
As Headboy, I share the responsibility with the Headgirl of overseeing the entire student council: a network comprising 18 clubs, an editorial board, and 4 houses. We oversee 97 members, including presidents, vice presidents, prefects, deputy prefects, and editorial members.
My core responsibilities involve maintaining discipline across the council, scheduling events, managing assemblies, and organizing new initiatives. I proudly oversaw major school events: XPLORA (interschool tech and robotics), KPSMUN (three day interschool MUN), Venture Vortex (business pitching), Kaushal Mahotsav (performing arts), Lihitya (literature and creative expression), Intelligence Fest (large scale interschool multi domain competition), and our Annual Function and Felicitation where I handled speeches, event flow, and guest coordination.
I-Code is an intensive one to two day intraschool and interschool coding event. In its first edition, it featured web and app development, while the second edition expanded into a basic DSA problem-based programming competition.
I served as a problem setter, designing logic and algorithm questions for multiple difficulty categories. I was actively involved in both the inaugural intraschool edition and the expanded interschool event that followed.
XPLORA is a flagship tech event cohosted by our Coders Club and ATL Club, featuring high energy robowars, ideathons, and gaming competitions.
I coordinated its 3rd edition and moved into an advisory role for the 4th and 5th editions. My work involved ground level planning, scheduling, outreach, advertising, managing finances, and competition design. You can learn more at techfestkps.com.
My journey began as an innovator: building prototypes, participating in competitions, and exploring robotics, embedded systems, and single board computers.
Over time, I naturally transitioned into mentoring. I proudly guide juniors on their projects, assist them with acquiring materials, wiring components, writing code, and offer support throughout execution and refinement.
Previously known as the Computer Club, this is where my primary technological efforts took root.
I guided students deeply into competitive programming by creating and assigning practice problems, including dedicated prep material for I-Code. I helped students identify their technical skill levels, assisted faculty with technical limitations, and conducted specialized workshops on practical cybersecurity: offensive, defensive, and prevention strategies.
I hosted advanced technical workshops spanning MIT App Inventor, reinforcement learning chatbots, and competitive programming using C++. During this time, I proudly represented the school in multiple high stakes competitions: Data and AI, Junior SIH, Inspire Manak, Youth Ideathon, and technical quizzes (view my achievements). I heavily promoted Linux adoption among both students and teachers, taking personal initiative to upgrade existing Edubuntu systems and fix failing hardware across 5 computer labs.
I conducted app development workshops using MIT App Inventor for grades 6 to 12 and organized complementary competitions. I introduced younger students to the basics of computer vision using OpenCV and conducted exploratory sessions on game development involving Python, Pygame, and Tkinter. Behind the scenes, I helped coordinate our flagship event, XPLORA.
I started entirely driven by curiosity. I explored block coding, basic Python scripting, and the fundamental differences between CLI and GUI usage. These early days gave me a solid introduction to supervised and unsupervised learning concepts, leading me to create engaging technology presentations for school assemblies, competitions, and annual functions.
I joined the quiz club in 3rd grade as part of its 4th generation. I learned immensely under my seniors and gradually improved my knowledge base, eventually representing the school in multiple high tier quizzes (see my quizzes).
I utilized this experience to host intraschool quizzes across diverse domains: general knowledge, finance, history, technology, and sports. I actively championed participation in quizzing and guided juniors on reliable preparation strategies.