About

I grew up in the state of Bihar in India. When I was nine, my neighbor's transistor radio broke and I fixed it. Around the same time, my school got its first computer. I started writing code in BASIC and never really stopped. By eighth grade I'd somehow talked my way into setting up networks. I just liked figuring out how things worked.

That curiosity led me to a degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and eventually to Wall Street. TP ICAP brought me to the US to help bring their brokerage into the digital era. I spent over a decade there building RFQ systems and trading platforms using FIX Protocol, working across New York and global markets. It was the kind of work where correctness and speed aren't optional. If your system is wrong or slow, someone loses real money.

After ten years I got restless. I'd been building systems for institutional traders, and I wanted to build something anyone could use. So I left and started HyperTrader, a trading terminal. We went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 batch. Running your own company teaches you things no job ever will, mostly about yourself and how much ambiguity you can sit with before it stops being uncomfortable and starts being normal.

I found DevRev as an early customer. I watched the platform evolve, got fascinated by what they were doing with AI, and eventually joined. Today I work on DevRev Labs, where we try to take the messy, repeated problems that enterprises bring us and turn them into something reusable. Most of my time goes into figuring out how to make solutions that actually hold up in production.

The years in finance left a mark. You develop a healthy distrust of anything that only works in a demo. I try to bring that same instinct to AI.

Family comes first, always. I moved to Texas because I wanted a slower pace and more room for the kids to run around. I live in a small town outside Austin with my wife, three sons (9, 6, and 2), and two dogs. It's a full house.

My day starts with making breakfast for the kids and packing fresh lunch for school. Cooking is probably my biggest hobby. I make almost every meal from scratch. Beyond the kitchen, I play chess, swim, do clay shooting, go off-roading, play video games, paint, and run the BBQ on weekends. Whether I actually have time for all of that with three boys and two dogs is a different question.

I'm also slowly working on a novel series inspired by the true life events of my father, who was a police officer in Bihar. It's very different from anything else I do, but I enjoy it.

You won't find me on Instagram or Twitter. I'm a shy person by nature, still not comfortable going on stage. I prefer to let the work and the writing do the talking, which is partly why this site exists.

If there's a pattern in all of this, it's pretty simple: when I see something broken, I like to fix it. A neighbor's radio, a brokerage stuck in the analog era, a gap in what retail traders had access to, the distance between AI demos and production reality. The technology changes but the impulse doesn't.