About

Software engineer, building agent infrastructure.

I co-founded Checkpoint, which tests AI agents before they ever reach a user, and I lead its engineering. This summer I was at Recurly, building the platform that turns a product requirement into merged pull requests.

Before that I took agent infrastructure into production for the first time, working for QualGent (YC X25), a San Francisco startup. Since my second year at Purdue I’ve also done AI research, most recently a paper accepted at a NeurIPS 2026 workshop, with Purdue and Harvard Business School faculty. I finish CS and AI at Purdue in December.

Now
Co-founder & CTO, Checkpoint
Studying
CS + AI at Purdue, minor in psychology
Graduating
December 2026
Based in
West Lafayette, IN

Where I’ve worked

  • Employed
  • Shipped
  • Ongoing
  • Research
  1. Recurly

    Software Engineer Intern

    May 2026 to Aug 2026
    Broomfield, CO

    A summer on internal agent tooling for the engineering and go-to-market teams.

    • Three things shipped, none of them customer-facing: the platform that takes a written requirement to merged pull requests, a Slack assistant that researches an account before a call, and a pipeline that answers an inbound form with a written analysis of that prospect’s business.
  2. Checkpoint

    Co-founder & CTO

    Apr 2026 to Present

    I co-founded Checkpoint with Ayushman Gupta and Aaditya Gaur, and I lead its engineering.

    • CI/CD for AI agents: adversarial test suites that run before an agent ever meets a user.
    • YC told us we were in the top 10% of Summer 2026 applicants, then didn’t interview us. It’s live in private beta.
  3. QualGent

    Software Engineer Intern

    Sep 2025 to Dec 2025
    San Francisco, CA (remote)

    Reported to the CTO at a YC X25 company, taking agent infrastructure from prototype into production.

    • Built App Crawler, which walks an Android app screen by screen and writes down how it works, and the backend that runs it unattended across a fleet of emulators.
    • Built the QA assistant the company sells on: one chat box over 45 tools and sub-agents.
  4. Purdue University

    Software Engineer, AI Research

    Aug 2024 to Present
    West Lafayette, IN

    Applied ML research where interpretability, privacy and whether a clinician would trust the answer matter as much as accuracy.

    • A paper with Purdue and Harvard Business School faculty, accepted at GenAI4Health, a NeurIPS 2026 workshop, in Sydney this December.
    • A clinical assistant nurses tested across Indiana hospitals. About 40% less documentation time, and it runs on the hospital’s own hardware.
    • Presented at the Purdue Spring Research Conference.
  5. Microsoft

    Software Engineer, Microsoft Research Collaboration

    Aug 2024 to May 2025
    West Lafayette, IN

    Owned the LLM pipeline and the distributed infrastructure under it.

    • Read a few million social posts about Minecraft and A Minecraft Movie for sentiment. The results went to Microsoft product and marketing leadership.

Recognition

  • 2026

    Y Combinator Summer 2026, top 10% of applicants

    Our Checkpoint application. We didn’t get an interview.

  • 2026

    Accepted at NeurIPS 2026, the GenAI4Health workshop

    Peer-reviewed, with Purdue and Harvard Business School faculty. In Sydney this December.

  • 2025

    Mary-Ann Neel Computer Science Scholar

    A Purdue CS department award for academic and technical work.

  • 2024 to 2026

    Discovery Park Research Scholar, 3 times

    For research that crosses departments.

  • 2023 to 2026

    Dean’s List and Semester Honors, 6 times

    At a 3.90 GPA in CS and AI.

  • 2021

    KVPY 2021, All India Rank 1638

    India’s national fellowship for students headed into research science, run by IISc.

  • 2024 to 2026

    Teaching assistant and workshop lead

    TA for CS 24300, CS 471 and TDM 101, and weekly Machine Learning @ Purdue workshops. About 500 students between them.