About Me
Building Vakyam AI — foundation speech models for Indian languages, incubated at IIT Madras. Mercatus EV grantee. Before this, I built Recruitr AI, an AI interview platform that landed international funding and paying customers. B.Tech in CS (Cyber-Physical Systems) from VIT. My R&D work at FLSmidth contributed to an international patent. Chose startups over a job straight out of college.
I like building cool shit. I like learning new shit. Just getting stuff done.
Education and Journeys
- The Residency — 2025
- Buildspace s5 — 2023–2024
- B.Tech, Computer Science (Cyber-Physical Systems) — VIT, 2021–2025, CGPA: 9.33
- Senior Secondary School — DAV, 2021, 97%
- Secondary School — DAV, 2019, 96.4%
Experience
- Vakyam AI — Co-Founder (2025–Present)
Building foundation speech models for Indian languages. Incubated at IIT Madras. - FLSmidth — R&D Intern (Aug–Nov 2023)
Automated wear analysis (90% faster), built iOS & Flutter desktop apps, GCP integrations.
Awards and Achievements
- Mercatus EV Grantee (2025)
Emergent Ventures grantee from Mercatus Center. - Cyber Spectrum (VIT, 2023)
Runner up in CyberSpectrum — project expo for developing Intelligent Bike Locking System. - App Frenzy 2.0 (Sai Ram College, 2022)
3rd place in annual app development competition for developing FITNUT, a fitness app. - Flipkart Grid 5.0 — Robotics Track (2021)
Qualified to Round 2, one of the top 10 teams in college. - First Rank Holder In Mathematics (DAV, 2019)
First rank in the school in the 10th standard board exams.