My professional pursuit in a nutshell:

Did one factory internship related to instrumentation, to feel connected to what I was studying
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Realized it wasn’t the right fit
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Interned at a makerspace, built robotics projects for free and grew a network
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Took on personal projects and freelance work, drawing from being a maker
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Reached out to companies to explore robotics to remove the cost risk of building personal HW projects
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Moved into research - drones at IIT Bombay, rockets at DRDO, and satellite imaging at ISRO
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Joined a defense manufacturing unit as a robotics software engineer
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Built a product that helped the company scale, then moved into planning and operations to support that growth

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Government sector experience drew me toward studying misinformation and hate speech

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Left the job and felt confused about what to do next in life at 24

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On the the side, started eCommerce to help my mom and aunt sell their art - experienced struggles of SMBs
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Took a course at Northwestern to study management to do a 360
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Created and pitched a project to provide civil discourse online that led to Medill’s Knight Lab

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Built a GenAI tool for Journalists at the WSJ + innovated a formula to understand the audience/headline alignment using the NYT headlines benchmark
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Pivoted into economics sociology through consumer research at Kellogg
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Now wear multiple hats as a Product Builder at Dori AI, helping turn the leadership's vision into reality (literally).