Nov 2017 – Oct 2024 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Co-founded Renkube, focusing on innovative solar technology solutions. I led our Monitoring and Fire Prediction product and raised funding for the same.
• Built ML models to detect solar faults such as Shading and Soiling and deployed these models on Sagemaker on AWS. Carried out analysis on solar data and used Python and SQL for cleaning the data and querying the same.
• I designed patented light redirecting glass, and helped achieve a 20% efficiency increase through advanced shape and topology optimization.
• I led the IoT design and development for our logger devices using AWS and used services such as IOT Core, DynamoDB, Athena, S3, Cloudwatch and Quicksight to display data analytics.
• I led the Heat Modelling effort and published a paper at IEEE PVSC conference - "Thermal Modelling of a Renkube Panel"
• We were selected to receive multiple grants at Renkube, I was selected by the ARAI AMTIF incubator and the NVIDIA accelerator program and was awarded "Most Promising Startup" for my pitch at the TIE Pitch Competition. I was invited to give a talk on our Monitoring and Fire Prediction solution by ARAI AMTIF.
• I collaborated with PES University and Jain University on research and testing of our products.
• Executed market analysis and secured pilots with top rooftop installers, boosting product development.

Nov 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Part of the school management team and taught Mathematics to 9th grade students.

Aug 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Designed and developed systems and infrastructure components for the Next Generation router family.
• Created L2/L3 applications within a Distributed Operating System.
• Proficiency with tools such as Wireshark and GDB.
• Recognized with CAP awards for outstanding contributions to team projects.

Sep 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Diego, California, United States

• Completed advanced coursework and projects in Security, Systems, Networks, Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Machine Learning and Algorithms.
• For my Master's Thesis, developed a solution for traffic segregation in the Tor network, resulting in a published paper at WPES 2012.
• Demonstrated Return Oriented Programming attacks, enhancing understanding of computer security vulnerabilities.
• Created an SMTP and Chat Server, showcasing practical skills in distributed systems development.
• Using Hadoop MapReduce, measured the performance of different mapreduce jobs in the context of two custom network allocation frameworks.

Jun 2006 – Aug 2010 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed and implemented Layer 2 technologies, and contributed to a Cisco Pioneer Award-winning project.
• Part of the Layer 2 Security Team to enhance protocols like Dot1x and Macsec for secure host authentication.
• Recognized multiple times with the CAP award for outstanding contributions to projects at Cisco.