- Embedded with underwriting, claims, product, and ops. The work spans property, liability, and business-interruption lines.
- Building data, automation, and AI systems across GenAI, classical ML, and workflow orchestration. Everything ships inside German financial regulatory constraints, with a human-in-the-loop where it has to be.
- Focus is on things that actually move: faster ops, cleaner data, better underwriting and claims decisions.
- February 2026 - PresentHDI GroupSoftware Engineer — Cloud, Data & AI
- April 2025 - October 2025Mercedes-Benz Group AGFinal Thesis (MB.OS Delivery)
- Topic: Radical standardisation in corporate software development via LLM-based similarity search.
- Worked with vector embeddings and databases, OpenAI and Gemini SDKs, BERTopic, HDBSCAN and TF-IDF to accelerate planning cycles and reduce redundant app proposals via intelligent and more understandable artifact search.
- October 2024 - March 2025Mercedes-Benz Group AGIntern (MB.OS Delivery)
- Worked in the new MB.OS department to create a new dev-tracking dashboard system for 8000+ colleagues including executives, aimed at increasing bug-fixing and iteration speed by 30% over traditional AGILE.
- Created a portal with 4+ aggregated data vendors including PowerBI, Jira and vehicular data with Grafana to monitor daily performance of different teams and departments under a new proprietary governance structure.
- November 2020 - February 2021Zepto (Kiranakart, YC SS21)Product and Engineering Lead, Employee #1
- Wrote the first line of code and shipped the MVP. Ran 50+ field interviews with shopkeepers and residents to pressure-test the plan before we built anything.
- Took it from 0 to 100K+ downloads and helped close a $60M raise. Hired the early exec team before going back to finish my degree. The company later scaled nationally as Zepto.
- October 2023 - May 2024THWSResearch Assistant
- Overhauled e-learning UX to improve learning goal tracking; grounded in data with 75%+ positive user feedback.
- Created 3 new authenticated data pipelines, combined performance graphs and personalised learning suggestions.
- May 2020 - August 2022Flamecloud LLCSoftware Developer (Freelance)
- Developed MERN and React Native applications over 2 years in project-based work for a boutique digital agency.
- Designed and implemented systems and architectures for 5+ clients including a large Indian e-Bike manufacturer.
- April 2020 - August 2020Google Summer of CodeMentor for SCoReLab
- Mentored multiple university students on development projects related to the Bassa project, a network-limiter and download queueing system for companies with low-bandwidth in third-world countries.