The journey to SolveSystems Lab

Where I started

I grew up in a daily wage household in Telangana and went to school at the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions, a state network of residential schools for children from Scheduled Caste and other marginalised communities. Those schools gave me a free education and a place to live, and opened a path that would otherwise have been closed. Alumni call ourselves Swaeros, and the idea that we owe the next batch a hand up is central to who we are.

Learning to read public systems

At Azim Premji University in Bengaluru I studied physics with a minor in data science, then a postgraduate programme in public policy and governance. The combination taught me to ask two questions of any system: how it is supposed to work, and how it actually works for the person at the end of the line.

I spent my early career finding out. At IFMR LEAD and Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives I ran field surveys and built partner dashboards. At LibTech India I built crawlers over public welfare data to show where entitlements were not reaching people, and took the findings to state governments. In 2022 BBC World Service invited me onto WorklifeIndia to talk about rising suicides among daily wage workers. Watch the interview →

Building at national scale

From 2023 to 2025 I was a data scientist at the Ministry of Rural Development. I built and ran production ML systems that check about 10 lakh MGNREGA worksite images a month and about 5,000 PMGSY road images a day. I also led geospatial work that surfaced about 1.6 lakh habitations missing from the rural roads database. More on that work →

What I am building now

In May 2025 I founded SolveSystems Lab to solve complex systems problems with modern data and AI. Government programmes in India spend lakhs of crores a year, and much of what decides whether that money reaches people is a data problem: who is missing from the list, which asset was never built, which payment never arrived. I want SolveSystems to make those answers routine for every department that needs them.

Giving back

I volunteer with CCDS, also known as Code For Cause, which runs residential data science camps for students from social and tribal welfare institutions. It has helped about 2,000 of them into IT jobs, and most of its trainers are former campers. Read about CCDS →

In January 2024 I took part in the U.S. Department of State's Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative, which studies nonviolent leadership through the work of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. More →

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