Work

Seven years across government, research and civil society

From field surveys to national ML systems, and now SolveSystems Lab.

May 2025 – present

Founder & CEO, SolveSystems Lab

Founded SolveSystems Lab to solve complex systems problems with modern data and AI. Lead product, engineering and partnerships, building platforms for governments and public institutions that need to make decisions from large, messy data.

February 2023 – April 2025

Data Scientist, Ministry of Rural Development

Built and ran production machine learning systems for national rural programmes, including models that check about 10 lakh MGNREGA worksite images a month and about 5,000 PMGSY road images a day. Led geospatial work that identified unmapped habitations and generated field-verification maps for about 1.6 lakh of them.

August 2022 – January 2023

Senior Researcher, CORD

Designed and ran rapid surveys with programme coordinators and Fellows across states. Trained field teams and led the analysis and reporting that informed programme decisions.

September 2020 – January 2023

Data Engineer, LibTech India

Built crawlers and data pipelines over public welfare data, and checked and analysed it to surface implementation gaps. Took the findings to state governments to push for better delivery of entitlements.

July 2020 – September 2020

Academic Intern, IIM Bangalore

Supported online classroom delivery during the shift to remote teaching.

November 2019 – January 2020

Consultant Research Associate, IFMR LEAD, Krea University

Hired, trained and managed survey and qualitative research teams, ran data-quality audits, and analysed quantitative and qualitative data for the principal investigators.

May 2019 – July 2019

Intern, Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives

Built a knowledge base on the landscape of local democracy in India and designed infographic dashboards for six partner organisations in the Governance portfolio.