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Education & experience

A path made
by building.

India → Pittsburgh

Not a résumé in disguise. A short history of the places, people, and machines that changed how I think.

Now

Apple

Automating server disassembly

Developing robotics for the careful, repeatable disassembly of server hardware—bringing perception and manipulation into a demanding industrial workflow.

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Technical illustration of a robotic server disassembly workflow

2025—27

Carnegie Mellon University

M.S. in Robotic Systems Development

Building robots at the Robotics Institute—where autonomy, hardware, and deployment meet.

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A mobile manipulator operating in a laboratory at Carnegie Mellon

2025—

The AirLab at Carnegie Mellon

Robotics research

Working on large aerial systems and mobile manipulation for high-consequence, real-world environments.

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Large TartanAirRescue aerial robot with its team

Industry

American Express

AI workflow automation

Created AI software to automate internal workflows—an early lesson in making intelligence useful, reliable, and deployable.

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Illustration of an AI workflow moving from request to model to automated action

2021—25

Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering

Found robotics through competition: drones, autonomous systems, long nights, failed tests, and teams that kept rebuilding.

Robotics ClubResearchCompetitions
IIT Ropar students developing an autonomous quadcopter

2022—24

Robotics Club IIT Ropar

Representative, mentor, and project lead

Led a 13-person club, taught Arduino to 150+ participants, mentored competition teams, and trained 50+ teachers to bring hands-on STEM into under-resourced schools.

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Robotics Club IIT Ropar members after a training session