Open to founding / early engineer roles · SF Bay Area

8 years building Azure-scale systems. Now shipping AI products for health.

At Microsoft I led the pause/resume infrastructure behind Azure SQL Serverless — 48K+ operations a day, published at SIGMOD '24. Now I'm the solo founder of Folia, a research-backed PCOS companion live in private beta — built end-to-end while talking to users every week.

Ex-Microsoft · Azure SQL
Ex-Qualcomm
SIGMOD '24
CS + Research · IIIT Hyderabad
Solo founder · Folia

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Featured Work

Live products, shipped tools, and systems I've built end-to-end.

Live in private beta · Solo founder

Folia

A research-backed AI companion for PCOS — built end-to-end, in beta with real users.

Voice and text check-ins that AI turns into a structured daily diary
Research chat that answers only from human-approved excerpts, with visible citations — RAG over a pgvector index in Postgres
Built the whole stack solo: product, backend, research review pipeline, and auth — iterating weekly with beta users

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Shipped · In daily use

WhatIEatInADay

An AI meal tracker I designed, built, and shipped for myself — and use every day.

Log meals by photo, voice, text, or saved entries; AI writes descriptions and tracks macros
Daily analysis scores meals against your goals and gives one concrete tip
Full product loop from wireframes to a working app on my phone

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2020–2025 · Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft / Azure SQL

Led pause/resume infrastructure for Azure SQL Serverless.

Feature owner of LPv3 — 48K+ pause/resume operations daily, 60% cut in resume latency
Shipped the Azure SQL Free offer and SQL in Microsoft Fabric end-to-end
Published at SIGMOD 2024; fastest promotion to Senior on my team, led a group of 6

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Thinking in public

Writing / Research

Essays and research on health, product design, and systems.

Published research: SIGMOD 2024 and distributed cryptography at IIIT Hyderabad — publications
Product teardowns: Duolingo's behavioral design, Yuka's food scoring
Writing about PCOS care gaps to sharpen Folia's product decisions

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Highlights

48K+ daily operations on the Azure SQL Serverless pause/resume system I led
60% latency reduction for customers waking paused databases
Published at SIGMOD 2024, plus earlier research in distributed cryptography at IIIT Hyderabad
Fastest promotion to Senior on my team at Microsoft; led a group of 6 engineers
Shipped end-to-end: Azure SQL Free offer and SQL in Microsoft Fabric
Solo founder of Folia — live private beta, talking to users every week

What I'm looking for

I'm looking to join an early-stage team as a founding or early engineer — owning product surface area end-to-end, close to users. My sweet spot is AI-native products in health, biology, and human wellbeing, and I'm at my best on teams that ship fast and talk to users constantly.

Building something ambitious? I'd love to hear about it.

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