About
An engineer who chose strategy, and kept the engineering.
Final-year Electronics & Telecommunication at COEP Technological University, with a minor in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance. Joining Searce as an AI Solutions Consultant in January 2027.
The short version
An engineering degree and a strategy career usually get read as indecision. I think the combination is the point. The problems worth working on now have technology inside them, and the people deciding them are rarely the people who can read the technical half.
There is a date when this stopped being a coincidence. In 2024 I spent six months building a startup and pitching it to angel investors, and found that the part I wanted was reading a company from the outside: how its market works, where the money comes from, how it is put together. Since then I have done that at Sparkonix, Godrej Properties and on a live overseas market entry, while the radio and embedded work carried on alongside it.
At Searce I will be working where those two threads meet: client problems that are commercial questions with AI inside them.
Education and examinations
- BTech, Electronics & Telecommunication — COEP Technological University
- CGPA 8.55 / 10 · Aug 2027
- Minor, Banking, Financial Services & Insurance — Dept. of Management Studies
- Aug 2027
- MHT-CET, 2023
- Rank 582 of 600,000 · top 0.27%
- JEE Main, 2023
- Top 2% of 1.13 million
- JEE Advanced, 2023
- Top 7% of ~180,000
- Class XII, 2023
- 90% · 96 in mathematics
- Class X, 2021
- 92.8% · 97 in mathematics
- State Scholarship
- 2016 and 2019
Certifications
- Business Strategy Specialization
- UVA Darden
- AI for Business
- Wharton, UPenn
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- IBM
- Mutual Fund Distributor, Series V-A
- NISM
- Introduction to Strategy Consulting
- Forage
- Management Consulting Essentials + AI
- Udemy, 2026
- Consulting Presentation Skills + AI
- Udemy, 2026
Toolkit
- Strategy
- Market sizing and entry, cost decomposition, competitive benchmarking, procurement strategy, Porter, VRIO, BCG and PESTLE when they earn their place
- Analysis
- Excel modelling and automation (openpyxl), Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SQL, regression and hypothesis testing, Gemini API workflows
- Engineering
- MATLAB and Simulink, OMNeT++ and Simu5G, Python, C, STM32 and ESP32 embedded development, STM32CubeIDE, KiCAD
Outside work
Badminton at the club back home, plus football and cricket. Before that, the Scouts and the flute in the school marching band: six months of training before I was allowed to perform, which is a long time to spend learning to land in time with thirty other people.
Languages
English (fluent), Hindi and Marathi (native).