work
what i've built, and who i built it with.
Co-founded a company that builds software for utility companies. Our product, Discom360, is a cloud-native platform covering meter data, billing intelligence, field operations and consumer applications.
- Took the product from first design to production, covering architecture, engineering, deployment and app store releases.
- Own the technical direction end to end: backend systems, data pipelines, mobile, infrastructure and security.
- Built and lead the engineering team.
Co-founded RetailQ (RTLQ Tech Pvt. Ltd.), a software company for small retailers, restaurants and other MSMEs. Our point-of-sale and operations platform ran their day-to-day business, and at its peak more than 190 franchises across Punjab were customers. The product was later rebranded as FloPOS, which my co-founder now runs as a separate product. RetailQ itself wound down in early 2026 after running out of funding for growth.
- Led technical decisions across product architecture, backend, database design and customer-facing interfaces.
- Architected the infrastructure for three in-house retail products, isolating each store's backend behind its own subdomain.
- Built plug-and-play thermal receipt printing from the browser over WebUSB.
- Built an OCR and LLM pipeline for product categorisation that halved manual catalogue entry time.
- Led AI R&D on semantic reasoning and tool-calling features with Mistral Small and llama.cpp, from model selection to latency testing.
Led development of LogWise, a multi-agent RAG system that answers plain-language questions over complex, multi-file log schemas.
- Built an agent orchestrator that routes each query to the right specialist agent with the right context.
- Designed schema graphs with hierarchical indexing and community summaries to guide retrieval.
- Reduced hallucinated and malformed queries with re-ranking and context summarisation.
- Built evaluation harnesses and telemetry to analyse failure modes.
- Python, NetworkX, Milvus, SQLite, MySQL, sentence transformers, Qwen 3 8B on Ollama and llama.cpp.
education
extracurricular
Core Member · Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
Executive Member · Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
- Won the society’s internal hackathon in 2023.
- Led engineering teams for the society’s flagship events.
- Organised and taught sessions on web development and development fundamentals for junior students.
Core Member · Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
Executive Team Member · Nov 2022 - Nov 2023
- Helped organise the cell’s flagship events, working across marketing and technology.
- Led technical teams under senior members and planned event readiness from preparation through launch.
- Architected the services used to run events and handle participant interactions.
- Later returned to the cell’s startup summit, E-Summit, as a founder with RetailQ.
Executive Member · Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
- Worked on the chapter’s backend team and was a regular voice in its technical discussions.
Executive Team Member · Nov 2022 - Aug 2023
- Sole tech lead, and the entire tech team, for one of the cell’s flagship events. It was a capture-the-flag (CTF) competition for more than 300 students.
- Built and hosted the complete event stack single-handedly, and the event ran smoothly from start to finish.
- Published a writeup of the event’s challenges: Save The Musketeer.
- Full-stack and PHP development for the cell’s web presence.
stack
- systems & infrastructure
- GNU/Linux · FreeBSD · Docker · LXC · Kubernetes · Proxmox VE · Apache httpd · OPNsense · Cloudflare · GitHub Actions · bash
- cloud
- AWS · GCP · Azure · Vercel
- backend & data
- Python · PHP · Node.js · Flask · REST · MySQL · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Kafka · Firebase · Appwrite
- ai & ml
- PyTorch · TensorFlow · OpenCV · YOLO · llama.cpp · vLLM · Ollama · MLX · Unsloth · LangChain · MCP · RAG · fine-tuning · quantization
- frontend & mobile
- React · Next.js · AngularJS · TypeScript · Tailwind · shadcn/ui · Flutter · Dart
- embedded & iot
- DLMS/COSEM · IS 15959 · cellular IoT · RP2040 · ESP32 · Raspberry Pi · Arduino
- languages
- Python · PHP · JavaScript/TypeScript · C++ · Dart · bash