Research Assistant — Research for Consumer Insights · New York, NY
Two years as a business analyst at HDFC Bank, an NYU MS in Management of Technology, and a habit of staying with a problem until the fix is in production.
Short on time? Start with the Foundry case study — 99,898 complaints, one investigation console.
01 — About
The short version of how I got here and what I'm looking for next.
I started out in electronics engineering at Mumbai University and found, between embedded systems, instrumentation and electrical machines, the part I actually cared about wasn't the hardware — it was the question of how to best utilize data to fill gaps between requirements and results.
I'm looking for product management, consulting, business and data analytics roles where the job values my people skills alongside my technical aptitude.
After engineering I joined HDFC Bank, where I spent 2 years as a business analyst translating between operations teams who knew the problems and the IT team who could enable it. I authored requirements, led the migration of 11 legacy .NET apps to Microsoft PowerApps, and built Power BI dashboards that replaced static Excel ones. The work I'm proudest of is an internal AI chatbot: I identified the need, scoped and developed it, and the result reduced routine support queries by 40%.
I recently consulted for Catholic Charities of Denver, evaluating over 15 real estate AI platforms and prototyping Tableau dashboards for 31 housing properties. This reduced their manual monthly data-consolidation process.
I also spent my final year teaching at NYU Stern School of Business, first as a TA for Research for Consumer Insights (Marketing), then leading problem-solving sessions for Microeconomics as an Instructor. Facing a room and making a complex concept understandable is the same skill as getting a stakeholder to sign off on a requirement: you have to understand it, break it down into simpler terms, and know what your audience already believes.
02 — Experience
~3 years across banking technology, nonprofit consulting, university teaching and research, and industrial operations.
Research Assistant — Research for Consumer Insights · New York, NY
Teaching — Economics & Marketing · New York, NY
Ran Microeconomics recitations for 3 sections as an Adjunct Instructor (Spring 2026)
Teaching Assistant for Research for Consumer Insights — Marketing (Fall 2025)
AI Project Consultant · Denver, CO
Won executive buy-in for an AI chatbot and cut 3–5 days of monthly reporting delay with Tableau prototypes across 31 properties.
Student Engagement Ambassador · New York, NY
Deputy Manager — Business Analyst · Mumbai, India
Scoped 18 applications, moved 11 legacy .NET apps to PowerApps for 500+ users, and shipped a chatbot that cut IT tickets 40%.
Engineering Intern · Mumbai, India
03 — Selected work
Analytics, data engineering, and financial modeling — end to end, from raw source to something a decision-maker can actually use.
Featured project · Financial services
Built a two-view investigation console in Palantir Foundry with embedded AIP Analyst. Prepared 99,898 CFPB complaints across 657 companies and surfaced 1,060 records flagged for review. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) data covers approximately six months of 2026 across the United States: credit cards, checking or savings accounts, and money transfer, virtual currency, or money services.
Alert correlation · Trading operations
One fault produces forty alerts, and the two loudest are usually the false ones. I built a correlation engine over a 30-service trading stack that collapses the storm into incidents and ranks the likely cause against the dependency graph — then wrapped it in a shift simulator where a clock runs and every move costs minutes. Classification is entirely deterministic; the language model only writes the prose.
Market entry · Unit economics
Modelled a US consumer-electronics launch for an early marketplace operator, benchmarked against seven retailers. A $90 order leaves $7.68 once the card fee, carrier, returns and advertising are paid — and the third-party model that looks asset-light loses $6.02 an order, needing a 13% take rate to break even against the 6% assumed. The recommendation went the other way: start first-party.
Healthcare operations · FHIR R4
A claims-investigation workspace that makes the next step visible: find the missing evidence, check it belongs to the case, draft the appeal, and keep a human responsible for approval. Eight screens over 30 authored claim scenarios, pulling real clinical context from a FHIR R4 sandbox; editing an approved draft sends it back to review.
Vision-model evaluation · NVIDIA NIM
Hand-labelled 391 nutrition panels in 27 languages out of a 4.7M-product corpus, then read each one with four different prompts. Where all four agree the answer is 82% right; where they disagree, 27% — so half the fields can be auto-accepted and half sent to a reviewer.
Product · Prototype
A subscription product for curated friend-matching meetups — four compatible strangers matched on overlapping interests, with a two-venue evening itinerary planned for them. Built the invitation and RSVP flow: compatibility scoring, venue sequencing, membership tiers, and the trust signals (ID verification, host coordination) that a stranger-meetup product lives or dies on.
Healthcare policy · Analytics
Joined CMS readmission-penalty data for 2,373 US hospitals to their audited financial statements. My hypothesis was wrong: performance is uncorrelated with financial health (r = 0.01, survives five sets of controls). But because the penalty is a flat rate, it consumes 2% of net income at a healthy hospital and 40% at a struggling one — a 14–18× gap from an identical rule.
Data engineering · Analytics
Pulled 58 years of GDP, population, and energy-use data across 10 countries from the World Bank API, built the ETL pipeline in Python and SQL, loaded it into Snowflake, and visualized how development and energy consumption actually track against each other.
Analytics · BI dashboards
Cleaned a 200,000+ record dataset spanning 50 years and built an interactive Tableau dashboard that lets you move from global pattern down to a single incident — turning an unwieldy archive into something you can actually ask questions of.
Information security risk · Analytics
Mapped 1,713 actively exploited vulnerabilities to the ISO 27001 Annex A control whose failure each one represents. Four of the ninety-three controls carry 85% of the portfolio — and the classification is validated against a model and a blind manual sample, not asserted.
Financial modeling
Evaluated a potential second-location acquisition with a 5-year revenue and profitability forecast, then stress-tested it — scenario analysis across pricing strategy, cost structure, and demand assumptions to find where the deal stops working.
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04 — Toolkit
What I reach for, grouped by the kind of problem it solves.
05 — Education
New York University
MS, Management of Technology
GPA 3.64 / 4.00Coursework
KJ Somaiya College
B.Tech, Electronics Engineering
CGPA 7.57 / 10 ≈ 3.2 / 4.0 equivalentCoursework
06 — Contact
I'm actively looking for product management and data analytics roles. If you're hiring — or just want to compare notes on making dashboards people actually open — I'd like to hear from you.