Section III — AboutThe Person

A short biography,
told in tools and schools.

I grew up writing code in Chandigarh, studied electronics, then realized the interesting problems lived in the data layer.

I moved to Philadelphia for a master's in Data Science at Penn, joined Cohesity for streaming systems and anomaly detection, and now lead initiatives on Meta's Instagram Ads Delivery Platform — performance optimization, privacy-first architecture, and brand safety across billions of daily impressions.

Outside the day job: mentoring engineers and onboarding new teammates, occasional simulation experiments, and trying to keep my command-line muscle memory faster than my IDE's.

The toolkit

In rotation

Languages

  • Python.
  • Golang.
  • Java.
  • Hack.

Cloud

  • AWS.
  • S3.
  • Sagemaker.
  • GCP.
  • Kubernetes.
  • Helm.

Databases

  • Postgres.
  • Snowflake.
  • BigQuery.
  • Elastic Search.
  • Redis.
  • MongoDB.

Frameworks

  • Apache Spark.
  • Kafka.
  • Logstash.
  • gRPC.
  • Simpy.

Tools

  • Git.
  • Jenkins.
  • Linux.
  • Docker.
  • Postman.
  • Jupyter.
  • Datadog.
  • Kibana.
  • Prometheus.