SVNIT Surat, 2022 to 2026
The college years.
B.Tech in Computer Science at the National Institute of Technology, Surat. Four years of being handed bigger rooms: a fest, an elected post, a photography chapter, two hackathon wins and two internships.
MINDBEND, Gujarat's largest techno-managerial fest
- 2023Executive First year. Ground work on the managerial committee, learning how the fest is actually run.
- Aug 2023 to Apr 2024Co-Head, Publicity Brought Gujarat Tourism in as title sponsor. Integrated digital campaigns and influencer outreach lifted footfall 75% for the 2024 edition over 2023.
- Aug 2024 to Mar 2025Manager Ran a 130-strong team. BIS came in as title sponsor, with DST Gujarat, AMUL, Domino's, Odoo and the Government of Gujarat on the partner list: sponsorship up six times year on year. The year in full
- 2025Convenor One of ten, five convenors and five joint secretaries, who owned the whole fest: a thousand students working as executives, co-heads, heads and managers under us. I decided where every rupee of the ₹34L budget went, brought in ₹13.2L of sponsorship, and ran vendors, venues and the speaker line-up, Ashneer Grover, Striver and Vikas Divyakirti of Drishti IAS, for fifteen hundred students. The fest in full
Elected and appointed posts
- Cultural Secretary, 2024 to 2025Elected by the hostel. Ran Thanganat, the Navratri festival: sponsorship up from ₹30K to ₹1.5L, and the venue redrawn from a square to a round ground so more people could play garba without a hurdle. The festival
- Head, Convex Photography, 2024 onwardExecutive in 2023, head from April 2024. The institute's photography chapter: fest coverage, exhibitions, the people behind the camera at every event.
- Head of Media and Publicity, Entrepreneurship CellContent and the cell's LinkedIn presence.
- PR Coordinator, SPARSH; Executive, ACM; Junior Developer, GDSCThe cultural fest and the two technical chapters, 2023 to 2024.
Built and won
- EduCate, 1st place, Google Winter of Code 2024A tutoring platform with OTP login, Drive-backed study material, an email analytics pipeline and an NTA-style test engine with live performance breakdowns. EduCate
- Samyukt, top 8, DotSlash 8.0, 2025One e-governance portal that unifies PAN, driving licence, ABC, ABHA and Aadhaar, with real-time database verification that cut processing delay by half.
Volunteer work
- Wild Vairagi, Tirthan Valley, June 2024Stayed at a cottage in Himachal's Tirthan Valley and built its booking website, with online payments, as a volunteer. The site has since been taken down by the owners.
Summer internships
- BISAG-N, Ministry of Electronics and IT, summer 2025Python Developer Intern. A farmer assistant fine-tuned from Llama 3.1 8B on two and a half million Kisan Call Centre records, answering in Indian languages in under three seconds on an 8 GB CPU machine. The project Internship certificate
- Reliance Industries, Jamnagar, summer 2024Vocational Trainee, IT infrastructure. A server-health dashboard across nine manufacturing sites, SQL automation for the data behind it, and a model forecasting gasifier plant life. The project Training certificate
Education
- B.Tech, Computer Science and EngineeringSVNIT Surat, 2022 to 2026.
- Before thatClass XII, Allen Institute, Ahmedabad; JEE Main 97.7 percentile. Class X, Modi School, Jamnagar, 99.85 percentile.