Works
Professional Experience

Rockstar Games
Audio Programmer Intern
- Worked on audio and music implementations on the engine and game level, as well as design and production aspects for an unannounced project.
- Expanded data-driven functionality of DSP effects on the effect chain using Rockstar proprietary audio tools.
- Implemented variable parameter functionality for the proprietary synthesizer and all DSP effects, enabling macro functionality for multiple parameters.
- Added mastering effect chain functionality to the master buss.
- Introduced console-specific debugging and audio metering capabilities to builds of the game. Added console-specific audio mastering functionality in-game.
Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Production Assistant
- Overseeing and advising technical and administrative activities for clients, engineers, faculty, and students in the production studios and labs, for recording sessions, classes, and events.
- Handling record-keeping, supervising inventory, troubleshooting, and maintenance of software, instruments, microphones, and audio equipment.
- Coordinating studio bookings and providing technical assistance in recording and class sessions to a wide range of creators ranging from professional recording artists, to in-house student artists and performers, to film scoring composers and musicians.


WordPress, Google
Technical Writer and Project Committer
- Technical Writer for Google and Google Developers’ Season of Docs 2020. Designed a “Full and Renewed set of Documentation Style Guide” for WordPress.org which is used universally across WordPress documentation.
- Individually designed and wrote over 110 components of the WordPress Style Guide to be used globally by all WordPress developers and users. The Style Guide has been published internationally, for use for over 455 million websites that form a 40% share of all the websites on the internet.
- Contributor to the WordPress Core, Meta, Docs, and Polyglots communities.
Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI)
Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India
Project Researcher
- Project research on sensor fusion in application of autonomous self-driving vehicles. Part of the Technology Group in ARAI. Capstone final-year academic project for B.Eng. in Computer Engineering.
- Implemented RADAR, LiDAR, and camera sensor fusion for static and dynamic object detection.


Muellners Foundation Denmark
Research and Development Fellow
- Oversaw and assisted in the general administration and OSS operations for the Foundation. Configured and facilitated the IT infrastructure, community and development channels, and onboarding process for new members.
- Independently acquired and facilitated non-profit grants from Google, Techsoup.org, Microsoft, Slack, Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian among others.
- Migrated development infrastructure of the Foundation to Agile methodologies using Jira. Enhanced Product Management by upgrading user management, permission schemes, project roles, global permissions, and issue ticketing.
- Co-authored and presented research on “BitRupee: Passwordless authentication using ZKP Bitcoin protocol” at ApacheCon 2020. Research implemented on an open source blockchain-based cryptography wallet aimed at transparent fund donation and allocation in the working of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Developed the website of the project using Jekyll while also building the UI and UX for the wallet using AngularJS.
- Assisted in developing an unnamed Bounty Program as a product platform in collaboration with the Apache Software Foundation (Apache Fineract); primarily for fintech developers.
Campus and Community Involvement

TEDxPVGCOET
Licensee and Lead Organizer
- TED Conferences Licensee and Organizer for TEDxPVGCOET 2021. Led an organizing team of 35 members.
Logistics and Operations Lead
- Responsible for managing operations and logistics for the entire event with a total yield amounting to over INR 1.5 lacs. Greg Ellis, Achyut Godbole, Saransh Sharma, Gaurav Sangtani were the highlights of the Speaker Panel which consisted of 6 speakers and also featured 5 artist performers for the conference.
- Curator for percussionist Greg Ellis for the project “Drum Language and the Rhythm of Indian Traffic”. Arranged a multi-instrument rhythm performance with famed percussionists Greg Ellis and Nitin Satav.
- Acquired 4 organizations as sponsors independently, with funding amounting to over INR 50,000. Developed the tedxpvgcoet.com website and peripheral social media.
TEDxKothrud
Lead Organizer
- TED Conferences Organizer for TEDxKothrud. Co-led an organizing team of 50 members.
- Organized a TED Countdown event, which is a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action. The speaker panel consisted of Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan, Greg Ellis, Sayali Andhare, Sid Thatham, and Vivek Gurav.

Highlights
Google Developer Student Club PVGCOET
Chief Editor
- Responsible as the Chief Editor for Google DSC PVGCOET. Team Lead (Core) for the Editorial Team.
- Open source proponent for the club.

Creative Works
Recordings
Compositions
Ronin 浪人
A Japanese and Hip-hop instrumental fusion.


Neon
A synthwave-y rock instrumental.
Pursuit
A techno-rock instrumental fusion.


Limbo
An ambient spooky instrumental.