Projects

Selected work that shows range: live fintech products, enterprise platform engineering, operational automation, and AI developer experience — with enough depth to see how problems were actually solved.

Public Products

Founder-built products shipped to real users — market data, research tooling, ratings, and AI features.

Blanket Finance Platform

Live Indian investor research platform at blanketfinance.com

Live

Full-stack Garuda platform — market dashboards, stock/MF research, 14 calculators, learning center, Pro subscriptions, PWA, and mobile apps.

Blanket Finance is my live fintech product for Indian households. Built on the Garuda stack (.NET API + React/Next.js) with AWS infrastructure, Razorpay Pro subscriptions, Capacitor mobile apps, and SEO-optimized content delivery at scale.

Role

Founder, architect, and full-stack engineer.

Stack

AWS.NETPostgreSQLReactNext.jsRazorpayCapacitor

What it demonstrates

Founder/builder proof — shipping a live fintech product with real users, payments, and market data.

Blanket Chakra Rating Engine

Proprietary 1–5 stock and mutual fund ratings

Live

Chakra rating algorithm powering screener, dashboards, and investing ideas across the live Blanket Finance platform.

Designed and implemented proprietary 1–5 Chakra scoring for Indian equities and mutual funds — precomputed rating pipeline with screener integration, contextual explanations, and refresh on earnings and NAV updates.

Role

Founder / Builder.

Stack

.NETPostgreSQLC#Financial APIsReact

What it demonstrates

Finance domain depth applied to product differentiation — explainable ratings, not black-box scores.

Blanket AI

Context-aware investing Q&A grounded in platform data

Live

LLM-powered investing assistant with stock/MF context injection, rate limiting, and multi-turn research sessions at /blanket-ai.

Built context-aware investing Q&A integrated into blanketfinance.com — Groq LLM with platform data context (financials, Chakra ratings, MF details), rate limiting, and navigation links to research pages.

Role

Founder / Builder.

Stack

.NETGroq APILLMPostgreSQLNext.js

What it demonstrates

Practical LLM product integration within a live fintech product — grounded answers, not a demo chatbot.

Blanket Quant Platform

Headless US equity quant research engine

In progress

Separate .NET 8 CLI codebase for US equity data ingestion, signal generation, backtesting, Monte Carlo, and portfolio risk analytics.

Building a headless quantitative research engine in a separate repo — pipeline architecture (ingest → signal → backtest → analyze) with Monte Carlo simulation, transaction cost modeling, and modular strategy plug-ins.

Role

Founder / Builder.

Stack

.NET 8C#CLIBacktestingMonte Carlo

What it demonstrates

Quantitative R&D separated from consumer product — systematic strategy evaluation infrastructure.

Professional Impact

Employer and client work focused on outcomes: platform reliability, cost-aware cloud delivery, and operational automation.

MyQ Marketing Cohort Platform

Daily cohort segmentation powering in-app CTA banners

Live

Scheduled Kubernetes workload that aggregates user data across databases and APIs, materializes cohort membership in Couchbase, and exposes it through REST APIs for targeted in-app experiences.

Within the MyQ connected-garage ecosystem, I supported and enhanced the Marketing Cohort tool — a daily CRON job on EKS that runs as a long-running workload, queries multiple tables, calls internal and external APIs, updates Couchbase, and feeds REST APIs that drive cohort-based CTA banners in the mobile app.

Role

Staff Software Engineer on the MyQ team.

Stack

C#.NET 8EKSAWSKubernetesCouchbaseREST APIs

What it demonstrates

Batch data platform work inside a consumer IoT product — reliable scheduled jobs, cross-store consistency, and API contracts product teams depend on for personalization.

Account Onboarding — TAMP Automation

Eliminated ~25 human hours per day of manual account linking

Live

Automated TAMP account onboarding orchestration — multi-step workflow covering model mapping, SMA/UMA setup, fees, restrictions, and vendor API integration.

Morningstar's Turnkey Asset Management Program required linking new client accounts across custodians, operations, and trading systems. I designed and led delivery of automated onboarding orchestration replacing ~25 hours per day of manual cross-system linking work.

Role

Lead Software Engineer — technical design and squad delivery.

Stack

.NET CorePostgreSQLAWS LambdaSQSREST APIs

What it demonstrates

Operational automation with measurable hour savings in a regulated-adjacent financial technology environment.

Cloud Migration — On-Prem to AWS

$1M+ annual infrastructure cost elimination

Live

Led migration of on-premises investment management applications to AWS with event-driven microservices, Terraform IaC, and 50% faster deployments.

Architected and executed migration of Morningstar investment management workloads from on-premises to AWS — ECS, RDS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, Terraform automation, and phased cutover with a squad of 3–5 engineers.

Role

Lead Software Engineer — architecture and migration lead.

Stack

AWS.NET CoreTerraformECSRDSLambdaDocker

What it demonstrates

Cost-aware cloud architecture at platform scope — $1M annual savings with measurable deployment improvements, not lift-and-shift for its own sake.

Vendor API Integration

$300K annual savings from automated account assignment

Live

System-to-system API integration automating account-to-user assignment between Morningstar's platform and a third-party financial vendor.

Built .NET Core vendor API integration with event-driven sync, idempotent handlers, error queues, and CloudWatch monitoring — replacing manual cross-system account mapping by operations teams.

Role

Lead Software Engineer.

Stack

.NET CoreREST APIsAWS LambdaSQSTerraformPostgreSQL

What it demonstrates

High-value integration engineering — $300K annual savings from removing repetitive operational work.

ElasticSearch Financial Data Index

DynamoDB Streams to search-optimized query layer

Live

ElasticSearch index with DynamoDB Streams pipeline and .NET Core API for near-real-time portfolio and account queries.

Built ElasticSearch index backed by DynamoDB Streams and PostgreSQL sync, exposed via .NET Core API with auto-refresh and stale-data cleanup — powering Blazor WASM UI and third-party platform consumers.

Stack

ElasticSearchDynamoDB Streams.NET CorePostgreSQLBlazor WASM

What it demonstrates

Data pipeline engineering for query performance at scale — from change capture through search index to consumer API.

Fifth Third Bank — Hybrid Cloud Migration

Commercial banking lift-and-shift plus modernization

Live

First Kin + Carta engagement — hybrid migration of commercial banking applications to AWS with DDD microservices, Terraform, and OAuth/JWT auth.

Designed domain-driven microservices in .NET Core, provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform (ECS Fargate, ALB, CloudFront), and delivered hybrid migration maintaining business continuity for commercial banking operations.

Role

Technical Consultant.

Stack

.NET CoreAWSTerraformECS FargateOAuthJWT

What it demonstrates

Enterprise cloud migration under regulatory-adjacent constraints — consulting delivery with workshops plus implementation.

Magellan Midstream — Scheduling APIs

Tanker pickup and drop scheduling at midstream terminals

Live

REST scheduling APIs for oil tanker pickup and drop operations — second Kin + Carta engagement after Fifth Third.

Designed and implemented REST APIs and DDD microservices for tanker scheduling at midstream terminal facilities, with Terraform-provisioned AWS infrastructure and OAuth/JWT authentication.

Role

Technical Consultant.

Stack

.NET CoreAWSTerraformREST APIsDDD

What it demonstrates

Same engineering toolkit applied across domains — energy logistics after commercial banking.

Vendor Payment Audit & Recovery

Walmart vendor payment error detection and recovery

Live

Full product lifecycle on ASP.NET MVC + Web API platform detecting vendor payment errors and supporting audit/recovery workflows for Walmart.

Built ASP.NET MVC web application and .NET Web API for payment audit workflows — SSO integration, Crystal Reports/Kendo UI dashboards, SQL Server data models, and CI/CD from inception through deployment.

Role

.NET Application Developer — full product lifecycle.

Stack

ASP.NET MVCWeb APISQL ServerSSOCrystal ReportsKendo UI

What it demonstrates

Early finance-minded engineering — software where dollars recovered and payment accuracy are the product outcome.

AI / Developer Experience

Internal AI and developer-experience initiatives — practical workflows with guardrails, not demos.

AI Platform — MCP & Agentic DevEx

Internal AI automation with guardrails for 15+ engineers

In progress

MCP servers, Grafana-integrated triage agents, test/API scaffolding, and locally hosted Hugging Face models for secure enterprise AI adoption.

I lead internal AI platform and developer experience initiatives — production triage workflows using MCP servers and Grafana, test and API scaffolding automation, autonomous backend agents, and air-gapped Hugging Face prototyping with org-wide standards for 15+ engineers.

Role

Staff Software Engineer — AI platform and DevEx lead.

Stack

MCPCrewAIGrafanaHugging FaceVector DBsTypeScript

What it demonstrates

Technical leadership in practical AI-assisted development — controlled workflows with guardrails, not unchecked model autonomy.

Earlier / Academic Projects

Earlier coursework and side projects. Useful context, not the headline.

Political Contribution Data Mining

Loyola University Chicago · Apr 2015

Graduate coursework project applying data mining techniques to political contribution records — donor patterns, geographic distribution, and temporal trends.

PBX Simulation with Asterisk

Loyola University Chicago · Dec 2014

Built a functional PBX simulation using Asterisk demonstrating call routing, extensions, voicemail, and trunk configuration.

Hotel Management System

Gogte Institute of Technology · Feb – Apr 2014

Undergraduate web application for room bookings, guest check-in/check-out, billing, and room availability management.

Online Stamp Collection

Gogte Institute of Technology · Apr – May 2012

Web application for cataloging stamps with metadata (country, year, denomination, condition) and search capabilities.

Car Robot

Gogte Institute of Technology · Nov – Dec 2009

Small car robot integrating mechanical components with basic control logic — bridging software and hardware in a physical system.

RFID Door Lock

Personal Project · Sep 2016 – Dec 2017

Personal hobby project — RFID-controlled door lock with Arduino, authorized tag registration, and servo/solenoid lock actuation.