about

Engineering and Infrastructure

I am a Staff Software Engineer at Pismo, a Visa company, working on distributed payment authorization systems. My work focuses on the ingress layer that parses, validates, and routes ISO 8583 messages from global card networks under strict PCI-DSS constraints and sub-second latency budgets.

My primary language is Go. Before Pismo, I spent three years at Solaris SE building core-banking microservices, interest-bearing financial products, transaction processing engines, and card network integrations. Earlier in my career, I spent time at Hexaware Technologies and Microsoft.

Education and Research

I am currently pursuing a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence at UT Austin, studying machine learning foundations alongside my engineering work. I completed my undergraduate degree in Information Technology at Anna University. My research interests center on agent architectures, structured representation fidelity, and verifiable protocol systems.

Location and Craft

I work remotely from Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, surrounded by coconut groves near the foothills of the Western Ghats.

Outside software engineering, I spend time exploring automotive machinery, anthropology, regional history, photography, and reading. You can explore my technical writings in theLibrary, inspect software projects in Work, or read my machine-readable interfaces at /ai and /developers.