My education was never tied to one city for very long.

I come from a defence background, so moving around was just part of life. My dad is a gazetted officer in the Indian Navy, which meant my school years mostly followed postings near naval and defence communities. Vizag, Mumbai, Wellington near Ooty, Delhi. New cities, new schools, new people, new routines.

It was not always convenient, but it did shape me.

Schooling

I started at Navy Children School, Visakhapatnam, from LKG to 2nd grade. Then came Navy Children School, Mumbai for 3rd grade, followed by Army Public School, Wellington in Ooty for 4th grade.

After that I came back to Navy Children School, Visakhapatnam from 5th to 8th grade, and finally moved to Navy Children School, Delhi from 9th to 12th.

Delhi is technically where I am originally from, but I have only actually lived there for around five years in total. That sentence probably explains my childhood better than a neat hometown label ever could.

The academic milestones were straightforward:

• Class 10, CBSE - Navy Children School, Delhi
  Passed with distinction - 91% in 2019.

• Class 12, CBSE - Navy Children School, Delhi
  92% in 2021, with Maths, Physics, and Chemistry as the core science subjects.

Undergraduate Studies

I did my BTech in Computer Science Engineering with Specialisation in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, from 2021 to 2025.

That isn't where my technical interests became more concrete because that - they always have been, but it definitely showcased my seriousness towards them by having the desire to pursue it as a career. I moved from being broadly interested in computers & tech to actively working with machine learning, computer vision, data systems, robotics-adjacent thinking, and software engineering as an actual craft.

The AI and Robotics specialization gave me a useful lens of not just writing code, but thinking about systems that sense, process, decide, and act. That thread still shows up in a lot of my work, whether it is scientific ML at A*STAR, computer vision at CR3ATE.AI, or agentic tooling around whatever new agent harness is kicking it for me lately.

Alongside my degree, I also completed certifications from:

• Advanced C, C++ and Python Training by the Spoken Tutorial Project at IIT Bombay.
• Flutter And Dart - The Complete Guide [2023 Edition] by Academind / Maximilian Schwarzmuller on Udemy.

What Moving Around Taught Me

The academic record is one part of the story. The more important part is that moving across schools forced me to adapt quickly.

When you keep entering new environments, you either learn how to connect with people or you stay permanently uncomfortable. I learned the former. Public speaking, finding my place in new groups, reading a room, joining existing teams, and getting comfortable with being the new person became survival skills first and strengths later.

That has probably helped me as much as the degree itself. Research teams, internships, new codebases, new cities, new domains. I am used to walking into something unfamiliar and finding my footing.