Ex-Mercor · AI and human-data operations · Nashik, India
I was the first hire on Mercor’s Success Team and stayed through its run from $1B to $10B, building the operations that connect domain experts with AI labs. Today I lead Operations on the founding team of an early-stage AI startup in the same space.
01 / Now
AI labs need domain experts to teach models the subjective, non-verifiable domains where human judgment matters most. My work is the engine underneath: the systems and the people that turn expert judgment into high-quality data at scale. I learned it at Mercor during hypergrowth and now run it end to end for a founding team.
Talent onboarding, talent success, compliance, payments, vendor relationships and tooling strategy. Most recently I rebuilt a domain-expert onboarding system from scratch and cut onboarding time by roughly 80 percent.
At Mercor I helped stand up Success for AI-lab customers while the company scaled ten times over. Today I lead a cross-functional operations team across time zones: onboarding, talent success and technical project management.
Three years of writing production software before I ever ran an operation. It shows up daily: automate the repetitive, instrument everything, scale what works.
Mercor’s valuation between my first day and my last.
Hire on Mercor’s Success Team, standing up the function from zero.
Faster expert onboarding after rebuilding the system from scratch.
iOS apps designed and shipped in 2026, solo, on the side.
02 / Path
Engineer first, operator second. Every step taught me a little more about how good work actually gets produced, and how to make more of it happen.
Operations Lead · Remote
Own operations end to end for an expert human-data platform: talent success, compliance, payments, strategic projects, vendor relationships and tooling. Built the onboarding system from scratch and lead a distributed, cross-functional team.
Associate Success Engineer to Senior Success Engineer · Remote · Sep 2024 to Nov 2025
First hire on the Success Team at a $1B company. Helped stand up the function supporting talent onboarding and AI-lab customer delivery, scaled it through the $2B mark with repeatable processes during a period of explosive demand, and owned talent success operations for AI-lab clients as the company reached a $10B valuation.
Senior System Engineer · Bengaluru · 2 yrs 9 mos
Software development across enterprise systems. Built and maintained production code. The engineering foundation I now apply to operations every day.
B.E. Computer Engineering
Where the engineering started. Nashik is still home.
03 / Notes
I write about human data and the unglamorous work of making AI training actually work. A few lines that keep coming back.
Every AI benchmark has a hidden step: a human deciding what “correct” means.Read on LinkedIn
AI companies keep saying they need more data. Most of them don’t. They need better instructions.Read on LinkedIn
Add 10,000 more tasks and you haven’t built a dataset. You’ve built 10,000 disagreements.Read on LinkedIn
04 / Apps
Evenings and weekends, I design and ship small iOS apps under my own name. Privacy first: most of them never make a single network request. Drag the ring, or tap an icon.
TumeraThe home of your music taste. Pinterest meets Spotify, with an AI curator.App Store
HadoraFive tones of reply to any awkward text. Runs entirely on-device with Apple Intelligence.App Store
NocteraA private browser with on-device AI ad blocking. Nothing leaves the phone.App Store
DynaProA pet that lives in the Dynamic Island, plus a toolbox of fifteen tiny tools.App Store
ScreenAwayScreen Time, inverted. It tracks and celebrates the hours you spend offline.Coming soon
ClearwingTransparent widgets that disappear into your Home Screen. Zero networking.Coming soon
DroploOne-tap water tracking. Tap the glass on a widget and the water rises.Coming soon
05 / Contact
Human data, operations at AI startups, or a small app idea you can’t stop thinking about. I read everything.
