Every build has a story.

It starts at PES University: a B.Tech in Computer Science and four years of pulling systems apart to see how they think. Somewhere between data structures and deadlines, curiosity hardened into a habit — build the thing, break the thing, build it better.

Off the keyboard, the same obsession with timing and iteration runs Hashtag Crew — PES EC campus's western dance crew — as head, lead dancer, and choreographer. Second place at MSRIM's annual fest in 2025 taught a lesson no lecture could: a routine, like a release, only works when every moving part trusts the count.

Choreography is systems design with a heartbeat. That idea refused to stay a metaphor.

StepUp AI is what happens when a choreographer learns reinforcement learning: a PPO agent that refines AI-generated dance frame by frame, smoothing jitter and locking motion to the music's energy. It became a research paper — presented on stage of a different kind, at the ICCAE 18th International Conference in Sydney.

Every chapter left tools behind — a stack that now runs from pixel to pipeline.

Today that stack is pointed at production: interning at PESU Venture Labs, building full stack products and orchestrating agentic AI systems — the kind of work where research instincts and stage discipline finally share a repo.