The Story So Far
I grew up moving chess pieces.
Now I also move pixels and tensors.
Helsinki, Finland — 2026
I picked up my first chess piece when I was five in Jaipur, India. What started as a game quickly turned into an obsession — tournaments every weekend, late-night analysis sessions, and a notebook full of opening variations I barely understood. By the time I was a teenager, I'd become a ten-time Rajasthan State Champion and won bronze at the Commonwealth Championships.
Chess gave me the world — literally. I've competed across Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, the UAE, and more. In 2026, I earned my FIDE Master title with a rating of 2244, something the younger me dreamed about during those late-night Najdorf prep sessions.
I also started sharing what I know. Three published Chessable courses — on the Sicilian Najdorf, defensive technique, and the Grand Prix Attack — have reached 500+ students worldwide. Alongside writing, I freelance as an editor at Modern Chess and take private coaching clients for serious improvers.
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FIDE Rating
10x
State Champion
500+
Students Reached
Paris, France
After finishing school in Jaipur, I moved to Rome to study Applied Computer Science and AI at Sapienza University. The transition from chess to code felt strangely natural — both are about pattern recognition, deep thinking, and hardwork.
I interned at Nuaav building RAG pipelines, then headed to Finland for a robotics stint at Ottonomy.io — working on autonomous robot navigation at an industrial facility in Harjavalta. I also managed the website for the Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland and helped raise CHF 3,000 through Meta ad campaigns. Oh, and won the U20 Blitz there too.
On the AI side, I've built a deepfake detector with EfficientNet, benchmarked custom CNNs against YOLO for chess piece recognition, and shipped a multi-agent fraud detection system at the Reply Hackathon — where our Sapienza team ranked 2nd globally among universities. I like building things that actually work, not just things that look good on paper.
Tampere, Finland — Summer 2026
Chess tournaments and internships have taken me across 16 countries and counting. Every city taught me something — patience in Budapest, resilience in Belgrade, and how to survive on terrible airport coffee everywhere else.
I'm back in Rome finishing my degree, building side projects, and still playing competitive chess whenever I can. If you want to work together, learn chess seriously, or just say hi — I'm always up for a conversation.