I came to engineering through theatre.

I did theatre for years before I wrote anything serious in code. Rehearsal rooms teach you how people move, how timing carries feeling, and how a small gesture can change what a whole scene means. That never left me. It just moved into the things I build.

My day job is Assistant Product Manager at Innovatiview. I design and ship the systems that check who someone is — face matching, liveness, signing people in on site — used for staff at national exams across India. So I have watched this technology work, and fail, on cheap phones in bad light with thousands of real people in front of it.