My Story
How I got here
Project Scientist at NCPOR. I work in Antarctica and the Arctic, build logistics software, design antennas, and do 3D printing. This is the rough order things happened.
B.Tech — Electronics & Communication
Kurukshetra University
Electronics and Communication Engineering at KU. Got my HAM radio licence in 2015, mostly because I wanted to talk to satellites. That turned out to be more useful than I expected.
HABSAT — High Altitude Balloon Satellite
GEMS Modern Academy
Systems engineer on a high altitude balloon project. Built custom I2C multiplexer PCBs, wired up GPS telemetry, and helped get the payload back after it came down. Good crash course in hardware that needs to actually work.
RF Engineer
HF Signals Electronics · ISRO Space-Share Program
Built software tools and a mobile app for their HF transceiver product. Also helped with RF testing under ISRO's Space-Share Program. Six months, good exposure to what RF engineering looks like in a commercial setting.
Designer, Project Handler & Founder
Phoenix Enterprises · Hobbytivity
Did CAD work at Phoenix converting 2D drawings into CNC-ready 3D models. On the side, designed and started selling a 7-element dual-band Yagi antenna for amateur satellite comms under Hobbytivity. Also took freelance web and 3D printing jobs wherever I could find them.
Radio Operator — 42nd & 43rd Indian Antarctic Expedition
Maitri Research Station, Antarctica
15 months at Maitri across the 42nd and 43rd expeditions. Ran HF/VHF comms for field convoys, operated Inmarsat and Iridium links, coordinated helicopter movements. The biggest thing I built there: a VHF repeater at Vethiya Point that restored comms for the 200 km C18 convoy route — there was a dead zone that nobody had fixed, so I fixed it.
Project Scientist — Arctic Operations
NCPOR, Ministry of Earth Sciences
Station Coordinator at Himadri during Winter 2025 and Summer 2025. Run field operations, CTD surveys in Kongsfjorden, aerosol sampling, and small boat work. Also built POLAR — logistics software for Arctic expeditions that handles cargo, customs, personnel and documentation. We were running everything on spreadsheets before.
M.Tech — Environmental Engineering
BITS Pilani
M.Tech in Environmental Engineering at BITS Pilani, running alongside the job. Studying the systems I'm already working in.
Young Polar Scientist — Best Oral & Best Poster
National Conference on Polar Sciences, NCPOR
Won Best Oral and Best Poster at NCPS 2025, both under Polar Operations, Governance & Outreach. Presented work on AI applications in Arctic expedition logistics — essentially the POLAR platform from a research angle.
What drives me
The Arctic Tern migrates pole to pole every year — 70,000 km. I picked it as my logo because it made more sense than anything else.