Projects
Internship work, research and a couple of things I started. Each page says which parts were mine, and the demos use made-up data.
Microsoft · 2026
Quarterly audit tool
JPMorgan Chase · 2025
Mentorship hub concept
Microsoft · 2026
Per-project report exports
NASA · 2023
ISS crew Wi-Fi investigation
Microsoft · 2026
Copilot Studio agents
NASA HUNCH · 2022
Destiny module exhibit
Product@TAMU Ideathon · 2024
ForwardNotes
Undergraduate research · 2025
LLM watermark detection
All projects
Microsoft · 2026
Quarterly audit tool
Reviewers made about 80 grouped decisions instead of 276 line-by-line edits.
ProductProgramEngineeringJPMorgan Chase · 2025
Mentorship hub concept
A concept, a prototype direction and a pitch to leadership, based on employee interviews.
ProductMicrosoft · 2026
Per-project report exports
Correctly filtered PDFs for each project in the test environment.
EngineeringProgramNASA · 2023
ISS crew Wi-Fi investigation
Evidence that device settings, not only the network, caused some of the drops.
EngineeringMicrosoft · 2026
Copilot Studio agents
Cut the instructions from 19,437 to 7,725 characters to fit an 8,000-character limit, which fixed the failed lookup.
ProgramEngineeringProductNASA HUNCH · 2022
Destiny module exhibit
National finalist, 2021–22 Destiny Module category.
EngineeringProgramDemoProduct@TAMU Ideathon · 2024
ForwardNotes
2nd place.
ProductDemoUndergraduate research · 2025
LLM watermark detection
An animated detector that shows how much evidence a watermark leaves, and how edits wash it out.
EngineeringDemoProduct case study · 2025
Learn Out Loud
A feature spec, a retention hypothesis, an A/B test design and the events to measure it.
ProductDemoTexas A&M Ignite Design Challenge · 2024
Drag Dynamics
4.43 m/s simulated touchdown and a score of 298/300.
EngineeringDemoBetterBuilt · 2023
BetterBuilt
50–75 inquiries a week at peak, all through Reddit and Quora.
ProductEngineeringDemo
Demos
Some projects end with a small working version, rebuilt for this site. This one comes from my research on watermarking language model output: every word is checked against a secret green list, and a z-score decides whether the text carries the watermark.
The exhibit in 3D
Turn the full-size design, cut it open, break it down for transport and watch each part clear a seven-foot door.
Resurfacing an old entry
Scrub through a fictional semester of entries and see which one ForwardNotes would bring back today.
Watermark detector
Watch every word get checked against a secret green list, and the z-score decide whether the text carries the watermark.
Hands-free mini lesson
Say the phrase, or say “next” or “repeat.” It falls back to buttons if your browser can't listen.
Landing simulator
Tune the parachute altitude, air brakes and thrust. Try to touch down under 5 m/s on Earth and on the Moon.
Part picker
Set a budget, a use and a look, and get a compatible build with the reasoning spelled out.
Experience
Internships since high school, and the business I ran with my brother.
SpaceX
Starlink Engineering Intern
Starlink, Operations Engineering
Manufacturing data analysis on the Starlink production line. Details stay with SpaceX.
Jul 2026 – present
Bastrop, TX
Microsoft
Technical Program Management Intern
Cloud Operations + Innovation, Global Project Controls
Built audit, reporting and AI-agent tools for the teams that manage datacenter construction costs.
May – Jul 2026
Redmond, WA
JPMorgan Chase
Summer Analyst, Advancing Black Pathways Fellowship
Innovation Development Program
Ran a product discovery playbook end to end: interviews, persona, concept, pitch and roadmap.
Summer 2025
Plano, TX
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Intern
SAMHSA, Office of Financial Resources
Budget justifications, Budget Data Requests and reporting; helped run the office's annual awards ceremony.
2024 – 2025
Remote
NASA Johnson Space Center
Electrical Engineering Intern
Joint Station LAN Integration Laboratory
Investigated why the station crew's tablets kept losing Wi-Fi, from log analysis to lab reproduction.
Jun – Aug 2023
Houston, TX
Southwest Airlines
Ground Operations Intern
Houston Hobby ground operations
Worked the airport floor as a high school intern and helped design realistic job-preview material for three frontline roles.
Summer 2022
Houston, TX
BetterBuilt
Co-founder
A PC-build consulting business I started with my brother, run through Reddit and Quora.
2020 – 2023
Houston, TX
Education
Texas A&M University
B.S. Electrical Engineering, minor in Business · Expected 2027
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Study abroad semester, Doha · Spring 2025
Recognition
- Finis Welch Foundation Scholarship (full ride)
- NASA HUNCH national finalist, Destiny Module category (2021–22)
- Accenture Student Leadership Program fellow (2025)
- P&G Standout Emerging Leaders (one of 150 selected)
- 2nd place, Product@TAMU Ideathon (2024)
- Invited to the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum (2026)
Abroad
A semester in Qatar and a research program in Mexico.
Study abroad · Spring 2025
Doha, Qatar
Texas A&M University at Qatar
25.32° N, 51.44° E
I spent the spring 2025 semester at Texas A&M's campus in Education City, Doha. My classes there were digital systems design, machine learning and differential equations, plus a physics lab.
- Campus
- Education City, Doha
- Classes
- ECEN 248 · ECEN 250 · MATH 308 · ENGR 217
- From College Station
- About 12,900 km
Research abroad · Summer 2023
Mérida, Yucatán
Yucatán Initiative, Introduction to Research Abroad Program
20.97° N, 89.62° W
A Texas A&M research program run with the State of Yucatán. My project compared public and personal transportation in fast-growing cities: Mérida and Valladolid in Yucatán against Austin and San Antonio in Texas, framed around UN Sustainable Development Goal 11.
The program also took us through about 20 research labs, including UADY, UNAM, CICY and CIATEJ.
- Compared
- Mérida and Valladolid vs. Austin and San Antonio
- Framing
- UN SDG 11.6, the environmental impact of cities
- Methods
- Literature review, meta-analysis, hypothesis framing
About
I was born in Karachi and grew up in Houston, about ten minutes from Johnson Space Center. During COVID, my younger brother and I started a small business helping people online plan and build their own PCs. Most of that work was listening to what someone wanted and turning it into a parts list, and that is still a large part of what I do at internships.
Since then I've interned at Southwest Airlines, NASA, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and SpaceX. I also spent a semester at Texas A&M's campus in Qatar and did field research in Mérida, Mexico.
Outside of work, I'm into squash, pickleball, skydiving, reading and chess.
- Based in
- Houston, Texas
- Studying
- Electrical Engineering + Business, Texas A&M
- Abroad
- Texas A&M at Qatar; research in Mérida, Mexico
- Community
- Product@TAMU officer, ColorStack outreach chair
Contact
I'm looking for product management, technical program management and software engineering roles. Email is the fastest way to reach me.