Work
The research paths in full, then the record of everything I've done, in a logbook.
Paths
2023– · Research → Company
Proteus → Scramble Deck
A deck of physical cards with e-ink faces, so one deck can be any game. Started as a thesis artefact; now a company.
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2023 · Question
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2024 · Artefact
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2024–26 · Papers
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2025 · IP
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2026 · Company
2025– · Research → Company
Embed, don't isolate → Bodhika Labs
How do you tell a parent their child may need help without the report becoming a label? A dashboard study that became a school assessment company.
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2025 · Question
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2025 · Study
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2026 · Paper
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2026 · Company
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Next · Field site
2019–2025 · Research
Interaction systems for constrained spaces
A thesis on what happens to technology designed for large, stable rooms when it is used in small, moving, improvised ones.
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2019 · Question
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2021 · Field
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2024 · Theory
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2025 · Artefact
2017–2019 · Industry
Amazon Alexa
Owned the orchestration layer that decides which of ten thousand skills answers a request; shipped to 100M+ users.
Logbook
| Years | Role | Kind | In one line |
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| 2023– | Proteus → Scramble Deck Inventor; founder | Research | A deck of physical cards with e-ink faces, so one deck can be any game. Started as a thesis artefact; now a company. |
| 2025– | Embed, don't isolate → Bodhika Labs Researcher; co-founder | Research | How do you tell a parent their child may need help without the report becoming a label? A dashboard study that became a school assessment company. |
| 2019–2025 | Interaction systems for constrained spaces PhD, University of Waterloo | Research | A thesis on what happens to technology designed for large, stable rooms when it is used in small, moving, improvised ones. |
| 2026– | TIM Product and engineering lead | Industry | An iPhone app that lets a nurse enrol a resident in a continence-care programme in under a minute. |
| 2017–2019 | Amazon Alexa Senior Product Manager, Technical | Industry | Owned the orchestration layer that decides which of ten thousand skills answers a request; shipped to 100M+ users. |
| 2025– | Independent research and advisory Researcher and advisor | Research | Led the design of a national data-trading policy for a government think-tank in India, and directed data and AI exhibits presented to the Prime Minister and President. |
| 2021–2024 | University of Waterloo Sessional Lecturer | Research | Nine courses across UX, HCI, and UX analytics, undergraduate and graduate, classes of 40 to 180. |
| 2015–2017 | Morgan Stanley Director; Global Head of Solutions, Legal and Compliance | Industry | Built the team and products that put data science and AI models in front of compliance staff; the firm's voice to seven regulators on the topic. |
| 2013–2015 | PwC Senior Consultant, Risk and Compliance Analytics | Industry | Led an eleven-person team resolving a $600M regulatory issue for a global bank; ran 30-plus analytics reported weekly to regulators. |
| 2012–2013 | EY Staff Consultant, Financial Services Advisory | Industry | Compliance, strategy, and analytics engagements for US banks; built the tools the teams ran on. |
| 2010–2012 | Columbia University MS, Management Science and Engineering | Research | Graduate student speaker at Columbia Engineering commencement. |