Five AS-levels: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Further Mathematics.

After completing them I had to go back to India for visa reasons.

A different country, a different curriculum, a different scoring system. Nothing transferred cleanly.

Restarting inside a system you did not train for teaches you to work out what is actually being measured before you optimise for it. That is the same instinct a case interview asks for.

Intermediate, the Indian equivalent of AS and A-levels. Grade A, 866 marks.

Two years rebuilding a record from scratch in a curriculum I had never seen, through COVID.

Osmania University. Final CGPA 8.54 out of 10, First Class with Distinction.

Class Representative for four years. Overall Head of Electtrico Rivista. Deputy Head of Marketing at the Swayam entrepreneurship cell.

First place at Wolong India Engineering Day. First prize for a paper presentation on machine learning fault classification in power systems.

Engineering taught me how systems behave under load. I wanted to know how capital behaves under the same conditions, so I traded through the degree with my own money.

It was an expensive way to learn judgement, and it worked.

What I took from it was not a trading record. It was how to size a decision under uncertainty, and how to build the system that executes it.

Markets were the wrong place to keep applying that. Prices are the output of a decision somebody else already made. I wanted to be in the room where it gets made.

So the bridge was Financial Technology at Imperial, and from there, strategy.

Predicted Distinction. Elected Careers Leader by the cohort, representing 80+ students.

I pivoted into consulting almost immediately. Understanding how a price forms was no longer the interesting part. How the work gets done with a client in the room was.

Client-facing work at Blackmont Consulting and 180 Degrees Consulting settled it: repositioning a manufacturer, defending a board against activists, sizing markets for a founder. Eight engagements in a year, run in parallel rather than in sequence.

All of them are written up in the work index.

Working on AI x Consulting: where AI genuinely improves research, synthesis and structure, and where it quietly degrades them.

Publishing each experiment with the method and the result, including the ones that failed.

Targeting strategy consulting, London.