Product leadership
I bring software engineering, UI/UX, and AI to my product work. As a Kellogg School of Management candidate in the MMM program, I’m studying the business and design decisions behind it.
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I spent six years as a software engineer building healthcare and genomics platforms, and I am now pursuing an MBA and MS in Design Innovation through Northwestern's MMM program.
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Music & art
After hours, I play blues and neo-soul guitar, record in Logic, and perform live. I've also built guitar effects and designed interfaces for discovering music.
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Most of my work has been in the health-tech and life sciences space, where I've built patient-support software and clinical genomics infrastructure.
View my work in the genomics space →Portfolio
Selected work
Independent products and selected work from the Broad Institute, Human Care Systems, and Tellescope.
Actually Learn
I designed and built a local-first iPhone app that turns course material into active recall exercises, using AI-assisted Swift development.
- Course content
- 18 Finance lessons
- Interaction model
- 10 exercise types
- Validation
- 67 automated tests
Viraasat
Conversations with my grandparents inspired me to design and build a private genealogy platform for preserving South Asian family histories.
- Live workflow
- Google sign-in + private circles
- Cross-device
- Saved edits verified
- Collaboration
- Two-account viewer test
Genomics platform infrastructure
I led development of a Python and Airflow platform that brought outsourced genomics workflows in-house, eliminating about $2M in annual vendor fees.
- Pipeline scale
- ~107K samples processed
- Client integrations
- 5
- Delivery reach
- 7+ partners
Clinical genomics data pipelines
I developed core pipeline features for an NIH-funded study that generated 155K+ genetic-risk results across 10 diseases and 10 sites.
- Program scale
- 155K+ results
- Participants
- 25K
- Network
- 10 clinical sites
Patient-support software
I turned nurse-care protocols into configurable features that nurses used to personalize outreach and treatment support.
- Scope
- 4+ pharmaceutical clients
- Ownership
- Full-stack workflows
- Domain
- Patient adherence
Healthcare product design
I worked with both founders to design two interfaces for healthcare analytics and patient onboarding during the Techstars UnitedHealthcare accelerator.
- Deliverables
- Dashboards + onboarding
- Output
- Dashboard and onboarding mockups
- Context
- Techstars accelerator
Kellogg · August 18, 2026
MedScore
Healthcare Access & Affordability · Track winner
Social Impact & Sustainability Days
Funding medical devices through clinical development
My team won the Healthcare Access & Affordability Track award at Kellogg’s Social Impact & Sustainability Days for MedScore, our proposal to help investors assess regulatory risk and fund medical devices through clinical development.
We envisioned MedScore as a rating agency for medical-device innovation: a prediction engine that would learn from past FDA decisions to estimate a device’s chance of approval. Each score would come with a transparent assessment rubric, and we would test its predictions against actual approval outcomes. We wanted investors to have a basis for assessing regulatory risk when deciding whether to fund devices between clinical trials and approval.
Our proposed nonprofit model would score innovators for free, with financial institutions paying for access to scores and analysis. The deck explores an FDA data partnership and an alternative using public data and submissions from consenting applicants.
Team Healthcare 6: Divyam, Nihal, Avihu, and Kofi.
Read the MedScore case study →About
About me
I studied computer science at Tufts. I started at Human Care Systems, building patient-support software, then spent five years on the Broad Institute's Genomics Platform.
My work at Broad covered data pipelines, laboratory workflows, clinical reporting, and customer data delivery; as my role grew, I also took on more responsibility for requirements, technical planning, architecture, and coordination across teams.
That gradual shift led me to the MMM program, and I am now pursuing product roles where I can use my engineering background without moving away from customer needs or the details of implementation.
I also completed national service with the Singapore Civil Defence Force, where I served as a Platoon Sergeant and led rescue training for more than 600 recruits.
Outside work, I play blues and neo-soul guitar, record music in Logic, snowboard, sail when I can, and spend too much time thinking about NBA rosters.
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Other things I've made
Some older interface projects, data visualizations, audio software, and music from outside my day-to-day work.
- Sound
- Interfaces
- Graphics
- Experiments