I started by building machines.
Now I build tools for people.
My career started designing spare parts for textile machinery in Coimbatore, India. I moved through GE gas turbines, Applied Materials in Santa Clara, and enterprise ERP systems before landing in Milwaukee as a data engineer. I spent years learning how physical systems fail before I ever wrote a line of code. That foundation shapes everything I build today.
Today I lead Data Engineering for Financial Planning and Insurance Analytics in Milwaukee. Outside of work I build products — FinanceIQ, Ferry, The Pulse — because I believe most families deserve better financial clarity than the industry gives them.
The Journey
Five industries.
One consistent obsession.
Every career shift deepened the same instinct: understand how systems fail before you build them.
Textile Machinery Spares
My first job was designing spare parts for textile machinery — the looms, spinning frames, and winding machines that kept Coimbatore's mills running around the clock. I learned that a single worn part shuts down an entire production line, and that precision in design is just as critical as the machine itself.
Mainframes, Piping Manifolds & Conduit
At GE gas turbines I worked on the structural backbone — mainframes, piping manifolds, and electrical conduit systems that support the turbine assembly. These are the unglamorous parts nobody sees, but if they fail the entire machine stops. I left with a deep respect for systems thinking: the most critical components are often the ones nobody photographs.
CMP Semiconductor Equipment
At Applied Materials in Santa Clara I worked on Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) equipment — the machines that polish silicon wafers to atomic-level flatness before chip circuitry is built on them. At this scale a scratch invisible to the naked eye destroys a wafer worth thousands of dollars. I left physical manufacturing with one conviction: the most expensive defects are the ones nobody planned for.
SAP, ERP & Master Data Management
I crossed from physical products into enterprise systems — SAP ERP implementations, Master Data Management, and Information Architecture across retail, manufacturing, and insurance clients. I saw how data quality shapes every business decision made above it. Bad data at the foundation means every report, every projection, every strategy built on top of it is compromised.
Information Architect → Software Engineer → Lead Data Engineer
I arrived in Milwaukee as an Information Architect, grew into Software Engineering, and now lead Data Engineering focused on Financial Planning and Insurance Analytics. The industries changed — the instinct didn't. The "machines" are now data pipelines, and the people depending on them are families making decisions about their financial lives. That weight is why I also build tools like FinanceIQ on the side.
What I Believe
Principles I actually live by
“Wealth is what you don't see. True wealth is the ability to walk away from things you don't like.”
“Don't confuse activity with progress. The machines I used to build were judged on output, not effort. So is everything else.”
“The most expensive bugs are the ones nobody planned for. Design for failure first, then design for function.”
Let's connect
Feedback on FinanceIQ, collaboration ideas, or just want to say hi — I read everything.