Backend & systems
Services that hold up under load
Spring Boot and Node microservices. Redis caching that cut API latency 56%, and a geo-upload rework that cut CPU 40%.
Software Engineer at Upcover (remote) Founder of Decorb
Engineer, builder, researcher, athlete.
I'm Neil. I build software across the stack at Upcover. Before that I was at Navi, where my code reached 9M+ monthly users. I'm also the founder of Decorb, an AI interior design app. Away from the keyboard you'll find me in the gym, in the pool or on a basketball court.
- Backend systems
- Android & Flutter
- ML research
- Product
- Founder, Decorb
Experience at
- Upcover
- Navi
- GoKwik
- CSIR-CEERI
- BITS Pilani
01 · Capabilities
Comfortable across the stack, from the JVM to the GPU.
Machine learning
Published RL research
Co-authored CuRLA (ICAART), cited 20+ times. Vision pipelines at 98% accuracy at CEERI.
Mobile
Apps at scale
Moved Navi's Android app to Compose and built an in-app inbox that lifted loan-page visits 65%.
Developer tooling
Helix, a JVM agent
Bytecode instrumentation across 20+ microservices. Regression testing went from weeks to hours.
Delivery
Done means deployed
Docker, Cloud Run, Firebase, AWS Lambda, CI per service and end-to-end tests.
02 · Experience
Where I've built things.
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2025 → now
Upcover
Software Engineer · Remote
Engineering at Upcover, the Sydney insurtech that makes business insurance fast and simple for small businesses, startups and contractors.
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2026 → now
Decorb
Founder
I founded Decorb, an AI interior design app, and lead it end to end: product, design and engineering across the web app, Flutter app, API and GPU pipeline. See it below ↓
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Jul 2023 → Mar 2025
Navi Technologies
Software Development Engineer · Bangalore
- Built Helix, a JVM agent, from scratch for 20+ microservices, cutting regression time from 2 weeks to 2 hours.
- Moved the Android app to Compose, cutting startup time by over 50% for 9M monthly users.
- Built an in-app notification inbox: +65% homepage-to-loans visits, +7% loan applications.
- Cut geo-location upload CPU by 40%; simplified permissions, growing the user base 8%.
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Jan 2023 → Jun 2023
GoKwik
SDE Intern · Remote
- Built tiered guardrails on merchant transaction volume for 350+ brands.
- Improved API latency by 56% with Redis caching.
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May 2021 → Aug 2021
CSIR-CEERI, Chennai
Machine Learning Intern
Image classification pipelines (Bilinear CNN, InceptionV3, MRELBP) reaching 98% accuracy, now used to classify leather samples.
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2019 → 2023
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
B.E. Computer Science
- CGPA
- 8.33 / 10
- Research
- CuRLA, with Prof. Pratyush Chakraborty
- Sport
- Vice Captain, basketball team
- Music
- Tabla & cajón, music club
03 · Founder
Upload a photo of your room.
Get it back redesigned.
Decorb turns one photo of your actual room into a photoreal redesign in under thirty seconds, keeping the walls, windows and light where they really are. Photograph a paint chip, tile or fabric swatch and see it on your own walls before you buy.
I founded Decorb and lead it end to end: product strategy and design, the web app, the iOS and Android apps, the API and the GPU generation pipeline.
Visit decorb.app ↗
4 free designs · no card
- Product
- 30+ style presets, material swatches, 360° room photos, 4K export
- Platforms
- Web, iOS and Android
- Stack
- Bun + Elysia API, background GPU worker, React, Flutter
- Infra
- Cloud Run, Firebase, Playwright end-to-end tests
04 · Research & projects
Selected work.
CuRLA: curriculum learning for autonomous driving
A deep RL agent (PPO + VAE) that learns to drive in CARLA through a two-fold curriculum and a collision-aware reward, improving average speed 42.8% over the baseline.
Days At Bits
Campus companion app for incoming BITS students: fests, clubs and live notifications.
05 · Outside the code
Always moving.
I'm a very physically active person. Gym, pool, court and trail keep me sharp, and the discipline carries straight into how I work.
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Gym
Strength training is the constant in my week.
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Swimming
Laps are where hard problems quietly untangle.
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Basketball
Vice Captain of the BITS Pilani Hyderabad team, 2021–22. Still on court whenever I can be.
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Tabla & cajón
Played tabla and cajón for the BITS Pilani Hyderabad music club. Press D or B to hear a tabla stroke.
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Trekking
Summited Kedarkantha (12,500 ft) and Ranthan Kharak (12,887 ft). Keep scrolling to the very end to see them.