Fig. 05 — Journey

The road so far

Seven chapters, told backwards — from an analog bench in Colorado Springs to a school physics classroom in Birgunj, Nepal, where the questions began.

Chapter 01 · Spec Sheet

Analog Devices

Senior Analog Design Engineer — ATE

Feb 2026 – Present · Colorado Springs, CO

Texas Instruments

Analog Design Engineer — Clocking and Timing Solutions

Jan 2024 – Feb 2026 · Seattle, WA

Texas Instruments

Analog Design Intern

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · Federal Way, WA

CH. 01

2024 —

Texas Instruments & Analog Devices

In January 2024 I moved to Seattle to join Texas Instruments as an analog design engineer in the Clocking and Timing Solutions group — designing and verifying low-jitter clocking and timing circuits for space and high-performance compute, owning blocks from concept to silicon sign-off. That included verifying a PCIe Gen 6 reference clock generator and a 20-output clock buffer across PVT and Monte Carlo. I had already spent the summer of 2023 at TI as an analog design intern in Federal Way, during my master's. In February 2026 I joined Analog Devices in Colorado Springs as a senior analog design engineer on the ATE team. From a nanoelectronics lab in Ropar to two of the world's great analog companies, the through-line has never changed: get closer to the physics, and make it useful.

Seattle, WA → Colorado Springs, CO · 2024 — Present

Chapter 02 · Spec Sheet

AdzWise Advertising

Electrical Design Engineer

May 2021 – Aug 2022 · Nepal

Prototype Scope

PCB design · Raspberry Pi integration · Sensor integration · Head-up displays for passenger car windows

Out-of-home advertising

CH. 02

2021 — 22

AdzWise Advertising

After Signalchip, I spent a year and a half back in Nepal with AdzWise Advertising, an out-of-home advertising venture. I assumed full responsibility for the prototype: PCB design, Raspberry-Pi and sensor integration — the complete electrical side of head-up displays built to show advertisements on the passenger windows of cars. It was engineering in its most exposed form: when the hardware is your whole product, there is nowhere for a bad ground plane to hide.

Nepal · May 2021 – Aug 2022

CH. 03

2020 — 21

Signalchip Innovations

Fresh out of IIT Ropar, I joined Signalchip in Bangalore — my first industry bench. I designed OTAs and trickle-bias circuits in 65-nm, carried layouts through DRC/LVS and post-layout back-annotation, and built 3rd- and 5th-order Chebyshev active-RC baseband filters for 5G bandwidth modes with switched R/C banks. I also built the company's IBIS modeling toolkit from S2IBIS and owned every client IBIS deliverable, from GPIO and DDR-IO to SGMII and RGMII buffers. It was the year I learned how academic theory survives contact with tape-out deadlines.

Bangalore, India · Jul 2020 – Apr 2021

2019 —

Shuzzly

Shuzzly began in December 2019, incubated at TBIF IIT Ropar, with my co-founder Shubhendra. We built a B2B virtual footwear try-on — an AI/AR in-store mirror that lets shoppers see shoes on their own feet without unlacing a single pair. Building a company while finishing a degree taught me things no course could: how to pitch, how to ship, and how to keep going on the days when neither works. The company is still alive at shuzzly.in.

TBIF, IIT Ropar, India · Dec 2019 – Present

CH. 05

2019

Sweepy Solutions

In the summer of 2019 I founded Sweepy Solutions. We combined beacons with the Earth's geomagnetic field for indoor positioning, so janitorial work could be monitored accurately — and cleaning staff paid equitably for the work they actually did. The company ran from May to September 2019: short-lived, but formative. It was my first time owning an idea end to end, from sensor hardware to someone else's paycheck.

Rupnagar, India · May 2019 – Sep 2019

The IIT Ropar campus in Rupnagar, India — academic blocks set among trees and open ground

2016 — 20

IIT Ropar

Ropar is where I became a researcher. In Dr. Brajesh Rawat's nanoelectronics lab I learned to think in atoms and electrons — modeling 2D-material FETs below the 10-nm channel length and chasing the switching physics of metal-oxide memristors. The summer after my second year, I lost my father. What carried me through the grief was the slow discipline of showing up — to the lab, to my mentors, to work I hoped he would have been proud of. My fully independent capstone, a device-to-circuit co-design of a self-selective niobium-oxide memristor crossbar, grew into two publications — one of them my first as lead author. Those years taught me that recovery is not a return to who you were; it is the quieter work of becoming someone stronger.

Rupnagar, India · 2016 – 2020 · B.Tech Electrical Engineering

2013 — 15

Delhi Public School, Birgunj

Birgunj, Nepal — where the obsession started. A physics classroom, a shelf of circuit puzzles, and a teenager transfixed by electromagnetism: Tesla coils throwing artificial lightning, lasers turning light into a tool, and the stubborn question of why electrons behave the way they do. I topped Class 11 overall and Class 12 mathematics in the Indian Embassy Birgunj region. Everything since has been a longer, more careful answer to the questions I first asked there.

Birgunj, Nepal · 2013 – 2015 · Intermediate

My Systems

The Cookbook

Still working on the cookbook... five principles I keep coming back to — less a finished philosophy, more a lab notebook I update as I go.

Crossing Limits

Most limits are the ones we set for ourselves. I keep mine hidden — even from me — and keep pushing until they break. And they do break, usually with a fraction of the effort the first crossing seemed to demand.

Bottom-up Approach

Improve the tiniest block by a small delta, and at the top level the gains multiply. That is why I work at the device level — a better transistor, repeated a few billion times, becomes a better chip.

Every Topic is Interesting

Someone, somewhere, has spent an entire life on every field you could name. Nothing is boring when you look closely enough — the trick is to start from the fundamentals and let the depth pull you in.

Mess is Bless

Storms grow stronger roots. The messes — the failed startups, the hard seasons — are where the real lessons live. I have learned to be grateful for what they teach, even while they are teaching it.

Follow Your Heart

I have walked away from steady paychecks to chase research I believed in. It was never the safe choice — but I knew, even then, that I would thank myself for making it. So far, I always have.