Hi! I'm Ajay, a Computer Science senior and MEng student at MIT passionate about the creator economy.

About Me

I'm a creative at heart who came to MIT to learn CS with the goal of one day using my skills to turn an idea of mine into reality. I love the challenge of imagining and delivering ideas, products, and experiences from the ground up, especially with great people. I'm a hacker, creative, and engineer.

I challenge myself to do one fun project every semester while I have the opportunity to do whatever I want. This usually entails building tools for creatives, doing ML projects for health applications, and building my career as a content creator.

I'm very passionate about creative enabling technology and the creator economy; as a result, I've spent the last couple years building my domain expertise in the space. I've worked in diverse environments that have made me a strong communicator with excellent interpersonal communication.

Highlighted Work Portfolio

Studying how communities form and grow online + how we can classify them with ML at the MIT Media Lab.

Co-founder and CTO of Kuyen, a tool for NFT collections to automatically build and brand their galleries. Sold.

Software Engineering @ Square. Built full-stack flows for new Square + CashApp integrations (coming soon!).

Growth @ Jemi. Led new initiatives to acquire new customers in the musician and influencer space.

Machine Learning Engineering @ Adobe. Built ablation framework for optimal usage of synthetic datasets.

First employee @ Rivet. Interviewed customers and built a recommender system for song releases.

The Creator's Playbook

Twitter

Substack

Substack post

One of my favorite papers I've ever written, on how economics has encouraged copycatting amongst top social media companies. Also mentions product concepts they should pursue to differentiate.

Substack post

An exercise I recently completed mapping out an ideal business model for artists, from early days to fully blown up. Demonstrates need for artists to focus on both music and community building.

Twitter thread

A thread on how tastemakers in our society have emerged, why platforms must encourage them to exist, and what platforms can do to make tastemakers flourish on their platforms.

Contact

Happy to talk about MIT, product management, working at startups, the creator economy, other interesting industries, literally anything!

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Thanks for stopping by!

For my music, you can find me on Spotify, Soundcloud, or Instagram.