A textile mill in Tamil Nadu taught me how a business really runs, and now I am in pursuit of building my own.
At eleven I started going to my family's textile mill with my grandfather, who explained every process to me. I came back every school break for the next eight years, learning from the people who run it.
Each break brought more: checking incoming orders against physical stock, verifying raw material quality before it entered production, and working with plant staff to bring the facility into regulatory compliance.
I coordinated through the mill's line supervisors.
That is where finance started for me, not Wall Street. In 2026 I reconciled $70K+ a week in billing and purchases across three accounts in Tally, worked alongside two accounts staff, and supported month-end close.
"I didn't want to experiment with the company data with AI. At least not yet."
I have also reconciled marketplace settlements for fashion brands, from the sticker price down to what a brand is actually paid. Hover the chart to walk the chain.
Illustrative numbers per 100 of MRP. Real settlement data stays private.
For FIRST LEGO League, I built a rover that sorted trash. A pressure sensor told it when a bin was full. I programmed it in LEGO's EV3 blocks.
Most of what I have built since, from an ERP to a pitch, comes back to the same question that rover asked: what is going on here, and what should happen next?
Illustrative. Not a recording of the original rover or its code.
I built the mill's ERP from scratch. The first design assumed a fully automated plant. The real mill runs on heavy machinery, but it depends on people at nearly every stage.
So I rebuilt it around them. The prototype now trains staff, with a target of a 40% cut in production cycle time. Rollout is pending.
A simplified sketch of the idea, not the real schema.
Draft two: work routes through the people who actually run the floor.
The world's seventh-largest technology distributor, operating in 40+ countries. Working alone, I built dashboards on employee IT support tickets to show where internal IT support could serve its users better, and presented what I found to my mentor.
I also trained across SAP (SD, MM and FICO), running the full order-to-delivery cycle on historical data spanning millions of products and vendors.
Power BI · Tableau · SAP · SQL · Excel
A family business selling AAC blocks into construction. I built the front end of its first website, then worked with a software firm in Chennai that extended it, running reviews and corrections through launch.
I also owned the copy, the launch marketing plan and the internal documentation behind it.
HTML · CSS · JavaScript · SEO
A fashion commerce company, where I worked across finance, warehouse operations, marketing and research, often in the same week.
Details waiting on written approval under my confidentiality agreement.
I co-founded RideRutgers, a student rideshare, and built its pricing model, projecting 67% lower rider costs than Uber and Lyft.
Together we reached the ScarletPitch semi-finals from a field of 50+ teams. Since I write scenes anyway, here is the moment I remember most, written the way I would shoot it.
INT. SCARLETPITCH, RUTGERS - FEBRUARY 2026
The RIDERUTGERS team, mid-pitch. A glance between teammates.
Sushant steps in and takes the next section, unrehearsed, in front of the judges.
The team finishes the pitch together.
CUT TO:
SUPER: "SEMI-FINALIST."
For TechStart 2026, two teammates and I designed an audit for buildings about to come down. A walk-through scan and AI flag the reusable steel, wood, brick and glass, weigh what each is worth against what it costs to remove, and hand the crew a plan. A human expert reviews every report.
I led the business side. Afterwards I showed it to 7+ real estate professionals, who said they would use it and asked to see a working pilot.
I watch films and shows of every kind, in English and across Indian languages. I keep a notebook of story ideas, and when one sticks, I plan it the way it would be shot.
Here is one of them, storyboarded. Step through the frames.
Picked for my school's A-team, 1 of 4 from 40.
Remedy's games are the closest thing to film you can play.