An engineer walked into an IVF lab.

Software was the plan. I wrote systems for tech unicorns — until I saw the same data and process bottlenecks I was being paid to fix in agri-commerce quietly choking patient care inside a family-run IVF hospital. That redirected my career. My path since has been deliberately non-linear, because the problems I care about are.

The engineering came first. I studied Information Technology at VIT Vellore (B.Tech Hons, 2018–2022), qualified GATE CSE 2021, was elected General Secretary of the Mozilla Firefox Club, and took the usual path: internships at Société Générale and ZEISS, then a software engineering job.

The detour that wasn't

At DeHaat, an agri-tech unicorn in Bengaluru (2022–23), I built the unglamorous systems that companies actually run on: SAP-to-bank API integration for vendor payments, a Go backend for bulk coupon issuance, WhatsApp support bots in RASA. Good work — and it taught me the lens I still use daily: a hospital is a system to be measured and improved. But the whole time, something else was pulling.

In 2020, during college, I had built hospital management software for R.K. Hospital & Infertility IVF Center in Udaipur — where Dr. Shweta Agarwal practised for over a decade before founding her own clinic. When she opened Aansh Hospital & IVF Center in Chandrapur in 2021, I didn't just build the software. I moved in.

The lab

I retrained completely: an M.Sc. in Biotechnology (2022–24), then hands-on clinical embryology. Today I'm the Senior Clinical Embryologist at Aansh — I personally perform ICSI, run embryo culture and blastocyst grading, handle vitrification and cryopreservation, and hold the lab's quality control. Clinical decisions rest with Dr. Shweta Agarwal (MBBS, DGO) and her medical team; the lab and everything operational is mine.

"Everything operational" turned out to be the bigger job: the clinic's ART Act registrations, its digital presence, its patient workflows, its growth across Vidarbha — full IVF centre in Chandrapur, consultation OPDs in Yavatmal, Gadchiroli, Adilabad and Asifabad, a monthly camp in Warora. That work became a company: Lumen, which runs everything at an IVF center except the medicine.

Why fertility care, why here

I'm from Chandrapur — a coal-and-steel district of about two million people where access to quality fertility care is still scarce. That reality shapes everything I build. A couple here facing infertility used to have two options: travel 150+ km repeatedly to a metro clinic, or give up. Most gave up quietly. The clinical science to help them exists and is well understood — what's missing in small-town India is everything around the science: honest pricing, working systems, follow-up that doesn't fall through, information in Marathi and Hindi, and a lab someone actually stands behind.

That's an operations problem wearing a medicine costume — exactly the intersection I was accidentally trained for. The long game is to turn one well-run IVF center into many: clinically excellent, operationally modern, technology-enabled, in the Tier-2/3 India where access is scarcest.

The record

A note on numbers: I hold this site to the same standard we hold the clinic's marketing to. Operational metrics appear here only once they're audited — until then you'll see awaiting audited figure where a number belongs. If something on this page can't be checked, it shouldn't be on this page.