Experience

Brave Technology Coop

• Canada
• Health and Human Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Hardware Lead and Product Manager

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  Vancouver, Canada Area I plan, manage and coordinate the development and deployment of Brave’s IoT hardware products. Brave develops technology solutions to reduce opioid overdose deaths. Brave tools have been used to detect over 100 opioid overdoses so far. Brave Sensors are installed in public restrooms, and are capable of monitoring the space for signs of an opioid overdose in a privacy-sensitive way. Brave Buttons are internet connected panic buttons that can be used to trigger a safety check towards… Show more I plan, manage and coordinate the development and deployment of Brave’s IoT hardware products. Brave develops technology solutions to reduce opioid overdose deaths. Brave tools have been used to detect over 100 opioid overdoses so far. Brave Sensors are installed in public restrooms, and are capable of monitoring the space for signs of an opioid overdose in a privacy-sensitive way. Brave Buttons are internet connected panic buttons that can be used to trigger a safety check towards safer-use of drugs. My overarching contribution to these products is the planning and development of features and processes leading to effective product scaling, thereby maximizing the impact of these technologies. At Brave - Wrote and managed Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) grants and coordinated SR&ED claims. - Led the hiring process for 3 Developers, 8 Engineering Coop students and supervised them. I also helped develop onboarding processes. - Created and managed partnerships across academia, industry and external technical consultants. - Developed a product roadmap for the Brave Sensor and led its development from a bench-top prototype to over 100 sales of the product - Prepared OKRs and tracked progress - Conducted design meetings and risk mitigation analyses for the products. Prepared problem statements, needs specification and weighted decision matrices. - Led hardware Development of the Brave devices (electrical PCB design and mechanical CAD). Ensured reliable component supply through the global semiconductor chip shortage Show less



The University of British Columbia

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Sep 2015 - Oct 2019

  I worked at the Multiscale Design Lab in the Center for Blood Research at UBC on high-throughput biology and diagnostics as part of my Masters Thesis in Biomedical Engineering. My contribution to the field of the chemotaxis was the development a novel method to align biological cells along a “starting line” within a micro channel before their migration in response to a chemical gradient. Such a device would assist biologists in conducting many simultaneous experiments to gather more… Show more I worked at the Multiscale Design Lab in the Center for Blood Research at UBC on high-throughput biology and diagnostics as part of my Masters Thesis in Biomedical Engineering. My contribution to the field of the chemotaxis was the development a novel method to align biological cells along a “starting line” within a micro channel before their migration in response to a chemical gradient. Such a device would assist biologists in conducting many simultaneous experiments to gather more information about a human physiological condition such as inflammation or cancer metastasis. In this role, I - Conducted comprehensive reviews of literature to identify problems faced by biologists and engineers conducting chemotaxis experiments - Prototyped various solutions using rapid prototyping methods optimized for the micrometer scale - Ran multi-physics simulations and bench-top experiments with various cell lines to compare various solutions and identified a feasible solution - Ran controlled experiment with human blood samples developed an automated analysis pipeline - Communicated results in the form of a masters thesis and a journal publication Show less



ODetect project (Wearable Opioid Overdose Detection)

• Founder

  • Nov 2016 - Oct 2018

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The ODetect project aimed to develop a wearable opioid overdose detection device. Since the vast majority of opioid overdose fatalities happen as a result of people using drugs alone, this project was a response to the open question of “Can technology be used to witness an Opioid Overdose event and mobilize help”. We developed a prototype of a wearable watch that measures respiration rate through pulse variability as measured through pulse-oximetry. The project could not… Show more The ODetect project aimed to develop a wearable opioid overdose detection device. Since the vast majority of opioid overdose fatalities happen as a result of people using drugs alone, this project was a response to the open question of “Can technology be used to witness an Opioid Overdose event and mobilize help”. We developed a prototype of a wearable watch that measures respiration rate through pulse variability as measured through pulse-oximetry. The project could not identify a viable path towards becoming a product and achieving impact as a standalone entity. In 2018, the ODetect project became part of the Brave Technology Cooperative. As part of this project I - - Conducted needs finding through literature surveys and interviews with clinicians and drug users. - Prototyped various sensing modalities to extract respiration rate using pulse oximetry and airflow sensing. Built functional prototypes - Supervised a team of students to build a recurrent neural network to process time-series pulse oximetry data to extract respiration rate Show less



Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

• India
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Research Assistant

  • May 2014 - May 2015

  Mumbai Area, India Integration of self-assembled monolayers with Organic Field Effect Transistors



Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

• Canada

• Research Assistant

  • May 2013 - Jul 2013

  Montreal, Canada Area Conductivity studies on secondary dopants in PEDOT:PSS