Growing up, I watched chronic stress quietly reshape my family's relationship with food. The kind of stress that comes from financial instability, long hours, hard circumstances. It showed up as restriction and overeating. Eating a bag of chips at midnight because the day finally broke you. Over time it showed up in our bodies too. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease running through the family. I lived it too. Learning to eat enough, navigating emotional eating, figuring out how to find nourishing food on a tight budget. And realizing that most nutrition advice assumes a level of time, money, and stability that many families simply don’t have. Nutrisyk is built for people who've been there. For people who are trying to make better choices inside real-world constraints, not ideal circumstances. People who need something that actually meets them where they are, and helps them move forward one small, practical step at a time.

I’ve always loved a small dessert after dinner, but I often felt guilty because of the constant messages that desserts are “bad” for you. Even though I lead an active lifestyle and work out regularly, that guilt around enjoying certain foods never fully went away. Instead of simply accepting it, I recognized that change was needed, not just for me, but for anyone feeling the same way. Leveraging my experience in leadership, I partnered with a team to explore creating a platform that helps people navigate their eating habits and expand their nutritional knowledge, while rediscovering the joy of food. I envision people enjoying their favorite foods without guilt and shame to live a balanced life. Outside of building something meaningful, I love staying active and unplugging whenever I can, whether it’s hiking in the mountains, shooting hoops at the local park, watching football with friends and family, or relaxing on a beautiful beach. And of course, I’m always exploring new cuisines and indulging in all the delicious foods the world has to offer whenever I can.

In 2024, a combination of post-university life, stress, and anxiety caused me to fall into poor dietary habbits and gain weight. While I tried many times to reverse it using traditional methods, I never found something I could stick with. However, in March of 2025 I finally found a viable approach that combined intense cardio with an optimized diet consistent that I enjoyed. As a result, I lost all of the unhealthy weight I gained from the previous year, hiked entire mountains, and felt overall much better as a result. The kicker, I didn’t have to count calories or monitor my food intake excessively. Nutrisyk is a culmination of my experience with the goal of reducing complexity in the nutrition space for all. I’m a software engineer that’s worked in small startups, and as an active contributor to open source projects. I’m heavily influenced by the ideas of computing pioneers like Alan Kay, and also by contemporary interaction designers like Bret Victor. In my free time, I often write about their ideas and new ways of thinking about systems.

I grew up with South Asian cooking. Given the cultural memory and historical precedent, I assumed it was inherently healthy. Growing up in the United States, we found ourselves in a unique cultural diaspora of cuisines. It is an opportunity to be in a time and place that allows me to explore these different options. It was the starting point that led me to explore this area. The area that always fascinated me is the relationship between exercise and nutrition work. A common framework that I’ve heard is transactional: calories in vs calories out. While through research on this topic, I discovered that the truth is more nuanced than I could’ve even imagined. With this product, I want to help people make small, meaningful steps that compound over time. Not through restriction or guilt, but through awareness and self exploration.

My time after university I felt went well, but I always had a nagging feeling when it came to food. Worrying about specific foods I've had, and what others would feel about my food habits...it left me burnt out. Letting others feel like that felt like a disservice; knowing this, I joined up with Nutrisyk, so that I can make a step towards fixing this. I’m a frontend software engineer with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. With what I knew, I'd already poked around myself with a recipe deconstructor prototype; I wanted to explore how best to build confidence in others by improving their understanding of nutrition, and understanding what I always looked up in my spare time came naturally to that idea. Ultimately, that's what I wanted out of the nutrition space: a level of understanding that lets me be more comfortable with what I'm eating now, instead of what someone tells me I should be eating. That's where I see Nutrisyk and our company sitting in the grander picture: helping others reach that kind of comfort for themselves, while improving how they view nutrition!