CV

Offering Bowl — Chairman / Head of Development

Nov 2024 – present @ Spain & India

Offering Bowl is a platform that connects Buddhist monastics with lay sponsors and modernises the ancient practice of dāna (generosity) for the digital age. Monasteries and individual monastics are verified before listing, and sponsors can contribute one-off or recurring support. I founded it, designed it, and write most of the code, with a volunteer team supporting infrastructure, partnerships and legal paperwork. Currently in private beta.

TypeScript, Node.js, Vue, AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3), NoSQL, Stripe

Doc Cirrus GmbH — Team Lead / Senior Engineer

Sep 2019 – Aug 2022 @ Berlin

Doc Cirrus builds inSuite, a practice-management platform used by German medical institutions. I led the containerisation team, the group responsible for letting partner companies ship their own applications inside the inSuite product. We started on Docker and moved to Podman, and I rewrote the deploy pipeline along the way. My team also maintained the orchestration infrastructure and built our own applications on top of it. We worked rather successfully with cross-functional Scrum with product, QA, and customer care. We used Jira and Confluence daily.

JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Docker / Podman, Bash, Unix, Jira

MADANA — Head of Development

Apr 2018 – Jul 2019 @ Berlin

MADANA was an early-stage startup building privacy-enhancing analytics for sensitive data. I led the development of the mobile application, ran the data-analysis team, and worked closely with the marketing team on the technical strategy. The work I drove most directly was a healthcare pilot: analytics on patient data that preserved patient privacy. We worked with Scrum and Jira for PM, and used Bamboo for CI.

React, React Native, Java, Node.js, Bash

Unique Insights — Head of Development

Aug 2017 – Jul 2018 @ Manchester

Unique Insights built customer-understanding tools on top of machine-learning APIs. As Head of Development I was half engineer, half tech strategist, building the product itself and shaping where it should go. We tried cracking the higher education market with an LLM-type product, but unfortunately we ran out of funds before we could.

JavaScript, Node.js, Python, AWS, NoSQL

Savitribai Phule Pune University — Academic Researcher

Mar 2025 – present @ Pune, Maharashtra

Comparative philosophical research on interpretations of Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka, in collaboration with DKCLI. The project sits across two methodologies (classical Tibetan commentarial study and contemporary Western Buddhist studies) and asks where they converge, where they diverge, and what each loses when it ignores the other. Funded by a Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Grant.

Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Institute

BA/MA Buddhist Scriptures and Philosophies · 2022 – present @ Bir, Himachal Pradesh

The full traditional monastic curriculum: Tibetan language, classical commentaries on Madhyamaka, Pramāṇa (epistemology), Abhidharma, and formal debate. Taught in Tibetan under the lineage of Khyentse Rinpoche.

University of Manchester

MSc Bioinformatics and Systems Biology · 2015 – 2016 · BSc Biotechnology with Enterprise · 2012 – 2015

A four-year run through the life sciences with deliberate detours into business and computer science as minors. The BSc was a broad biotechnology degree with an enterprise strand that pushed every project through a commercialisation lens; the MSc was where the science met the keyboard: large-scale sequence analysis, systems modelling, and enough Python and R to realise I was going to spend the rest of my career writing code. Supported by The Manchester Bursary and a BSPP Undergraduate Bursary Fund.

I also spent a few months in early 2016 as a Postgraduate Ambassador for the University, running tours and Q&As for prospective postgraduate students and answering queries through the Manchester Calling Campaign.

Paramita — Digital Consultant

2017 – 2021 @ Spain

Contributing to the codebase, UI and UX of the Paramita.org online learning platform. Additionally, offering actionable recommendations for the digital marketing efforts. At one point we even re-built the entire platform and I managed the implementation.

Lotus Project — Co-founder

late 2010s @ Berlin

Brought renewable solar power to disconnected villages in remote parts of Southeast Asia. We successfully installed panels in a village in northern Vietnam and the project is still ongoing.

SPIN (Supporting People In Need) — Co-founder, Head of IT

mid 2010s @ Manchester

A homeless shelter run out of a former Baptist church. I joined an existing volunteer group, registered the charity, built the website, and went in most Sundays to cook for the people who came through.

Buddhist centres and monasteries

Over the past several years I've also built websites, apps, and other small bits of digital infrastructure for various Buddhist centres and monasteries, usually pro bono, usually quietly. Offering Bowl is the formal continuation of that work.