Outside the classroom, courtroom competition and building under a countdown clock.

2023 – Present

Witness → Co-Captain · Returner of the Year

Returner of the Year

TAMU Mock Trial

I joined Mock Trial my first year as a witness, the role where you're handed a fake identity and cross-examined by a stranger trying to catch you in a lie. Three years and a Co-Captain title later, I'm still explaining the format to people. AMTA tournaments randomly assign each school's teams to argue either prosecution or defense on the same case used nationwide that year, through student attorneys arguing case law and witnesses testifying in character.

• Made the team as one of 23 chosen from a pool of 100 applicants through auditions and interviews
• Competed as a witness through freshman year, developing composure on the stand, persuasive delivery, and the ability to hold up under cross-examination by opposing counsel
• Worked mostly local tournaments (Waco, Austin, and similar) with a strong team-review culture. After every round, the team debriefs what each attorney and witness did well and what to adjust
• Grew into a Co-Captain role, taking on more of the leadership, mentorship, and case-strategy responsibilities that come with running a competitive team rather than just performing in one
• As Co-Captain, pioneered a structured post-tournament note system, condensing judge feedback into shared, per-member action plans, that the team adopted
• Early growth areas included pacing delivery and staying disciplined within an assigned witness persona rather than improvising past the case materials. Both became deliberate practice points going into more senior roles

2021 – Present

Campaigns · A&M Big Event · UHG Community Day

Service

Service has been less a separate category and more a consistent side effect of the work I've been doing since high school. The common thread is showing up in person for communities that are easy to overlook from a distance.

• Knocked on 2,000+ doors across multiple congressional and local campaigns, focused on registering and reaching voters in communities the campaign data wasn't prioritizing — trailer parks, college-age blocks, immigrant neighborhoods
• Helped register Indian-American families at a Diwali event at a local football stadium, and worked with a translator to reach Spanish-speaking voters through a volunteer task force I helped organize
• Tabled with MOVE Texas at A&M, doing non-partisan voter registration outreach for students on campus
• Participated in A&M's Big Event, Texas A&M's annual large-scale community service day, painting houses in the Bryan-College Station area
• Volunteered at UHG's community service day, building bikes and packing backpacks with school supplies for underserved kids in the local community
• Mentored newer Mock Trial members informally since sophomore year, and as Co-Captain helped build the team's teaching and feedback infrastructure from the ground up — when I joined in Fall 2023, there was no standardized system for recording judge notes, tracking individual improvement, or running structured teaching blocks; by senior year those systems existed and had been adopted across teams

2024 – Present

4 hackathons, 2 highlighted

Hackathons

TAMUHack is Texas A&M's semesterly hackathon. Teams get roughly 24 hours to build a working product from scratch and present it to a panel of judges. I've competed in four hackathons; TAMUHack 2025 (Coinvo, 2nd place, see Projects) is the strongest result, but the first one taught me the most about actually shipping something under pressure.

• At TAMUHack 2024, my first hackathon, I built a website recommending food spots in College Station with two teammates I'd just met, including my first hands-on web development project. The result was rough, but it was a real end-to-end product built in 24 hours with strangers
• Spent the year between hackathons deliberately watching how more experienced hackers approached high-pressure projects, rather than just repeating the same workflow
• At TAMUHack 2025, I built Coinvo, an AI-powered financial advising platform, with a team I'd since built real trust with, placing 2nd out of roughly 536 participants (full writeup in Projects)
• The contrast between the two years is really the story. Same event format, a very different level of execution once I understood how to work effectively under a hard deadline