Heyy, let me introduce you to Kiriti, or Kiti to her friends, the person behind this portfolio you decided was worth a few minutes of your time.
She did not grow up with a perfectly drawn plan or a neat answer to the question of what she wanted to be. Her story begins the way most honest ones do, with an accident disguised as curiosity. A random moment, a passing interest, and suddenly she was standing at the edge of robotics, looking in, and then stepping forward without fully realizing she had crossed into something that would matter.
She loved it in the way you love something that makes you feel a little more awake. The kind of love that replaces boredom with questions, that turns time into something flexible, something you lose without regret. For a while, it felt like enough. Like this could be the thing.
But the difficult truth about first loves is that they are not always meant to last. They are intense, and real, and important, but sometimes they are only meant to teach you how deeply you are capable of caring. And so she paid attention, not just to what she loved, but to how it loved her back. And somewhere in that quiet observation, she realized that fascination is not the same as belonging.
So she did something subtle, and far more difficult than it sounds. She did not abandon robotics, and she did not force herself to stay. She let it become what it wanted to be in her life. Something she returns to on weekends, in quieter hours, when curiosity does not need to prove anything. Something that still feels like wonder, because it is no longer burdened by expectation.
And then she went looking, not for another obsession, but for something steadier. Something that would meet her halfway.
That is how she found product management.
Not in a moment of certainty, but in a series of small recognitions. In the way she kept gravitating toward problems that needed shaping. In the way she cared about why something was being built just as much as how. In the way solutions felt incomplete until they made sense for the people they were meant for.
Product management did not feel like a sudden spark. It felt like alignment. Like the quiet realization that all the scattered pieces of curiosity, logic, and creativity had somewhere to go. Here, she could ask questions that mattered, make decisions that carried weight, and build things that were not just functional, but meaningful.
And maybe that is the difference.
Robotics taught her how to fall in love with building.
Product management is teaching her how to stay.
She is still in the middle of this story. Still choosing, still learning, still building a life that makes sense not all at once, but piece by piece.
And if you have made it this far, you are already a part of it, even if only as a reader passing through.
So go on. See what she has been building.
Experience
Naraway
Feb 2026 – Present
Remote
Drive strategic partnerships and outreach initiatives to expand Naraway’s market presence and build a pipeline of high-value collaborators and clients.
Xander-Corp
Nov 2025 – Feb 2026
Remote · Head of Product, Product Strategy & GTM
Led product strategy and GTM for an early-stage no-code ML SaaS platform from zero to first activated users, owning user discovery, ICP definition, pricing, and onboarding flow.
IIIT Hyderabad
July 2025 – Oct 2025
Hyderabad, India · Research Intern, Robotics & RL
Defined performance requirements and success metrics for adaptive robot control in unstructured environments, identifying feasibility trade-offs between performance, adaptability, and compute cost.
Built RL-based control policies in Isaac Lab; contributed to action-level control relevant to VLA model integration in embodied AI systems.
Industrial R&D Unit, IIT Delhi
Sept 2024 – Jan 2025
New Delhi, India · Robotics Intern, Autonomous Systems
Owned requirements and trade-off decisions for autonomous navigation on EV platforms, balancing sensor accuracy, compute cost, and reliability across Lidar, IMU, and depth camera inputs.
Built and validated the full autonomous navigation pipeline using ROS 2, Autoware, and SLAM across simulation and physical deployment.
Projects
Matikaya • Coming Soon
March 2026 - Present
- React Native
- TypeScript
- NodeJS
- AWS
Matikaya is a cognitive training platform that works like a gym for the brain, designed to improve how people think rather than what they know. It offers structured daily workouts that train skills like critical thinking, analytical reasoning, logical deduction, and decision making through a mix of quick reasoning challenges, logic-based problems, and real-world scenarios.
Instead of random puzzles, the platform follows progressive training plans where users choose what they want to improve and receive targeted exercises over time. As users interact with the system, it tracks patterns in their thinking, identifies common mistakes or biases, and adapts future sessions accordingly, helping them build clearer, more structured, and more reliable thinking through consistent practice.
Kiti's Room
October 2025
- React
- NextJS
- Firebase
Kiti’s Room is a thoughtfully designed content platform that feels like a calm, cozy corner on the internet where ideas can be explored and expressed with ease. It brings together two distinct experiences. Echoes and Excerpts focuses on quick insights and audio summaries for people who want to learn efficiently, while Sighs and Scribbles offers a space for personal thoughts, stories, and creative writing.
The design leans into soft visuals, clean structure, and intuitive navigation so that exploring content feels natural and unforced. Alongside the user experience, it also includes simple admin tools that make uploading and managing content seamless. Overall, Kiti’s Room is built to balance functionality with emotion, creating a space that works both as a knowledge hub and a personal creative escape.
Achievements
Empowher Hackathon at IIIT Delhi - 1st Position
she-ksha
October 2023
- Blender
- Unity
- LLM
Won this Hackathon with the project "She-ksha". - Build a website that consisted of AR-VR classroom, Multilingual Chatbot and community support to improve better learning experience for rural women due to absence of good infrastructure. - I worked on creating models through blender for virtual classrooms, and making models of human characters. - Created a multilingual chatbot for community support.
ML Code Crunch Hackathon at DTU - 3rd Position
SereneHub
February 2024
- LLM Model
- ML
- Google Cloud Speech API
- OpenCV
Won this Hackathon with the project "SereneHub" - Build a project for mental health that consisted of Ml model for detecting emotions and reading facial expressions and suggesting a youtube video or song to lighten up the mood. - I worked on training the ML for facial detection and speech to text deciphering.
Blogs
Contact
Heyy, let me introduce you to Kiriti, or Kiti to her friends, the person behind this portfolio you decided was worth a few minutes of your time.
She did not grow up with a perfectly drawn plan or a neat answer to the question of what she wanted to be. Her story begins the way most honest ones do, with an accident disguised as curiosity. A random moment, a passing interest, and suddenly she was standing at the edge of robotics, looking in, and then stepping forward without fully realizing she had crossed into something that would matter.
She loved it in the way you love something that makes you feel a little more awake. The kind of love that replaces boredom with questions, that turns time into something flexible, something you lose without regret. For a while, it felt like enough. Like this could be the thing.
But the difficult truth about first loves is that they are not always meant to last. They are intense, and real, and important, but sometimes they are only meant to teach you how deeply you are capable of caring. And so she paid attention, not just to what she loved, but to how it loved her back. And somewhere in that quiet observation, she realized that fascination is not the same as belonging.
So she did something subtle, and far more difficult than it sounds. She did not abandon robotics, and she did not force herself to stay. She let it become what it wanted to be in her life. Something she returns to on weekends, in quieter hours, when curiosity does not need to prove anything. Something that still feels like wonder, because it is no longer burdened by expectation.
And then she went looking, not for another obsession, but for something steadier. Something that would meet her halfway.
That is how she found product management.
Not in a moment of certainty, but in a series of small recognitions. In the way she kept gravitating toward problems that needed shaping. In the way she cared about why something was being built just as much as how. In the way solutions felt incomplete until they made sense for the people they were meant for.
Product management did not feel like a sudden spark. It felt like alignment. Like the quiet realization that all the scattered pieces of curiosity, logic, and creativity had somewhere to go. Here, she could ask questions that mattered, make decisions that carried weight, and build things that were not just functional, but meaningful.
And maybe that is the difference.
Robotics taught her how to fall in love with building.
Product management is teaching her how to stay.
She is still in the middle of this story. Still choosing, still learning, still building a life that makes sense not all at once, but piece by piece.
And if you have made it this far, you are already a part of it, even if only as a reader passing through.
So go on. See what she has been building.
Experience
Naraway
Feb 2026 – Present
Remote
Drive strategic partnerships and outreach initiatives to expand Naraway’s market presence and build a pipeline of high-value collaborators and clients.
Xander-Corp
Nov 2025 – Feb 2026
Remote · Head of Product, Product Strategy & GTM
Led product strategy and GTM for an early-stage no-code ML SaaS platform from zero to first activated users, owning user discovery, ICP definition, pricing, and onboarding flow.
IIIT Hyderabad
July 2025 – Oct 2025
Hyderabad, India · Research Intern, Robotics & RL
Defined performance requirements and success metrics for adaptive robot control in unstructured environments, identifying feasibility trade-offs between performance, adaptability, and compute cost.
Built RL-based control policies in Isaac Lab; contributed to action-level control relevant to VLA model integration in embodied AI systems.
Industrial R&D Unit, IIT Delhi
Sept 2024 – Jan 2025
New Delhi, India · Robotics Intern, Autonomous Systems
Owned requirements and trade-off decisions for autonomous navigation on EV platforms, balancing sensor accuracy, compute cost, and reliability across Lidar, IMU, and depth camera inputs.
Built and validated the full autonomous navigation pipeline using ROS 2, Autoware, and SLAM across simulation and physical deployment.
Projects
Kiti's Room
October 2025
- React
- NextJS
- Firebase
Kiti’s Room is a thoughtfully designed content platform that feels like a calm, cozy corner on the internet where ideas can be explored and expressed with ease. It brings together two distinct experiences. Echoes and Excerpts focuses on quick insights and audio summaries for people who want to learn efficiently, while Sighs and Scribbles offers a space for personal thoughts, stories, and creative writing.
The design leans into soft visuals, clean structure, and intuitive navigation so that exploring content feels natural and unforced. Alongside the user experience, it also includes simple admin tools that make uploading and managing content seamless. Overall, Kiti’s Room is built to balance functionality with emotion, creating a space that works both as a knowledge hub and a personal creative escape.
MR Robot 2.0
2024-Present
- Ros 2
- SLAM
- Navigation Stack
- RViz
- Python
- Raspberry Pi
- IMU
- Ydlidar
MR ROBOT 2.0 is an autonomous navigation robot capable of performing various day-to-day operations, with a modular design that allows for customization to perform other tasks as well. - Integrating Raspberry Pi and LiDAR components to facilitate autonomous mobile robot (AMR) functionality, performed mapping and autonomous navigation, as well as developed code for different drive modes to enable teleoperation.
Aruco Navigation Project
March-September 2024
- ROS 2
- Python
- OpenCV
- Gazebo
- Blender
- Docker
Aruco Marker Development: Created 3D Aruco markers using Blender, designed to enhance robotic navigation and environment interaction within a simulated world. - Simulation Environment: Developed a dynamic environment in Gazebo, spawning Aruco markers and a mobile robot to facilitate testing and visualization of robotic behaviors. - Custom Scripting and Interfaces: Wrote scripts for Aruco detection and bot control, and implemented custom interfaces to streamline interaction between the robot and the simulation environment and deployed it on Docker.
Fintoolekt
June 2024
- ML
- Tensorflow
- Decison Tree
- Random Forest
Web Application Development: Collaborated on building a robust web platform designed for fraud detection and auditing of large datasets, enhancing data integrity and security. - Machine Learning Implementation: Developed and implemented machine learning models, utilizing algorithms such as Decision Trees and Random Forests to effectively identify fraudulent activities and patterns within the data.
CropDoc
April 2024
- CNN
- PyTorch
- Tensorflow
- Python
- OpenCV
- ESP-32
Build a diseases detection model for crop leaves that can be used by farmers in agriculture fields to prevent crop damage. - I worked on training ML model through transfer learning on our own dataset, so the model can take up real time dataset through computer vision. - Also worked on ESP-32 for making a moisture-detection sensor for better irrigation conditions in fields.
ZenZone
May 2024
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Unity
- Python
- Tensorflow
Website Development: Developed an interactive website, ZenZone, aimed at addressing mental health issues through innovative virtual solutions and resources. - VR Psychiatrist Room Creation: Designed a virtual reality psychiatrist room in Blender, providing an immersive environment for users to engage in virtual therapy sessions and enhance their mental wellness. - Integrated Chatbot and VR Experiences: Implemented a voice-to-text chatbot for seamless virtual therapy interactions, alongside creating a rage room for stress relief and a calming VR environment for meditation, promoting holistic mental health support.
Achievements
Empowher Hackathon at IIIT Delhi - 1st Position
she-ksha
October 2023
- Blender
- Unity
- LLM
Won this Hackathon with the project "She-ksha". - Build a website that consisted of AR-VR classroom, Multilingual Chatbot and community support to improve better learning experience for rural women due to absence of good infrastructure. - I worked on creating models through blender for virtual classrooms, and making models of human characters. - Created a multilingual chatbot for community support.
ML Code Crunch Hackathon at DTU - 3rd Position
SereneHub
February 2024
- LLM Model
- ML
- Google Cloud Speech API
- OpenCV
Won this Hackathon with the project "SereneHub" - Build a project for mental health that consisted of Ml model for detecting emotions and reading facial expressions and suggesting a youtube video or song to lighten up the mood. - I worked on training the ML for facial detection and speech to text deciphering.
