He is a professional wildlife photographer, photography mentor, and naturalist. After completing an engineering degree and an MBA, he worked briefly in the corporate sector before pursuing his passion for wildlife and photography.
His work has taken him across diverse wildlife habitats around the world, including rainforests, polar regions, the high-altitude Himalayas, deserts, and islands. He builds photographic narratives that combine creative perspectives with natural history and conservation, and his stories have been published in National Geographic Traveller, Sanctuary Asia, Saevus, Lonely Planet India, RoundGlass Sustain, Nature inFocus, and JLR Explore.
As a photography mentor, he leads wildlife photography tours across the world, helping photographers develop both their technical skills and their ability to tell compelling stories through images. As a naturalist, he has trained and certified naturalists across Karnataka in association with Jungle Lodges and Resorts and the Karnataka Eco-tourism Development Board. He was also part of a team that described two new species of geckos from the dry regions of Karnataka.
At CEGS, he documents and photographs wildlife across the campus and surrounding landscape, contributing to a growing understanding of the region's biodiversity and the role of habitat restoration in enhancing wildlife habitats.