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DollarVora.

I build pricing tools, BI systems, and independent products.

I grew up in Mumbai, studied and worked in Boston, and now build from Montréal. Travel keeps changing what I notice and what I make next.

Dollar smiling outdoors in Madrid.
Acquiring portrait signal
Portrait signal / MadridScroll to develop ↓
25places logged
03countries lived
01independent practice

02 / The route

Six chapters. One route.

Six stops connect education, work, products, and independent practice. Scroll or choose a marker to follow the sequence. The route shows story order, not residence, distance, or duration.

Equal Earth map of six life and work chapters. Marker position represents geography; curved arrows represent chapter order rather than distance or duration. Chapter five is anchored in Toronto while representing Canada-wide work.

  • Marker position = place
  • Arrow = chapter order, not distance
  • Dashed field = Canada-wide scope
01BOMB.E. / origin

Mumbai, India

Electronics engineering in Mumbai

In Mumbai, electronics engineering built the foundation: circuits, signals, and the discipline of understanding how complex systems behave before trying to improve them.

Context
University of Mumbai · Electronics Engineering
Open the field atlas
02BOSM.S. / previous

Boston, United States

Graduate analytics and public-health work

Boston is where analytics stopped being coursework and became public infrastructure, through graduate study, teaching, and public-health work.

Context
Northeastern University · Boston Public Health Commission
Open the surveillance case study
03YULPrevious role

Québec, Canada

Building the Control Tower at BRP

At BRP in Québec, reporting work grew into an operating tool that brought daily sales and inventory decisions into one view.

Context
BRP · Motor vehicles · Previous role
Open the Control Tower case
04GIGLive product

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A travel problem became Justo

A difficult ride in Rio left me with a question I could not drop: how could an unfamiliar trip feel safer and fairer? That question became Justo.

Context
Rio de Janeiro · Product origin · Live
See how Justo was built
05YYZCurrent role

Toronto, Canada

Pricing intelligence at scale

At Softchoice, I turn commercial signals into pricing models, decision tools, and clear recommendations for leaders.

Context
Softchoice · Current role · Canada-wide scope
06YULNow booking

Montréal, Canada

Starting Volplane from Montréal

Montréal is the home base for Volplane, the independent practice that brings data, BI, and applications into one client relationship.

Context
Independent practice · Now booking
Request a charter

03 / Selected work

Selected work, built for real decisions.

Three selected cases show the constraints, the systems I built, and what changed in the working process.

DV 005 / Logistics

Dealers GeoCluster

An R-based logistics tool that groups nearby dealers, allocates each truck within capacity, and optimizes the visit sequence by solving two connected problems.

Problem

Balance dealer priority, shipment volume, route length, and the order of stops.

Method

100-mile working groups + TSP stop sequencing + CVRP truck-capacity constraints.

Models
CVRP + TSP
Constraints
Radius + capacity
Output
Load + route plan
Open the optimization case
Method model · illustrative network topology

DV 003 / Product

Justo

A live iOS product that combines community reports, local safety context, and on-device privacy tools across four Brazilian cities.

Built

SwiftUI, PostGIS, safety context, community reporting, on-device face blur.

Status

Live product · solo design and engineering.

See the product journey
Justo's live safety map on an iPhone.
Actual product surface · Rio de Janeiro

DV 004 / Business intelligence

Control Tower

One operating view for sales, inventory, and daily priorities, supported by automated R pipelines and an aging-inventory application.

Problem

Scattered data and manual reports slowed daily inventory decisions.

What shipped

A division dashboard, daily R automation, and an aging inventory app.

Open the Control Tower case

Workflow outcomes

Daily
automated data preparation
One view
sales and aging inventory
Faster
aging-stock review
Outcome summary from the project workflow

04 / Travel archive

Twenty-five places logged. Selected photographs from the route.

The map holds the full travel log. Selected places open into photographs from my own camera roll.

Select a highlighted country to open its storySelected Canada. Photo story available below.
CanadaN 56°08′ W 106°21′CitizenView Canada photos
Featured field note · Canada04 photographs

Where work, city life, the Yukon, and the field practice converge.

Global mobility / personal notes

One citizenship. One OCI card. Two residence statuses.

Canada
Citizen
India
OCI cardholder
Uruguay
Permanent resident
Mexico
Temporary resident

I have navigated immigration processes in the United States and Canada, and I now hold an OCI card plus residence status in Uruguay and Mexico. I'm happy to compare practical notes from personal experience.

This is personal experience, not legal or immigration advice. I do not assess eligibility, interpret options, prepare applications, or represent applicants. For case-specific guidance, use an authorized professional.

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05 / Short field films

I usually bring the drone.

I like biking with a DJI Mini 2 in the backpack, then bringing home a few seconds that hold the feeling of a place. At night, the Insta360 sometimes takes over.

Yukon, CanadaA slow pass above the ridge.

06 / Independent practice

Volplane

volplane / verb / to glide with the engine off.

Clearer decisions. Better operating tools.

Volplane is my independent practice for data, business intelligence, and focused applications. I work directly with teams that have a decision to make, a reporting process that keeps breaking, or a useful tool they cannot quite get shipped.

The name comes from an aviation word for gliding without engine power. I liked the idea of doing more with what is already there, with less drag and no unnecessary machinery.

Tell me about the problem
01

Decision analysis

Pricing, margin, forecasting, segmentation, and operating questions.

You leave withA decision model, a short readout, and a prioritized next step.

02

BI systems

Metric definitions, dashboards, and the pipelines that keep them current.

You leave withA trusted operating view and a workflow your team can own.

03

Focused applications

Internal tools, client products, web apps, and iOS builds for work that has outgrown spreadsheets.

You leave withA working product, documented and handed over cleanly.

What working together looks like

One point of contact from start to finish. A short fit call, a written scope, regular working reviews, and a clean handoff. If the problem needs a larger team or a specialist, I will say so early.

Based in Montréal · Limited project capacity

07 / Working instruments

The tools I use across analysis, automation, and product work.

A moving editorial index of tools I use in real work.

12 tools in regular rotation
  • R
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Power BI
  • R Shiny
  • Tableau
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • SwiftUI
  • PostGIS
  • D3
  • Pricing

From Montréal · available for the right problem

Let's make the next
decision clearer.

dollarvora@icloud.com
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