Professional Experience
Founder & AI engineer focused on LLM reliability, observability, and human-in-the-loop workflows — open to selective consulting, advisory, and senior IC work.
Work Experience
Founding AI Engineer
AI Platform for Freight Forwarders: Automated Quotation Workflows with LLMs
- Architected end-to-end multi-agentic quotation automation system from scratch as founding engineer, securing $2.4M in pre-seed funding and processing up to $50k in daily quote volume across multiple Freight Forwarders
- Engineered proprietary multi-agent framework enabling rapid creation of specialized sub-agents; deployed agents for RFQ analysis, multi-source supplier data integration, quote generation, and validation
- Pioneered natural language rules engine enabling non-technical users to define complex pricing logic and workflows
- Established engineering best practices including AI-assisted development workflows (Claude, Cursor), test automation, and code review processes to accelerate team velocity
Tech Lead (Now Technical Advisor)
Founders Factory backed AI-Powered Financial Coach Startup: Enterprise RAG Chatbot
- Developed inhouse RAG chatbot infrastructure to support over 1000 users, securing $200k in pre-seed funding
- Designed scalable infrastructure and algorithms, including the retrieval algorithm, API integrations and user interface
- Implemented custom agentic workflows to increase response accuracy, reduce hallucinations and improve user experience
Principal AI Engineer
Tech Startup acquired and integrated into Adobe Firefly: Personalised Lip Dubbing and Video Generation with GenAI
- Developed core video generation technology for personalised marketing videos highlighted by a Cannes award winning campaign with Celebrity Shahrukh Khan for Mondelez that garnered over 94 Million views
- Engineered state-of-the-art Text-to-Video and Lip Dubbing technologies by leading a research team of 6 engineers; these technologies were sold to Adobe for $50M, integrated into Adobe Firefly and are used by over 30 Million users
- Designed custom Neural Networks and algorithms to reduce operational costs by 75% and data requirements by 66%
- Integrated latest concepts from various fields including Image Inpainting, Classification, Meta-Learning, etc.
- Instituted team improvement initiatives: seminars, 1-on-1 chats, paper discussions etc. to increase productivity
Technical Crisis Manager
- Oversaw company-wide cross-functional teams of up to 10 employees to deliver AI-generated videos worth up to $125k
- Automated data handling and video creation workflows across the company; reduced manual workload by 80% and eliminated engineering and research team involvement in customer deliverables
- Instituted streamlined troubleshooting processes to decrease all project's turnaround periods by 50%
Research Engineer (Deep Learning)
- Provided tailored Deep Learning solutions as an AI consultant across 30+ technical departments within Samsung
- Architected company-wide neural network optimization framework; Cut down cost and processing time by up to 80% and data requirements by up to 50% using techniques such as Quantization, Pruning and Knowledge Distillation
- Redesigned CV acceleration pipeline for TVs; Reduced processing latency by 50% while improving quality by 20%
- Improved multimedia processing across multiple devices (Samsung Mobiles, Smart Watches, SoCs and other proprietary devices); diminished memory requirements by 50% and computation costs by 60%
Leadership & Community
- Winner of HackLBS 2024 (Flagship Hackathon)
- Consulted with 15+ early and mid-stage startups on AI strategy, product development, and fundraising
- Advised Indian Ambassador to South Korea based upon an analysis of South Korea's COVID-19 response in my capacity as President of IIT Alumni Association of Korea, Seoul (2019-21), an influential organization with 300+ members
- President of SwingPop Korea, Seoul (2017-18), a Non-Profit Dance Organization with $20,000 turnover