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Experience

Helping companies build products at the intersection of AI and enterprise software.

Ventures led
4
Enterprise clients
50+
Users reached
1M+
Years building
14+
Engineers mentored
40+
  1. Founding Engineer & CTO · Spoon

    Jan 2024 – Present

    United States (Remote)

    Building the AI-native operating system for multi-unit restaurants: the system of record for vendors, invoices, inventory, labor, menu costing, and financial reporting.

    • Designing the platform around three connected data spines (GL, POS, inventory) and an AI-ready architecture where every module exposes APIs that SpoonIQ agents can use
    • Integrating with Toast, Plaid, Finch, and major supplier and delivery platforms instead of replacing them
    • Built the engineering practice from scratch, co-developing with Kerbey Lane Cafe as the live development laboratory
    • LLMs
    • Agentic AI
    • MCP
    • Toast POS
    • Plaid
    • Finch
  2. Founder · OneNeural

    Jan 2024 – Present

    United States

    Founded OneNeural as a consulting practice for AI thought leadership and agentic product development.

    • Advise teams on applied-AI strategy and design
    • Build and ship agentic products end to end, including RecruitIQ for agentic hiring
    • Share patterns for agent orchestration, multi-modal interfaces, and RAG with private knowledge bases
    • Agentic AI
    • Agent orchestration
    • Multi-modal
    • RAG
  3. Principal Engineer · Atoms

    May 2023 – Present

    United States (Remote)

    Leading engineering for James Clear's official Atomic Habits app.

    • Grew to 600K+ organic installs in Year 1 with under $1 CAC
    • Designed an AI-driven nudging system that increased streak completions by 2.4x and drove 35-40% thirty-day retention, 5-6x the consumer app industry average
    • Nominated for a Webby Award; featured as App of the Day in the US, Australia, and Asia; 120K+ monthly active users
    • React Native
    • Expo
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • OpenAI
    • AWS
  4. CTO · Ayrin Digital

    Jan 2022 – Present

    United States

    Leading technology strategy for an AI consultancy that has delivered 50+ engagements for companies including Google, Nike, Clorox, AccuWeather, Pearson, and Royal Caribbean.

    • Built a team of senior engineers capable of handling complex, high-impact projects
    • Established frameworks for accelerated delivery across AI integration, system modernization, and full-stack product architecture
    • AI integration
    • System modernization
    • Full-stack architecture
  5. Technical Architect · Symbl.ai

    Jun 2022 – May 2024

    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Shaped the technical direction of a conversation intelligence platform that extracts insights from meetings, calls, and interactions.

    • Architected the platform to support real-time processing of millions of interactions
    • Designed a data pipeline architecture that reduced processing latency by 60%
    • Established microservices patterns that enabled independent team scaling and deployment
    • Improved platform reliability to 99.95% uptime
    • NLP
    • Speech processing
    • Microservices
    • Real-time streaming
  6. Lead Engineer → Architect · Mutual Mobile

    Aug 2017 – May 2022

    Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Progressed from Lead Engineer to Architect at a digital product agency building mobile and web products for startups and enterprises.

    • Led development and architecture for 30+ successful product projects across diverse industries
    • Established reusable cloud and mobile frameworks that improved delivery velocity across all teams
    • Designed and implemented scalable architectures serving millions of users
    • Mentored 15+ engineers, many advancing to leadership positions
    • iOS
    • Android
    • React Native
    • Flutter
    • React
    • AWS
    • GCP
    • Azure
  7. Technical Lead · HARMAN International

    Dec 2015 – Jul 2017

    Bangalore

    Drove iOS and Android development, cross-platform initiatives, and cloud-based IoT solutions for connected consumer products.

    • Led cross-functional teams to deliver multiple IoT-enabled consumer products
    • Created reusable mobile frameworks that cut development time for new projects by 40%
    • Architected cloud infrastructure supporting millions of connected devices
    • iOS
    • Android
    • Xamarin
    • React Native
    • Node.js
    • .NET
    • AWS
    • Azure
  8. Senior Software Developer · Philips

    Aug 2014 – Dec 2015

    Bangalore

    Built mobile products for Philips Healthcare, focusing on wearable technologies and IoT infrastructure research.

    • Delivered mobile applications that extended Philips Healthcare's digital presence in patient monitoring
    • Integrated wearable technologies with mobile applications for comprehensive health tracking
    • Contributed to foundational research on IoT infrastructure that informed future product development
    • iOS
    • Android
    • Wearables
    • IoT
  9. Associate Consultant · EPAM (formerly Alliance Global Services)

    Mar 2012 – Jul 2014

    Hyderabad Area, India

    Delivered mobile and web applications across iOS, Android, and cross-platform technologies while building expertise in Microsoft enterprise technologies.

    • Delivered cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin that reduced development time
    • Built and deployed BI solutions using MSBI for data analysis and reporting
    • iOS
    • Android
    • Xamarin
    • C#
    • ASP.NET MVC
    • SQL Server

Technical depth

I gravitate toward systems that adapt to humans rather than forcing humans to adapt. I pick tools based on the problem, not the hype cycle, and I build teams that do the same.

AI / LLM
  • Claude
  • OpenAI
  • Gemini
  • Open-source LLMs
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • CrewAI
  • Google ADK
  • STT and TTS
  • RAG
  • Fine-tuning (LoRA / QLoRA)
Backend
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Express.js
  • NestJS
  • FastAPI
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
  • WebSockets
  • SSE
Frontend
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TanStack Start
  • Tailwind CSS
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Flutter
  • iOS / Android native
Data
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • DynamoDB
  • Redis
  • Prisma
  • pgvector
  • Chroma
  • FAISS
  • Azure AI Search
DevOps
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Serverless
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Kustomize
  • Istio
  • ArgoCD
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
Observability
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Loki
  • Tempo
  • Datadog
  • Sentry
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • GCP Cloud Operations
  • PagerDuty

Focus areas

  • AI-native products
  • Agentic AI
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Voice AI
  • RAG pipelines
  • LLM guardrails
  • LLM cost optimization
  • SOC 2 systems
  • System design
  • Cloud architecture
  • SaaS architecture
  • Microservices
  • Real-time systems
  • Product strategy
  • Team building

Certifications

  • AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
  • Google Cloud Developer
  • Google Cloud Architect

Education

  • PG-DAC (Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing)C-DAC · 2011 – 2012
  • Computer Science (Hons.)Sambalpur University · 2008 – 2011

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