experience.md
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+
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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