Almost a decade of shipping products and leading teams. The last few years have been mostly AI systems, built from India through BigCircle and on partner engagements.
The studio I founded in 2022. The work below is what I've led and shipped through it: production AI systems on products of my own and on partner engagements.
AI Engineering Lead (Contract)
Cross-platform desktop AI sales companion. Electron client with local Whisper inference for low-latency meeting transcription, plus a cloud STT fallback for resilience. LangChain + LlamaIndex companion with pgvector RAG over product knowledge, competitor intel, and playbooks. Reflection loops, context compression, Langfuse evals.
AI Systems Architect
Multi-agent workflows for executive operations. MCP-style tool servers (calendar, email, document intelligence), persistent memory, async task graphs with reflection and retries, LitServe + llmlite inference for low-latency streaming.
AI + Tech Lead
Legal-intelligence engine for trademark conflict scoring. RAG over case law and registries, LoRA-fine-tuned embeddings for semantic + phonetic similarity, hybrid retrieval with Pinecone + rerankers, NICE-class mapping, structured evals via Langfuse.
Fractional CTO
Sustainability platform aggregating real-time environmental metrics. AWS Lambda + Python pipelines, Electron analytics dashboard, CloudFront delivery. Built and led the engineering team.
Tech Lead (Contract)
Next.js + Shopify storefront. Custom discount-extension framework, checkout migration to Shopify's new extensibility, Core Web Vitals + performance work, Vercel deploys.
Engineering Contractor
Three-year contract across the BX engineering org. Led the in-house SSR framework → Next.js migration, the GraphQL transition for two major apps (~9 months), and a unified data-fetching strategy across 13 apps. Decommissioned a vulnerable REST endpoint to thwart bot attacks. Contributed to the design-system component library.
Before BigCircle.
Product Architect / Tech Lead, Core Team
Built and mentored an 8-engineer team from zero (filtered 500+ applications, ran 100+ interviews). Redesigned the core platform: 25+ services moved to event-driven and serverless on AWS (Lambda + Python, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, ECS, RDS), IaC via Terraform/Ansible, CI/CD + blue-green deploys across 50+ services. Cost down ~34%, scalability up to four nines.
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead
Spearheaded a 4-person front-end team; introduced React, Express, and Python-based services to a mixed PHP/Node stack. Shipped read-receipts for the Gmail Chrome extension (drove +30% product adoption). Revamped email-campaign scheduling, 27% drop in support queries.
Technology Research Engineer · Mumbai
First job out of college. Cleared nine Microsoft certifications in under a year, co-led a 3-engineer tech research team exploring Azure and Power BI. Automated data validation across 20+ teams (5,000+ daily points). Built a Power BI reporting tool that became a MAQ product offering.