experience.log

Founding Engineer at 3 YC-backed startups.

Currently building real-time AI at SimCare AI (YC S24). Previously founding engineer at Artisan AI (YC W24) — scaled to $4M ARR — and at Stack AI (YC W23). Plus a fintech scale story and everything in between.

currentlyFounding Engineer @ SimCare AI
YS24 · W24 · W23
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Founding Engineer

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SimCare AIYYC S24
Jan 2025 – Present
Remote
  • ●Leading core AI infrastructure for a real-time AI video platform — designing low-latency pipelines that fuse speech-to-text, large language models, and text-to-speech into human-like virtual agents capable of live, face-to-face conversation.
  • ●Architected the FastAPI backend powering production conversations: orchestrating Deepgram transcription, streaming LLM inference, and tuning async workflows to hit sub-second end-to-end latency under real-time video constraints.
  • ●Owning the stack end-to-end as one of the first engineers — from backend reliability and infra to Next.js product surfaces — shaping architecture, product direction, and engineering decisions for the platform.

Founding Engineer

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Artisan AIYYC W24
Oct 2023 – May 2024
California, US (Remote)
  • ●Joined as an early engineer and helped scale the platform to $4M ARR in under a year, building the LLM-powered outbound automation systems at the core of the product.
  • ●Designed and shipped personalized cold-email pipelines at scale — combining web scraping, data enrichment, and LLM generation to produce hyper-targeted outreach for thousands of prospects per run.
  • ●Owned backend throughput and reliability for large-scale AI workflows: cut LLM response times from hours to minutes through batching and parallelization, and tightened prompt performance through iterative evaluation.
  • ●Integrated and maintained the platform's communication backbone — Apollo, Gmail, Outlook, Warmy, MailGenius, and SendGrid — enabling full end-to-end outbound campaigns.

Founding Engineer

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Stack AIYYC W23
Jul 2024 – Nov 2024
California, US (Remote)
  • ●Joined early as a founding engineer on a no-code platform that lets users visually compose and deploy LLM-driven workflows — working on the abstraction layers that translate graph-based inputs into executable AI pipelines.
  • ●Migrated the node execution engine from an edge-based data-flow model to a cleaner input-output structure, improving scalability, maintainability, and extensibility to new node types.
  • ●Built Gmail and Outlook input/output nodes plus email-trigger automations, and shipped an in-house notification system to surface real-time workflow events to users.

Founding Engineer

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Nuvia AI
Jun 2024 – Dec 2024
Sao Paulo, Brazil (Remote)
  • ●Designed and implemented the end-to-end backend architecture using FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, and Redis — standing up a production-grade platform from zero.
  • ●Built the core product infrastructure: secure JWT-based auth, workspace models, mailbox and inbox management, and the full campaign orchestration layer.
  • ●Integrated Gmail, Outlook, Warmy, MailGenius, and SendGrid to deliver a cohesive outbound communication and campaign management experience.

Software Developer

NatWest Group
May 2023 – Sep 2023
Gurugram, Haryana
  • ●Scaled the Treasury Intraday Liquidity Management System (TILMS) — driving ~$100K in monthly savings through improvements to nostro-account balance tracking, end-of-day summaries, and payment sweep logic.
  • ●Built XCT and ISO adaptors processing 3M+ messages daily, with ETL pipelines from Kafka topics into IBM MQ over secure SSL connections — unlocking real-time data integration into TILMS.
  • ●Led the system migration to AWS, shipped Splunk dashboards with real-time alerting, and automated GitLab pipelines for code quality, test builds, and deploys.

Backend Engineer

Studio Lama
Jan 2023 – May 2023
India (Remote)
  • ●Designed and developed a robust backend application for Apply Course using Django framework and PostgreSQL, enabling efficient management and processing of course applications.
  • ●Implemented user profiles with different roles and permissions, ensuring secure access to the database based on assigned roles, effectively managing user privileges and data confidentiality.
  • ●Collaborated closely with the frontend team to ensure seamless integration between the frontend and backend systems, providing a smooth user experience and efficient data retrieval and manipulation.

Backend Engineer

Global Technocrats
Jan 2023 – Mar 2023
India (Remote)
  • ●Developed backend systems using Django framework for machine learning models and scraping scripts, enabling efficient data processing and analysis.
  • ●Created microservices using AWS Lambda to optimize backend models, resulting in modular and easily maintainable codebases.
  • ●Deployed Django-based backend on AWS, utilizing services like AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS RDS for optimal performance, high availability, and scalability.

Software Engineering Intern

Arista Networks
Aug 2022 – Dec 2022
Bangalore, Karnataka
  • ●Proficient in layer 2 and layer 3 networking protocols, with a strong grasp of packet switching and routing principles.
  • ●Demonstrated expertise in network design and testing, contributing to the development of robust and efficient networks.
  • ●Hands-on experience with Arista's cutting-edge Cloud Vision Platform, with a focus on testing advanced features such as layer 2 and layer 3 subinterfaces.

Full Stack Developer Intern

HighRadius
Jan 2022 – Apr 2022
India (Remote)
  • ●Developed and deployed a Fintech B2B cloud application using React.js, Java, and machine learning components, enabling Account Receivable users to view, process, and predict invoice payments.
  • ●Built a full-stack invoice management application with React, JDBC, Postgres, Python and Java, featuring data management, searching, editing, and deleting capabilities, as well as a responsive dashboard.
  • ●Demonstrated expertise in front-end and back-end development, as well as data visualization, processing, and predictive modeling using machine learning components.

Python Development Intern

Docplus Online
Jul 2021 – Jan 2022
Remote
  • ●Achieved proficiency in utilizing Python's Selenium and Beautiful Soup libraries to scrape healthcare websites, gather data on doctors, hospitals, and medicines, and automate data fetching processes.
  • ●Developed and implemented Python scripts for real-time data retrieval and translation of website content into over 65 languages.
  • ●Performed automation scripting and testing using Selenium, ensuring accuracy and reliability of data extraction and automation processes.

Data Mining Intern

Make Me Builder
Apr 2021 – Jul 2021
Virtual
  • ●Designed and implemented algorithms for data cleaning and data profiling using Python and Pandas, ensuring high data quality and consistency.
  • ●Performed thorough Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) on datasets, utilizing a variety of statistical and visualization techniques to gain insights into data patterns and relationships.
  • ●Achieved proficiency in maintaining organized data in a specific order through efficient data manipulation and management techniques, ensuring accessibility and usability for downstream analysis and reporting.

Machine Learning Intern

Madras Scientific Research Foundation
Feb 2021 – Apr 2021
Remote
  • ●Wrote academic blogs on Machine Learning and worked on research projects. One project involved developing an autocompletion feature using NLP and Python libraries such as Spacy and FastAutocomplete.
  • ●Another project was implementing image recognition and feature detection using Caffe library and explaining its working.
  • ●Implemented the SURF research paper and its application in OpenCV for real-time object detection.

IoT Intern

VEI Technology
Jan 2021 – Feb 2021
Remote
  • ●Acquired in-depth knowledge of IoT architecture, protocols, and applications, with a focus on Home Automation technology.
  • ●Demonstrated proficiency in working with hardware components, including Arduino UNO, Raspberry Pi, and IoT sensors, to design and develop advanced IoT systems.
  • ●Successfully completed a hands-on project, from conception to completion, utilizing API integration and showcasing the ability to deliver a fully functional IoT solution within a predetermined timeline.
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Positions of Responsibility

Here are a few extra-curriculars.

GirlScript Summer of Code - Mentor and Contributor

March 2022 – May 2022

GirlScript Winter Of Contributing - Mentor for 'Data Science with Python'

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021

Technical Head and Joint PRO - Ramanujan Mathematics Club SRM

Aug 2021 – Dec 2022

Technical Associate - NWC Association SRM

Aug 2021 – May 2022