I build systems that serve hundreds of millions and the teams behind them.
I'm a hands-on engineering leader with 15+ years of shipping production systems, writing code, and growing teams. I've built platforms that drove Nykaa from early stage to IPO, shipped AI products at Hike and Orangewood Labs, and founded companies from scratch.
I still write code daily — currently in Rust and Python — and believe the best engineering leaders stay close to the work. My open source projects, research papers, and production systems reflect a consistent philosophy: build it, ship it, measure the outcome.
Core Expertise
AI-Native Development
- Production AI-assisted development frameworks
- AI agent architecture and safety patterns (Substrate Pattern)
- AI governance for regulated industries
- LLM integration and prompt engineering at scale
Systems Architecture
- E-commerce platforms at massive scale (99.99% uptime)
- Real-time data systems (Kafka, Flink, event-driven)
- High-performance APIs and microservices
- Edge computing and industrial IoT
Engineering Leadership
- Scaling teams from 5 to 50+ engineers
- Technical hiring and culture building
- Cross-functional AI team formation
- Remote-first engineering organizations
Startup Advisory
- Fundraising support and pitch development
- Product-market fit and go-to-market strategy
- Technical due diligence for VCs
- Architecture scaling from MVP to enterprise
Career Journey
Founder, Principal
2024 – PresentNeul Labs
High-performance AI agent infrastructure. Rust-accelerated drop-ins (fast-litellm, fast-langgraph)
Principal AI Architect
May 2025 – Mar 2026Aveni
Built the fast parts of the AI agent stack for financial services. Rust-accelerated drop-in libraries for production LLM workflows
AI Engineering Lead
Dec 2023 – Nov 2024Manufactured
Built AI agents for global supply chain optimization using GPT-4
Head of AI & Platform
Oct 2022 – Sep 2023Orangewood Labs
Created RoboGPT, AutoInspect, and EdgeML platform for industrial robotics
Founder
Dec 2021 – Sep 2022Cryptuon Research
Multi-chain API, MPC wallets. Secured $2.5M+ pre-launch
Principal Engineering Consultant
2017 – 2021Nykaa
Led platform migration, 500% traffic growth, 99.99% uptime
ML Team Leader
2019 – 2021Hike
30+ patents filed, shipped facial recognition and social matching
Senior Engineering Manager
2012 – 2013Tradus
Led 15-engineer team to launch India's first e-commerce marketplace
Core Team
2007 – 2008SlideShare
Led conversion engine architecture (acquired by LinkedIn)
Credentials
Education
- M.S. Computer Science, Arizona State University
- B.Tech Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Recognition
- 60+ patents filed
- Published researcher at ML conferences
- IEEE Eta Kappa Nu member
- Google Summer of Code alumnus (2005, 2006)
- Author: Nginx Web Server Implementation Cookbook
Other places I write
I maintain a few separate sites, each focused on a different facet of my work. They share an author but not a topic. See /about/identities/ for the long version.
Venture case studies (Kwippy, Boom Labs, ExpressMOJO, AAHIT) and notes on founding, fundraising, and advisory work.
Federated learning, blockchain protocols, MEV mitigation, and the 25+ provisional patent applications filed with the Indian Patent Office.
Client case studies — infrastructure transformation, data platforms, recommendation systems for Lenskart, 99Acres, Momspresso, and others.
Long-running technical blog — AI agents, self-hosting, DevOps, and whatever else has caught my interest over the last 18 years.