Mar 2025 – Aug 2025 · 5 mos

• Helping Plum bake AI into their Decision Making, Products & Culture

Feb 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Frasisco

Feb 2024 – Jan 2025 · 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Dec 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · [YC 19]

• Helped Vahan build crucial AI systems leading to series B by Khosla Ventures.
• Directly working with the Founder & CXOs at vahan, guiding AI team at Vahan build next-generation AI systems.

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco/Bangalore/New Delhi

• I work with a select group of startups & enterprises to help them conceive, build, and scale AI systems & products—from initial strategy to production deployment.
• Today, I run a focused AI consulting practice offering:
• 1. Creating comprehensive AI Strategy & Roadmap
• 2. Head-of-AI as a service
• 3. Setup World-Class AI Teams & AI-CoE
• 4. Advise AI-first startups and enterprise innovation labs on various facets of AI
• 5. Tailored AI Masterclasses & Bootcamps (specially for CXOs & Founders)
• 6. Identify blockers in AI execution & solve for them
• 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯-𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘐 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘖𝘐, 𝘭𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬.
• 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗹𝘆, 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:
• ○ With over 20+ yrs of hands-on experience in building AI systems - first decade as a researcher, next decade spearheading AI efforts, driving org level AI KPIs as Chief AI Officer.
• I bring deep technical expertise as well as pragmatic, business-first mindset to every engagement.
• ○ Created flagship AI system at a Y Combinator (YC) startup, demoed to Sam Altman(OpenAI) & Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures)
• Helping YC startup secure series B funding from Khosla Ventures.
• The system was showcased at OpenAI’s flagship event DevDay (Feb 2025).
• ○ Incubated & led 100+ people cross geography AI teams. Led AI efforts in NLP, Vision, Speech, & Data Science at both startup & Fortune 50 leading to multi million dollars in ROI.
• ○ Authored a landmark AI book, published by O’Reilly (US), June 2020:
• Endorsed by globally top AI Leaders including those from CMU, UCSD, Google AI, Deepmind, Microsoft Research, Cohere, flagship YC startups like Airbnb.
• Used by 50+ universities globally for their AI curriculum.
• ○ Led AI efforts at an early AI startup (in 2013), acquired in 2016 by Freshworks (Nasdaq) for its AI capabilities.
• ○ Authored 40+ research papers (including A+ conferences), US patents & Articles

Nov 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Directly worked with Founders & CXOs at Haptik and helping them take AI@Haptik to the next orbit.

Jan 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Jan 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Mar 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• As the head of AI, I am responsible for building capability to win and execute AI projects. I lead 2 teams at Vahan:
• ML team working on problems in NLP and Vision
• DS team working on understanding and analysing user data

Sep 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Helping Vahan built the AI piece

Dec 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I am part of Intuit AI team leading some of the initiatives on baking AI into Intuit's product line

Jan 2018 – Oct 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Advising & Consulting a range of organizations in US & Europe on acing AI - right from vision, setting up AI function, modeling, data, go-to-market strategy for AI products, creating AI road maps, building high-performance AI teams, overall AI strategy. I work directly with Founders/CXOs/Partners and help organizations/VCs get AI right and deliver ROI at Org level KPIs
• Interactions with over 30+ AI first startups & MNCs to suggest paths forward.

Dec 2017 – Jul 2018 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Heading Machine Learning/Deep Learning efforts for products across various business lines involving NLP and Computer Vision
• Aligning ML/DL efforts with their business.
• Helping Huawei build a world class machine learning team.

Jul 2017 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs

• Practical Natural Language Processing is your guide to build, iterate and scale NLP systems in a business setting and to tailor them for various industry verticals. The book was released in June 2020, and within 3 weeks was in top20 in Computer Science on amazon.
• The book is endorsed by Zachary Lipton, Sebastian Ruder & Marc Najork, Monojit Choudhury & Vinayak Hegde among others
• Foreword by Julian McAuley
• More info at: http://www.practicalnlp.ai

Feb 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Led a team of ML researchers and ML engineers
• Architect for ML R&D and product initiatives.
• Major work:
• ⠀⠀⠀Identifying actionable conversations from twitter feeds
• ⠀⠀⠀Ticket collaborator suggestion
• ⠀⠀⠀Goal Oriented dialogue system: Intent detection, named entity extraction
• ⠀⠀⠀Ticket data and text representation

Apr 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Cenceptualize, develop and deliver all ML Efforts at Airwoot
• Built ML systems for NLP tasks such classification, sentiment analysis, Noise cancellation
• Drove efforts to move to Deep Learning from featre engineering and classical Machine Learning
• Toolbelt: Python, Theano, TensorFlow, Keras, Lasagne, Passage

Jan 2014 – Apr 2014 · 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Headed all Data Science efforts at Droom Technologies.
• Bottom line responsibility of Building, from scratch, mathematical models for pricing/valuation of used vehicles in the Indian market. (https://orangebookvalue.com/)
• Defined and executed entire Data Science life cycle.
• Responsible for building and expanding Data Science Team from scratch.
• Directly worked with the CEO
• I was also a part core strategy planning team. The team brainstormed and evaluated various initiatives in Marketing, Business Development, Engineering, Business related Policy Decisions at Droom.

Jul 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos · New Delhi, India

May 2007 – May 2009 · 2 yrs

Jul 2006 – May 2009 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Taught post-graduate level course “Mathematical Foundations” (MA-5905) introducing the foundation blocks of modern-day cryptography.
• Topics covered:
• Computability Theory
• Complexity Theory
• One way Functions
• Pseudo Random Generators
• Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo · India

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs · India