Aug 2023 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Architected a multimodal AI pipeline automating script→scenes→voiceover→video.
• Impact:
• Generated 1000K+ videos for 500K+ users
• Reduced GPU cost by 40% with optimized inference pipelines
• Designed agentic LLM workflows improving automation by 70%
• Oversaw hiring, engineering culture, roadmap execution

Jun 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Built and scaled fintech verification APIs for employment & income data.
• Impact:
• Scaled engineering team to 40+ engineers
• Architected secure ISO27001/SOC2-compliant platform
• Designed high-scale API infrastructure serving millions of requests
• Established engineering practices, release cycles, and product alignment

Oct 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

• Developed a proximity communication protocol using audio, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi for location-based user recognition and reward engine.
• Set up CI-CD pipeline and automated testing framework for mobile app.
• Setup emulator farm to reduce cloud testing costs.
• Implemented Wiremock as backend mocking framework for mobile app testing.

Aug 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• Provided sports as an alternative to conventional fitness programs. Grew user base to 1200 with 200 daily active users across 5 centers.

Jan 2018 – Aug 2018 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• Enhanced guest's stay at hotels by providing smoother communication and access to hotel services and facilities. Deployed product as PoCs for 4 renowned 5-star hotels.

Jul 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed high-frequency audio transmission applications for second screen engagement, audience measurement, authentication, proximity marketing, analytics, and IoT device communication.

Nov 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

• Developed a protocol stack for transferring data between two devices over high frequency sound, this can used as Near Field communication without any additional hardware on mobile phones used to power ‘Tap n Pay’ without internet feature for a mobile payment platform.
• End-to-end ownership of system architecture and design and development of 
mobile payment app with secure and highly available backend services on the cloud (AWS).
• The system is complex, due to ensuring reliable data transfer using sound waves, proper encryption and decryption and key exchanges between backend server and user’s clients, android application development, and finally, integration between backend servers and APIs of different banks and of NPCI and Payment Gateways

Dec 2008 – Nov 2014 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed an Audio Fingerprinting Algorithm for a Song Identification to power a Music Discovery platform as a VAS service for network operators, generated over 100-million-dollar revenue for them in last 10yrs.
• Developed a high throughput Song Catcher Server, using GPUs for parallel processing & Indexing solution the song from a database of 10 million songs
• Developed a Vocal Singing Evaluation Algorithm for a providing feedback to singing in a Karaoke Application to be deployed as a VAS service, by the network/telecom operators.

Apr 2008 – Nov 2008 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• Design & Develop Indian Accented English Text-to-Speech Synthesis Engine(It takes a text input and synthesizes speech output for the text ) , using the data driven synthesis approach
• Chalk out Plan for developing a TTS product line for the company, Research and Finalize the approach to be used for developing a TTS engine,
• Figuring out the blockages / solutions for current approach decided with the current problem at hand( e.g. Indian Accented English Text Input may contain Indian words too, so to have solution to thought and kept ready).
• Project Planning, High Level and the Low level design for the software, Setting up the source repositories for the project.
• Development(Coding), Training and Mentoring the team members about the technology, design of the project.

Feb 2007 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Building Infrastructure (Tools/Scripts) & Modification to enable various Avaya products (IR, IC, CMS) under Managed Services Platform(ESP)

Apr 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Researched & Developed a framework to build Text-To-Speech Solution for Indian English & Hindi.
• Improvements in quality by speech Data-driven-synthesis techniques, using clustering and greedy algorithms
• Discovery of various Letter to Sound rules and exceptions of Indian languages.
• Improvement in memory footprint using Speech Parametrization and Reconstruction using MFCC & Harmonic & Noise Modelling
• Implemented Prosody Modelling using NLP and Pitch-Synchronous Overlap and addition techniques to modify the pitch of recorded speech
• Handled full life cycle of products development including planning, scheduling, development
• Managed and Maintained and Supported TTS products, ie creation, handling and maintenance of sources, binaries and installers and their versioning and support.

Apr 2003 – Mar 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Research Develop & Design framework and Reference Implementation of Text-to-Speech Synthesis System (Concatenative Synthesis Approach) in Hindi

Jan 2001 – Mar 2003 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Research, Design & Develop Framework for Text-to-Speech System (Formant Synthesis Approach) for Indian Languages.