Soham Acharya

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led development of top agentic AI system.
Co-founded successful AI startup acquired by Ericsson.
Expert in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning and AI expert with a strong entrepreneurial background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ScienceMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceProduct ManagementEntrepreneurshipBusiness Analysis

Other Skills

TelemetryEvaluationInsightsReinforcement LearningAgentic AI SystemsGenerative AIDigital Public InfrastructureResearchUnsupervised LearningAnalytical SkillsDeep LearningPythonNatural Language ProcessingAutonomous Agentic SystemDeep Reinforcement Learning

About

Innovator and entrepreneur with a mixed background in engineering and stakeholder management. Expertise in design and development of deep tech products and product life-cycle management. Specialisation in Natural Language Processing problems and Energy based Methods for enhancement in computational and behavioural efficiency of ML/DL algorithms.

Experience

9 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 1 mo

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Paytm

Senior Manager Data Science

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Spearheaded telemetry, evaluation, insights, and reinforcement learning initiatives for agentic AI systems.
Developed and launched Prism Swarm, recognized as one of the top agentic systems globally in Spider 2.0. - https://spider2-sql.github.io/
MARL , Game Theory and other multi agent cooperation strategies for maximising system rewards rather than those of individual actors in a system have been my core focus areas.

TelemetryEvaluationInsightsReinforcement LearningAgentic AI SystemsData Science+1

Sarvam

Product

Jul 2024 – Dec 2024 · 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

Product Lead of Generative AI Protocols for Digital Public Infrastructure of India.
Transitioned Pipable team to Sarvam.

Generative AIDigital Public InfrastructureResearchUnsupervised LearningAnalytical SkillsDeep Learning+4

Pipable ai

Co-Founder & CTO

Jun 2023 – Jan 2024 · 7 mos · California, United States · Remote

Building a natural language based Autonomous Agentic System for system diagnostic workflows.
Team got absorbed by Sarvam AI

Natural Language ProcessingAutonomous Agentic SystemProduct ManagementDeep Reinforcement LearningMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence

Pratilipi

Entrepreneur In Residence

Feb 2022 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr

Tools for reverse ETL, ai ops and vernacular information management and analysis.

Reverse ETLAI OpsVernacular Information ManagementData ScienceNatural Language ProcessingProduct Management+1

Ericsson

2 roles

Senior Technical Product Manager (RnD)

Oct 2020 – Aug 2021 · 10 mos

Worked on multiple projects on Search and NLP.
From formulating the problem statement with the stake holder to designing the technical implementation road map with engineers , have contributions that stretch across entire product development lifecycle.

SearchNatural Language ProcessingProduct DevelopmentTechnical ImplementationProduct ManagementData Science

Technical Lead (RnD)

Jul 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Worked as a product manager and technical lead for a project dealing in NLP.
Roles and responsibilities executed include implementations at all stages of the project, starting from ideation to final production deployment.
Won the Ericsson Power Award for outstanding contribution.

NLPProduct ManagementTechnical LeadershipData Science

Nicheai (acq ericsson)

Co-Founder and CEO

Mar 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

NicheAI was working on a tool-Grace, that generated optimal model serving stack, with out of the box monitoring and logging infrastructure. Grace allowed users to deploy deep learning models incurring minimal technical debt, treating infrastructure as data.
As the Co-Founder CEO of a small start up I looked into product development & management, fundraising & finance, business development, team building, legal & corporate and any other ad-hoc responsibilities that came along.
NicheAI was backed by Times Internet and IIITH and got acquired by Ericsson.
NicheAI had secured ~$135k cloud grants from Microsoft, Amazon and Google.
NicheAI was a part of ICICI Nova -an innovation and acceleration program by ICICI Lombard.

Model ServingDeep LearningBusiness DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipProduct Management

Spamme labs

Co-Founder

Jun 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

What started off as an e-com idea ended as a studio to easily train computer vision models.
Structured the idea, learnt what it takes to start a company, convinced other people to believe in me and my idea, taught myself algorithms, coding, finance and a whole lot of other survival skills like cooking, musical instruments, meditation and anxiety management.

E-commerceComputer VisionEntrepreneurshipData Science

Ola

Operations Analyst

Oct 2014 – Jan 2015 · 3 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Olacabs is the largest cab aggregator of India. I joined the start up at an early stage and was the sole analyst looking after 6 towns which included major hubs like Bombay, Pune and Ahmedabad.

Operations AnalysisBusiness Analysis