SURAJ PHANINDRA

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States3 yrs experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI systems architecture and ML technologies.
  • Proven leadership in building scalable AI solutions.
  • Successful entrepreneur with multiple startup experiences.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on AI and ML technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipBusiness StrategySystem ArchitectureNatural Language Processing (nlp)Retrieval-augmented Generation (rag)Machine LearningAlgorithmic TradingTechnical AnalysisWeb DevelopmentDigital MarketingInternet Of Things (iot)

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipAttention MechanismsInference PipelinesSemantic SearchInformation RetrievalLarge Language Models (LLM)Python (Programming Language)PostgreSQLMongoDBGraph DatabasesData AnalysisVector DatabasesSoftware DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Landing Page Optimization

About

Interested in ML, GenAI, AlgoTrading, and Cars.

Experience

3 yrs
Total Experience
11 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Companyinsights.ai

3 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Apr 2026Present · 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Promoted to CTO
Technical LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipAttention MechanismsInference PipelinesBusiness Strategy

Co-Founder and Chief Architect

Promoted

Jan 2026Mar 2026 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Chief Architect behind CompanyInsights.AI's ML and retrieval stack, delivering secure, intelligent, insight-driven experiences from enterprise data and enabling organisations to allow their vast oceans of data to work for them and not against them.
  • Areas of interest:
  • Mechanistic Interpretability of LLMs in Agentic Workflows
  • Context engineering and data orchestration in hybrid AI systems
  • Fusion of Deterministic and Non-Deterministic parsers for multimodal ETL
  • Persona Modelling and Inference Pipelines
Technical LeadershipSystem ArchitectureSemantic SearchNatural Language Processing (NLP)Attention MechanismsInference Pipelines+1

Founding Engineer

Aug 2025Dec 2025 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Architected and built the technical foundation for scalable AI solutions at CompanyInsights.AI.
  • Oversaw all engineering initiatives, managed sprints and release cycles, and coordinated with business, design and development teams, enabling the CEO to focus on client relationships and business growth.
  • Designed and built robust data ingestion and inference pipelines to transform multimodal enterprise data into an AI-native format that works best for inference and RAG, enabling organisations to allow their vast oceans of data to work for them and not against them.
Semantic SearchRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)System ArchitectureNatural Language Processing (NLP)Large Language Models (LLM)Python (Programming Language)+3

Webless

2 roles

AI/ML Engineer (1 to $9M valuation, Founding Team)

Mar 2025Jul 2025 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Cross-Platform Model Integration: Developed framework for seamless integration and benchmarking of emerging LLMs and embedding models, ensuring unbiased performance evaluation across platforms.
  • Product Lead, Landing Page Personalizer: Spearheaded development of real-time page personalization engine leveraging user profiling and cached content variants, achieving persona-based content delivery at scale.
  • Knowledge Graph Architecture: Led design and implementation of metadata knowledge graph using Neo4j, including data modeling, node extraction pipeline, relationship mapping, and CYPHER query optimization for technical asset retrieval.
  • Cross-Lingual RAG Implementation: Conducted comprehensive multilingual embedding performance analysis and optimized retrieval systems for international content discovery.
  • Key Technical Achievements:
  • Developed session-aware follow-up question generation and dynamic CTA recommendation algorithms.
  • Implemented conversation history context weighting for enhanced retrieval performance.
  • Built comprehensive timing analysis module for sub-second API performance monitoring.
  • Chat workflow for Webless Search: Built session history aware chatbot with Slack integration for client’s sales team.
  • Helped migrate core backend from Flask to FastAPI with experimental agentic architecture conversion.
  • Designed heatmap visualization tools for user behavior and query pattern analysis.
Graph DatabasesData AnalysisRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Vector DatabasesSoftware DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)+9

Data Scientist - GenAI (0 to 1, Founding Team)

Jul 2024Feb 2025 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Performance Optimization: Architected multithreaded data ingestion pipeline, reducing processing time from 4 hours to 30 minutes for 100 URLs through parallel LLM enrichment using 4 worker threads.
  • Analytics Infrastructure: Designed end-to-end logging and analytics stack using AWS CloudWatch, Athena, and Glue with JWT-based user identification and query tracking across web properties.
  • RAG Pipeline Development: Built ETL pipeline orchestrated via AWS Step Functions and Lambda for automated content ingestion, vector embedding, and search bar deployment across client sitemaps.
  • Vector Database Migration: Executed migration of 200,000+ vectors from multiple Pinecone indexes to single multi-tenant namespace architecture with full data integrity validation.
  • ML Operations: Implemented retrieval quality evaluation framework measuring semantic similarity, chunk quality, URL coverage, factual accuracy, and system performance metrics.
  • Infrastructure & Security: Configured AWS infrastructure including auto-scaling groups, CloudFront CDN, security groups, and EC2 launch templates; implemented XSS prevention and security hardening.
  • DevOps & Agile: Served as rotating Scrum Master, managed release cycles, conducted code reviews, and established disaster recovery protocols with high availability architecture.
  • Web Summit Presentation: Presented automated content ingestion pipeline at Web Summit Lisbon 2024 alongside CEO, demonstrating end-to-end sitemap-to-search bar deployment in <5 minutes.
Graph DatabasesData AnalysisVector DatabasesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Word EmbeddingsNatural Language Processing (NLP)+8

Hexaurum learning llp

R&D Summer Intern - Quantitative Trading Team

May 2024Jun 2024 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Designed efficient algorithms to model Trend Following Market Strategies and automate mid frequency intraday trade execution for forex, commodities and stock markets.
  • Leveraged Technical Analysis to develop algorithms for cTrader platform using C# and .NET framework.
  • Built custom indicators to port complex TradingView functionalities to cTrader.
  • Researched methods for parameter pass optimization for developed algorithms and performed deep backtesting using historical market data to evaluate performance.
  • Performed Market Analysis to assess viability of algorithmic trading on the symbol and performed timeframe analysis.
OptimizationStock Market AnalysisData StructuresPineScriptC#Algorithmic Trading+6

Alankaar

3 roles

Project Lead Developer

Jun 2022Aug 2022 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Led a team of 12 interns in completing a full-stack web application to digitize the company's operations using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Node.js, and MongoDB.
  • Increased overall timely task completion rate by 20%.
  • Acted as the key liaison between upper management and the web development team, ensuring effective communication and project completion.

Digital Marketing Intern

May 2022Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Web Development Intern

May 2022Jun 2022 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Back-End Web DevelopmentCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Social Media MarketingCanvaDigital MarketingWeb Design+9

Tedxbitspilani

3 roles

Licensee & Head-Organizer

Promoted

Apr 2022May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Junior Associate, Publicity Team

May 2021May 2022 · 1 yr

  • Grew Social Media presence by 10x

Junior Associate, Curation Team

Feb 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Hosted 2022 Event

Pilani public school - india

Technical Consultant

Jul 2021Aug 2021 · 1 mo · India

  • I created methods to streamline the school's data management requirements. Integrated open source Educational software solutions to maximize efficiency and reduce workload on teachers. Provided guidance to staff and students on using new tools and platforms to continue schooling in online mode during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Internet of Things (IoT)Bluetooth Low EnergyPatent PreparationEmbedded SystemsTechnical Leadership

Airstamp

Co-Founder & CTO

Sep 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • AirStamp is an all-in-one access credential application that aims to provide seamless check-in, foot traffic data, and customer identity validation services using BLE beacons and a mobile application.
  • Wadhwani Foundation IGNITE Entrepreneur Challenge 2021 Winner.
  • Secured Incubation resources and initial venture funding from Wadhwani Foundation.
  • Received provisional patent in India for BLE beacon application.
  • Hired and managed a team of five people working remotely spread across the globe, ensuring enforcement of NDA and protection of IP.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering B.E. (Hons.) — Computer Science

Walbrook Institute London

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) — Artificial Intelligence for Finance

Jun 2024Jul 2025

Indian Institute of Quantitative Finance

Certification Program - Machine Learning in Financial Markets — Quantitative Finance and Risk Management

RV PU College - Bangalore

Grade 11 and 12

Mar 2018Mar 2020

St. Paul's English School - Bangalore

Indian Certificate of Secondary Education - ICSE — Grades 3-10

Mar 2009Feb 2018

The Oxford English School - ICSE Bangalore

Grade 2

Mar 2008Feb 2009

Sandpiper School - Redwood City, USA

Grade 1

Sep 2006Jun 2007

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