Experience

Roles, leadership, teaching, education and recognition, most recent first.

Roles

  1. Research Engineer · LG Soft India

    Feb 2023 – now · Bengaluru
    • Built a multi-agent system that migrated ~4,000 GStreamer patches; only ~46 needed a human to resolve.
    • Led the feasibility study for live, on-device profanity muting on webOS TVs.
    • Ran the IISc audio–video quality assessment collaboration.
    • Measured AV sync and timing for HbbTV at millisecond resolution.
    Speech & audio MLAgentic AIGStreamerPyTorch
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  2. Full-Stack Developer · Trustgrid.AI

    Feb 2022 – Feb 2023 · Bengaluru
    • Integrated RASA conversational models into production chatbot workflows.
    • Built real-time voice and video, screen recording, file handling and sessions with React, Node.js/Express and MySQL.
    RASAReactNode.jsMySQL
  3. Co-Founder · Vantir

    Dec 2019 – Feb 2022 · Bengaluru
    • Designed KASE (Knowledge, Attitude, Skill, Exposure), a career-development framework for early- and mid-career professionals.
    • Ran structured customer discovery on professionals' skill gaps.
    FoundingCustomer discoveryCurriculum design
  4. RF Firmware Intern · Intel

    Jan – Jul 2018 · Bengaluru
    • Automated RF validation and test workflows in Python.
    • Debugged physical-layer RF firmware with oscilloscopes and Rohde & Schwarz spectrum analysers.
    PythonRF validationFirmware

Leadership & teaching

AI Task Team Leader, AX Initiative

Apr 2026 – now

LG Soft India

  • Lead a 10-member task force, one representative from each team, owning how AI tools are distributed and how engineers are trained to use them across a 500+ engineer department.
  • Designed and delivered training on AI coding assistants and agentic workflows. Coordinated the department-wide rollout of and access to Amazon Kiro and Claude.
  • Organised a department AI hackathon to drive hands-on adoption of agentic development.
  • Co-created a prompt bank to standardise effective AI-assisted workflows. Designed and ran internal surveys on AI-tool adoption to guide enablement priorities.

Teaching & mentoring

  • Design and run the department's SWPCT software-proficiency test every two weeks for a 500+ member engineering department, including the question papers and evaluation criteria. Earlier ran a mock-exam programme (6 exams in 2025).
  • Mentored 25+ employees through several structured 8-week preparation and Q&A programmes on data structures and algorithms.

Education

Aug 2018 – Dec 2019

Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering · Atlanta, USA

Aug 2014 – Jul 2018

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.Tech, Electronics & Computer Engineering · Vellore, India

Recognition & talks

Awards and certifications

  • 2024–25LG High Achiever AwardRecognised for technical excellence
  • LG Software Proficiency Certification (SWPCT / LSET)Top 1% of LG software engineers
  • 2025, 2026HiPo (High Potential) member, LG

Talks and conferences

  • Dec 2026Accepted, to be presented: IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), Palermo, Italy
  • Nov 2025Technical talk: “Audio in the Age of Generative AI”, LG
  • Aug 2025Technical talk: “Understanding AI using the Embedding Space”, LG