San Francisco, CA · Full-stack AI engineer

Engineering Intelligence.

I build AI systems that work in the real world — from LLM agents, Computer Vision models to the full-stack products that put them to use.

About

The engineer behind the work.

The motivation and mindset behind what I build.

I build production AI systems — LLM agents and Computer Vision models delivered as full-stack software products.

My experience spans fast-moving software startups, vision and software solutions for Atlas Copco, and robotics for manufacturing.

I have delivered scalable backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and agentic workflows in production.

I enjoy taking AI products from 0 to 1, integrating them into existing workflows and eventually deploying them into real-world production.

Quick facts

Currently
Graduate AI/ML Research Assistant · Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Lab, UC Riverside
Education
M.S. Computer Science, UC Riverside
Based in
San Francisco, California
Focus
LLM agents, RAG pipelines, perception, full-stack systems

Experience

Shipping reliably in Production.

Internships and Research roles — from the labs to startups and factory floors

Graduate AI/ML Research Assistant

Apr 2025 — May 2026

Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Lab, UC Riverside

Riverside, CA · Research

  • Designed a multi-modal analytical framework fusing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with spatial data features to predict anomaly-intent thresholds across complex variables (submitted to IROS 2026).
  • Achieved 20% faster model convergence in LLMs vs. baseline statistical trends by integrating historical variance and feature-engineering data into the reasoning context.
  • Mitigated operational risk by 30% with a strict confidence-modulated governance protocol that shares execution controls between automated models and manual validators.
VLMsLLMsPyTorch

Software Engineer

Jan 2024 — Jun 2024

Digital Vision Studios

Pune, India · Internship

  • Engineered and delivered a high-concurrency ledger and secure transactional data system for 5,500+ active users under strict data-governance, integrity, and risk-mitigation standards.
  • Orchestrated a migration to a hybrid cloud architecture (AWS / DigitalOcean), scaling capacity to process 8,000+ daily analytical requests.
  • Automated workflows and built deployment guardrails with Docker, reducing delivery cycles from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
PythonAWSDockerSystem Design

Software Engineer

Jun 2023 — Dec 2023

Atlas Copco

Pune, India · Internship

  • Led the analysis, design, and delivery of an AI vision pipeline using YOLOv8 to validate manufacturing operations.
  • Achieved 92.5% defect-detection accuracy while reducing per-unit inspection time from 45 seconds to under 2 seconds.
  • Automated handwritten-checklist tracking with multimodal AI (image + text), reducing per-checklist processing from 5 minutes to under 1 minute (80% reduction).
  • Built a Dockerized MLOps pipeline and partnered with operations teams to deliver a full-stack warehouse management system (Django & React.js).
YOLOv8Computer VisionDjangoReactDocker

ML Research Assistant (Computer Vision, ML)

Aug 2022 — May 2023

Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (VIIT)

Pune, India · Research

  • Conducted applied research on robust facial detection and recognition for occluded and profile faces using Convolutional Neural Networks and Haar Cascade classifiers.
  • Engineered a deep-learning pipeline spanning image preprocessing, patch splitting, and EDSR-GAN super-resolution, improving detection accuracy to 93.2%.
  • Published and presented the work at the Scopus-indexed 9th ICICT 2024, London (Springer Nature).
Computer VisionCNNsGANsPyTorch

Personal Projects

Applying AI to real-world problems.

Each project leads with what it does, the technical depth behind it, and measurable outcomes.

Research

Publications over the years.

My research focuses on VLMs, VLAs, Perception for Robotics and Autonomous vehicles. I have published one first-author paper in Springer Nature journal and submitted one to IROS 2026. My work enables agents to understand, navigate, and act in real-world environments.

Publication2026

SATeMoMa: A Safe Assistive Teleoperation System for Mobile Manipulation

Submitted to IROS 2026

A system that reduces operator workload during mobile manipulation. It predicts user intent using a vision-language model, spatial features, motion patterns, and speech, and estimates its confidence in each prediction. Based on that confidence it switches between teleoperation, shared control, and autonomous assistance, while Control Barrier Functions ensure safe, collision-free motion. In simulation it achieved an 86.7% task success rate with zero collisions.

Vision-Language ModelsShared AutonomyMobile Manipulation
Publication2024

Facial Detection and Recognition of Partially Occluded and Profile Faces

9th ICICT 2024, London · Springer Nature (Scopus-indexed)

A pipeline that improves face recognition for profile views, partially occluded faces, and low-quality CCTV footage. Images are first enhanced with patch-based super-resolution and sharpening; faces are detected with Haar Cascade classifiers; and a CNN trained on multi-angle faces with occlusion-based augmentation recognizes identities. The system achieved 93.2% detection and 96% recognition accuracy.

Computer VisionCNNsSuper-Resolution

Technical Stack

Tools behind the outcomes.

The technologies I reach for across AI, machine learning, and full-stack systems.

Languages

The languages I think and build in.

Python
Java
TypeScript

Milestones

Selected highlights.

2026

IROS 2026 Submission

Co-authored a multi-modal VLM + spatial-data framework for anomaly-intent prediction, submitted to IROS 2026.

2025

M.S. in Computer Science

Completed a master's at UC Riverside focused on AI, ML, reinforcement learning, and NLP.

2025

Cloud & DevOps Certified

Earned AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner plus hands-on Kubernetes and Docker DevOps certifications.

2023

92.5% Defect Detection

Shipped a YOLOv8 vision pipeline at Atlas Copco, cutting per-unit inspection from 45s to under 2s.

Contact

Let's build useful AI.

Open to AI engineering roles, applied-research collaborations, and production AI systems that need both model depth and product execution.

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