Full-stack AI engineer with 7+ years building and scaling AI-native and
agentic systems — Voice AI (STT/TTS/S2S), GenAI/LLMs, RAG — on a MERN and
DevOps foundation. Zero-to-one builder: 3 AI products shipped as
founder-CTO with a $150K pre-seed raise; currently leading speech-model
training at Plivo.
02 experience
oct 2025 — present
Senior AI Engineer · Plivo
Led a 3-person core team across STT/TTS/S2S model training and fine-tuning, owning technical direction and delivery
Fine-tuned Whisper-large-v3-turbo and Nemotron for Hindi/Hinglish, matching Deepgram Nova-3 and Sarvam on WER and SER benchmarks
Built a custom data-generation pipeline blending open-source, internal, and synthesized speech to close a 5,000+ hour data gap
Fine-tuned Chatterbox and Kokoro TTS for native Hindi support; prototyped a speech-to-LLM adapter for direct S2S understanding
oct 2022 — jul 2025
CTO & Co-Founder · TRIKL
Shipped 3 AI products in 18 months; raised $150K pre-seed; built and led a 5-person team with OKR-driven hiring and growth frameworks
LinkedIn AI content platform: custom-trained GPT-3.5 on 20K+ viral posts (90% faster copywriting); scaled to 5K+ users on SOC 2-compliant infra; AI outreach engine lifted lead-gen 70%
AdsEther: AI video ads in 175+ languages via 500+ AI actors — HeyGen, ElevenLabs, Synthesia behind secure RAG-backed microservices; MVPs for 7 D2C brands
Community platform: unified Discord, Telegram & WhatsApp for 140K+ members across 10 clients — RAG on Pinecone/Atlas with PII redaction and abuse alerts
aug 2021 — mar 2022
Co-Founder · WeCrat
Built a WordPress marketplace for 200+ artisans; led a cross-functional team of 6+; bootstrapped to $15K ARR
aug 2019 — nov 2021
Tech Consultant, Global Risk & Compliance · Capgemini
Led compliance audits (PCI, SOX, SoD, QUID) at 100% accuracy across 35+ applications; reduced manual tasks by 70%
Managed 50K+ user records and 78 business-critical apps for Disney across SQL, Linux, and Windows environments; promoted in 2020